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This #LaborDay, let’s remember that immigrants make up 20% of the workforce. If 20% of the workforce were deported, the country's GDP would decrease by 12% (-3 trillion). Hurting immigrants doesn't only hurt them. It hurts America. Is weakening America worth owning the libs? #OnYourSide
From my grandfather, who battled union busters in the 1940s From my parents, school teachers who fought for fair wages and benefits From my daughter, who works with unions to create climate friendly jobs And me, representing union members injured at work Enjoy your Labor Day You've earned it
Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
🧵Labor Day is a chance to remember all unions have done for America. "The first labor union in the United States was the the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (leather workers and cobblers), founded in 1794." The union crumbled in 1806, when owners won a lawsuit charging workers with..1/
This #LaborDay, Democrats celebrate American workers and the unions that stand for fair wages and workers' rights protections. Never forget that Trump and MAGA Republicans want unions destroyed so they can exploit workers to benefit their billionaire friends. Stay union-strong, America! 🇺🇸
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
#LaborDay Remembering Utah Phillips He was an American Labor Organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet Always telling the stories of American workers and the struggles of labor unions Thank you, Utah Phillips #UnionStrong
It's been a while since I reminded people: Supporting our military and veterans requires MORE than bbqs, parades, and sales on a few long weekends/special days. It's more than saluting and saying "thank you for your service." Nothing about today's GOP/Trump party is good for the military. NOTHING.
.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
20. So even if the Democrats stopped using all those bad words that Third Way says they should stop using, it would't matter, because the Republicans would say they still use them and that would force the Democrats to deny that they do. And Third Way wouldn't defend the Democrats.
17. Harris won more votes than Trump did in 2020 (74.3 million to his 74.2 million), but she did not win as many as Joe Biden in 2020. (He won 81.3 million votes, the most ever, while Trump won 76.8 million this year, the second-most ever.) Where did seven million voters go?
18. You could say voter suppression laws, but a bigger source of “voter suppression” was propaganda, directly or indirectly from rightwing media, or from anti-trans TV ads, or “false-flag efforts” funded by billionaires, to make Dem voters in swing states feel like there’s no point in voting.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
www.threads.com/@amlfighter6... We have to remember people can change. Watch it all the way through.
Been working with and watching the leadership of this PAC for almost 5 years now … they are why I have hope for the future. Please give what you can.
Honestly - can you imagine someone with more determination, grit, and community values?
Mainers demand that Senator Susan Collins hold a town hall meeting. Over the years, we’ve held dozens of events and invited her to attend. She has chosen not to meet with Maine people. She has played games around accessibility, even once stating that she was accessible because she met with me.
And Wisconsin!!! Lets do it again!
Excellent question.
Not sure who Trump, Vance and this Admin are protecting but it's not the children.
A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
We talk about mass deportation in the abstract. It's not. This is the real, personal & very human cost of it. A daughter having to move into adulthood as a young student unable to lean on her mom when things are too much(growing up is hard&hugs from mom are magic!) A daughter without her mom. Pain.
This is how the plot of Chinatown would have gone, if Robert Towne had written the script while suffering from advancing dementia.
If Trump can fire a Fed governor for allegations involving old mortgage applications that she has thus far had no legal recourse to address, he can fire pretty much anyone.
Greenville County: see you Tuesday 8/26 at the Hughes Main Library at 6:00 pm! 🇺🇸
If it weren’t so glaringly obvious, one might have to ask what they afraid of. Ironic that these are the same people calling others “snowflakes” for wanting safe spaces in classrooms.
Arizona! If you’re in District 07—Pima, Yuma, La Paz, Cochise, and Maricopa counties, please make sure you’re registered to vote in the special election. If not, you can register by 8/25.🗳️ Every voter counts! Cada votante importa! 🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵
David Valadao tipped the scales — billionaires on one side, rural hospitals on the other. Guess which one he chose to keep standing? Not the families of CA-22. #ValadaoDefundedMedicaid 1/3
Have you heard about the mom who can break a veto-proof supermajority in the Iowa Senate? Share this video with every Iowan you know! Let's get Catelin Drey a set in the Iowa Senate!
Why DO they need masks? Know who else hid behind masks? The KKK. Good guys don’t need masks.
On the National Mall, thugs with no badges, no warrant, and no shame dragged a man down and left him screaming for help. This is not law enforcement. It is fascism in plain sight: state violence in the shadow of the Capitol. We need to find a way to stop this cruelty & brutality. It’s evil.
RSVP now for a special meeting with Governor Newsom, Thursday, 8/21 at 4:30 PM. This isn’t politics as usual. IndiMarin will do the work to make sure the Election Rigging Response Act passes with voters on November 4. Please join us! RSVP NOW. click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qU...
The irony is thick with this one. "Be authentic."
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Household electric bills are up 10% nationally since Trump took office. Meanwhile, household gas prices rose by 56%. Energy costs are set to go up more as the Trump-Republican budget bill guts clean energy projects. Remember how the entire election was about lowering prices?
We’re serious about triple checking to be sure you are still on the voter rolls. Check every week until the election. Don’t let them take away your voting right. IWillVote.com
Echoing @danancona.bsky.social not sure there's anything else to say.
