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The estimate is 18,000 people came out to protest yesterday in Santa Barbara, which is almost 1 in 10 people in the area. That's truly stunning. Wish the media would cover these protests more...

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump’s provocations have turned Angelenos into pedestrians

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

This is downtown Santa Barbara right now. The No Kings protest stretches for over a mile along the water. The cars who drive by are all honking in support. Probably the biggest protest this community has ever seen.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

submitted 1 day ago • 239 comments

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Stop Looking for Red Lines. You no Longer Live in a Full Democracy It's going to be up to us to bring it back to life open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

BREAKING: Reuters has published video images of Marines carrying out the first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 297 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 3 days ago • 2262 comments

This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?

submitted 3 days ago • 324 comments

This is not okay. I'm protesting with no doubt millions of other Americans on Saturday. I hope you will join these protests.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety. It's our job.

submitted 3 days ago • 445 comments

What happened to Senator Padilla is absolutely DISGUSTING. Point blank, period. This shit is out of control. Another elected official disrespected while doing their job. (1/2)

submitted 3 days ago • 1066 comments

“Harsh crackdowns may generate sympathy for protesters, said Omar Wasow, a political scientist at UC Berkeley who studies protest movements. The “spectacle of violence and repression,” he said, can frame states as ‘bullies’ unjustly squashing expression.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

You and your children will breathe more air pollution because of this action. People will have more asthma attacks. People will have more heart attacks. All while climate impacts accelerate.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

My strong instinct is that Trump's threats against Americans' first amendment right to peaceably assemble is going to massively juice attendance at Saturday's protests. www.nokings.org

submitted 5 days ago • 351 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 4 days ago • 531 comments

🧵 NYC: Zohran Mamdani is an extraordinary political talent and he CAN win this. What a signal that would send to the country and to the world. If you have been on the fence, this is the moment to go all in.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

submitted 5 days ago • 68 comments

Leah is exactly right. Every time Trump rips up some environmental protection, he finds another way to force dirty, expensive energy down our throats, this time keeping obsolete coal plants open nobody wants.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

WSJ: The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to ‘just go out there and arrest illegal aliens’ www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

So this is insane.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

And he's getting people killed.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

The future of our planet is on the chopping block. But the fight isn’t over. Join us TONIGHT, June 9th at 5 pm PT/ 8 pm ET for a virtual rally to say NO to Trump’s destructive environmental bill that threatens our health, our communities, and our planet. Join us ⤵️ actionnetwork.org/events/stand...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The people of Los Angeles will rally on Monday, 6/9 to demand the release of everyone unjustly detained by ICE, like SEIU leader David Huerta, and an end to militaristic escalation on our communities. Join us and @aclusocal.bsky.social at 11 AM in LA to call for an end to these human rights abuses.

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 7 days ago • 1155 comments

Just another way Trump is jacking up energy bills for everyday Americans: he's keeping expensive, dirty coal plants open that no one wants or needs. Not even the utilities who own the plants! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

We are coming together on Monday, June 9th with climate leaders like Jay Inslee, @leahstokes.bsky.social , @billmckibben.bsky.social, and others to get fired up to stop the worst environmental bill in US history.🚨 #EnergySky cc: @polluterspay.bsky.social Join us ⤵️ actionnetwork.org/events/stand...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I'm running to represent every corner of Minnesota, no matter what. Our campaign has earned the endorsement of 13 leaders from Greater Minnesota. I'm humbled these grassroots leaders have put their trust in me to represent their communities in the US Senate.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

We have a cover!!! Thank you @profwhw.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @writingisjoy.bsky.social and @jonasnahm.com for design advice :) Coming to bookstores in October 2025!

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

While you were sleeping, House Republicans rammed through a bill that kills rooftop solar, clean manufacturing, heat pumps for everyday Americans, clean energy projects, and funding to cut pollution. Now it's up to the Senate to stop this bill from jacking up energy bills and torching the economy.

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

The latest Republican plan is killing all clean energy projects 60 days after their terrible law is enacted. Hard to believe, but the bill got worse... If it passes the Senate, it will jack up energy bills across the country and put hundreds of thousands of people out of work.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

The House Republican Reconciliation bill is "a sledgehammer on steroids" to America's economy - @robbieorvis.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/c...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

It's no coincidence that the Republicans are going to blow up the filibuster to do the bidding of the fossil fuel industry. EVs, which are cleaner and way cheaper to operate, threaten oil companies that much and the GOP has been bought by big polluters.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Zucman and co were proven exactly right—extreme wealth inequality makes democracy and the rule of law untenable. A global wealth tax is probably the most pro-democracy policy out there. www.ft.com/content/859e...

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Let's be real: if Republicans pass the House budget bill as is, it will murder the US nuclear industry, ruin our chances of winning the AI race (by constraining power supply), concede the global auto sector to China, and vaporize about half a trillion dollars of US manufacturing investment...

submitted 31 days ago • 29 comments

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

submitted 33 days ago • 1295 comments