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over 50 Texas Dems fled the state to block Greg Abbott and Trump's push to redraw Congressional districts.
Lauren Ashley Simmons, a 36-year-old union organizer who won her seat last year as a progressive challenger to an anti-trans Dem incumbent, is one of them. new @teenvogue.com
The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...
22.07.2025 02:26 — 👍 3540 🔁 1024 💬 134 📌 153Nothing I can say could come close to summarizing these words, these photos. Just read it.
“Tell me how to save my daughter Rahaf from death [...] She’s suffering from malnutrition. There’s no treatment, no milk at the hospital. They’ve taken away her right to live. I see death in her eyes."
My campaign manager is IN IT TO WIN IT
24.04.2025 01:24 — 👍 999 🔁 44 💬 25 📌 1
The presidents of 200 US colleges declare:
"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."
Good!
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
“Authoritarianism doesn’t stop at the first target,” - Kat Abughazaleh
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...
Fox chyron: "Maryland dad" is a migrant criminal
Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime
19.04.2025 00:17 — 👍 21921 🔁 5284 💬 2164 📌 571this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
18.04.2025 01:07 — 👍 20898 🔁 4009 💬 289 📌 165We only get results if we fight and take action. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen.
Now it’s time to bring Kilmar home.
Credit where credit’s due, this is the most meaningful thing a Dem politician has done since Trump slithered back into office. Now bring him home!
18.04.2025 01:26 — 👍 1050 🔁 101 💬 6 📌 0
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
17.04.2025 21:43 — 👍 4966 🔁 3079 💬 49 📌 117
Book launch alert! If you're in NYC, come join me to talk all things 🤝 WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE 🤝 with @versharma.bsky.social at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social on May 15 at 7:30pm. I promise to make it worth the cost of the babysitter. Tickets are free but pls RSVP: greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...
17.04.2025 15:45 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
14.04.2025 23:51 — 👍 39904 🔁 8742 💬 704 📌 336*looks directly at camera*
15.04.2025 02:06 — 👍 390 🔁 59 💬 6 📌 2initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt
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After masked agents snatched Rümeysa Öztürk in Mass., they took her that night to NH, then VE that same night. Then, to Louisiana in morning
All in less than 24hrs
"Immigration attorneys say the late-night hopscotch was an ICE tactic to complicate jurisdiction"
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
NYT page one:
@nytimes.com
The Senator made a speech ahead of Clairo’s Coachella set, urging people to make this revolution with joy. “We're going to sing and dance our way to victory against hatred and divisiveness.”
13.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 1620 🔁 232 💬 38 📌 22AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.
12.04.2025 22:29 — 👍 22951 🔁 5762 💬 264 📌 163"I swear to God, if you come for Ms. Rachel, as a mother of a two and half year old... you have to come through me." @franifio.bsky.social slams right-wing calls for AG Bondi to investigate YouTube children's star Ms. Rachel over expressing sympathy for Palestinian children.
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TONIGHT AT 8pm ET: @versharma.bsky.social, @harikondabolu.bsky.social and @franifio.bsky.social
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In this week’s @runforsomething.net feel-good update: When we run, we can win. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
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This #OpEd explains how a Republican-led lawsuit is really a fight for the future of civil rights in America.
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CNN reports “millions” of people attended this Saturday’s marches against Trump and Musk, the first large-scale protests during his second term. Google Search interest in the protests rivals levels last seen after the Women’s March in 2017 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-musk...
07.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 1544 🔁 286 💬 31 📌 14What's most significant about today's day of action is the sheer number of locations where protests took place -- more than 1000 towns and cities, all over the country.
That's only happened one or two times before *in all of American history.*
the artist from this story, Rebecca Burke, is working on a comic about her experience and the women she met in ICE custody.
her instagram is r.e.burke if you want to follow for updates
New Yorkers: Now through April 6, you can vote in participatory budgeting -- you get a chance to directly shape how money is being spent in your district. Anyone age 11 or over (!!) can vote. rnd.council.nyc.gov/PB_Voting/
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