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Left the GOP in 2014 & never looked back. Moms Demand Action volunteer, Dem Committee officer. Knocking on doors, making calls, getting into good trouble. Mom. Wife. Vegan for the animals. Golden Girls fanatic. Beauty product junkie. Girl’s girl. Ally.
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Perfection.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"Oh but we should do both" we don't have the money now, the people of Fucksburg made sure of that when they elected Trump. That's the whole fucking point.
I cannot emphasize enough, everyone who voted for this shit damned us as a country and has hands drenched in blood. We are all going to suffer. Why should the people who represent us, the ones who didn't vote to do that, apply scarce resources to their welfare over my community?
We begin with the premise that voting for Trump and voting for Harris are essentially equivalent choices, like preferring coffee or tea. That's a real barrier to understanding what's going on here.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
For real: Are Republicans not embarrassed by stuff like this??
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
You're not imagining it. Trader Joe's parking lots are a special kind of hell. And it's by design. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social.
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
Once again a court has ruled Trump’s terrible tariffs to be illegal and unconstitutional for they clearly are. They are modern day taxation without representation and Democrats should be fighting them with every patriotic bone in our body.
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
I was so confused. I just turned in the tv and thought my cable box was broken. 🤣
The CDC has learned its lesson. by Susan Collins
And this is only part of what he’ll do to fuck with next year’s election. Trump must be stopped.👇
Should “concern” all Americans? CONCERN? Barack Obama doesn’t get it. Just like the entire Democratic Party establishment doesn’t get it. We are lightyears beyond “concerned.” We’re fucking pissed off & ready to go to war to save this democracy. And we wish Democratic Party leaders understood that.
Minneapolis resident Pat Scallen raced toward the Annunciation Catholic School shooting, comforted terrified children, one shot in the head begging, “Please just hold my hand”. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/minne...
NEW: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED our preservation order for Musk's phone records in our FOIA case against DOGE. The request was made by the other plaintiff in the case - First Amendment Coalition - as they propounded the FOIA. You can read the ruling here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is why we need @baltimorebeat.bsky.social.
A group of 19 Democratic governors on Thursday condemned President Trump’s threat to send National Guard troops into major cities like Chicago, Baltimore and New York as an “alarming abuse of power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Citation for $245 million number:
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Trump approval rating: 37% Trump's handling of: Crime: - 12 Russia/Ukraine: -12 Foreign Policy: -16 Economy: -18 Trade: -18 Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19 Sending weapons to Israel: -28 National Guard to DC: -15 Epstein files: -48 Smithsonian: -27 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
I have one. Voters make decisions based on the ideas in their heads and their beliefs about the world, and those ideas and beliefs are heavily shaped by their social interactions, especially media consumption, and in the last 20 years most media consumption is from social media's sea of lies.
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If you've been following my reporting and stories from the ground in Iowa, you would know that Iowa will flip seats. This had a lot to do with the anger at Trump, but mostly with the organizers doing the hard work on the ground. Contest every seat. Run everywhere. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
JUST IN: A federal judge rules that a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his America PAC — alleging they broke a promise to pay voters for signing a political petition — may proceed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
What a waste. I feel bad for these guys. They have lives, families, and jobs. And they’re being used by a cruel, mad, fascist.
Preach sister
What he is attempting to do is illegal. What he is attempting to do is authoritarian. What he is attempting to do is racist and sexist. If you don't report it right, people won't respond to it as they should.
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
“I’m about to lose my farm… Do you think we’re idiots? You know nothing about what a working class citizen does.” 🔥 Whew. Watch. Share.
The framers never imagined Trump. The framers never imagined modern political parties. The framers never imagined the internet, or telephones, or telegraphs, or cars, or steam locamotives. The framers never imagined universal suffrage or proportional representation. We can do a lot better!
How, exactly, is it safer now? Have all of the violent criminals been rounded up and arrested and put on trial and in jail? Have they done anything to permanently reduce crime? What’s going to happen when the National Guard leaves?
Exactly from @jonahg.bsky.social
He’s wrong about everything, and thinks he’s right about everything. Hard to tell which is worse. The war will end when Russia decides no longer to fight. The US could make that happen with a few simple policies. Instead the Trump administration offers ridiculous analysis and pathetic excuses.
Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.
Protecting the Russian aggressor makes the war bloodier and longer. And that is just what we are doing. Good reporting by WSJ here but poor choice of photo. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
tim walz getting close to embracing mtsw Thought
What the actual fuck is he talking about and what the fuck is happening with his hair?
They should have let him cook. We could have had nice things.
Feel bad that I assumed that most Trump appointees were rage case degenerates
This is 100% correct.
The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
it's giving this [complimentary]
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
My generation (Gen X) seems to have a particularly strong aversion to any kind of “politically correct” terminology, which always confounds me because we were the ones blamed for “PC culture” back in the 90s. Gen X also is the demographic w the highest level of support for Trump, more than Boomers.
