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A group of blue dots in Virginia’s rural red sea fighting for change from both outside and inside the system. ✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐦‍🔥🗽⚖️ Join in: mhcdcva.org
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Today. Martinsville and Henry County, Virginia. Next meeting of the #resistance. mobilize.us/s/yVNJml

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This is Good Trouble. Necessary Trouble. I hope others in Congress are inspired to grow a spine.

First they came for Al Green, and establishment Dems didn’t stand up… Our party should be the party of collective action, not whatever this was.

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal: “Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine." @latenightercom.bsky.social

😆 1. Check your facts! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 2. Detaining and deporting does nothing to address the *causes* of increased asylum applicants. It’s cruel, and it’s like treating a broken leg by amputating it.

Just like his presidency to date, there was very little focus by Trump last night on the things that actually matter to regular everyday Americans 👇 #DonTheCon

Don’t ever vote for anyone in Congress who won’t have a real town hall. Simple rule.

How it feels listening to the government tell people to just raise your own chickens 🙄🙄🙄

Elon Musk’s DOGE is now requesting over $4 million from OPM for their “assistance.” Follow the money and see where it goes.

OOPSIE: DOGE deleted $4 billion more in savings from its "wall of receipts." This is the second time in a week that Musk's error-plagued group has removed huge cuts that it celebrated from cancelled contracts. This time, 5 of 7 biggest savings simply "vanished" overnight. More: bit.ly/3FdV9IF

Democrats protested President Trump's address to Congress with signs reading ‘No King!’ and ‘Save Medicaid,’ with some turning their backs on the Republican as he spoke and one lawmaker was marched out by security reut.rs/4hbM68B

Read our statement on Trump’s disastrous joint address.

DOGE isn't firing people to make government more efficient. Let's just get that one out of the way and move on.

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

This BBC graphic is a good way to show why reciprocal 25% tariffs will cause prices on some goods to go up far more than 25%. A piston used in a car engine made in Michigan will cross the U.S. border twice, and will be taxed 25% each time. Some products cross the U.S. border even more than that.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

The stock market today.

Some of y’all never actually read 1984 and it shows.

Real disappointed in this @markwarner.bsky.social… why give his lies about migrants and the border any credence?? Internment camps for brown people is NOT progress!

On a night when this awful human being gets to stand up there and lie repeatedly and spew hate for 90 minutes for all the world to see, this image is all of us 👇 #JointAddress

Trump just threatened to cut the CHIPS Act… after his administration celebrated a huge manufacturing investment it made possible YESTERDAY. Yet another falsehood & attempt to give American power to authoritarian nations like China.

Because the president is a psychopath, because the vice president has the spine of a jellyfish, because the people of this nation are terrorized, the state of the union is strongly fucked up. .

One more time for the people in the back.

Even repubs know how much good it did for the economy—esp in their own home districts. Top bad they don’t have the spine to actually stand up to his face.

DOGE is seizing access to federal computer systems that house our personal data, including bank accounts, health records, and social security numbers.  Tell your member of Congress to protect our privacy NOW.

Going back to the classics 🙄🤮

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

They want to let us starve and let family farms go under. No other reason for this.

President Trump's orders and rhetoric are intended to chill dissent and censor views he dislikes. Let's be clear: the government can't threaten funding to universities for simply doing their job to foster an environment of free speech and free inquiry.

Once you realize he works for Russia, not America, everything he does makes sense 👇 #TraitorTrump

Secret police, secret arrests, secret jails, and secret courts. If that sounds un-American to you, that's because it is.

RFK's reckless stance on vaccines puts lives in danger. I’m asking him a simple question: will he change course and encourage parents to vaccinate their kids against measles — yes or no? A child in Texas died from measles, the first death in a decade. It should be an easy yes.

This was 100% predictable - AND predicted prior to the election. So if you voted for Trump anyway, this is definitely on you. bluevirginia.us/2025/03/tues...

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH as they say…

“President Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada are nothing more than a tax on working families. You can’t claim to stand with the middle class while making it harder for families to afford groceries.” Ranking Member @congressmanboyle.bsky.social on Trump’s tariffs:

Freeland: "If these tariffs are put in place, it is going to hurt Americans ... your grocery prices are gonna go up, bc you know what you need to grow food in the US? You need fertilizer. 80% of it comes from Canada and you're gonna be a 25% tax on it? ... the WSJ is right. This is dumb."

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At midnight, Donald Trump is raising prices on the things you buy every day. Let's break it down: youtu.be/OpAIPBh43xU?...

Guys #altgov is here, our DMs are open, if you are in a dark space, please reach out.

I feel like the word “unconscionable” has lost all meaning since it applies to everything the regime does. But this is what they always wanted—allowing corporations to kill us all in the name of Almighty Profit. They. Do. Not. Care. About. Us!

Jesus fucking Christ, this is infuriating! Call your representatives in Congress and demand that they put a stop to this shit! They can remove “DEI” from our vocabulary but they cannot just delete people of color and women who have served this country honorably!

Did you call your reps today? Download the 5 Calls app and demand the politicians who represent your area do the job the were elected to do!!! #WeThePeople apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...

Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.