Deb for Democracy 💙🇺🇸💙

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

A lot of the people you see arguing against food assistance are actually on food assistance. They work at Walmart or a convenience store and think they are deserving, but others are not.

This is projection and the way that the 1% keep poor people pitted against poor people so they don’t look up.

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

The East Wing was built in 1902 & rebuilt in 1942, long after asbestos was used as a fire retardant. So, I’m sure the White House took steps to prevent a known carcinogen from entering the air during the current willy-nilly demolition.

Kidding! These irresponsible assholes don’t care who they kill.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

He raped underaged girls.
He raped grown women.
He virtually shat on America.
He’s currently assaulting The People’s House.
Release the Epstein Files.

ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”

This is nuts. And we would like to know more about these "guided missile warheads."

Good reporting via @juddlegum.bsky.social / @popular.info

I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.

The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.

Details:

That's great!

Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now:
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

I'll be going to the one in St Louis 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#NoKings

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

Let me turn my phone off cause this type of shit here...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I will be the first to admit: I am scared. I am scared of what Trump is doing to our country, our communities, and our neighbors. But just because I am scared does not mean I am helpless. Instead, I will stand up and speak out, Marc Elias writes.

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

YouTube video by Just a Confused Brit Charlie Kirk Gets Roasted By Professor And Everyone Loses It!

youtu.be/i3ZmA-yg11s?...

Russian foreign minister: Any aggression against our country will be met with a 'decisive response' Russia’s top diplomat is insisting to world leaders that Russia has no intention of attacking Europe.

As new tensions rise between Russia and NATO powers, Moscow’s top diplomat insisted to world leaders Saturday that his nation doesn’t intend to attack Europe but will mount a “decisive response” to any aggression.

apnews.com/article/un-g...

YouTube video by MSNBC 'Never seen anything like this': Retired general reacts to Hegseth calling urgent meeting

MSNBC clip covering WaPo reporting.

Why all hands on deck sl, so suddenly? All of them? All over the globe? Short Notice? Next week?

Isn't that dangerous? All in DC at the same time instead of their posts?

Thoughts?

youtu.be/J16xnIHSC24?...

I think the terms are more than fair 😉

The Trump Doctrine:
Do as I say, quietly, or else.

Prove me wrong.

He looks like he could be my pupper's brother 🥰