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Love living in LA. Lifelong Democrat and have been since JFK. Love my liberal kids and grandkids. Love to travel.
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never seen such inefficiency and waste... these people are know nothings wasting taxpayer $: www.wsj.com/us-news/thou...

“A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through … a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a ‘profile in courage’ award.”

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

Black History Month Stories. Today we stick with our "women running mail" theme from yesterday's story and celebrate the first Black woman to make officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps who went on to command an all-black postal battalion overseas. This is the story of Charity Adams Earley.

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

Since DOGE is facing a lot of hearings before the federal judiciary sending these emails to federal judges may turn out to have been shortsighted. Just a thought.

They do nothing that does not have corruption at its core. Follow the money.

Wow! Congrats to Bluesky for passing the milestone of 32 MILLION users. Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

#IndivisibleRI rally was today at RI State House! We need more visibility! So many I spoke to had no idea and don't know where to find protest info! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social @marisakabas.bsky.social

Please!! Help us get the word out!!! Very little media coverage weekday or weekend! We have some reporters come by but this is our second protest in a week! #IndivisibleRI rally was today at RI State House! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social @marisakabas.bsky.social

been thinking a lot about this quote lately “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

As a public defender, yes, absolutely this.

The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming. Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

The disrespect has been shocking but this is now full on contempt. All it takes is 3 Republicans to join us and leave behind the silence and complicity. We must call out Musk on his harassment of the civil servants who keep our country running. Keep the pressure on.

Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

Resist. Hold the line. Sue.

With Bluesky now at over 30 MILLION users, I can’t understand why so many Democratic elected officials still aren’t posting on this platform. Is it ignorance, incompetence, laziness, or something else?

Because they are evil, we must stand up to them. But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.

Trump's approval is pathetical, lower than Biden,Obama, Bush, etc. and it's downhill from here. moreover, he's gotten TRO'ed three times. He. Is. A. Loser. Voters wanted a winner who'd lower egg prices. They got a vengeful ignoramus who keeps losing.

Agreed with @NormOrnstein - definitely do NOT share this image!!! Lol bluevirginia.us/2025/01/satu...

Posted by VP Harris’s account. Exquisite framing.

Tech inaugural donations: Biden Apple CEO: $0 Amazon: $276,509 Google: $337,500 Meta: $0 Microsoft: $500,000 OpenAI CEO: $0 Trump Apple CEO: $1,000,000 Amazon: $1,000,000 Google: $1,000,000 Meta: $1,000,000 Microsoft: $1,000,000 OpenAI CEO: $1,000,000 wapo.st/3PzjIC1

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Why I believe Trump pardoning J6 rioters would be a grotesque misuse of the pardon power: "it would put the presidential seal on crimes that go to the heart of an attack on our democracy, an effort to undo the will of the voters. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

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The sad reality is, the overwhelming majority of Americans don't know there's a voter for the Speaker going on, don't care & won't be able to name him after the vote. This is what happens in a country where civics education is no longer universal. Its absence lets darkness settle in over democracy.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

Agree or disagree?

While Dems focus on whether Harris' loss was b/c she was too far right or left, we've ignored Russia's successful election interference by bomb threats in swing states. If we do nothing, we should expect the threats/violence to escalate in future elections. www.publicnotice.co/p/election-2...

Sad but true.

Trump may have won an election, but he has not won the battle for our nation’s soul. The only way he does that is if we stop fighting back, and that will never happen. We will resist, we will expose, and we are already preparing for the fight ahead.

California, a state of nearly 40,000,000 people, has the same amount of representation in the United States Senate as Wyoming, a state of less than 600,000 people. This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s. It’s time for that to change.

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

White men make up 30 percent of America White men make up 100 of GOP leadership

At least 13 congressional Democrats are boycotting Donald Trump’s inauguration. None of them should go. He’s a menace to democracy and showing him deference is unacceptable after J6.

The more I think about any Congressional Democrats attending Donald Trump’s inauguration, the more pissed off I get. Enough playing nice. Do not go. Do not bend a knee. We didn’t elect you to capitulate.

Nothing to see here, just the incoming president's son announcing the incoming president's new business in Saudi Arabia that he's been working on

“Gabbard is an apologist for two of the great atrocities of the century: the Russian-Syrian suppression of the opposition to Assad, which has taken about half a million lives, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has also taken about half a million lives…” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Forever guilty on all counts.

Elon Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help Donald Trump win the presidency, federal filings revealed.

One person spent this much money in a very close election. Our system can’t withstand this kind of assault. Citizens United must be overturned.

All the talk about whether the GOP Senate will stand up to Trump’s terrible nominees, or whether he’ll make recess appointments, or prorogue Congress ignores the big elephant in the room: the Federal Vacancies Reform Act! The lame duck Senate should have the spine to hold confirmation hearings NOW!!