To all who are convinced we won't have elections in 2026: If Trump has the power to end elections in the U.S., why is he so desperate to gerrymander our states? In a world of people who fall for right-wing psy-ops and give up before fighting, be a Newsom. The MAGAs only win if you let them.
If you ask young people what they believe in and what will help them, it’s still social programs that Democrats are more likely to deliver. The soundbite conservative approach may appeal on the surface but it doesn’t offer actual solutions. We need to fund registration and education.
Excellent thread - worth the time it takes to read it.
Trump admin must restore 100s of UCLA research grants, federal judge rules www.latimes.com/california/s... worth noting—this lawsuit was filed by a group of academics, not UCLA or CA. Hope academics at other schools follow their lead before there are more settlements (& tenure still exists)!
So sorry. No excuse for hate. Hard to imagine how weak and broken someone has to be to do things like this.
This is what I want to see …. More people like Josh running for office, who know what it means to be American: to do the work, to overcome obstacles time and again, to care about the community, who know … we may all die someday but how we live matters. Let’s go Iowa.
This - let’s be #seriousaboutsafety. Because calling up the National Guard to fight everyday crime that’s already declining. #ThisIsNotNormal. Let’s do MORE of what cities like Baltimore, LA & Chicago have done to reduce their rates crime.
Wes Moore on Fox & Friends: "Our National Guards are not trained for this ... we know the missions that they are trained for. Municipal policing is not one of them. If we want to be serious about making people safe, let's actually do the things that make people safe."
Lived in DC 24 years. Number of times I’ve been victim of crime? Once: stolen laptop. Zero assaults or violent crimes. I’m a white man who has lived in good neighborhoods, sure. But I’ve spent time in almost every DC neighborhood. It’s a great city…or was until this week.
On the way to a dinner party with interesting people, when Marvin Gaye came on, had to document What’s Going On in these DC streets around Capitol Hill in light of the emergency the White House told us about yesterday morning. Does this look like it warrants dramatic, overhyped response?
We must insist the Supreme Court protect voting rights and democracy. In 2015-17, I litigated and won 4 redistricting cases in the Supreme Court. In the last few years my firm has litigated two others in the Court and won both. Don't give in to the cynics. When we fight we can win!
Please share far and wide … help find my friend’s daughter. If you see anything, please say something!
Trump is terrified of voters. Instead of changing his policies he’s trying to force Texas Democrats back to Austin so Republicans can steal five seats! We’re fighting for democracy! We can’t back down!
Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care.
Now Republicans are trying something different: quietly weakening the law and hoping you won’t notice. We can’t let them. It’s up to all of us to vote for leaders in every election who will make our healthcare system better, not undermine it. Call your member of Congress and hold them accountable.
#StopHate NO people should pay for the sins of their government/acts committed in their name (without their personal involvement). Are YOU responsible for each of America’s bad acts … from slavery to Abu Ghraib? If not … then not every Jew or Palestinian is responsible for Oct. 7 or Gaza.
Big thanks to V from @underthedesknews.bsky.social for bringing attention to this important information. 🏳️🌈 @yourgaylawyer.bsky.social outlines nine key legal documents that can help safeguard many of the protections tied to marriage.
This is the message right here 👇
This is Ohio’s democracy in action. On Aug. 9, thousands lined 8 miles of High Street, hand in hand — for Medicaid, immigrants, truth, and justice. Against corruption, cruelty, and lies. Ohio doesn’t sit down. We link up. We fight back. And we’re just getting started.
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The VA election is on 11/4/25. After all the damage that has been done by the Trump regime, VA must go bluer—to pass bills that would protect VA. W/a 51–49 Dem majority, we need to grow it in the House of Delegates & elect Abigail Spanberger Governor for a Dem trifecta. Here’s what you can do 🧵1/3
Florida State Senator @shevrinjones.bsky.social joins Florida Dems in warning us about DeSantis getting ready to gerrymander our state like Abbott in Texas. We also have a call to action from him: Call your state representatives and let them know your voice will not be silenced. See 🧵for info 👇🏻
If you watch one thing today, make it this. These workers are risking their lives to build our cities and getting paid like their time, safety, and dignity don’t matter. They deserve fair pay. They deserve respect.
This is a NIMBY movement I can get behind … as long as the answer isn’t to push them to historically disadvantaged areas with less political clout. Instead, let’s make the answer they have to invest in more energy infrastructure and renewable energy sources!
thehill.com/homenews/adm... No more forever wars, huh? The “war on drugs” is just that. We need to fight drug trafficking and addiction but centuries of history tell us….whacka-a-mole violence won’t do it.
