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Retired math teacher. Bernie and AOC are my new favorite pols after the last election. Appeared on Live With Kelly & Ryan twice - as a math teacher. Go figure.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ruben Gallego didn’t hold back in his interview with Call to Activism’s Joe Gallina. What he said about Donald Trump deserves to go viral: “He’s too stubborn—and too small of a man—to admit he’s wrong.”

Walz: We don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future. And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.

My Mom died of cancer. My grandparents died of cancer. My best friend died of cancer. Many of YOU, Democrats and Republicans, have friends and loved ones who died of cancer. Cutting cancer research is evil AF, and we should ALL agree on that. If we can't, we're cooked.

1/6 They walked away from million-dollar jobs to stand up to Trump’s corrupt DOJ.They’re defending public servants targeted for doing their jobs with integrity. That’s not just brave—it’s patriotic. If they’re fighting for us,we must stand with them #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

Mental Health Awareness Month Thank you, Senator Cory Booker With Republicans wanting to cut MEDICAID this will be devastating Please call your Congressional Representatives 202 224-3121 say no cuts to Medicaid 💚 #MomSky

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

UPDATE: Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social and Brenna Frey—two former Skadden associates who resigned over the law firm’s response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers—are joining a new firm launched by Abbe Lowell, the high-profile criminal defense attorney who represented Hunter Biden.

📌Everything would have been different if Merrick Garland took this seriously.

To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!

New - Senate poll - Texas 🔵 Allred 52% 🔴 Pexton 37% GOP Primary 🔴 Pexton 50% 🔴 Cornyn (Inc) 33% Houston Chronicle (🔴) - 1000 LV

WILSON COUNTY Dems running with a new line for Dems (especially in rural areas): “We’re your neighbors. We’re not far left. We’re right here.” www.instagram.com/reel/DJIS380...

Perfect tweet 🏆

NEVER EVER trust the rethuglikan cult again. Have been working to betray us for years, it is FASCISM in our face now

Marco Rubio is going after people who are living here legally and peacefully, who are not a danger to America or our foreign policy interests. He has strayed so far from who we are as Americans. He’s an embarrassment to the country.

🧵 To clarify what Eric Swalwell & Jasmine Crockett said: House Judiciary Republicans voted down an amendment stating ICE CANNOT deport U.S. citizens. You read that right. They refused to make it illegal to exile Americans. Here's the proof → tinyurl.com/GOP-judiciary

According to multiple reports, 20 ICE agents raided an Oklahoma home forcing a woman and her three daughters out in their underwear; stole phones, laptops and cash. The woman was a FULL CITIZEN. This FULL CITIZEN should sue the US government for restitution and MILLIONS for traumatizing family

It’s not your imagination. Trump and the Republicans are drowning in dysfunction. They can’t legislate — all they’ve got are executive orders. 📌 Congress has passed only 6 bills — the fewest in a president’s first 100 days in over 70 years.

Today’s smooth, delicious #CupOfJoe goes to John Lithgow for writing the fabulous Trumpty Dumpty 'Fake News'. It’s perfectly read by: Whoopi Goldberg Samuel L. Jackson Wayne Knight Stephen Root Steve Schmidt #DemsUnited 🔊🔊🔊

Lawrence O’Donnell absolutely skewers Donald Trump on his inability to make a single trade deal: "The biggest loser in international trade in the history of the American presidency.” "A humiliated worldwide loser." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

And this right here is why I love lawyers.

ICE told a Florida mom she would be deported to Cuba and separated from her still-breastfeeding daughter, a U.S. citizen. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

WTF I missed this.. . ALLOWING schools to physically discipline children, even if it's not the objective it's gonna happen especially to brown & black children,,

📌Hold on, goddammit: If tariffs are so good for our economy, why doesn't the White House want us to see what they are actually costing us??????

AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.

Fewer imports means fewer things to buy and higher prices. This is the NFR’s import forecast for May through August. P.S. America is not great.

Despite Trump's promised cuts, U.S. spent about $220 billion more in first 100 days than last year www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

These along with his most recent ICE Memo are a prelude to martial law & an attempt to circumvent the legal system that's been blocking his moves. They are going to come for us in our homes, be legally shielded & have the ability to charge us if we resist. War is here www.salon.com/2025/04/28/s...

Outside of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Seattle is the largest West Coast port by tonnage. And, because of Trump tariffs, it is empty. Trump has already lost the trade war he started. The US is going to start feeling the impacts dramatically this month.

The plan for tariffs was threaten them and other countries would go "oh sir, we're so scared, we'll do anything" and the news would be filled with deals and the rest would flood US coffers. Wasn't supposed to raise prices, disrupt supply chains, and crash the economy. That's what the experts warned.

Illinois’ Democratic governor JB Pritzker possesses the kind of fighting spirit we need take on and topple a tyrant like Trump. Pritzker is teeming with fierce opposition to the madness of MAGA — precisely what Americans need at this dangerous point in our nation’s history. In a fiery…

He’s right

In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company, Paramount, in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign.

REALLY @washingtonpost.com Trump said he’d cut “entitlements” Mike Lee wants to “get rid of it” Ron Johnson claimed it’s “a Ponzi scheme” The GOP has tried to end Social Security FOR YEARS YOU TREATING THIS LIKE SOME CHEAP POLITICAL PLOY IS SO DEMEANING I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN

JB Pritzker brought the energy tonight and Republicans are crying about it! Good — because he’s right!

Was honored to join Leader Jeffries and Senator Booker for their sit-in to protest the Republican budget. This budget is an attack on Gen Z — Mike Johnson should realize that he is messing with the wrong generation.

Here's the thing about the trump-tax-tariffs that people are not aware of (yet). The pain from these tariffs has not truly been felt yet, just wait another 4 to 8 weeks and we will really see just how bad it will be. There are no new cargo ships coming into ports, what we have now is all we have.

The 145% tariffs on Chinese goods means that cargo ships 🚢 are aren’t arriving fully stocked. Where will Trump’s approval rate end up when store shelves are empty… 🤔

Good morning to everyone except the corrupt Trump crime family, and MTGs BF Brian Glenn who is such a weak tool and is 1/45th the man Zelensky is