I’m so sick of this shit.
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I’m so sick of this shit.
💯. Our government is being run by sociopaths and Republican zombies. It’s still shocking to see so many people lacking empathy, sadistically supporting cruelty and suffering. Is the human species devolving?
Essentially the polar opposite of this.
I had no doubt.
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!
Trump just hung a giant portrait of himself over the Department of Labor building, claiming he puts "American Workers First." Take it from a former Secretary of Labor: Donald Trump doesn't give a shit about working people. https://youtu.be/ARL5VvYJUe8?feature=shared
As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S.'s role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this? n.pr/3VnVTQm
Meidas Health Emergency Episode: The Trump regime removed the CDC director, triggering multiple high-level resignations. Dr. Vin Gupta explains what this means for public health:
“on Tuesday, for the second time this year, a Democrat appeared to flip a conservative-leaning district in the Iowa Senate…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
It has begun. IOWA, FTW!
GREAT WORK, DONALD TRUMP, RAISING PRICES FOR ALL AMERICANS AND MAKING GOODS AND SERVICES MORE EXPENSIVE! IF NOT FOR YOUR NEGOTIATING SKILLS AND MANY BANKRUPTCIES, HOW WOULD WE ALL MANAGE?! THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK INCREASING THE COST OF LIVING SIR!
THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A MASTERMIND OF TRADE. WE ARE NOW PAYING THROUGH THE NOSE FOR OUR BASIC NEEDS. YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISE TO LOWER PRICES ON DAY ONE BUT YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PROMISE TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILE, SIR!!
A sweeping and powerful opinion by United States District Judge Thomas Cullen dismissing Trump’s absurd lawsuit against the entire United States District Court in Maryland. Before MAGA starts whining again about “rogue left-wing judges,” they should look up who nominated Judge Cullen to the bench.
A staggering nightmare in Minnesota as the ravages of gun violence continue to destroy the lives of children across America. We pray for those killed, injured and traumatized and WE MUST ACT NOW TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE.
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
This is idiocy and will cause so much harm.
Definitely his first time at the Vet Hospital... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
In Trump v. Wilcox in May the SCOTUS made clear that “for cause” protections apply to members of the Federal Reserve Board. Which means a tweet from Trump’s Fed Housing Finance Chair claiming that Cook committed mortgage fraud constitutes “cause.” And that’s bogus. This must be fought.
Got that, Bone Spurs? Wes Moore says keep his name out of your mouth. Well done, Governor! 👏🏻
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Gov. Pritzker dropped straight facts. 🔥 We have another Democratic governor who’s a fighter. Keep it coming!
Health Canada has authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and BioNTech and by Moderna for use in the upcoming season. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
BREAKING: The CA assembly has PASSED the first of three bills in Newsom's redistricting fight 30 - 9 www.youtube.com/watch?v=29OH...
Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a “slumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
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.
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Someone wants to say good morning Bluesky… 🥰🦌
Republican friend, I don't get any of this on the most elemental human level; how you manage to feel no empathy for the struggles and sorrows and suffering of others, why you seem to be hell-bent on hurting already hurting people. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-repub...
#flowers #bloomscrolling Tuberose
#birds #nature African Guinea Fowl They are beautiful and loud. They make their presence known!
So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, “I didn’t see any Russians who’ve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.” @maddow.msnbc.com
Yesterday's #SCOTUS ruling in the Department of Education downsizing case is the seventh grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration in just the last 10 weeks in which the majority didn't provide *any* substantive explanation for the Court's intervention. Me on the ruling via "One First":
Big win for California. A judge just blocked DHS from using racial profiling. ✅ They can’t stop people for speaking Spanish, having an accent, or standing outside a Home Depot ✅ They need reasonable suspicion—not skin color or where you work ✅ Detainees get free, private access to lawyers
We live in a country that will spend billions to kidnap children off the streets, but very little to look for other missing children. #Priorities
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
BREAKING: we & wonderful partners just won the very first national birthright class action certification & injunction! Written order to come by COB. Kudos to my colleagues @democracydefendersfund.org, @aclu.org , LULAC & many more
Congressional Republicans have gleefully hacked into the National Parks Service budget despite how much the department does for the United States. Listen to Assembly Required with @staceyabrams.com wherever you get your podcasts: Go.Crooked.com/Stacey
This week’s episode of Assembly Required is out now! 🔗 Listen in: link.chtbl.com/FljWwM3T
@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social didn’t let the numbers get buried. He made sure Americans watching understood what’s at stake. #BlueCrew #TruthMatters #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #Medicaid #ACA #CBO #DefendHealthcare #Boyle #Bessent #FairEconomy
Looking for a smile today? Watch this exciting corgi race, and see which speedy pup races their way to the finish line for a win! 🤭 🔊
Drowned in Silence: While Texas Families Searched for Their Children, Trump Golfed, Ate Ice Cream, and Announced a UFC Event on the White House Lawn 83 Dead, Dozens Still Missing — and the President didn’t Say Their Names #cdnpoli @deanblundell.bsky.social deanblundell.substack.com/p/drowned-in...
MAGA controls the Senate, House, White House, FBI, DOJ, DHS, HHS, OPM, the Pentagon, arguably the Supreme Court, and more. If you’re still blaming Biden six months into Donny “I’ll fix it all on day one” Trump’s term, you need a reality check.
