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Another night, another attack by russian attack drones. Explosions were heard in the Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Donetsk, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, and Kherson regions. The video shows rescuers extinguishing a fire in the Sumy region after a russian shelling.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Chicago strong! Resist! This is what democracy looks like.
𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭, & 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #𝐂𝐀𝟒𝟖! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐩 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤. #𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐃𝐚𝐲 💪 From the border through Escondido and San Marcos, all the way up to the desert — this district covers a lot of ground. Excited to get out there and cover it all!🔥
If you live in Democratic Cities and ICE Surges are expected, get together with your neighbors as to how you want to fight back as a group. Everyone should be recording. Ask for names of EVERYONE ! First who they are taking into custody so we have full names of THE TAKEN. page 1
Just so you know, everything that is being pushed out from the Whitehouse is just a ploy to distract us from the Epstein victims testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Thank you Rep Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) for making this happen. The victims deserve justice! 💥🔥💥
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
She was a criminal and now they are giving her the honors of an American hero at the same time that the Republicans in the House refuse to hang a plaque honoring the hundreds of Capitol Police that defended them. Just disgusting. thehill.com/policy/defen...
The people shouldn’t be afraid of their government. @chefjoseandres.bsky.social is amongst the most sincere, giving men on the planet. Today, he’s serving an honest #CupOfJoe to the felon in chief. Chef José Andrés radiates compassion. #DemsUnited
Labor Day #WorkersOverBillionaires march gets underway at the Inner Harbor ...
The tenth chapter of The Autobiography of Mother Jones—a 1925 collection of sketches from the life and career of labor organizer and urban reformer Mary G. Harris “Mother” Jones—offers this account of the “March of the Mill Children.”
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“…It is time for him to go,” said NNU President Mary Turner, RN. Ht @publichealthguy1.bsky.social
…“worried” and “alarmed” and that this is not “typical.” He’s destroying the agency you all led. This isn’t the time to leave it to the reader to infer what you’re trying to say when we have a real crisis of reading comprehension. Just say the man needs to be removed, period.
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
TENNESSEE has a Total Abortion Ban. TN often ranks in the 10 US states w/ the Worst DV rates & is ranked 5th in US for deaths of women due to DV. 40% of TN women experience DV. TN lacks Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws to protect victims. NOW ranks TN as 4th WORST US state for women.
And they’re successfully utilizing that ability to the fullest in their latest incarnation.
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Providing alternative housing can be done fairly inexpensively. A motel that doesn't get much traffic can be converted. Tiny homes can provide a safe place to sleep and store possessions, with portable restrooms and a source of water. I like these ⬇️ www.communitysupportedshelters.org/conestoga-huts
For Trump, violent criminals who spread their feces in our nation’s Capitol are heroes who must be pardoned while 10-year-old Guatemalan children are such a threat that they must be deported. And this is being cheered on by white Christian nationalists.
Powerful for these 9 former CDC directors to come together. Would have been even more powerful if they had called for the man most directly undermining public health to resign. Gift link below.
Trump made many promises to American workers during the campaign trail. Seven months into his second term, we take a look at how he is doing.(Image credit: Alex Wong)
#Chicago
#Pinks
Chicago has most the lead pipes in the country. A team of excellent reporters and I mapped them all on a searchable tool. Huge s/o to @juanpab.bsky.social @keertigopal.bsky.social @peteraldhous.com and @compatibilism.bsky.social for this monumental effort. Relevant links threaded below!
If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day. Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.
Relocated to where? A red state? Does the population of Gaza get a say in relocation or is this just a Trump/Kushner property deal? This just shrieks of a Trump benefiting plan. So, this is the new world order. Oligarchs displacing entire countries so that they can make 4x return. utterly obscene.
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
"It's not alarmist to say that these are goons, this is a secret police that is going into our cities to kidnap people, abduct people off the streets" @katmabu.bsky.social on the dangers of ICE agents and potentially troops roaming the streets of Chicago.
As a Palestinian-American — but also as a human — I urge every member of Congress to take action to reverse this decision. If I were in Congress, I sure as hell would. You can read more about my aims for humane foreign policy here: www.katforillinois.com/issues/human...
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
OMG I WANT EVERY COVER!!!!! Also I am dying at the way Kermie looks as Spider-Man. He’s so skinny and awkward and hilarious! 🤣
My Armenian hairdresser waited 15 years for legal status while living here with her kids, but she's white, so of course they never bothered her. They are focused on kidnapping Brown people, the ones that are indigeous to this land in the first place. 🥲🙏 #ICE is akin to Jim Crow KKK or Nazi Germany
Very true.
This is so true.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Anyone looking can see Trump is NARCISSIST. No empathy. Rfk jr is lying or clueless. Maybe both.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
Happening Now — Washington DC: Pretty massive rally is forming at 14th and U NW.
THIS! They can subpoena RFK Jr. by his own admission. bsky.app/profile/vict...
We still have an operational one in Oregon I believe. And the current nightmare for Indigenous people is that girls and women are being kidnapped and sold into sex slavery at an alarming rate. But you don't see it on the news.
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵Did you know that Government boarding schools were implemented as a "legal" means to forcibly remove Indigenous children from their families? This was genocide on a cultural level. The children(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy www.history.com/articles/gov...
We said goodbye to one of the best girls there ever was this week. We were all sad, but no one as sad as her bonded partner Bob. So we: 💔Let him see her body after she passed so he knew what was happening 🔥Brought him to her cremation to say his goodbye 🌊Took him to the beach to scatter her ashes
Turns out the DEMOCRATS are the ones fighting for working class Americans! Pass this along!
