Exactly!
Protecting the natural environment. The reunification of Ireland. Art, architecture and industrial design. Literature. The James Webb telescope. Career relief worker.
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What if every person who understands the nightmare that’s unfolding contacted a friend or relative and made them aware that we’re descending into a dictatorship? Most of America is sleepwalking into this disaster. The media isn’t doing nearly enough to warn them. Tell your family and friends.
Rewilding doesn't just help nature and the planet fight back. It's more beautiful than words. 🌍
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
Oh, so guns *do* kill people? Gotcha.
CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
Rise up America 🇺🇸
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Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor. Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
BREAKING: Senator Raphael Warnock just called for RFK Jr. to resign to his face.
Indeed. I blame the people from Indiana.
Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.
Warnock: Clearly you have an agenda. It is a threat to the public health of the American people. It's clear that you are carrying out your extremist beliefs. RFK JR: We’re the sickest people on earth. How am I a threat? Warnock: I think that you ought to resign.
The military parade Trump wanted, and what he got:
It's. The. Fucking. Guns. #guncontrol #itstheguns #massshootings #schoolshootings
Dems should propose items like banning/reversing rescissions; restoring Medicaid; curtailing DHS overreach and illegality; implementing Russia sanctions; and setting up basic ethics requirements for all three branches of govt. No reforms, shut down government. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Blame that on our neighbor, Indiana, and its horribly lax weapons laws. They ship them right over the state border to our south side of Chicago. We should put up checkpoints at our border to protect all good Chicagoans. We have some of the strictest weapons laws in the nation.
Why has Governor Abbott from Texas declared war on Illinois and Chicago by sending in its National Guard? Is he part of the new Confederacy?
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
I was just going to post the same thing. At some point Dem governors (and all freedom loving Americans) will need to DEFEND their states from these illegal ops by Feds. It’s time.
Gov. Pritzker should meet Texas force with Chi-town force to send those snaggled-toothed shit kickers back to their dusty, tumbleweed-strewn hellscape ASAP! 💪🏻
JB Pritzker should remind the IL Guard that Trump has refused to adequately pay the units deployed to LA and DC. They're being deployed for 29 days so Trump doesn't have to provide them with housing or healthcare.
Repeat after me: Trump CANNOT deploy the National Guard to Chicago. He does not have the constitutional authority to do so. National Guard troops, outside of DC, are NOT his to command. So Chicago & my home state of Illinois need to tell Trump to fuck right off.
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in the state over the governor’s repeated objections. Pritzker also warned Trump will soon launch large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I loave it! 🤩
Stock up, Chicago! 💪🏻
The long term data on hepatitis B vaccination shows it reduces the incidence of liver cancer by 84% and death from liver disease by 70%. This comes from a large cluster RCT in which entire towns were randomly selected to give the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
😝
By far my favorite part of January 6.
By chance, I met this ancient oak near Mauchline, Ayrshire. My hiking pole on the right gives an idea of girth. Trees this age and size are so rare in Ireland that this would be celebrated. But in Scotland, they seem no big deal. Irish nature is a mere shell of what it once was. Time to rewild!! 🌏
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
It was obvious a few years ago. WTAF? www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Dog realises when the point has been won and celebrates. #bluesky #dog #dogaday
This cursed administration. That they each may be a load for four before the year is out!
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...
And tax-paid university, too. We’ll take a small bite out of the Dept of Defense budget to make that happen.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Now that I know Trump doesn’t want people talking about his involvement with Jeffery Epstein — I’m going to be talking about it forever and ever and ever.
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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.
Hell, yeah!! 💪🏻
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
This is some really scary shit.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Maybe he’s just on a three-day Adderall bender.
"Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah"
Chicago, if Trump is dead.
I will delete this, but can somebody tell me why everybody thinks he croaked? Is it just the many days off and the weird playlist on the lawn earlier today, plus the references to heaven and the hand bruising that we already knew about? Or is there something else?
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Someone needs to inform the Air Farce (pun intended) that Ashli Babbit was a traitorous insurrectionist who hated her country. #AirFarce
This is an absolute slap in the face to every single serviceperson who has protected this country and the Constitution. Ashli Babbitt was a traitor who deserves no recognizance whatsoever. Every person involved in this decision deserves the same.
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
Concert outside the White House! #cdnpoli
Rachel Maddow reacts to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's speech…. "Shoot that right into my veins!": Maddow on IL Gov. Pritzker's speech
Masked immigration raids don’t protect us. They hide abuse and strip away our dignity. Stand with me in demanding transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition.
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
" Democrats are so worried about alienating a small slice of the electorate that they’re hesitating to condemn the most abusive act yet by a historically unpopular president from the opposing party." newrepublic.com/article/1996...
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
The Second Amendment doesn’t just protect the right to own a firearm. It also talks about “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.” The Framers believed that free states needed their own armed citizen force as a check on federal power. READ: belib.org/To1M6af
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Turns out, it’s not a bruise on Trump’s hand, it’s a gang tattoo from a notorious international child sex trafficking gang.
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The memoir will be released just months after Giuffre’s death.
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders, even when he tells them to break the law... even said he would use the U.S. military to go after American citizens." Kamala Harris was right.
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This is what autocrats say and do. Some threats he intends to carry out, others are just meant to intimidate to produce a change in behavior caused by fear. Every day we move closer to autocracy. Who will be fearless & fight, who will ignore it and hide, & who will bend the knee?
If we don’t draw the line, there may be no line left. The American dream was never about soldiers patrolling civilians, forced curfews, or military crackdowns it was about freedom.
Every time soldiers are sent into our streets, ordinary citizens lose another piece of their freedom. Communities are left wondering if they’re being “protected” or targeted. This is not what “public safety” looks like it’s what creeping authoritarianism looks like.
This isn’t a series of one-off threats, it’s a systematic escalation designed to normalize the military’s presence in American cities. Each deployment or threat builds on the last, conditioning the public to accept something that should never be routine in America.
It isn’t normal for a president to repeatedly threaten the use of military force against American citizens. Treating the National Guard as a political pawn disrespects those who serve and undermines public trust in our military.
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
Israel attacking yet another hospital with the full support of the West is both unsurprising and completely monstrous. This must stop and we must do whatever we can to stop it.
Okay, you convinced me. Let’s go!! 💪🏻
They believe they can seize control of our city. Washington, D.C., is currently experiencing a beautiful vibe and energy tonight. Free DC ✊
Every day is filled with the promise and possibility that it will be his last day on Earth.
🚨 Mayor Wu faces criminal charges because she is decent. We all know what ⏰ it is. Of course you are going after a female POC first. She is a “suspicious person” in 2025.
Biden had four long years to properly prosecute the coup-attempting convicted felon for espionage in addition to his other crimes, but he chose not to for fear of being perceived as political. He knew it, but blew it. There’s no way back from this, unfortunately.
There are certain sections of Chicago that I’d advise Trump not to invade.
So much for the June ruling by the Federal judge barring Herr Trump from fabricating any more emergencies. I hope the Chicago Police refuse to cooperate. www.bbc.com/news/article...
There are certain sections of Chicago I would advise Trump not to invade.