To me, “food insecurity” sounds like a type of eating disorder. “She doesn’t want to get pizza because she has food insecurity”. And I say this as someone who lives in suburban Boston (ground zero for intellectual liberal hippie-speak).
Fully agree. “Unhoused” is the one that really irks me; it is beyond ridiculous. Also, I was raked over the coals for suggesting we avoid the term “pregnant people” when talking about abortion bans bc it just makes ppl fixate on that term, instead of the actual harm being done by the bans themselves
This article should have made much more clear that Bill Pulte is a hard core Twitter warrior on Trumps behalf who is himself campaigning for a Fed seat. Seems to be zero mention of this. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
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Okay, Next Dem President should declare all pardons of Jan 6ers, Roger Stone, etc , null and void. Then they can all go to prison.
“Following news that National Guard troops in DC would soon carry weapons, journalist Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket reported that members of the Guard on duty in DC were being sent to firing ranges to make sure they know their way around M-17 pistols.”
how many times am I gonna have to post this
Just now…
🏳️🌈 INBOX — @nashvillepride says they’re losing sponsors and is currently fundraising to keep going: www.savenashvillepride.org
The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.
From www.wired.com/story/senate...
New in PN: Dan Bongino's babysitter "The problem appears to be that Bongino and his boss, FBI Director Kash Patel, are terrible at their jobs."
The amusing thing about this clip is the infrastructure bill was literally the first and only thing Nancy Mace brought up in terms of her accomplishments in Congress. Her biggest win for her district was legislation she voted against.
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Can someone please explain to me how it is legal for them to lock her in the chamber?!?!? Why is NBC news acting like this is a perfectly reasonable act?
Stand strong Rep. Collier.
One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. (Published Dec. 2024)
Looking to speak to someone in the DC National Guard on background. Message me on signal at marisakabas.04
The way the Trumpers are melting down over this is just the icing on the cake. The NY Post was INDIGNANT over this. 🤣🤣 The same people who love Trump because “hE tELLs iT LiKe iT iS” are having an absolute conniption over someone else doing the same. MAGA are the whiniest bitches of all time.
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
Texas in 2025.
worth saying that if republicans are increasingly reliant on low propensity voters then “we must make it as difficult as possible to vote” is not going to work well for them
As this invasion of our cities continues, I want to remind everyone the real decline in violence that happened across America is because of President Biden, Democrats, & the amazing people who worked on policies, & an office dedicated to it. I will be forever honored to have played a role in it.
🇺🇸 @atrupar.com & @nberlat.bsky.social : “Newsom’s threat to retaliate is not a divisive attack on good governance. It is the only hope for democracy— Dems cannot hide behind neutrality & fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic.” www.publicnotice.co/p/gavin-news...
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
This, exactly. Ever since the war broke out, Joe was a staunch defender of Ukraine. To listen to him now is just astounding. I cannot even believe what he was saying. What a sellout. I cannot trust anything he says anymore. I am truly done with this show now. DONE.
OMG this morning’s show was the last straw for me. It is unwatchable now. Truly stunned to hear some of the things coming out of Joe’s mouth re: Trump & Russia. The normalization of Trump is sickening. Joe has officially lost my trust. After 10 yrs of watching, it’s time to find another morning show
Gallego on Mamdani: "It's okay to say 'I disagree with this, this, and this, but I agree with that.' But the idea that we're just gonna throw out people that are really bringing in new ideas to the fold, exciting people, just because they're slightly to the right or to the left of us is dumb."
Ogles gonna Ogles 🤡
We need other Democratic governors to step up. We don’t need words. We need action.
Members of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy, the closest crime we have to treason itself
A tweet from a sitting member of Congress calling for a violation of the Constitution would have sparked days of outrage in the pre-Trump era. We can’t normalize this dangerous cult.
the complete lack of leaks from ICE, CBP etc, to me reinforces how they’re entirely staffed by true believers who are willing to do almost anything for the cause.
225 days ago, you raised your right hand and swore to support & defend the Constitution of the United States. Shame on you.
It’s so frustrating to think about all the people who helped elect Trump by not voting for Harris. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“He’s been here 25 years cutting the state’s grass, paying his taxes — never even had a ticket… we got a felon in the White House but these are the people they got in there. Without immigrants this country is gonna go down.” 🇺🇸
Before the election, I used to watch @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social every morning. I’d even record it so I could catch the segments I’d miss when I left for work. Occasionally, I tune back in; today I’m horrified to hear them normalizing the militarization of the police. I think I’m done for good now
See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters. #ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. You can spot Antoni starting at around 1:41 here: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie: “Why is Trump sending troops to DC to fight crime during the recess? All the criminals went home to their districts.”
