Strands #547 “Be my guest” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵
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Strands #547 “Be my guest” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵
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Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Went to Livonia's protest today! A fellow protestor brought a great playlist of classics.
Watch "It’s Happening with Velshi & Ruhle” live on YouTube on Thursday, September 4th at 4pm Eastern: www.youtube.com/live/k-b3Ok8...
Fun! Strands #546 “Up the hill” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵
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Attorney Norm Eisen, who is helping represent Federal Reserve Board chair Lisa Cook, tells MSNBC they'll be filing an additional legal argument on behalf of Cook in court on Tuesday
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
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We've been obsessed with watching the U.S. plunge into fascism. It is time to start focusing on what is happening right here in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Strands #545 “No small matter” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵
Michael chose the word! Wordle 1,533 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, resigned Friday — days after filing a whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE employees had uploaded a copy of the entire country's Social Security information to a "vulnerable cloud environment”
Volunteers 💙 We the People
Follow @climate.us www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ford is recalling more than 355,000 of its pickup trucks across the U.S. because of an instrument panel display failure that’s resulted in critical information, like warning lights and vehicle speed, not showing up on the dashboard.
There are any number of things to take deadly seriously. Democracy is being attacked from the inside out. So when we have fun and nourish our spirits, it’s not to avoid the problems. It’s to fortify ourselves to better defend against them.
Strands #539 “Plug your ears” 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵🟡🔵🔵
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"Democratic governors are on the frontlines of the redistricting fight. They have the power to veto rigged maps, pass fair ones and go on offense to counter Republican extremism in places like Texas." - Meghan Meehan-Draper www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
I promised Texas would be sued. And I don't bluff. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Wow! Michael chose the word! Wordle 1,526 2/6 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
John Deere, the largest American agricultural equipment manufacturer, announced layoffs affecting more than 200 workers across three Midwestern facilities this week. The company cited customer uncertainty over Trump’s expanding tariff policies as a primary factor in declining sales. #TrumpTariffs
Greenville County: see you Tuesday 8/26 at the Hughes Main Library at 6:00 pm! 🇺🇸
Hundreds of D.C. residents ran federal forces out of the Columbia Heights neighborhood, yelling, “ICE GO HOME.” This is how you do it. This is people power. This is resistance. The Trump regime will lose because—across this country—we the people reject their fascist vision for our nation.
NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.
🚨BREAKING: In a setback for the RNC, the Arizona Supreme Court GRANTED a petition for review of the RNC's lower court win. With this ruling, the 2023 Election Procedures Manual will likely be in effect until this case is resolved or the 2025 EPM is enacted. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...
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What real leadership looks like. Thank you, President Barack Obama, for standing strong with California, defending our rights, and fighting for the people of this nation.
Challenging, but got it! Strands #534 “Dash it!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
A White House official told CBS News the National Guard members deployed to Washington, DC, as part of Trump's emergency order in the nation's capital, "may be armed," but that Guard members would not make arrests
CW: Sexual assault Men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and assault women. This is one of many reasons why we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Tell your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
We did it! Strands #532 “Think again!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵
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The words stood out to me! Strands #531 “Think on it!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵
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Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
A rally in Alaska ahead of the meeting between President Trump and Putin.
Donald Trump and his MAGA allies have picked back up where Bruce Rauner left off. They’re declaring war on working people by making workplaces less safe and raising the cost of living. Luckily, we've seen this movie before. We beat them once. And we’re going to do it again.
Putin has lost at the very moment he invaded #Ukraine. All these years, he has been leading Russia into poverty, decay and collapse. He will go into history as the man who turned Russia into an underdeveloped raw materials base for China.
Wow! Josh Turek running against Joni Ernst in Iowa 🔥 substack.com/@adamparkhom...
Good conversation. youtu.be/ipkVt_tq3sI?...
Hochul: "This is what I call a legal insurrection ... they know they're going to lose next year. That's the only reason they're engaged in this. It also might be a nice distraction from people asking -- all of the sudden this happens when? When they refuse to release the Epstein files."
