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Everyone needs & deserves healthcare-no exceptions! The deal #MNLeg leaders made to cut immigrant Minnesotans from MNCare won’t save $ but will mean our neighbors will get sicker & die. Call @governorwalz.mn.gov NOW to tell him to reject this deal 651-291-3400 W/@seiumn.bsky.social @isaiahmn.org

Our crew of Ward 8 leaders from @faithinmn.org showed up strong today to support @sorenwithward8.bsky.social and an affordable, dignified city for all! Congratulations Team Soren on winning the DFL endorsement! Let’s go win in November! 💪🏼

Felt great to participate in democracy with 300 neighbors today. Soren is values driven, listens and does his homework. His decision to make meaning of his experience as a survivor of police violence through serving others is powerful. He’s gonna make a great council member. Let’s go!

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

our policies are popular we should keep saying they are popular. people, especially people in power, need to hear it

Say. This.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

A powerful straw to grasp.

A great (ongoing) thread of how pushback IS working:

Trump is shooting the moon and democracts are still trying really hard not to take any hearts. (Rick Steves metaphor captures perfectly where we are)

HOLY SHIT. I grew up two stoplights over from Flower Mound. I never in my life would’ve expected to see a protest like this there. WOW.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Are you keeping track? Liberals or Democrats: —won Wisconsin supreme court —won Wisconsin school superintendent —flipped mayorship of Aurora, IL's 2nd city —flipped county executive position in WI's Winnebago —strong results in school board races in WI —very strong municipal results in IL

Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow. She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This image ran through my mind

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

This looks like the family group chat when my nephew wins a lacrosse game.

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

This should scare everyone. The Trump admin revoked Mahmoud’s legal status, kidnapped him, and is now holding him in an ICE detention facility without any due process. Trump is an authoritarian, testing the limits to see how much he can get away with. He won’t stop here.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Pathocracy: A system of government “wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people.” www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence. I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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