Survivors — and family of survivors — of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse are urging Mike Johnson to swear-in Adelita Grijalva:

"Every day you stall is another day survivors are denied justice, and the American people are denied the truth. Swear in Representative Grijalva and let democracy speak."

Exactly 💥🙄

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

"Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906.

I think we all know how that turned out.

The #KavanaughStops now reportedly include Border Patrol agents breaking ribs of 67 year of old US citizen. ↘️

Time to stop shopping at businesses that allow federal agents to kidnap your neighbors. Drop Home Depot. Go to Ace and Lowe's instead.

Normal Times in Dire Times Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

The crowd of protesters is standing peacefully, chanting "neo nazis" as ICE marches by

When the agents stop and attack a blind man with a cane

Thus proving the demonstrators point

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025.

This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.

Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.

Still not sure we need Medicare for All?

In Albany NY, protesters lined up along a 2.5 mile stretch of a major avenue; few black/brown protesters but many black/brown drivers honking and waving encouragement. We need next step of inflicting economic pain - only thing I have done on that score is boycotting Target and a few others.

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni says Emil Bove told him, 'those planes need to take off no matter what, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court 'fuck you.'

Reuveni: It is the highest, most egregious violation of the lawyer's code of ethics.

Add Albany, NY (calls were made)

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

trump said today that 'very few' people were going to participate in the No Kings protests.

We need to prove him wrong. In astonishing numbers, we need to prove him wrong.

Thank you for your attention to this matter💙✌🏻💙

So, China is buying soy beans from Argentina instead of America but we are giving Argentina billions of dollars? Also, Argentinians have free healthcare but Americans do not and our government is now shut down because it doesn’t have enough money to give Americans even a discount on healthcare?

Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers

Florida, come get your evil Congressman. Vote this guy out

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

(between the No Kings logo and an image of a hand holding a sign that reads “REJECTING KINGS SINCE 1776”) Wear yellow. Show up. Show out. Saturday, October 18th. nokings.org

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

I have my issues with the Catholic Church, and they're not small. Nonetheless, I have to applaud this resurgence in the social justice Catholicism.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

This is unacceptable!

AND NOW...A REMINDER!

This is what ice is doing

But Chicago is 400 miles away from the border!

they getting tax breaks to lay off their own workers, destroy creative jobs with automation, drink up all our water, and drive our electrical bills through the roof

He’ll get a sympathetic ear from Kavanaugh and others on that treasonous Court.