✨Amandacadabra✨

THIS is what we are fighting for. Real results for Dems - and for us all.

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Waking up to a reminder that this world is full of beauty and promise. The best resistance is building community based in love, acceptance, and a belief that a better world is possible. #resist

Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.

The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.

Then turn your eyes back to this world and put that love to action.

Revolutionary love can save us all.

Dig deep - beyond the lies we are told and the darkness we combat - and seek compassion and mercy. Cup your hands into the well of truth and brilliance and passion. Find the part of you that loves despite it all.

We must be the light. The armor. And the shield. For those less powerful. For those who are threatened. For those who have yet to love themselves.

This is my plea on this day of love: close your eyes and reach into yourselves and seek the grace you were born with.

This is not a political fight anymore (it truly never has been). This is a fight for good. For decency. For the care of us all. Some eyes are glazed over by lies and the deception of men who will cling to their power because they don’t have love to turn to.

While the definitions might look different for some, the reality never changes. We are ALL worthy. Of care. Of hope. Of opportunity. Of freedom.

Of love. Of love. Of love.

Look around you. Our nation is currently being overrun by hate. By greed. By corruption.

We were all created by the same circumstances, whether you personally believe it to be God or Goddess or Luck or Fate. Our lives are inextricably intertwined. We all walk separate paths but our destination is the same. We all crave belonging and justice and freedom.

A Revolutionary Love Letter (🧵)

I love despite myself. Even deeply broken people, lost in their own internal lives and conflicts, are granted my love. And why not? We are all made of starstuff, walking this same floating rock, orbiting the same burning star, in this miraculous Universe.

This timeline sucks. I feel like we’re being ruled over by a cabal of rich, spoiled, selfish toddlers. youtu.be/BpkmUfv1I4Q?...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
-George Orwell, 1984.
Artwork by Shepard Fairey

If the profits keep going up, and the CEO pay keeps going up, but the worker pay stays the same, that is not success. It's exploitation.

Workers deserve their fair share.

Beyoncé wears a gold dress and gold gloves as she holds a Grammy award. The text reads: "Beyoncé Becomes First Black Artist to Win Grammy For Best Country Album." Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy.

Beyoncé won the Grammy for best country album, becoming the first Black artist to achieve the feat. “I think sometimes ‘genre’ is a code word to keep us in our place as artists,” she said, “and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about.” nyti.ms/3PZvgOW

GAGA IS BACK BABY #abracadabra

The resistance is fueled by courage and radical love.

Big Polluters to EPA: Can We Pollute More? Washington, D.C. - In a letter made public today, ten energy companies are asking Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency to roll back lifesaving climate protections and lower standards for tox...

Big Polluters asked the EPA to walk back standards that prevent illnesses and curb pollution.

Read that again.

They want to do away with safeguards in place to keep you and your family healthy.

I’ll end with this (but feel free to add your own):

In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. (Matthew 23:28)

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another. (Zechariah 7:9-10; Hebrew Bible)

Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me. (Matthew 25:40)

I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. (Matthew 25:35)

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28)

So begins my thread of biblical quotes that highlight the un-Christ-like behavior of those in power:

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. (Leviticus 19:34)

L.A. Fires Show the Reality of a World with 1.5°C of Warming The planet crosses an important temperature threshold while wildfires ravage southern California.

The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to do to save our world. “What we most need to do,” he replied, “is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.”

Are you listening?

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

Hi hi hi. Looking to build community with others interested in taking action on climate, social justice, and more - basically being an ally and accomplice in this neverending fight for a more just and livable planet.

At least a half dozen by my count - here's hoping this one does the trick. At least we're doing this together - keeping hope alive is a full-time job & you're my fave co-worker. 😘💚

Encourage your children to start a banned book club 📕 💙 ❤️