We should ensure they can afford & access basics like food, shelter, and healthcare. Not take away their jobs, deport their families, and close hospitals. We should be THANKING them in every way. Remind your electeds: that’s what it means to #HonorOurVeterans
They were THANKING the family of the person who told them their child wasn’t coming home. Not just once but many times. Not just with words, but food, compassion, and gifts. That’s what a great nation should do for those who serve: while they serve and afterward. /8
They had not yet buried their loved one. And they thanked the Marine who told them he was not coming home and sought out that Marine’s family to thank them. Months later, they would invite us to their home for dinner and have gifts waiting for us. Can you imagine? /7
Then one by one, family members who my Marine had notified came to thank my young son and me for the sacrifice we made - living states away from him during his deployments. They expressed their deep gratitude for the strength and comfort our Marine afforded them on the worst day of their lives. /6
But they would forever have my gratitude. Yet, in that moment, the anger & overwhelming shared grief left me almost numb. Trying to comprehend the loss of so many from one Battalion, one Company, one community. Knowing my family’s sacrifice counted but paled … still left me angry. /5
Whatever their motives for joining, whatever capacity they served in, they signed up and took an oath to defend our Constitution, to defend us from enemies foreign and domestic. They signed up knowing what it could cost them and the people who loved them. I don’t pretend they were saints /4
Drink with, rather than the “policy wonk” with experience. With a nation easily manipulated to hate rather than to question how the proposed “solution” would work in reality. But it would not be directed at the service members or their families. /3
Even then, immensely grateful that my Marine was not among the fallen, I couldn’t imagine how I would get past that anger to truly grieve if anything happened to him. But I knew … my anger was reserved for the politicians who directed the action, the voters who valued a “good old boy” they could /2
vindyarchives.com/news/2005/au... A thread: 20 years ago, I spent my birthday in Ohio where we honored the sacrifice of too many from Lima Company. An opponent of the war from the start, I was still so caught up in anger that our nation asked this of its service members. /1
It’s bad enough that we are forcing people out who have been doing their jobs & defending our Constitution based on bigotry (not merit). But even if you think that’s okay … to deny the service they’ve already rendered? The sacrifices they already made? Unforgivable. UnAmerican. #HonorOurVeterans
I've taken care of USG owned buildings. We need to preserve them. I even agree they should be nice and represent our nation's wealth . . . but not at the expense of our nation's health, safety, and security.
Well played!!! This is what gerrymandering does!
Did you see it? The #MessWithTexas clap-back… Today, an anonymous group of self-described democracy advocates is flying planes with banners that say “Mess with Texas” over blue state capital cities: Albany, Annapolis, Augusta, Trenton, Springfield, and Sacramento.
Texas isn’t satisfied with just hurting their own people, they aim to hurt with their cheating. #MessWithTexas
Every voter in every state should be pissed about this. It’s not just a TX issue. #MessWithTexas
Voters are supposed to choose their representatives, not the other way around. #MessWithTexas
Texas Democrats broke quorum to stop a Trump-ordered gerrymander. They left the state so Abbott couldn’t steal the vote. That’s not obstruction—it’s protection. The people blocking this map are the ones defending democracy. #MessWithTexas
Utah MAGA legislators recently made gerrymander pie out of Salt Lake and Weber counties to silence democracy loving Democratic/Independent voices. This was done AFTER the people voted for a fair and representative congressional map. STOP MAGA assault on democracy & voting rights. Resist everywhere
They are defending democracy from those who want to kill democracy! Heroes - each one of them!
If Republicans thought they could win fair and square they wouldn’t be trying to rig the map. #MessWithTexas
PSA: MESS WITH TEXAS
#MessWithTexas. Encourage Dem states to level the playing field. We can go back to independent commissions when all states adopt them.
Gerrymandering is when politicians choose the voters instead of voters choosing the politicians. Republicans are redrawing the map to gerrymander House Democrats into oblivion. Democrats need to fight fire with fire. 🔥🔥🔥 #MessWithTexas
The Dems are slaying the Texas MAGAs and taking names.🔥 Listen to the Speaker of the Texas House whine about the Democrats leaving the state to prevent them from redistricting their state. The Dems left BECAUSE they work for The People and won't let the MAGAs silence their voice. #MessWithTexas
Fair question.
Working people are tired of seeing the rich get billions in tax breaks while politicians raise our costs, cut our jobs and take away our essential services. Join us on #WorkersLaborDay as we fight for the fair economy that workers deserve. workerslaborday.org
“In 2021 every Democrat in Congress voted for fair redistricting laws (no gerrymandering). Every Republican voted against it.” They know, they can’t win without cheating. #MessWithTexas
Tired of Making Good Trouble in Florida? Let's get Wicked! Fight Fire with Fire at alligator Alcatraz with Betty Osceola and Dr. Marvin Dunn.
Trump has already bullied Congressional Republicans into submission to adopt policies that hurt America. If they’ve done so well & are so confident the American people love him … why does he need to cheat to steal seats? Because they know … they have hurt us all. #MessWithTexas
#MessWithTexas If you think this will not impact you, you are sadly wrong. We need to stand behind those standing up to power .
Casar as CNN presses him about running against Doggett: "We aren't accepting these illegal maps. We're not going to just stand by and be pit against one another... this fight is about something much bigger than the horserace... it's about voters being able to choose their member of Congress"
Voters should choose their representatives. Not the other way around. Who do TX Republicans work for? Clearly not TX voters. “Blue States” should protect democracy & stop this power grab. Then we should federally prohibit partisan gerrymandering & require independent commissions. #MessWithTexas