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Free speech warrior Michael Shellenberger, of Bari Weiss’s fake “university,” retweets GOP Sen. Dave McCormick calling for the University of Pennsylvania to take “decisive action” against renowned climate scientist @michaelemann.bsky.social for reposting criticism of Charlie Kirk.
Report Says Colorado School Shooting Suspect Was Fascinated with Mass Shootings, White Supremacy and Neo-Nazi Views | Since December, Desmond Holly, 16, had been active on an online forum where users watch videos of killings and violence, mixed in with content on white supremacism and antisemitism.
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City on Saturday and called on his party’s leadership to do the same, criticizing them for a delay that he said allowed President Trump to exploit Democratic divisions.
An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
Brazil is sending their insurrectionist dirtbag to prison. We made our child rapist insurrectionist president again. And he’s lowered the flags for one of the worst among us and now he will do anything he can to foment civil war to distract from how many children he raped. We can’t go numb.
To the Idiot Who Killed Charlie Kirk
The real issue isn’t left vs right. It’s not white vs black. It’s not citizen vs immigrant. It’s not gay vs straight. The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
“We got him!” Really? That’s the line? His father turned him in. You received him.
This is not good news. The consolidation of major media companies under the ownership of the billionaire son of technofascist billionaire Larry Ellison, the second richest person in the world, is a huge threat to our democracy.
This is not new; when an assassin killed abortion provider George Tiller in 2009, Bill O'Reilly shrugged that it wasn't his fault just because he'd repeatedly called for the killing of the man and then someone listened. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Reminder that Trump spent all week trying to get Kamala Harris assassinated too by pulling her secret service detail and then using the police union to pull her security detail offered by the LAPD, let’s not forget about that.
Amazing how we couldn’t do what Brazil did: Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
Hasan: “Israel doesn’t want successful negotiations” (they want Gaza)
This is a little long but very good. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
CONSTITUTION DAY Flood Social Media w/ Art & Videos! Show & tell those who want to destroy it what the Constitution means to us. We The People. @indivisible.org @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social @indivisiblepa.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @50501harrisburg.bsky.social
"Flood Social Media on Constitution Day with Art & Videos" will remind people the Constitution is a living document protecting each of us every day; illustrate the solidarity & strength of those who took an oath to uphold it; demand legislators do their duty to fight to protect it and the country.
“Anyone who applauds the First Amendment being cancelled should take note — the Second Amendment will follow. Authoritarian governments don’t want an armed citizenry any more than they want an informed one.”
Any PA10th District folks here? It’s time to tell #TraitorScottPerry (peacefully,of course!) what we think of him, his violations of his oath of office, and his vote for Trump’s destruction of the government. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Just nonstop crimes in broad daylight
Scott Perry claimed he would "secure and strengthen Medicare." This budget bill will gut it! Of course, he lied about the other stuff, too, so what's new... Let him know what you think about it! Call Rep.Perry: D.C. ofc: 202-225-5836 www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cu...
The Center for American progress estimates that in Scott Perry's District 10, 31,600 would lose health insurance and an additional 100 would die each year. All for tax cuts for billionaires.
Call Scott Perry now! Washington: (202) 225-5836; Harrisburg: (717) 603-4980.
“Stop the Steal” supporter, Ed Martin, was in the mob outside of the Capitol on 1/6. If he doesn’t like your point of view, he threatens to investigate you. He praises white supremacists who support neo-Nazi ideologies. Tell your Senator to vote NO on Ed Martin’s nomination for US Attorney in DC.
While it is understandable to focus attention on Trump’s attacks on democracy and the rule of law, it is the Republican Congress enabling his authoritarianism. Ignoring their complicity in Trump’s actions is a mistake—both legally and strategically.
NEW: In a double win for Pennsylvania voters, one judge dismisses a far-right challenge seeking to purge over 277k voters from the rolls, and the 3rd Circuit rejects a GOP bid to reject ballots for minor errors. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
"Some see".... Are the others blind?
A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
This heartbreaking piece really highlights what is going on here. In the name of religious freedom, some justices are basically insisting on some right to treat LGBTQ folks badly and even a right to ban from schools books that are accepting of them.
Exactly. They’ve talked about making Social Security crypto based, which would allow the money to simply vanish and magically find its way into Musk’s and Trump’s and other oligarchs’ wallets.
