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Just gave Republicans a choice: Are you for the babies or the billionaires? For working families—or the ultra-wealthy? Watch my opening remarks in @WaysMeansCmte calling out the cruelty of their latest tax scam. 🎥

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)

submitted 30 days ago • 222 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 43 days ago • 277 comments

I don’t use the “fascist” term often or really ever, as to preserve its meaning, but what the United States Government is embarking on with the El Salvadoran prison camp is simply that. It’s an affront to the rule of law, the Constitution, and centuries of Anglo-American constitutional development.

submitted 47 days ago • 43 comments

Every single House Democrat will vote NO on the reckless Republican budget that rips away healthcare from the American people.

submitted 50 days ago • 244 comments

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

submitted 51 days ago • 102 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 52 days ago • 524 comments

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 52 days ago • 255 comments

This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago. That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are. Headlines matter. Framing matters.

submitted 58 days ago • 147 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 59 days ago • 234 comments

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.

submitted 75 days ago • 270 comments