South Carolina workers know: it’s ALWAYS #BetterInAUnion, and on Workers’ Labor Day, they’re fighting for what workers deserve!
Race To The Bottom
RALLY @ NOON! Today we're honoring our labor forbearers by demanding dignified lives for airport workers and rideshare drivers. Workers make the world run, and we won't stop until we get our fair share! #LaborDay #UnionStrong #WorkersOverBillionaires #FamiliesFirst
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 The refusal of Jewish refugees by the United States primarily occurred during the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in the context of the Holocaust. Several key events and policies contributed to (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Honor Virginia Giuffre. She’s a hero and pray she can send strength for all the other victims to fight back!
Virginia Giuffre should have turned 42 this year, but her life was stolen by predators who preyed on her as a child and as a teen. She was brave, resilient and gave other survivors hope. We honor her spirit, her fight and demand justice for every victim of trafficking. social.demcast.com/s/WEVRrXIk
Today, we celebrate the labor movement's immense contributions to our country and honor all working people who have bravely stood up to the most powerful forces in the world to help create a more fair and just society for us all. 📸 @reutherlibrary.bsky.social
TODAY: This Labor Day, we stand together for a country that puts working families before billionaires. Find an event near you: bit.ly/3Vm59ED
My inexpert opinion is still that, on balance, this figure is likely too high by a large degree. That’s because the analysis relies on a presumption that immigrant survey response rates haven’t changed, and I’d bet dollars to donuts they have.
Trump Loves To Hire Illegal Immigrants 🧵thread bsky.app/profile/edhi...
Authoritarian control over public school children in El Salvador, a country with deplorable jails migrants fled. Ask Kristy Noem. Coincidentally, the US Regime is sending migrant children there without notifying parents or immigration hearings. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks youtu.be/qhFrdZbG1hA?...
You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".
35 shot, 5 dead, in Chicago amid Trump's threat to deploy National Guard I wouldn’t put it past Trump to have set this up. The timing is just too coincidental. If he’ll fake an assassination attempt he’d set something like this up. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
It’s Sunday. zohranfornyc.com/events
This one has Stephen Miller's finger prints all over it. He's the master of active racist cruelty in a regime that's generally more into thoughtless, self-serving cruelty. I hope the judge can stop him. #ProudBlue wapo.st/47SlsjY
A mother is filing a $1 million claim after her 15-year-old son was held at gunpoint by immigration goons in Los Angeles.
Because "release the Epstein files"
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Around 10 ICE agents showed up at Malcolm X Park to detain an unarmed man peacefully sitting on a bench. Wouldn't it be great to see them raking leaves instead of harassing innocent, harmless people and using the National Guard for free maintenance labor? What a total disgrace. #OnYourSide
As of this week the new fall version of the COVID vaccine has been approved and is in production and available in some locations. This version was formulated before RFKjr so don't worry about him tampering with it. CO., NM & NY Govs. have passed measures to insure u can get shots like before RFK!
This is really disgusting. Where are these kids going when they get there? These people are awful.
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Good idea.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
🧪Jim O'Neill, the acting CDC director, is a tech investor w/o a biology degree or the relevant experience. Susan Monarez was fired b/c she refused to endorse anti-science directives. Multiple officials resigned as they were forced to pick ideology over science. Every accusation is a confession.
A week later, the NYT publishes its videotape investigation of the "double tap" IDF attack on Nasser hospital, which shows conclusively that all of NYT's prior reporting, drawn entirely on IDF sources, was false. OK. But nearly all major publications reported this accurately on day 1, not the NYT.
Norway cancels its $13.5 bn in contracts with American shipbuilders, moves the contracts to the UK. Why? Under Trump, the US is no longer a reliable ally. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
When over 300 million Americans are being abused and dominated by a couple of dozen men and women in DC, we're doing it all wrong. Find your power and your inner reserves, this is mental.
Brilliant
Sorry assholes
The United States is slipping from its place as a world leader. You can thank Trump for that.
These people are awful. Sending kids off alone, to do what?
Fall on the Yampa River 🍂 #Photography #Stunday #EastCoastKin #Nature #Fall #Landscape #Colorado #Scape #ColorADay #OrangeSun
One of the differences with Repubs and Dems. Dems generally clean up their own house.
As of August 2025, several Republican lawmakers have been charged with crimes this year. Here's the latest- how can they still hold a majority?!? A couple of more criminals to be exposed.....
Massive Ukrainian drone attack now hitting Russia. #explodey
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
It is tempting to view the freezing of federal research grants to UCLA as a continuation of the Donald Trump's attacks on elite private institutions. But this also marks a new stage in his shakedown of universities. He devastates universities in states that voted against him.
World leaders are canceling meetings to the United States and are not taking phone calls from Trump. They are truly getting tired of all the lies he has been telling about his trade deals. Most recent to cancel was Japan. #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/B1X8O...
Another ass kissing clown.
Save some time for SEPT 3/25
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
“Violent illegal aliens” 🙄They’re grabbing the ice cream man, high school students, gardeners off the streets of the USA while giving private escort across the Mexico-CA border to family members of the Sinaloa cartel who murdered DEA agent m.youtube.com/watch?v=zvjB...
Those of us who depend on Walgreens especially people like me who take multiple medications NOW is the time to START planning a plan B for your medications. Here in Manhattan NY they have been shuttering stores for the last few years. My local Walgreens has been wonderful to me. This is devastating.