JeanR

same. I saw lots of support from semi drivers, veterans, motorcyclists etc. Lots of Vietnam era guys with white beards showing support. In deep red small town western Virginia. Actual participants in rally lined about .5mi, far bigger than any prior gathering

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

Cannot emphasize this enough. The Roberts court will live in infamy and McConnell’s grave will be spit on forever

Not sure American initiatives can be relied upon these days. Destabilization doesn’t always bring better

Didn’t we recently divert a bunch of patriot missiles to them from Ukraine?

My FIL was ran ops in military. The disdain was high for the “cocktail circuit gossipers” who couldn’t blend to save their lives and stomped through other ops

Did anyone else notice that she introduces herself as the Secretary of Homeland Security “for President Donald J Trump”? Such weird phrasing

Youngkin's vetoes are BAD for workers:

❌ Minimum wage increase
❌ Public sector collective bargaining
❌ Paid sick leave
❌ Worker misclassification penalties

Virginia workers NEED to elect @spanbergerforva.bsky.social this November!

Youngkin's vetoes are BAD for public safety:

❌ Assault weapon ban
❌ Firearm industry civil liability
❌ Firearm Violence Intervention & Prevention Ctr
❌ Safe firearms storage around minors and in cars

For Virginians' safety, we NEED to elect @spanbergerforva.bsky.social in November!

Youngkin's vetoes are BAD for the environment:

❌ Offshore Wind Industry Workforce pgm
❌ EV Rural Infrastructure pgm
❌ Energy Efficiency & Weatherization task force
❌ Update utility Integrated Resource Plan reqs

For Mother Earth, we NEED to elect @spanbergerforva.bsky.social in November

Youngkin's vetoes are BAD for women:

❌ Prohibit requiring or using salary history on job applications
❌ Paid family and medical leave
❌ Domestic worker overtime pay
❌ Close "boyfriend loophole" for firearms transfers

Women NEED to elect @spanbergerforva.bsky.social this November!

Tbh even her “heroes” were villains

This is how they disbar lawyers who stand up to them. Don’t let them.

The way people act like they won’t actually cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security gives similar vibes to when they acted like they wouldn’t actually overturn Roe

Stop underestimating them

This is *exactly* step one of the same strategy Russia and Hungary used to criminalize dissent.

After that, they began to label nonprofit and political organizations as foreign agents, then started to restrict and ban on that basis.

Haven’t congressional republicans intro’d a bill making all unions illegal? That’s their plan, one way or another

Yeah, Americans being so known for their decorum 🙄 Why now?!?

Still overvalued

Nearly two decades and finally a glimmer of hope that Dems will get around to doing what Howard Dean told them to and what every Dem non-leader has always known

Basic authoritarian stuff: the government revolves around protecting the President and punishing his enemies. Completely inconsistent with democratic norms, but will barely be a blip in the news in our new regime.

Like crawlers through files that include grand jury material and confidential biz info

Gov regulators have never understood business scale and how to make fines anything more than a nominal cost of business expense

Capitol Police don’t cover EPA entrance. Security guards do

There's a real "it can't happen here" mentality that prevents a lot of Americans from having a clear-eyed view about the fragility of American democracy. Dictatorship is always something they see on the news about other countries, never something to happen at home

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went

This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers

2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon

But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof

Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

Because we will be paying for their prison system

What puzzle is that?

There’s momentum building here, but it isn’t quite there yet. I can’t visit every blog/longform site all the time, so the synopses here draw me to them. I am still on FB tho. Fracturing social nets is their goal so i don’t leave on whim. Except X. Screw that.

Trump's DOJ directs prosecutors to pursue criminal FARA charges only in cases involving conduct “similar to more traditional espionage by foreign govt actors.” Seems like it could weaken needed oversight on lobbying, but this has slipped dangerously into the media lately, IMO.