Democracy does require some inherent, minimal interest in the collective democratic project from its citizens, its kind of integral to "government by the people," idk man.
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Democracy does require some inherent, minimal interest in the collective democratic project from its citizens, its kind of integral to "government by the people," idk man.
“I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis, which is the desire to welcome all people, including LGBTQ people,” the Rev. James Martin, S.J., told the AP. “It was wonderful. It was very consoling and very encouraging and, frankly, a lot of fun.” https://to.pbs.org/46hrN7l
Not a hoax
𝗡𝗢𝗪: Labor Day protest in Greensboro, NC. Protester: "We don't want a Golden Age, we want a livable wage."
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You know all those slasher-horror movies where they go in the haunted house or down the basement? And you scream, "OMG, how TF could they be so dumb!?" Yeah, well – that's America right now, with RFK jr as the head of HHS, including the CDC, NIH, etc. No good endings. Insane AF.
Looks like trump lied again. Imagine that. #USDemocracy www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...
Release the Trumpstein PedoFILES NOW!
Interesting that there’s so much chatter of a serious health decline just a few days before a press conference is scheduled on the Capitol steps with Epstein’s victims. Things that make you go hmmmm…..and he’s guilty af
Trump Tower NYC: Protesters have gathered outside the building to demand Trump’s resignation.
No candidate interviewing for medical school who, upon expressing RFK jr's views, would ever be accepted. They'd be laughed right out of the room. And yet this man runs the HHS – including the CDC, NIH, ACF, CMS, HRSA, and SAMHSA? WTAF?! Remove RFK jr for dereliction of duty. Immediately.
Hey GOP: You are killing the economy with your policies you dumba**es. Who do you think is going to pay your rent and buy your goods after you wreck the economy? The Middle Class literally supports you and your yachting lifestyle and you are crushing us. Wake TF up.
Random thought: Our mass shooting problem has two elements: Assault weapons, and butt hurt men. If they won’t allow us to regular the guns, maybe we need to regulate the men. Aggressive and unregulated men cause like 90% of all crime on planet earth. Just sayin….
Happy Labor Day, Skylights! If you’re able, I hope you’ll spend at least part of the day making your voice heard in solidarity with the working people of this country. Find an event near you!📍 maydaystrong.org www.mobilize.us
Happy Labor Day to the union workers who built America’s middle class.
Never thought singing to a baby Emu would be on my gig list 😍 so grateful for @caenhillcc.bsky.social & your friendship #singer #babyemu #emu #animalsactuary #farmlife #farmsinger #youaremysunshine #lullaby #specialgig #gig 🎵🎤🎵
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RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
Shameful
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
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WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn't getting the endorsements from Chuck Aipac Hakeem Aipac Cory Aipac Because they support genocide
Happy Labor Day
On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
Never forget. This history is already being rewritten.
Meet Candon Dahle, Why isn't he not in jail for life? Bingham County Idaho THIS CHILD RAPIST was sentence to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old girl for 5 years, part of the plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. WOW: (white privilege )
Who wants breakfast?
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
Age 77. Same.
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! 💥🔥💥
We have become a shithole country.
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK. The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Yes.
Because people stood up and said NO, you get to celebrate on Labor Day and every other holiday. As for me, my Father fought hard for YOUR rights all his life through the good, the bad, and the ugly as a Labor Union President and Leader for 40 years Celebrate those Victories today and every day
Kennedy is ushering in a New Dark Ages of Medicine and Science. Kennedy is uneducated in real science and has pushed every quack theory that crosses his drug addled worm filled brain. Lankford is perfectly happy to watch millions die before he will say Trump was wrong on RFK Jr #ProudBlue
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
Day 224 REALITY CHECK: The election was highly compromised. There was a coup. The Supreme Court was the primary lever. Everything we have witnessed is TREASON. There’s no way out of this without MASS MOVEMENTS of the people. No one is coming to save us. We must rise up in peaceful revolution NOW.
