Palestinian child
Vietnam vet, retired special education teacher, fighter for human rights, the environment and animals. I'm very progressive in my political views.
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Illinois launches landmark legal hotline for LGBTQ+ folks: “We’re fighting cruelty with compassion” www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/illi...
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
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So adorable!
A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital, including a rare strike in the center of the city, early Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded 48.
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Stop Woolies and Coles' price gouging! getup.to/Y9y1rFlC8YrU4
I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
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COLORADANS: Tell CO lawmakers to pass the AI Sunshine Act! It provides protections by ensuring the: -right to know how algorithms are used in major life decisions -right to correct inaccurate personal data used by hidden ADS -right to accountability by requiring developers to disclose risks
Voters should choose their leaders — not the other way around. Add your name to demand Congress pass the Freedom to Vote Act and ban partisan gerrymandering once and for all: peoplefor.org/FreedomToVot... #ProtectDemocracy #FairMaps Please sign and share. Thank you.
”No matter how dark it gets,” Jon Batiste told the crowd last night. “I know: We can win. We can win. We can win.”” Yes, we can. Let’s not lose sight of the good & motivated people in our country who remain committed to creativity, diversity, inclusion—& joy. www.americaamerica.news/p/america-wh...
BREAKING: The California Assembly has passed a bill to put Governor Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan on the November 4 ballot.
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Art of the deal.
I wasn't overreacting.
Texas Republicans are trying to rig the maps to steal seats in Congress. If they go through with it, blue states must respond. Add your name to demand Democratic governors fight back with redistricting of their own: peoplefor.org/RedistrictMaps #DefendDemocracy Please sign and share. Thank you.
Here's a Map of What Trump-GOP Destruction of US Hospitals Looks Like www.commondreams.org/news/hospita...
Our contribution to the White House’s new TikTok
ICE is targeting delivery drivers in DC, and MPD is helping them. 📌 ICE is not police 📌 DC law requires uniformed officers to show their badge and nameplate while on duty And Uber needs to do better by its drivers!
Why Are Netanyahu and Trump Protecting An Accused Child Sex Predator? www.qasimrashid.com/p/netanyahu-...
Life comes at you fast
Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics director for accurately reporting bad jobs numbers. Now he’s nominating a loyalist who wants to shut down the jobs report. The public deserves the truth—not propaganda. Sign the petition to stop E.J. Antoni: peoplefor.org/SaveBLS
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Let's go. This is it. We need to wake up. We cannot survive if he rigs not just Texas, but he goes to Indiana, goes to Missouri, goes to Ohio, goes to Florida. We have to have other governors of like mind, and there are many, to now do something, not just say something."
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Republicans rig maps, Democrats fight back. California’s new maps cut straight into GOP districts—and voters get the final say this November. That’s the difference. Republicans cheat. Democrats put it to the people. The only way we survive is to fight fire with 🔥
In other words: They lied.
America has fallen.
We asked for democracy in DC, not dictatorship cosplay.
Nothing says “tough on Russia” like giving Putin a red carpet, an air show, and a bro hug.
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
We’re not distracted and it’s not going away.
D.C. TODAY…
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
apnews.com/article/euro... leaders to join Ukraine's Zelenskyy for White House meeting with Trump
Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Will Redraw Maps To Neutralize Trump's Texas Rigging www.politicususa.com/p/gov-gavin-...
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New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
1. Get bad jobs numbers 2. Fire person who counted 3. Stop counting ‘1984’ is upon us 🇺🇸
Governor Pritzker is right. No more blank checks for Netanyahu’s right-wing government and its military. No more blank checks for war crimes against Palestinians. forward.com/fast-forward...
The man who didn't even know what happened at Pearl Harbor in 1941 wants to make sure the Smithsonian conforms to his "vision" of American history.
A president with a mugshot is releasing troops on citizens without mugshots because they commit too much crime.