Senate Republicans just sold out the sick and the hungry to cut taxes for the rich and the powerful. What would Jesus do about this “Big Beautiful Bill”? I think he would flip over the tables of injustice and call on us to do the same.
The GOP's Medicaid-busting tax scheme is filled with poison pills antithetical to the values of our people. So I wrote a proper preamble for their big, ugly bill.
#birds Cliff Swallow
#flowers #bloomscrolling Forget Me Nots
Never forget the cruelty of the go-along Republicans. It’s not simply cowardice. www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
#flowers #bloomscrolling Primrose
#STANDupFIGHTback
Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery
#flowers Lily of the Valley
#birds Rhinoceros Hornbill
#setlife chillin on the dock while the crew sets up the shot on shore. If you have to work on a Saturday, this is the way to do it 🥰
Just bloomscrolling and needed some positivity. 🙏🏽
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This is so adorable! 🩷
The Trump DOJ’s lawsuit against every federal district court judge in Maryland flew under the radar. It’s absolutely bonkers.
Watch our full conversation here: youtu.be/PgfVgrDSau4
Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
#flowers Red Camellia
#birds Fairy Wren
#rainbow
That’s right. Cut this lying lunatic off! Every self-respecting news network should cut Trump off and fact-check him in real time. MSNBC did it right!
Yes, we are way beyond the time for calling out lies. If the media had done so boldly, consistently, in 2015 and 2016, Trump may not have been elected in the first place. Some media outlets stay in a comfort zone where lazy journalism passes. It’s time to get back to the hard work of fact-checking!
Via "One First," my longer take on #SCOTUS's ruling in the birthright citizenship cases. TL;DR: The short-term significance may well be blunted by the answers to two procedural Qs the Court didn't address. It's the broader implication (the death of the legal process school) that's especially grim:
We all know how much Melissa and Mark loved dogs. I got to see one of the dog honor guards at the Capitol today. What a fitting tribute to them and Gilbert:
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This week on Assembly Required, it’s all about SCOTUS. Listen to Assembly Required with @staceyabrams.com wherever you get your podcasts: Go.Crooked.com/Stacey
Today, the Supreme Court is poised to once again deliver decisions that could reshape our lives. This week on Assembly Required, we broke down what’s coming and what’s at stake. Take a listen while we wait: youtu.be/JCpyWHhd8Ms?...
🚨 Low ticket alert for our stop of the Coded Justice tour at @anunlikelystory.bsky.social. Come join us! 🎫 bit.ly/4nhZ5Ka
Today’s SCOTUS decision on birthright citizenship nationwide injunctions is too important not to have a clear explanation of its import. So I invited @stevevladeck.bsky.social to walk us through what it means and what is next: youtu.be/a6deyj5Sn_s?...
Just imagine if countries around the world called in the US debt! #cdnpoli www.investopedia.com/articles/mar...
#SCOTUS Sotomayor strong dissent on court's decision about #birthrightcitizenship case. 🔥 "No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. ... Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.
So with the Supreme Court ruling, am I correct to understand that judicial rulings, will be limited to one judicial district or circuit? Anyone know which? Does that mean we would need to sue in each venue, to achieve national results? Boy, the jammed up courts are gonna get much worse…
Just the right response to today’s outrageous Supreme Court decision letting Trump strip Americans of their birthright citizenship ⬇️
Our fight against the efforts to rewrite the 14th amendment and end birthright citizenship will not be derailed by a single SCOTUS decision on procedure. We’re bringing a nationwide class-action lawsuit on behalf of parents and children—born and unborn. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
I love how the right is trying to scare us by saying the United States is turning into one of those European countries with great mass transit and free healthcare.
If Christian Nationalist parents are allowed to have their kids opt-out of any books that dare mention anyone gay, then all the other parents should be allowed to let their kids opt-out from the Ten Commandments.
"We will be in court every single day if this administration continues to trample on their rights.” @skyeperryman.bsky.social describing what Democracy Forward and other groups can do in response to the Supreme Court narrowing the scope of nationwide injunctions.
There was a ton of democracy news this week. My reading list of what you may have missed was sent out to premium members. Sign up now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...
Litman: The irony of this just spillth over—because the Biden administration was subject to nationwide injunction after nationwide injunction in cases that didn’t warrant it. And they asked the Supreme Court, “Guys, can you do something about this?” The Republican justices declined to do so.
This is lovely and put a smile on my face. 😊 Have a beautiful day ☀️
#birds Swan
#flowers #bloomscrolling Coneflower
Teaching the puppy how to use the doggy door 🤩 🔊 📸 doggoig
Patient Mama knew her baby could get through 💕
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
The Supreme Court asserts that issues like abortion and trans health care should be left to the democratic process. However, they fail to acknowledge that this process has been undermined by their own rulings, Susan Rinkunas writes. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/scot...
#flowers Fuscia
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Emil Bove’s “fuck you” to courts whose orders he’d opt to defy should abruptly end his path through the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court. His nomination is well and truly fucked. End of.
@drneilstone.bsky.social
I deployed three times to Iraq & Afghanistan. I know the true costs of war. I know what happens when unaccountable Washington elites pound their chest, saber rattle, and then send somebody else's kids to fight. It's working class folks who pay the price.