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‘She needs to have a democracy to grow up in’: The moms who left Texas to defend its future Democratic lawmakers fled the state to protest a Trump-backed redistricting plan. For the mothers among them, leaving meant juggling summer milestones, first days of school — and showing their kids wh...

“I can’t think of any other thing that would pull me away from my kid right now, but this is important — she needs to have a democracy to grow up in," Texas Rep. Erin Zwiener said of Democrats' walkout to protest a Trump-requested GOP-favored voting map: 19thnews.org/2025/08/texa... @19thnews.org

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

DO NOT LOOK AWAY

ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court

The Roberts Court, in one fell swoop, has:

1) Allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood even for non-abortion care so to...
2) Rip away people's right to choose their care provider under Medicaid while...
3) Advancing a neoconfederate understanding of our civil rights laws.

This can't go on.

If Musk & his pals are so concerned about increasing the national debt in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, why don’t they cut the $664 billion in tax breaks for the 1%; the $420 billion in tax breaks for large profitable corporations; & the $150 billion in increased military spending?

Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes

This kid writing a thoughtful and eloquent letter about teammates and support and working to be better and do better every day while members of my own fucking party run anti-trans ads gives me hope for the future when our generation is dead and these kids are in control

Elbows up, Canada.

Tesla Is Dying, And Polestar Wants To Kill It The industry is exorcising Musk.

“Polestar wants to deliver the final blow. … Polestar is offering anyone who owns or leases a Tesla $5,000 off a lease on a brand new Polestar 3. Combined with their latest $15,000 Polestar Clean Vehicle Incentive, any Tesla driver can buy a Polestar 3 for a whopping $20,000 off.”

self-vandalizing

Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside

🧵 The passage of this dangerous Republican funding bill is a travesty. The ongoing administrative coup led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk is a constitutional crisis. The authoritarians stripping away our rights and trying to loot the government to enrich the billionaires are a five-alarm fire.

A Union Takes on Musk via Tesla’s Stock The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring some of the carmaker’s biggest shareholders as the tech mogul's cost-cutting influence in Washington sets off alarm bells.

Every worker deserves a safe a secure retirement. Just this week we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand. So we're asking asset managers to honestly look at their investments in Tesla.
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@ultraviolet.bsky.social helped us immensely with support when I was running Indivisible Anchorage and organizing protests during Trump’s first term.

The woman behind 13 years of feminist victories is passing the baton to a new generation “There will ultimately be backlash to the backlash, and it’s our job to swing the pendulum back,” said Shaunna Thomas, outgoing executive director of women’s group UltraViolet.

"We’re in a period of backlash. There will ultimately be backlash to the backlash, and it’s our job to swing the pendulum back."

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The woman behind 13 years of feminist victories is passing the baton to a new generation “There will ultimately be backlash to the backlash, and it’s our job to swing the pendulum back,” said Shaunna Thomas, outgoing executive director of women’s group UltraViolet.

"This is not permanent. This state of the world is not permanent."

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The woman behind 13 years of feminist victories is passing the baton to a new generation “There will ultimately be backlash to the backlash, and it’s our job to swing the pendulum back,” said Shaunna Thomas, outgoing executive director of women’s group UltraViolet.

New: Shaunna Thomas is stepping down after 13 years of leading @ultraviolet.bsky.social, the women’s group behind several victories for the feminist movement over the past decade 19thnews.org/2025/02/shau...

The woman behind 13 years of feminist victories is passing the baton to a new generation “There will ultimately be backlash to the backlash, and it’s our job to swing the pendulum back,” said Shaunna Thomas, outgoing executive director of women’s group UltraViolet.

👋🏼 I have news! I’m transitioning out of the org i co-founded @ultraviolet.bsky.social and @gracepanetta.bsky.social @19thnews.org wrote all about it. After 13 years of leadership, I’m excited to support a new feminist vision and strategy. Read, share and join me!

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Happy belated Jen- if you don’t follow the great JFA this is the day to correct that.

I voted ‘no’ on H.R. 30. This bill empowers rapists and criminals, putting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault—including those who are in this country legally—at risk. Rather than protecting the vulnerable, this bill will enact horrific consequences on survivors. 1/

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Are Those Young Men Gone Forever? Surviving the next four years is going to be an exercise in making common cause among people who disagree on many things.

@ilyseh.bsky.social wrote about the election and what it prescribes for the future- highly recommend. Covers a lot of ground very efficiently and insightfully and offers something a lot deeper than Slotkin-esque critiques of “identity” politics (on both sides).

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Friends, the backlash we’re seeing is a bigger problem than DT’s abuser cabinet. It’s a symptom of a problem we will only overcome by working with our own people in our communities and building from there. We need to start now. @ultraviolet.bsky.social wants to help you do it:
mobilize.us/s/73ct5f

More to build on here given the “discourse” this weekend:

Fellas (I do mean the men talking rn), NAFTA had more to do with this moment than any aclu questionnaire. You cannot be an avatar for the institutions people don’t trust and expect them to vote for you. The Democratic brand is that avatar.

Finally read the Jentleson oped, the various reax and wow. The number of factions of the Dem party looking for any reason not to have to talk about neoliberal economic policy is astounding.

Thank you!

My initial take on this election is aimed squarely at corporate Democrats: you will not use sexism to hide behind a conversation about neoliberal economic policy. Sorry.

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4) building a multiracial feminist majority- whatever you want to call it as long as those are the values- is the way forward for saving the future, literally- climate change, democracy, poverty, education, peace

3) people in general aren’t single issue voters. If your life is unstable and you don’t have enough to eat and take care of your family, you will vote for change.

2) as organizers we need to be clear about our value proposition to communities we aim to build power with… requires listening and delivering and supporting leadership within communities

Went from a women’s leadership conference in Iceland to a women donors conference in Denver. Similar stories, fears and sources of hope:
1) being in a two way conversation w/women across race and class between and during election cycles is how we win— how we counter disinfo and build community