She's also the only child rapist in history to be moved to a minimum security camp with potential work release one week after meeting with the Deputy Attorney General.
The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
Federal immigration authorities detained a woman seeking medical care at the National Institutes of Health’s flagship research hospital after the patient presented a non-real ID while passing security.
Abbott vows to immediately call Texas lawmakers back to work if special session ends without new maps www.texastribune.org/2025/08/12/t... via @texastribune.org
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This marks the 2nd time this Child-Rapist has deployed troops under false pretenses. Troops that didn't need to be deployed. Lying to America once again. Making up numbers when the crime rates, in all major cities, have been down. You have to wonder what he's up to now?
So, no national guard on January 6th, but definitely on August 11th. Makes total sense.
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Top Science Journal Gives RFK Jr a Big ‘F-You’ After He Tried Bullying Them Into Retracting a Major Vaccine Study open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...
The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
So far President Trump’s trade polices have had almost no effect on new car prices. But automakers can’t absorb the cost forever and will soon begin to raise those prices, analysts say.
He’s going to try to brainwash his way out of this, deflecting from Epstein to Obama. Not this time. Nobody but the drunkest on the kool-aid are buying this one.
Whether we have to call a special election, set up a ballot initiative, write a bill, or fight it out in court, make no mistake: If Texas Republicans go through with Donald Trump's demands to redistrict the GOP to victory in the 2026 elections, California will be ready.
The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.
I believe them. All of them.
Voters should choose their leaders — not the other way around. Add your name to demand Congress pass the Freedom to Vote Act and ban partisan gerrymandering once and for all: peoplefor.org/FreedomToVot... #ProtectDemocracy #FairMaps
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
Texas Republicans are trying to rig the maps to steal seats in Congress. If they go through with it, blue states must respond. Add your name to demand Democratic governors fight back with redistricting of their own: peoplefor.org/RedistrictMaps #DefendDemocracy
Trump’s Former Surgeon General Issues a Dire Warning: RFK Jr Is Going To Get People Killed open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...
Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/t... via @texastribune.org
apnews.com/article/texa... Democrats leave the state to block vote on redrawn House map backed by Trump
Trump wants Republicans to keep their power in DC next year—and he wants to gerrymander Texas to do it. Live in TX? Join me and @standupamerica.com to stop the GOP’s sham redistricting effort: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...
Quick signature: Tell Congress to cancel the cuts to health care and pass the Protecting Health Care And Lowering Costs Act! #ProtectMedicaid action.momsrising.org/sign/2025_ca...
The Cruelty Machine: Inside Trump’s America, Where Pain is Policy & Fear is the Fuel hartmannreport.com/p/the-cruelt...
Trump budget chief Russ Vought testified PEPFAR sent millions of dollars to Russia to advise doctors on how to perform abortions & “gender analysis," but the global AIDS relief program has not operated in Russia since 2012. Lying to Congress is a crime. Hold him accountable! app.sosha.ai/s/xMLXBXLX
Trump wants Republicans to keep their power in DC next year—and he wants to gerrymander Texas to do it. Live in TX? Join me and @standupamerica.com to stop the GOP’s sham redistricting effort: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-... Please sign and share. Thank you.
Urge Lula To Veto the Devastation Bill and Protect the Amazon! amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
For anyone excited about Mamdani’s victory, a reminder that Katy Porter is running for governor of CA and would be a big improvement over our recent representation. katieporter.com
We can see your voting record.
The man who hasn't moved on from an election FIVE YEARS ago is angry that you won't move on from the Epstein List mentioned by Pamela Jo Bondi just FOUR MONTHS ago.
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.
Give this guy a medal
Sen. Whitehouse explains why Dems walked out of Emil Bove hearing
EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’
Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement. The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
Stephen Colbert, if you’re reading this: the door is open at the MeidasTouch Network open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.
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This is what integrity looks like.
Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host. "Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.
Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.