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This and spewing bullshit about measles and whooping cough vaccines, while trying to bribe people to have $5K “bonus” babies! (Though I’m guessing only **certain** people.) What’s that Sister Joan Chittister quote about “wanting babies born, but not fed…”?
This and spewing bullshit about measles and whooping cough vaccines, while trying to bribe people to have $5K “bonus” babies! (Though I’m guessing only **certain** people.)
In 35-page ruling, DColo judge grants class-wide (statewide) TRO against removing Venezuelans under Alien Enemy Act. Plaintiffs likely to win on argument that ACT DOES NOT APPLY. "Invasion," "predatory incursion," "foreign nation or govt" all absent here. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING: U.S. threatens to slap another round of tariffs on Chinese goods. China responds by selling more American debt. The economic version of: "Don’t test me, I own your house."
oh ok give me a moment while I look for my shocked face 🙄 oh wait that’s not it 🤮dang where is it 😵💫oh wait here it is 😱
I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.
This sentence is key to their goal: "As Justice Jackson warned in a 1948 concurring opinion, “if we were to eliminate everything objectionable to any of these warring sects or inconsistent with any of their doctrines, we will leave public education in shreds." www.vox.com/scotus/40835...
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"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...
Except for 70 million people who also think the ignorant man is a genius.
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.
Make it make sense
Everyone needs to see the best moments from Bernie Sanders and AOC’s rally in front of 36,000 people today. Something big is happening in this country.
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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥
🖋️ “NO to the 'Save' Act. It's a harmful Jim Crow vote suppression stunt.” hit 2,000 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PSNJIP to 50409
Republicans’ SAVE Act would further suppress the vote. It’s already illegal for non-citizens to vote. This would disenfranchise millions—married women + trans folks who changed their name, service members, people with disabilities. We don't need more barriers to the ballot box.
JOIN US APRIL 19TH 2025 FROM 1-3 PM AT THE PA STATE CAPITOL STEPS
I've been coming to protests in Harrisburg, PA since 2010 and this is the largest I've ever seen! Estimates of 2500+. #Handsoff #Harrisburg
The Resistance is alive and well and angry: Reports of our demise might have been premature
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots. A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
Wow! Share far and wide!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
Nearly 1/4 of the IT staff needed to maintain systems & fix payment glitches have or will soon depart-either for high paying private sector jobs or early retirement- w/o specialists that normally fix payment glitches payments can potentially be delayed for months #MomSky
The greatest threat to Donald Trump’s authoritarian dream is not the courts — it is free and fair elections. While the courts can stand in the way of his twisted vision for America, they can never completely halt it. Trump knows this. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
If any of these are your representatives, urge them to divest from Tesla: Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).
Give me it. ❤️
Shapiro: “As a result....189 Pennsylvania farms will lose a critical source of revenue, and 14 food banks across Pennsylvania will lose access to locally produced, fresh food. At the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, that means 500,000 fewer meals they can deliver....every month.”
Elon Musk is a natalist.
WATCH: Project 2025 warned against using apps like SIGNAL to conduct official business👇🏽 Translation: They knew it was illegal and did it anyway - to keep it hidden from records requests. SIGNAL itself is an underdiscussed part of this scandal. #HegsethGate #WaltzGate
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?
JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers.
Excusethefuckouttame?!?!
Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.
The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.
I’m not rolling over to a would-be King. Not now, not ever.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Belgrade, Serbia, demanding the resignation of pro-Russia President Aleksandar Vučić.
Protesters are out in Budapest, Hungary today demanding the resignation of pro-Putin Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Love it!
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts
This is going to be important: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮
If you think Senate Dems need new leadership, tell these folks. Tell them to survey the caucus to see if enough would support a challenge to Schumer and who that would be. Pressure Schumer to step aside for the good of the caucus and the country.
It's one thing to worry about egg prices, it's another to worry about a program we paid into for decades that is now threatened. #coup
What a different world we could have.
Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
Wreck Social Security = millions elderly, children, disabled folx destitute. Great Depression redux. All/most money held in SSA will undoubtedly “vanish,” & suddenly billions of $$ “in savings” will be channeled to new Crypto Reserve & into pockets of the oligarchs.
Pennsylvania's Republican AG Dave Sunday doesn't have the courage or conviction to do his job to protect the people of this state. So Gov. Josh Shapiro steps up to do it. share.inquirer.com/nYBB2t