Self Employed 👵, great grandmother, wanting to maintain democracy for those who's future depends on it. Looking for answers. #democracy #future #greatgrandmother
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If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
My youngest made a friend at his new school. This friend doesn't eat lunch - doesn't bring one from home nor buy one at school Youngest shared some of his lunch yesterday and asked if he could bring extra for his friend, so now we are just going to send an extra meal with him Proud of my kiddo
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly barring states and organizations that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants. This will make it harder for the most vulnerable people to get help in the aftermath of disasters. It was always about cruelty.
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
Wake up is right!
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
NEW: For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed discredited theories linking vaccines to autism. Now, scientists studying the condition fear he has preconceived notions that will harm the field and taint new funding for research. propub.li/41JYl7o
An idea:
Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a “slumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.
That's what the lump in his pants is. 🤨😳🤭
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
well holy sh*t 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget. Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make. The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.” Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
Austin Texas and surrounding areas, wya?
Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor? All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!* *victim's names redacted, of course
Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Vaccines are meant to produce immunological memory and antibody production, so that when you get infected, your immune system can rapidly respond to eliminate the pathogen and prevent serious complications, including death. Vaccines don’t cause autism!
BREAKING: Vladimir Putin is pushing to meet Zelensky in Moscow and Zelensky has obviously turned this down. Why would Zelensky meet Putin in the country that wants him killed? This is all a big joke to Putin. He has no plans on stopping. He has no plans for peace.
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Congratulations, sir! Appearing on South Park is an honor, indeed. Not only have you "finally made it", you had the best line of dialogue in the show. Good luck with your love of furniture and your continuing EPSTEIN Cover-Up, Mar🐫
When Trump doesn’t like the message, he shoots the messenger and replaces the messenger with someone who will come up with messages that he approves. So we’re left without credible sources of information about what is really occurring. [Cartoon by Nick Anderson]
They don't care.
NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response. She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
They’re really out here about to debunk the “immigrants steal our jobs” trope for us. Meanwhile, prices will skyrocket, businesses will close, and people will die.
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Should have never started. 😠🤔🙄
JUST IN: Federal judge orders a temporary stop to construction of Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp in Florida amid environmental lawsuit
Resist!
Elon Musk Backs Claim Trump Will Use Ghislaine Maxwell to Trick MAGA Musk signals agreement with meme suggesting Trump is shielding himself from Epstein files backlash meidasnews.com/news/elon-mu...
Epstein accuser Maria Farmer on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life. She’s a very dangerous person. The woman is not a victim, she’s a victimizer.” via @msnbc.com (ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social)
What is going on with our country and people?
Do people even know how much rent is, the cost of living? We are one paycheck away from homelessness! This makes me so angry. Check out gofundme and share and donate to all the homeless people you can and share. gofund.me/9186fe3a
I am the organizer.
Why your energy bill keeps going up
America is designed to funnel money into the pockets of the few. We’re owned by a small group of investment firms, private equity, and monopolies. These companies and their puppet politicians know the rigged system is exposed—and they are terrified. People power is unstoppable. Change is coming.
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
My daughter just became homeless and is terrified! It can happen to anyone. gofund.me/9186fe3a
Right, this just happened to my daughter. gofund.me/9186fe3a
Do people even know how much rent is, the cost of living? We are one paycheck away from homelessness! This makes me so angry. Check out gofundme and share and donate to all the homeless people you can and share. gofund.me/9186fe3a
Please help if you can. If not, share! gofund.me/9186fe3a
Yes, this is my daughter. I am on the phone with her right now. She is devastated. I am a small business owner, and I am struggling and can't give her the help they need. This is hard. Thank you for asking.
I am posting this everywhere! My daughter just found out yesterday she will be homeless, with her son and dogs. She has a degree, no mental health issues. Just a shitty relationship situation. So I am asking for help. Please share and give if you can. gofund.me/befd5a83
She is terrified and I live across the country and struggling on social security. So, with that said. Please share this and give if you can. Thank you! gofund.me/befd5a83
Wow, another executive order signed making it harder to get benefits for the homeless. My daughter is employed, not on drugs and will become homeless in 5 days, she lives in Maine and they said it wasn't safe for her son and pets to stay at a shelter.
