Facts Matter

Excellent tweet, just a couple of tweaks.

In the U.S., confirmed vaccine injuries are ~1.2 per million doses, about 0.00012%, not 0.015%.

Since 1974: 154M lives saved, 94M from measles alone, plus 18.5M hospitalizations avoided.

Science works, lies kill.

Texas just opened Pandora’s box, and voters everywhere could pay the price - The Boston Globe Tit-for-tat redistricting escalation is exactly what our democratic system cannot afford.

Texas legislators are openly using a special session to redraw voting maps in their favor at the expense of voters of color, instead of getting disaster relief to flood victims.

This race to the bottom erodes our democracy, regardless of which party benefits.

"The one safe harbor that we do still have in voting rights law when it comes to redistricting, is that you cannot do racial gerrymanders....this is a clear cut racial gerrymander that will discriminate against black and brown voters."

@colinallredtx.bsky.social joins @lauren-egan.bsky.social:

In Denmark, farmers are required by law to grow field flowers for bees on 5 % of their land…. 💐🐝
I think that’s a fantastic solution to a big problem, they can do it here too ❤
catharinaweb
aliveonallchannels

South Park skewers the fascist regime once again. #Momsky

Paul Ryan on tariffs: "There's no rationale for this other than the president wanting to raise tariffs based upon his whims, his opinions. I think choppy waters are ahead."

The nation's landmark voting rights law just turned 60. It may not survive Trump. “The long-term game is to repeal the Voting Rights Act.”

LBJ signed Voting Rights Act 60 years ago today. It ended Jim Crow & transformed American democracy

But now country’s most important civil rights law under attack from every angle, from Texas Republicans to Supreme Court. This is 5 alarm fire for democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

www.dailykos.com Cartoon: Wrecking everything

Cartoon: Wrecking everything https://twp.ai/4ip9lz

A reminder of what we accomplished last time when Trump was POTUS

The first resistance was effective. It helped save the Affordable Care Act, end Republican control of the House, flip seven governorships, and elect hundreds to legislatures and local offices.

KEEP REPOSTING

#Resist

This is Texas Rep. Todd Hunter who submitted the proposed redistricting map to rig the 2026 midterms. His phone numbers are: 512-463-0672 and 361-949-4603. His office address is: 15217 South Padre Island Dr. Suite. 201, Corpus Christi, TX 78418. CALL TO ACTION/ORGANIZING

On our lead story tonight:

Nights of BLUE SKIES
Sound up 🎶( 2 nights of BLUE SKIES today)

DAY 4 AUGUST 2025

JOIN ME IN WISHING
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂

64 YEARS WONDERFUL
In my book
One of the greatest

Oh .. the tan suit is at the end
Yowser🎂🎶

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Lolz

This….

This isn't justice. This is one monster helping out another.

A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Sen. gallego.senate.gov called it “inhumane.”
Sen. captmarkkelly.bsky.social is demanding DHS accountability.

Kelly Yu deserves better. So do the families still waiting for answers.

We won’t stop speaking up. We must @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social
#FreeKellyYu #GoodTrouble #ImmigrationJustice

MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen.

Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy.

She’s lived here 48 years.
They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her.

She. Is. A. Citizen.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “Every Republican at every level of government should be challenged, even running for dog catcher… They should be challenged fighting for health care as a human right for every American… let them know there are consequences for taking away people’s health care…”

With greed and gluttony
His fear and hate
Infected the susceptible
Hollowed their souls
Starved empathy and
Fanned rage
Burned by their fever
Asked how have we
Come to this

With greed and gluttony
His fear and hate
Infected the susceptible
Hollowed their souls
Starved empathy and
Fanned rage
Burned by their fever
Asked how have we
Come to this

tonight the moon
will bleed the pain of the world 
as diana lays down her bow 
to weep with us & bodies
continue to fall in the smoke
of greed & hatred 
those eternal cancers for which we've never found a cure
and likely never will
but that doesn’t mean
we shouldn't continue to try
~RC deWinter

🚨TESTIMONY OF THE YEAR: A Texas voter just torched Donald Trump and Greg Abbott during a redistricting hearing - and it was BRUTAL:

“He cheated on the golf course…
He cheated on his taxes…
He cheated on his wives…
He cheated on democracy…”

But then came the mic drop 👇