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@booker.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @kamalaharris.com @aoc.bsky.social If we are to save this Democracy, to keep those freedoms we hold most dear, to take back control of our nation & ensure this never happens again, you must read this. This👇is a plan to take it back.

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And if I might suggest a companion: Every shooting is a policy failure. Tens of thousands of gun deaths across the country, not because we lack solutions, but because we’ve consistently lacked the political will to protect public health and safety. #MomSky

crazy how Europeans sent their most unabashed fascist in the hopes of some kind of trade breakthrough and all they got was this

So the White House story is now: “We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.” The country is now run by thugs and idiots.

The times require that elected officials be not just representatives of our communities and states but organizers defending American constitutional democracy and leaders out of this lapse into authoritarian rule. Watch this clip from @podsaveamerica.crooked.com:

Sen. Van Hollen deserves a ton of praise. The rest of the Democratic party needs to look at what he's doing, stiffen their spines and fight. We can beat these fascists, but we can't "bipartisanship" our way out. We must fight.

You don’t get marched out of the Pentagon and have your phones confiscated unless something serious went down. VoteVets’ Max Rose nails it: Signalgate wasn’t isolated—it’s part of a dangerous pattern of incompetence, chaos, and culture war distractions. This is what B-team leadership gets you.

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The Harlem Globetrotters of baseball:

No one can place trust in matters governed by a lunatic.

Bernie Sanders made an appearance at Coachella to introduce Clairo. "The future of what happens to America is dependent on your generation. Now, you can turn away and you can ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do that at your own peril.” Love this dude!

Kindness makes people shine, makes society harmonious, and makes the world warm. Without kindness in life, life loses its luster and the soul withers. Without kindness, society will become a desolate desert and the world will be a cold winter. A little kindness can change the world.

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Look at all those people 👀 36,000 showed up. The Resistance is alive and well 🔥 #WeThePeople are pissed!!!! #Resist #FDT #FuckTrump

🚨We are facing a crisis of confidence🚨 Stephanie Ruhle @stephruhle.bsky.social “& what Trump has done… has set fire to everybody’s pension plans, everybody’s value, everybody’s long term futures.” Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Professor of Global History at Oxford University. 1/4🧵

Trump‬⁩ has trashed a century of trust & confidence in the US economy. The bedrock has been stability, predictability, rule of law. This imbecile wrecked it in months. Things will get worse because ⁦‪Republicans‬⁩ have no guts to challenge stupid. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/i...

#SupremeCourt

🧵1 🚨 The SAVE Act just hit Ohio. Two GOP senators want to BAN drop boxes & require proof of citizenship just to update your voter registration. Miss a notice? You could lose your vote and get referred to the attorney general. This is targeted voter suppression. 👇 🔗 tinyurl.com/Ohio-drop-bo...

We know! What are you doing about it?

WOW — Heather Cox Richardson and Jasmine Crockett together?!🔥 Trump started implementing Project 2025 on his first day back in office. I can't imagine two more informed and empowering women to show us how to fight it. I just signed up — join me! social.redwine.blue/s/T5vFFb3b

Daily🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Continue Thread. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social

216 Republicans just voted in favor of protecting Trump’s tariffs. 216 Republicans just chose to support a tax increase on Americans. 216 Republicans just chose to raise the cost of groceries. The American people will hold them accountable for this economic self-sabotage.

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

I can't believe I spent 4 years hearing from MAGA that Biden was destroying the economy even though it was in good shape, and now they're telling me that a bad economy is great because Trump is destroying it. It's a cult man. There's no saving these people

If you haven’t seen this, you need to! Trump is short-selling America—deliberately tanking the economy so that businesses and entire industries bend the knee and beg him to save them. Thanks, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, for sounding the alarm. Now, what is Congress going to do about it?