Erin Hart

Thanks, Denise! How do I not know about this bog body mystery? 🤔

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

Senator Joni “We’re All Going to Die Someday” Ernst is NOT running for reelection.

Her vote to pass Trump’s Big Ugly Bill stole health care from millions and will needlessly kill 51,000 people a year.

Hold each and every one of them accountable!

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

Release of ‘missing minute’ of Epstein video contradicts Bondi claim cameras stopped recording Video taken outside Epstein’s cell on night he died is part of new materials released by House oversight committee * US politics live – latest updates A so-called “missing minute” of CCTV footage, a key ingredient of conspiracy theories surrounding the prison death of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been found, contradicting the assertion of Pam Bondi, the attorney general, that it was recorded over. The video was in a cache of material, including 33,000 pages of records relating to the disgraced financier and former Donald Trump associate, released late on Tuesday by the US House oversight committee. The panel has been looking into Epstein’s August 2019 death at Manhattan’s Metropolitan correctional center. Continue reading...

Release of ‘missing minute’ of Epstein video contradicts Bondi claim cameras stopped recording

Defending The Rule of Law in Our States Call · Defending the Rule of Law in our States As threats to democracy grow, state and local leaders and activists are stepping up to defend our communities. On **Wednesday, August 20th at 7:30 PM ET**, we’re hosting a national virtual call — **“Defending the Rule of Law in our States”** — to spotlight these efforts, share effective strategies, and build momentum for local action to protect people and democracy. This call will feature stories and tools from public officials and grassroots organizers working to protect the rule of law. It will also offer specific ways for people to get involved and support this work in their own communities. Please **sign up to receive the Zoom link**! Speakers include **MN Attorney General Keith Ellison,** FL Rep. Anna Eskamani, MD Comptroller Brooke Lierman, NY Rep. Micah Lasher, and Los Angeles labor activist Héctor (Teto) Huezo. For more information about this call or to sign up to partner with us, please visit our [one-pager](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n9AHxxDFvvVVeS7dYwuyQMQZlX_DEk-oUavixyY52HQ/edit?usp=sharing).

TOMORROW: Join Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, a coalition of partner organizations, and brave officials from across the country to learn how state and local leaders can fight Trump’s takeover and defend the rule of law. RSVP now to discuss unmasking ICE, redistricting, and more:

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System

Russia appears to be behind the massive hack of our federal court files. The hack is broad and includes national security cases. I’m sure Trump will jump right on this: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "They've talked about these fines, they've talked about trying to expel us from office... We're not too concerned about the personal or political costs. This is a lot bigger than us. This is about whether or not we will have free and fair elections in 2026."

Republicans fled DC early to avoid voting on releasing the Epstein files, but we’re keeping the pressure up during August recess. Our toolkit includes call scripts, pressure tactics, and social media tools to demand a vote as soon as Congress returns. 👇

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

very human/very disturbing. a painfully real and in its way beautiful (abt the victim's work as a caregiver) description of a life horribly disrupted by getting caught in the nihilism maw of the Miller/Trump destruction machine.

With ICE on the brink of receiving a massive increase in its budget, I delineated some of the things it has been doing with the money it already has. Gift link: wapo.st/4lv53Wh

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Hmmmmm, smells like fascism!

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

Can you imagine living in a “Democracy” where armed masked men are kidnapping people off the streets every single day?

Peace be upon us.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

When your MAGA uncle claims that climate change is some hippie fantasy, it helps to point out that the massive corporations employing truckloads of risk analysts are all placing multi-billion dollar bets of their own money that it’s real.

WE HAVE QUESTIONS…

This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they?

ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants.

How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

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I didn’t believe this, but looked for myself. Two headlines about the parade … and zero about two percent of all Americans taking to the streets yesterday to protest Trump.

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

How many reporters are currently working on tell-all exposés about their own organization, detailing all the acts of cowardice of their editors and publishers?

I won’t ever buy your book about Sleepy Joe Biden, but I’d absolutely devour a book about the internal collapse of the NYT or CNN.

💔💔💔

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.