Mark Winters

What if, instead of funding a new White House ballroom, Jeff Bezos let #SNAP recipients get free groceries at Whole Foods?

Just for the record—Republicans have shut down the government now for almost a month because they are that committed to the idea that health care ought to be a privilege for those who can afford it, not a right for everyone. It’s immoral.

Being perpetually outraged, even at the legitimately outrageous, is exhausting. Take care of yourselves. Be gentle and kind with the people next to you. Laugh. Do fun things. Read some history, and/or historical fiction, to get your head out of the present. This could be a long ride.

So, Conservatives are triggered and are demanding their own safe space for…<checks notes>…a halftime show at a football game? Wow.

Another Republican opposed to republicanism. They should really just rename themselves the Tory party.

Some of the world is apparently just learning this week that it hurts to lose someone you care about to gun violence. Took longer than I expected, but hey, here we all are. Can we now work together and do something? We don’t have to live like this.

I didn’t know who Charlie Kirk was. In the clips and quote I have seen since yesterday, he seems like a real jerk. But being a jerk doesn’t mean you deserve to get shot. No more than going to school, or shopping, or going to a movie or concert or place of worship—no one deserves to get shot.

This is important. globalsumudflotilla.org

Republicans have another opportunity to realize there are no “liberal” or “conservative” diseases. Everyone benefits from a competent Center to Control Disease. Just like everyone is hurt by a lack of such control. (Same with public policy generally, fwiw, but let’s start here with germs.)

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.

Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

If someone objects to #FlagBurning because Veterans faught/died “for the flag,” they are not only worshiping a false idol, they also clearly don’t realize what the flag actually symbolizes. #FreedomOfSpeech #ThanksVets

They don’t care about energy or logic or public good. They only care about the kind of power you can’t generate from windmills.

Translation: you exposed our incompetence so we’re going to come after you anyway

Texas just passed the most racially gerrymandered map since before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, diluting Black and Latino voting power to flip up to five Democratic-held seats — all at Trump’s request.... TikTok video by NowThis Impact

Make America White Again www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BygxvK/

Re: Dobson’s passing…I don’t believe in conventional ideas of hell. I think James is experiencing the acceptance & love which he cruelly withheld from so many. This may torment his soul, as he walks the streets of heaven, encountering the departed saints he hurt. But God doesn’t hurt. God loves.

The logic of slavery is alive and well. Otherwise, the people whose labor generates the wealth ought to have more of a share in it.

This is what moral leadership looks like

This is an improvement from your earlier positions, still room for improvement. Netanyahu needs to go, and should face accountability for war crimes

Making America Sick Again

And #VneyardHaven

Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner

Sorry Republicans, you can’t actually control reality. Saying Climate Change is a hoax won’t stop the climate from changing. Taking away boxes on forms won’t erase Transgender Americans. Firing the people who count things won’t change actual nos. Time to face reality www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

For the record, if you don’t believe that #dueprocess and #equalprotection of the law are rights belonging to everyone, you don’t really believe in either one

They’re so obsessed about waste, fraud, and abuse—doesn’t get much more wasteful than this

Wasn’t @columbiauniversity.bsky.social originally known as “King’s College”? I guess their capitulation is going back to their roots.

Primary GOP strategy for years: “How can we make life easier for wealthy white men, and harder for everyone else”

So…Medicaid work requirements…FTR, some of us don’t believe that #healthcare is something one should have to “earn”. Every human needs healthcare and deserves it. Period.

I worked for Aramark at Fenway from ‘97-‘00. Loved working there and I fully support the workers!

Children of migrant farm workers lose access to vital education services amid Trump $6 billion funding freeze - The Boston Globe The Migrant Education Program provides additional academic support for the children of agricultural and fishery workers.

Just as you do it to the least of these who are members of my family, you do it to me. #Matthew25 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/m...

Working Americans: these people are NOT on your side!

Public Broadcasting: $1 billion

Tax cuts for billionaires: $4 trillion

Defunding Elmo is not going to fix our debt problem.