BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:

"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

I look forward to dragging @schumer.senate.gov - my senator - FOR FILTH & supporting a bold primary challenger against him & any other Dems willing to toss away the pressure of the last 40 days for nothing. If they abandon the ppl they serve, the ppl need to make the rest of their terms living hell.

The president of the United States is on his way to an NFL game after a weekend spent partying at his country club and fighting to starve poor Americans.

And Senate Democrats want to surrender to him?!

Fuck that and fuck them.

Caving on the shutdown won’t make you “moderate.” It makes you WEAK! Giving Republicans what they want for NOTHING more than a “promise” of a vote and risking millions of Americans’ healthcare isn’t compromise—it’s surrender and it’s the most RADICAL thing you could do in this moment. 1/

No health care, no deal.

We’re not going to “fix the Democrats’ brand” by doing TikToks or launching pods. The brand is a direct reflection of our elected officials. If we want to purge our weak branding, we have to purge the weak Dems. I’m looking forward to a robust primary cycle and new Democrats who know how to fight.

We gave them the victories they’ve been asking for and they turned around and gave up as soon as it was convenient. The carrot days of the Democratic base are over. Time for the stick. They’re not afraid enough of us. We can fix that (with votes).

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.

Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen

Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul

This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.

We need new leaders in the Senate.

🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again Mehdi's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government without a guarantee on heathcare; the BBC rolling over for Donald Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Zohran Mamdani.

"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"

Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:

Gun violence is out of control. The victims of gun violence are Republicans, Democrats, independents, and kids, who have no political affiliation whatsoever.

We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns.
The guns!

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

Booker: For people with 401(k) accounts and retirement savings, they’ve lost thousands. I’ve been hearing from people who had hoped to retire this year after working 25, 30, or even 35 years, but now they don’t think they have enough money because he’s taken $6 trillion overall out of the markets.

Never fails

@africanacarr.bsky.social with the 🥵🔥 on @rolandsmartin.bsky.social #RolandMartinUnfiltered
Dr.Carr had @nolahaynes.bsky.social & @reeciecolbert.bsky.social ready to snap their fingers, like they was at a Poetry Slam 😁
This needs to put on repeat for anyone that has doubt.
We gotta #KeepFighting 🥊🥊

As someone who has criticized Mark Kelly in the past, all I can say is that this video is fantastic, this message is fantastic, and can we have more of this from the Dems please.
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Dwayne Wiggins Tony Toni Tone 🙏🏿

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Never forgive, never forget

Sankofa: How the History of Black Liberation Movements Prepares Us for This Moment The past has taught us that progress is not permanent, but the past will also teach us how to fight.

We ready

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.

REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

YouTube video by Ed Post Black History, DEI, and the Reality of America (ft. Dr. Greg Carr)

#BlackHistoryMonth youtu.be/deveVVkBlJQ?...

Tuesday, February 25. Don’t want to miss this.

Here’s what’s gonna happen to your healthcare

@claycane.bsky.social hi good afternoon Clay. I’m listening to your radio show and I have been calling both my senators Fetterman McCormick and my representative Brenshan constantly and I did make a call again to them about Elon Musk.

YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors LIVE REACTION! Lurie Tries to Call White House Hotline....

Yesterday a member of my @urbanviewradio.bsky.social audience called in to tell me that the White House switch board was closed. I didn’t believe it & I called the White House while we were live on air. The caller was right. The White House Hotline was down. Here’s how it went:
youtu.be/Z4989cIrk3Q

any way books are awesome, get (and use!) a library card, let kids read