Emilie Braxten

October 18 in DC ❤️🤍💙

I can't even with this administration's chronic disinformation and blatant lies.

October 2, 2025 At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...

October 2, 2025

Democratic Wins Media (@demwinsmedia) BREAKING: Stephen Colbert just had the best clap back at Donald Trump’s silencing of Jimmy Kimmel we’ve seen yet. This is amazing.

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September 6, 2025 Today the social media account of President Donald J.

"a new level of unhinged...."
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shove your thoughts and prayers we’ve been thinking and praying since Columbine — and it hasn’t done shit

Thanks, Jeff. We should all be so outraged.
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August 22, 2025 In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming, the Trump White House appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize i...

“Things People are Begging for: 1. Cheaper groceries 2. No Medicaid and SNAP cuts 3. Release of the Epstein Files.... Things People are NOT begging for: 1. An authoritarian power grab of major cities.”
- J.B. Pritzker, Illinois governor

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Live with Heather Cox Richardson A recording from Heather Cox Richardson's live video

"A lot of us are swearing a lot more than we used to...." -Gov. Gavin Newsom
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July 12, 2025 On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow o...

THANK YOU, Rosie!!
(Read to the end!)
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"Grief is a Form of Patriotism, Too...."
(Rev. Benjamin Cremer)
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I Won’t Be Celebrating The 4th of July This Year What Are We Celebrating, Really?

I feel this.

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Let us not go gently into the night Half of all Americans who have ever lived are alive right now.

"We the People are the ones who must act to reclaim America."
(Wm. J Barber, II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)

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June 10, 2025 Today President Donald J.

“[i]f some of us can be snatched off the streets... based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there.”
- Gov Newsom

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Unprecedented, indeed!!

On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

“Veterans are the canary in the coal mine.”

May 30, 2025 In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations ...

"Remigration"...?!!
"'All of it is pretty awful with some pieces that definitely violate existing law and treaties. But institutionalizing neo-Nazi theory as an office in the State Department is the most blatantly horrifying.'"

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Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

“But meaningful change requires collective awakening and decisive action,” says Harfoush. “And we need to start now.”

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Unhinged.

Massachusetts police hold girl's face to the ground as ICE arrests her mother, video shows In Massachusetts, where the incident occurred, local police are generally prohibited from assisting ICE with immigration enforcement.

This is OUTRAGEOUS!
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May 4, 2025 In an interview aired today on NBC News’s Meet the Press, reporter Kristen Welker asked President Donald J.

Scary stuff!
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May 2, 2025 Yesterday I identified incorrectly the messaging app newly fired national security advisor Michael Waltz was using at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday as the unsecure Signal app.

"It says something about the Trump administration that the German government is lecturing the U.S. government about the dangers of right-wing extremism."

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April 13, 2025 This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...

Absolutely chilling.
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There were protesters lining both sides of the Route 9 bridge over 290 as we drove to Worcester.❤️ Great turnout for today's protest, despite the wet & chilly weather! It gives me hope.

OMG! "Oopsies" is the understatement of... the day!