On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
The IRS clashed with the White House over using tax data to locate suspected undocumented immigrants just hours before Trump officials fired IRS Commissioner Billy Long. Long's dismissal makes his tenure now the briefest in the agency's 163-year history. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Good question. 🤨
Strands #525 “A rip-roaring good time” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵
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Texas Democrats are showing us what it really means to use every tool at your disposal. They’re risking political careers, enduring personal sacrifice and refusing to be complicit in Trump’s authoritarian playbook. But Texas Dems can’t win this fight alone: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
Priorities.
🚨 State Representative Ann Johnson from Houston, TX, is speaking some truth to power. Her message carries weight; it carries values, American values. ✊🏼
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Virginia Giuffre’s brother: Calling it a hoax is a complete disgrace to everything that my sister has worked for, everything these survivors have worked for and continue to fight for… And that feels very uncompassionate coming from somebody that’s the leader of our country.
The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.
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Reminds me of the Jan6 "rioters"
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Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.
Bravo! Well said! youtu.be/8uR3F8qJFZE?...
This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
NEWS: JD Vance had the Army Corps of Engineers raise the water level of an Ohio river so he could improve the kayaking conditions for his birthday outing (The Guardian)
Noticing a pattern here.
JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
There's a trump manufacturing boom alright -- a lot of trump manufactured bulls**t.
Jessica: As for the manufacturing boom which he is talking about—in the latest jobs report, we lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs and the manufacturing industry has contracted the most we have seen in the last nine months,
DOGE takes an axe to the National Weather Service. 550 vital employees are either laid off or retire early. Now the Trump regime is scrambling to hire them back. "Efficiency." https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/weather/nws-rehiring-doge-layoffs-climate
Trump saying he has the best poll numbers he’s ever had citing “Harry Emden” on CNN Harry Enten response: If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself.
When it comes to redrawing America’s political lines in ways that secure and expand Republican power — especially at the expense of voters— Adam Kincaid is one of the most central yet overlooked figures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOGE: CAUSED $21,700,000,000.00 in waste!!! 😑 Repulsive. The #RepublicanRegime strikes again. link in comments
Women dressed in Handmaid regalia follow GOP Congressman Rep. Mike Flood NEBRASKA (R)
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
Jessica: I also heard no complaints when Mike Johnson decided to abdicate his job to say actually congress isn't in session anymore because I don't want to have to vote on turning over the Epstein files…. so be equal opportunity in your complaints about fleeing your job
Looks a lot like America today.
Top Trump officials are meeting at the Vice President’s residence tomorrow to discuss their next moves to cover-up Trump’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein
TEXAS @repcasar.bsky.social : “Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws. Then that president’s political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done. That’s what’s happening in Texas right now.”
It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇 Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
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All across the country, we’re putting up billboards in GOP districts that call Republicans out for covering up the Epstein files. We want to do more of this, but the number of billboards and districts depends on the amount of money we raise. Pitch in if you can: secure.actblue.com/donate/epste...
Watch GOP Rep. Mike Lawler try to project his blatant dishonesty onto a disbelieving audience yesterday…followed by numerous receipts that prove he is full of sh*t. Stop lying, Mike. Great video courtesy of @indivisrockland.bsky.social. #NY17
⚡️Ukraine awards Order of Freedom to journalist killed in Russian captivity. "Viktoria was one of those who spoke the truth about the war. She worked on the front lines and in temporarily occupied territories, risking her life," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The sad and fundamental truth is that neither the Obama administration nor the Clinton campaign took Russian electoral interference seriously, meaning that now, a decade on, Russia’s man keeps trying to prove that he’s not. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
Illinois is now the first state in the nation to require mental health screenings in its public schools. Our schools should be inclusive places where students are not just comfortable asking for help — they’re empowered to do it.
Sophia, Mykyta,their 2-year-old son Lev &their unborn baby were killed by the Russian strike on #Kyiv on July 31. The family was from Sloviansk,fled to Kyiv from the Russian invasion.The Russian missile hit the residential building's entrance where they rented an apartment Deepest condolences...
Levy: He knows it won’t go over well that he signed the largest transfer of wealth from working-class people to billionaires in history. He knows it’s not popular that he stripped collective bargaining rights from over a million workers. So rather than fight fairly, he’s trying to rig the maps.
Great work, John Roberts. You’ve played a key role in wrecking our beloved country.
Went to Livonia's protest today! A fellow protestor brought a great playlist of classics.