Urgent help needed. My daughter is a part of the LGBTQ plus community and is need of support. Please see the go fund me page and pass on. Thank you for your time. gofund.me/7ebba5e4
Epstein victim Maria Farmer: “Ivana was [Ghislaine’s] best friend… She’d drive by schools… get [girls’] phone numbers… Everybody knew what they were doing.” To shut her up, “they gave me one of those cheap bracelets Ivana was selling on QVC.”
AOC: "when politicians leave government, they go and work for lobbyists and that tells you everything about the coordinated interests that are in cahoots all over regardless of party."
One small act of kindness can make a big difference for someone. op: itssozer (via IG)
Good Trouble Nogales, Az @indivisible.org
Good trouble Tubac, Az @indivisible.org
One day. That’s the slap in the face the DOJ is calling “accountability” in Breonna Taylor’s case. Now they want to act like civil rights charges were too much? Please be for real. If you’re wondering how little they value Black lives—look no further.
“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”
BREAKING: Republicans just blocked my motion to release the Epstein files.
Could you imagine a president of the United States tanking the bond market to distract from a sex scandal? Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?
REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package? MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
Grijalva won. I believe that she will work for our district.
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KEEP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN!!!!!!
"When you build a movement on innuendo and conjecture, conspiracies and alleged coverups, turning around and telling the true believers to suddenly forget it is bound to backfire."
Another distraction.🙄
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
Follow the lawsuits. The regime has lost 93% of them. Protesting does help. We need to keep it up. There is another mass protest coming up on the 17th. www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a... This will build as more people are impacted. So get out and make some good trouble!
People are protesting. They aren’t televising it. It’s huge. West Palm has marched up and down Southern Boulevard outside Mar a lago every time we’ve had major protests. They’ve been heavy at Tesla in West Palm and Miami too. #NoKings #Resist #TeslaTakedown #WeThePeople
Kids in chains at a federal detention center in LA vm.tiktok.com/ZMSsYcBE1/
They’re eating the files, they’re eating the flight logs, they’re eating the list. 😉
This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano. Video credit: USGS
So let me get this straight. In two days we went from “the Epstein list doesn’t exist” to “the Epstein list that certainly exists was created by Obama n such” Ya ok
Joined our Members of Congress & state colleagues following what was a highly scripted tour of human cages at Alligator Alcatraz Detention Center. We were not allowed to speak to ANY detainee, though of course we pushed for more access. This is why the ability to visit unannounced is so important!
Texas has had seven major gun massacres in the past decade. But now—despite the slaughter of school kids, teachers, and churchgoers—Republican leaders have prohibited a law that keeps guns away from unhinged people. @markfollman.bsky.social reports: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... [📸: Pete Luna]
He said he was deporting gang members, but he also said he would the number would be 11 million people. That's almost twice the population of Missouri. Did Trumpers think there were 11 million gang members in the country? Is math that hard? Jesus Christ.
The Blackbird of Annoyance has replaced the Bluebird of Happiness in my life
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America’s groceries…rotting in the fields.
Padilla: "What if I was outside a Home Depot, because I like to do some work around the house, not dressed in a suit. Would I be a target of ICE enforcement under Tom Homan? Probably. And it is just wrong."
💙 A TRUE PROFILE IN COURAGE 👇👇
Why DIY disaster prep matters more than ever www.motherjones.com/environment/...
The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.
Epstein files...now tariffs. Keep your eye on corruption. 👀 #Corruption #Files #Tariffs #News
This should be at least as big a deal as the cover-up of the Epstein files
"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women." —FDR, 1932
Russian BUK-M3 air defense system destroyed by Ukraine’s “Black Forest” brigade On the southeastern front, the 15th Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade of Ukraine — known as “Black Forest” — delivered a precision strike on a Russian BUK-M3 system.👇
Angus: The prime minister presents a vision of saying, “I’m reasonable. We’re going to work with this guy.” Then Trump pulls this stunt. What’s now very clear is that you can’t sit down and negotiate in good faith with a gangster regime. You just can’t trust Trump.
We, the people, have rights! www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
When a government starts targeting former intelligence officials, law enforcement leaders, and anyone who once investigated or criticized those in power, it’s not just a red flag, it’s a page straight from the authoritarian playbook.
This is not a fkng football game! My sympathies to all those who have been affected by this horrific disaster.