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Lawyer, parent, grandparent, Poker player, progressive. Emily Gilmore, but with Crocs and chickens.
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He was too Black for the moment.

This is very bad

Not everyone is able to do this but if you can, put your $ where your cursor is. These days my $s are going to Democracy Docket and NPR primarily, but I also support ACLU, Black Voters Matter Fund and Southern Poverty Law Center. They can't keep up their work without funding!

I heart @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social so much. This talented comedian creates so much great content I have no idea how any one person can do that but he's fantastic! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick:

#ProudBlue #BlueSkyResistance #DemocracyWarriors We all need to take lessons from Chris Kluwe. We need to disrupt locally, state wide & nation wide. HB is where I grew up & I’m extremely disappointed in my home town. Way to go Chris! Let’s all keep resisting. youtu.be/D6k2xktUot4?...

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

AOC and a few others are taking this moment—this coup—deadly seriously. AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and Elizabeth Warren have risen to the occasion to not just resist legislatively in the near-powerless minority—they have answered the call to FIGHT—to LEAD a mass movement to shut fascists the fuck down.

“A better way to think about tariffs is as a key tool to achieve the core of Mr. Trump’s economic agenda: He wants to shift the tax burden away from the well-off and toward the poor and middle class — while also consolidating his power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

And what is it exactly that we need to "rebuild"?

I'm starting to think that the Russia thing wasn't a hoax.

If "Immigrants didn't steal my job - the President did" is not the centerpiece of the Dems messaging from now on, this party cannot be helped.

Tangle at your peril coward. @aoc.bsky.social

Every Democrat should be telling this story.

Take note of the messaging - this is both accurate and *deeply* unpopular. It's the kind of thing that forces GOP House members to quietly tell their constituents that they too are concerned about Musk. Make them own this. Make them squirm.

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

This isn't even a question. I suspect the ramp-up began before he even announced he was running again.

Flashback… 🤔

Yep that's the plan folks. Move the $ upstream so the top % keep getting richer. As always, follow the $. Distract the people with culture wars while they rob them blind. Way to go 'merica. Duped again. P.S. The America they want is a white one.

Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top

Now we know what the price of the prisoner release was yesterday. Didn't even take 24 hours for Trump to pay up.

democrats 2024: when we fight, we win democrats 2025: no, not that fight. no, not that one either. can we just not fight that fight? ooo seems like a fight we won't win, pass.

Trump's ethnic cleansing plan in Gaza raises questions.

This is how I might spend the day TBH but I'm not fit to be Sec. of Defense either.

a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

Hard working Americans were made a promise this admin seems intent on breaking. That money belongs to the American people - not Elon Musk or any elected official. Call your reps now -

Is this critic serious? Whew talk about clueless. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/a...

LOLZ

This. A thousand times this.

Mark these words

CARTOON OF THE DAY

judges famously lack any authority over attorneys

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

This is so fucked up. This and this alone would have gotten Obama impeached.

We can't lose the plot: Republicans are stealing from you so they can give more to billionaires. They're handing Elon Musk your personal information, shutting down public services you paid for, and hiking the cost of living. Don't let them hide their corruption with chaos.