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It's been 38 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

It’s been really disheartening to see the things people say about those who use SNAP. Many seem to have little understanding of why the program exists in the first place.

Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!

As part of Trump’s planned Reduction in Force (RIF) during the government shutdown, the Interior Department said it plans to lay off about 2,050 employees, including 272 from the National Park Service (NPS), 335 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

"A Texas pastor who founded one of the largest megachurch congregations in the country pleaded guilty on Thursday to sexually abusing a girl of 12 in Oklahoma in the 1980s." - BBC

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, l...

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When you make three times what you need and then exhibit willpower. 🤣

Bison peaking out from a field of fall colors.

Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving

Trump had a tantrum tonight over ABC bringing Jimmy Kimmel back, even threatening to sue the network.

Just a reminder that #NBC and #MSNBC fired numerous Black women to placate the far right, including @joyannreid.bsky.social @joy.msnbc.com, and before that @tiffanydcross.bsky.social and Melissa Harris Perry for, effectively, speaking truths that offended their white overlords.

a woman is holding a piece of pizza in her hand and the word shut is behind her . ALT: a woman is holding a piece of pizza in her hand and the word shut is behind her .

I hate it when my autistic child has to hear ‘news’ stories and rumors about how autism is some sort of plague or how it ought to be cured. He has a hard enough time with his self image. There’s so much he wants to do that he either can’t (yet) or does with massive effort. This bs just hurts.

Idk who needs to hear this but autism isn't evil and people with autism are delightful little gems and beloved children of God. Anyone telling u otherwise is selling something!

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women "This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

We all said this would happen. We knew it would happen. And really no one in power gave a flying fuck. This is a feature, not a bug.

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I'm gonna need dems to get out there and be like "RFK and the republicans who enable him want your children to die" bc that is what is happening. Like, it's not just RFK, he is being supported and enabled by the rest of that death panel ass cult of a party

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NH, you can still stop this. This bill isn’t law yet. “If you agree that there’s no room for book bans in the Live Free or Die state, please call Governor Ayotte’s office and leave a message urging her to veto HB 324.” #bannedbooks

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THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.

ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.