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
In a recent interview, Governor Pritzker discussed that he believes that Donnie's eagerness to put troops in US cities stems from Donnie's intention to make false claims about the upcoming 2026 elections & would be "an invasion". #PINKS
Dear Trump staffers: It would really help sell the whole thing if you were a bit less observant of traditional rules of grammar, punctuation, and casing in his social media posts.
Fuck Netanyahu and each and everyone of his enablers. That's all, it is Sunday ya know.
Just sayin’.
He’s some kind of out of it.
Why is MSM not reporting on the disappearance of the President of the United States?
Whaaat?
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
Sigh. If we only had journalism or reporting.
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
A man was granted asylum by a judge then upon departing the courtroom he was nabbed by ICE. wonder what the "do it the right way " crowd has to say about this. he did it the right way. He followed the laws and was granted asylum and was nabbed anyways right out of the courtroom.
Trump and Republicans attack unions because they know organized workers are powerful. But let’s be clear: workers built this country—not billionaires. (1/2)
While my intent was to visit the flowers in Prescott Park in Portsmouth, NH, I spent a bit of time chasing monarch butterflies with my camera. #ColorADay #OrangeSun #butterflies
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
What could possibly go wrong?
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
I am so grateful to Marc Elias! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yes. Trump code for not going to happen and please don’t bring it up again.
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
voting for a political party who openly wants to strip away your rights is self-harm
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
I just saw an article that said a CEO that stole a hat from a kid at a tennis event was the most hated man in America. I feel like that's forgeting someone.
🌱 A new crew has arrived💚🦋🦋🦋 #gardening #Monarch
He didn’t write that. Not enough capitals. Kind of AI, actually.
JD says he is prepared to take over the presidency, having received “on-the-job training” in the first seven months of this term. On the job vacation training?
Refer all questions to Jake Tapper. He knew all about the last guy. I’m pretty sure he must be tracking this one.
Exciting, isn’t it?
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition was not under oath. She was not video taped, which is very unusual for a deposition. And there are many cuts where they stopped the audio tapes so lawyers could confer with her off-the-record. None of that stuff is the way you do a deposition.
Rs, before the Trump cult took hold, frequently railed (rightly so) against communist and fascist regimes that nationalized industry, indulged in crony capitalism, and substituted propaganda for free speech. (The five-year plan is working!) How times have changed. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Reporters are being killed on a daily base in Gaza. We need to support them as much as possible to keep receiving news about the Gaza Strip population. Reporters without borders launched a worldwide campaign to spread awareness about it. rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...
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!
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
Cleveland’s mayor wants Democrats to know millennials like him are impatient and ready to lead. Justin Bibb says Democrats need to listen more to mayors. They see the impact of federal policy first-hand.
I am looking forward to the fact based, no-nonsense, Canadian content as a part of the Meidas mighty network. 😄🇨🇦 We are stronger together. #elbowsup Canada #cdnpoli
"The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace." - Ralph Waldo Emerson #photography #nature #naturephotography #Squirrels #photographyOnBlueSky #walnuts #photo
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Post a video of yourself with today’s newspaper saying this
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Pope Leo XIV prayed publicly on Sunday for the victims of the shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota and called for an end to the "pandemic of arms, large and small."
"No one in the administration – the president or anybody under him – has called anyone in my administration or me – have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else. So it's clear that, in secret, they're are planning this – well, it's an invasion with US troops." Gov. JB Pritzker
Not only is the National Guard doing menial tasks like picking up garbage in DC Trump and Hegseth are screwing them out of their housing allowance and health insurance by putting them on 29 day orders They need 30 days for benefits Trump always screws people over. Even the military #ProudBlue
Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s Cabinet getting instant repudiation from the Appeals Court after they sent letters begging the Court not to humiliate them with an adverse ruling. youtu.be/QtQ0PLgxR8g?...