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Pro-democracy. Pro-planet. Anti-racist. Anti-fascist. 📍Kansas City, MO
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❗️Well, now 🇺🇦Ukraine has the cards!

decades-long manhunt finally ends

Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

Every time someone quotes one of my posts and states that Missourians deserve to go hungry because the state went for Trump, remember that over 40% of the state voted for Harris. And, children don’t vote. Children are the ones who will go hungry...

House passes bill banning Medicaid coverage for trans health care #NOH8

Art has a special role to play in this moment. It can tell a story far more effectively than someone like me. Artists, please do your thing!

These “deficit hawks” spent weeks harrumphing about deficits (not to mention years yelling at us about it), said over and over again they wouldn’t vote to increase debt, got nothing, then voted to add like $5 trillion dollars in borrowing. Just ridiculous human beings

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

JUST IN: Judge Howell rules that the Trump/DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace was illegal and should be treated as null and void. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

I hope white people working in these federal agencies find their voices and actively start REFUSING to be parties to this bullshit. Canceling events focused in specific communities is racist and asinine.

Just a really good dude. And people say there are no good role models for men

great kid. wow.

Infuriating.

"They asked the Pharaoh, what made you a tyrant? He said, ‘ No one stopped me'" If the 400 million dollar jet isn’t enough to impeach and remove him nothing is.

Seriously? Fuck these people. This is important information for me as a consumer. Even if I didn't care about the planet, which I do, I'm gonna care about the size of my power bill. This move helps nobody.

as clear-cut a case of suppression of political speech as we’ve ever seen

"Measles is the most contagious disease we have,” said Amber Schmidtke, who teaches at Kansas City University. Schmidtke and other public health experts are watching with alarm as the largely preventable virus marches toward Kansas City in the nation’s largest outbreak since 2019. buff.ly/U0a3Hxv

FDT! 🖕😝🖕

They don’t want “no” politics in the classroom, they want their politics in the classroom.

TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

We're already living under authoritarianism. It's not "coming" or "approaching" - it is here now. Lots of vulnerable people need help. These are serious times.

Welcome to North Korea: apnews.com/article/army...

Strength and solidarity to everyone joining an event today! #MayDay

Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.' We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads. Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter

Today, 800+ protests will take place for May Day. Also, lawyers will retake their oaths in front of 40+ courthouses in an unprecedented Law Day rebuke to attacks on the judiciary. Read more 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/allrisen...

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

🤣🤣 Only Trump could be this self-unaware.

An immigration judge was fired mid-hearing and forced to walk out in the middle of a case. One of dozens who were abruptly let go without cause via email. This is how the Trump admin is addressing our backlogged immigration system. It’s as if they want it to implode. www.latimes.com/cali...

This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.

"While authoritarian regimes typically begin undermining judicial independence through political appointments, institutional restructuring, and rhetorical attacks, the direct arrest of a sitting judge signals a dangerous new phase in democratic erosion." data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judge...

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ICE. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ICE Is also great And would suffice.

What stage of fascism is it when they start arresting the judges?

Trump sending us back to the trenches food wise.

This, in a nutshell, is why the Justice Department remains independent from the White House when it comes to directing criminal prosecution. A country that fails to take to heart the lessons of Watergate ends up with Trump.