Markus Horstmann

This “deal” is a surrender that all congressional Democrats should reject out of hand. It’s bad policy that will raise healthcare prices and bad politics that gives the regime more power to do more harm. Make no mistake: As some Senate Democrats consider surrender, Republicans are losing this fight.

"A promise of a vote on healthcare"

Ezra Levin on Bluesky: “I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.”

🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”

That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.

Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

Canceled!

Concentration Camp Duty: The Last SS Guard Gregor Formanke stood guard in Sachsenhausen. Jerzy Zawadzki was nine years old, and a prisoner. When Formanek is indicted at age 99, their lives intersect once more.

It’s worth your while to spend some time with this piece.
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Likewise!
Amazing horn (?) playing there towards the end of the march. Ending on “America the Beautiful”. Inspiring! A friend got you on video 😉

YouTube video by KING 5 Seattle 70,000 march peacefully from Cal Anderson to Seattle Center

Good day today: marching with so many positive minded people gives me hope that we can overcome hate, bigotry, lies, right wing propaganda and autocracy!

A person holding a protest sign that reads "NO FAUX KING WAY" with a city skyline in the background. The sign also displays the hashtag "#INDIVISIBLE".

A protester holds a sign reading "The power of people is much stronger than the people in power" with two American flags in the background, at an Indivisible rally.

Person holding a sign at a protest that reads "Peaceful Assembly is as American as apple pie! Fascism isn't!" in front of a large crowd in front of a government building.

A protest sign reads "If there is money for a parade, there is money for medical" in colorful letters at a demonstration. The "Indivisible" logo is at the bottom right corner.

More than five million Americans in over 2,100 towns and cities joined us today to say we don't do kings in this country. Thank you for making it clear that we won't be ruled by fear.

When your parents throw you what was supposed to be a really fun birthday party but only the loser kids show up.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

Hey folks I'll be talking to @maddow.msnbc.com in a few minutes about this incredible global Hands Off mobilization. Please tune in and then show up tomorrow!

“The key point is this: Without this abuse of power, Trump could not be unleashing such havoc. In short, Trump’s lawlessness and his economic destruction are the same story: The former doesn’t just enable the latter; the two are inextricably entangled with each other.”

Wow.

I wanna highlight this and the reference from @jerrymcm.bsky.social - by Trump's reasoning he should have slapped a 41% tariff on Russia. He did not. Why? Just remember Speaker Pelosi's words right in Trump’s face.

Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do. As the president’s “Liberation Day” nears, it’s time to liberate ourselves from the vicious cycle of Democrats having to clean up the GOP’s messes.

Here's one statistic for you:

→ Net jobs created under Clinton and Obama: 33.8 million.
→ Net jobs created under Bush, Bush, AND Trump: 1.9 million.

That is not a typo.

Vorsicht.

From the USMCA: "Wage requirement that 40%-45% of auto content be made by workers earning at least $16 an hour. "

If the goal were really to help US workers and manufacturing, this would have been a better criterion for determining import taxes (aka tariffs). Side effect: reduces migration.

This is what happens when people speak up.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

newsmax is ringing the opening bell at the stock market

let’s see who has the unfortunate task of ringing the opening bell tomorrow … ah perfect

There will be nonstop subpoenas. And you’re getting the first one.

So Much for the MAGA Divorce The nativist right is starting to make peace with Elon Musk.

I noted on @pivotpod.bsky.social that this seemed inevitable, despite all the anti Elon bile from Bannon. He’s a pragmatist at heart, even if it is the darkest of hearts www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

This is as cruel and crazed as it is anti-constitutional. Kafka + Orwell + de Sade
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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:

Sen. Cory Booker is putting his body on the line, refusing to let the Senate carry on like democracy isn’t under siege. 👏 Billionaires are staging a hostile takeover, & too many are asleep at the wheel.

👀 We see who’s fighting & who’s complicit.

Watch LIVE now—> www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Hands Off! Seattle Fights Back · Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Seattle is fighting back.** They’re taking everything they can get their hands on—our healthcare, our data, our jobs, and our services...

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Celebrating our wedding anniversary at Bellevue Square. Stop Trump, Stop Musk, Stop Putin!

Happy birthday to @repjasmine.bsky.social from the @teslatakedown.com in Bellevue, WA!