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I feel safer already.

This is how we do it

The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

Meaning, that she and this Administration have no idea what “research” is.

Trump’s Memorial Day message to America is attacking judges and calling Democrats “SCUM.” No mention of the military.

lol

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

If the Left is always reason Democrats lose elections [according to centrists and US pundits including journalists], why isn't the Left credited when the Democrats win elections? Why is the apparent *power* of the Left only legible and considered in the negative?

After arriving through the CBP1, an 8yo boy watched his father get arrested after their deportation case was dismissed. “We are punishing the people who are following the rules,” @L_Toczylowski told @latimes www.latimes.com/california/s...

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Help Us Report on Sexual Assault and Misconduct by the Chicago Police Department We want to talk to people who have experienced sexual assault or sexual misconduct — which includes sexual harassment and unwanted, inappropriate touching or comments — by Chicago police officers, on or off duty.

"the Supreme Court achieved what law professors believe to be the biggest instantaneous 'de-documentation' of immigrants in U.S. history. 350,000 people who woke up on Monday with legal status in the U.S. went to bed Monday without it." @daralind.bsky.social immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/21/s...

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years. Most have not been convicted. With @invisible.institute

Ha, yep.

Dastardly.

Did you know that $100M in food aid is rotting in warehouses that could feed the entire population of Gaza for a month and half, but a 28-year-old at DOGE is holding it hostage? www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

Killing the IRS Direct File program, as Thom Tillis is cheering for here, forces Americans to spend an average of $140 per person on paid tax filing companies like TurboTax - which is why they spend $$$ to lobby politicians like him.

The combined wealth of the 10 richest US billionaires increased by over $360 billion in the last year according to a new Oxfam report. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living. Our nation's raging inequality is on full display.

Trump is president of Crazytown & he happens to also be president of the USA. There's no white genocide occurring n South Africa. This is a bogus conspiracy theory spread by white nationalists. It's part of Trump's war on woke and his desire to Make America White Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Bring back DEI www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss

Millions of Americans will lose Medicaid and food assistance under Trump's proposed tax bill, all to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires who don't need them. #StopTheBillionaireBailout

A new guerilla ad campaign in D.C. calls on Americans to ‘topple the trolligarchy’ and take on America’s ‘CEO dictators.’

Don't let up. Hold their feet to the fire. (DoJ: I do not mean to literally light feet on fire.)

At 1:34 AM Trump called for DOJ to investigate Kamala Harris, Beyoncé, Springsteen, Oprah and others for crimes, he then made another deranged post about it at 9:11 AM, and the lead story of the day on MSNBC and CNN continues to be Joe Biden in 2023.

House GOP just introduced a bill, to be marked up soon, which would authorize LIFE IN PRISON for anyone who reenters the country after being ordered deported and is later convicted of any crime punishable by 1 year or more in prison (even if sentenced to probation or no time in jail at all).

We want to call out a blatant lie spread by Elon Musk. Under his leadership, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claimed that 40% of calls to the Social Security Administration (SSA) were fraudulent. That’s been thoroughly debunked. An internal review of over 110,000

Cuomo and his team are already setting up the excuses he’ll (continue) to use when he sexually harasses City Hall staff. He hasn’t learned a fucking thing, and he doesn’t care. Don’t let him get away with it.

Medicaid is often the determining factor between survival and death. #SaveOurMedicaid

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

(1/5) 🧊📉🇺🇸 Nine people died in ICE custody. Nine lives. Nine families with no answers yet. As ICE pushes to detain and deport over 1 million people a year, funding is stretched, oversight is resisted, and death is shrugged off as collateral. 🔗 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... #Bluesky #Grief #Love

And as soon as Democrats stopped flying to the gulag and everyone stopped talking about it, Trump’s immigration numbers started climbing back up

aww poor senators would have to write a long bill if they wanted to stop Trump from having a massive bribery scheme. Guess that’s too much to ask! www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

If we’re not careful, we won’t see that we’ve been pretty damn effective, given what we’re up against.

Says the man who said it was okay for the president to break laws.

Israel has deliberately refused to allow any food, water, medicine, or fuel to enter Gaza for 2+ months. As Palestinians die from illness and starvation, WHO trucks filled with food and medicine are sitting outside Gaza waiting to be let in.

It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'

was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy

hello from outside division 10 of the cook county jail in chicago. i’m here for the free our moms day gathering. through testimony, poetry, and music, this annual event demands freedom for incarcerated mothers and people imprisoned everywhere—from immigration detention centers to palestine.

Small businesses did the right thing and paid workers during the pandemic in return for a tax credit. Now, Congress is thinking of backtracking on that promise and retroactively eliminating the tax credit. 😡 @WaysAndMeansGOP: This is wrong! #SaveSmallBusinesses

An agency told to hit their numbers, or else, can’t take the time to sit around and wait for our family to get cancer medicine. Too slow! Got to keep the assembly line running.

Justice Allison Riggs was elected by the people of NC. Now extremists are trying to overturn that election. This isn’t just about her seat. It’s about whether our votes still matter. Stand with Riggs. Stand for democracy. #DefendDemocracy #JusticeForRiggs

Am I correct in understanding that they just deported an American citizen for the first time and it was a fucking two-year-old?

@hcrichardson.bsky.social So powerful, I cried...

Chuck Grassley called out at a town hall: "  Stop the use of the word entitlement because it's insulting to all of us." 🔥🔥🔥 #HandsOffMySocialSecurity

WtF!? `On April 17… Secretary… Burgum… assigned… control over the Department of the Interior… “(which in normal times would require Senate confirmation) [to] DOGE operative Tyler Hassen, the CEO of a Houston-based energy company” … “Elon Musk is now effectively in charge of America’s public lands.”'