Alex 🌻

This is so important. And photos of these postings should find their way into the Chicago History Museum as a permanent exhibition.

People's houses or towns burning down or washing away is bad for prosperity, and so are the 8 million or so annual deaths from fossil-fuel particulates. Hurricane Helene was extremely bad for western North Carolina prosperity. Island nations going underwater, ditto.

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems.

"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."

Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Congratulations Dr. Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard on LANDSLIDE statewide victories in Georgia.

These wins prove the massive grassroots energy powering Georgia Dems and unstoppable turnout juggernaut the Democratic Party of Georgia is building with the leadership of Chair Charlie Bailey.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Election night recap—HOLY SH*T edition. 👏🏼👏🏼🔥🔥

"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads As election results poured in on Tuesday night, it became clear that Democrats were winning nationwide against anti-trans opponents.

1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics.

From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Solidarity is the only way

Now Trump is using the same word in D.C. To them, “liberation” means clearing streets with troops, rounding up the vulnerable, and calling it freedom. In the United States, we don’t “liberate” our people from the government they themselves elected.

I cannot emphasize this enough: the president's claims about Washington D.C., crime and homelessness are lies. He is lying about crime rates. He is lying about the state of lawlessness. He is lying about who is homeless in D.C., what we know about homelessness and how to end homelessness there.

Uh, there is a lot to discuss. Please join in about an hour and bring your questions. We'll talk about this bullshit bill of course, but also about what comes next. See ya soon!

Every single House Democrat will stand up for the American people.

We just need four Republicans to join us.

😬 💰 @MarshaBlackburn @RepOgles @RepTimBurchett

Hakeem Jeffries is on the floor standing up for the American people right now. He is standing up for what is right. We just need four House Republicans to stand with him:

Selling out their constituents for autographs and souvenirs.

The 2026 midterms are already on the horizon.

Do not forget this. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/trump-bill-holdout-republicans.html

🦬 I hate that I have to call “Republicans remove something terrible from their bill” a silver lining, but that’s where we’re at…

Thank you to everyone who called their Representative and made it clear that public lands are ❌NOT❌ for sale!

Thank you, advocates, Democrats, and a few Republicans still willing to do *something* good when faced with intense push back.

This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items, like education authority rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges. Read the fine print. Read the bill!

IMLS Staff Return to Work Thanks to Court Order, Some Grants Restored. The federal workers dedicated to library funding are coming back to work after a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island. Grants in states that sued have begun to be restored, including grants held by ALA. But this win is temporary and limited. [Logos: Show up for our libraries, American Library Association]

Institute of Museums and Library Services!

@ezralevin.bsky.social Following up on the Indivisible newsletter from this week, consider speaking on podcasts like @meidastouch.com and We Can Do Hard Things, Heather Cox Richardson FB Livestreams, Atl National Park Service.

Sen. Durbin does what Bluesky demands, and instead of praise/thanks he gets dunked on more. It’s the way of (this tiny corner) of the world.

But don’t forget: he invented the whole notion of Dreamers/DACA, and (I just found out!) is the person responsible for banning smoking in all public spaces.

Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

A massive 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action on climate but many mistakenly believe they are in the minority, causing them to not speak out.

REPOST if you're in the climate majority and using your voice to demand action! 🌎

A bitcoin mine in Texas is “killing us slowly,” local residents say by Maximillian Alvarez April 23, 2025 After a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation came to Granbury, TX, residents started suffering from hypertension, heart palpitations, tinnitus, migraines, and more—and they say their concerns are going ignored by the company and government officials. It’s “environmental euthanasia,” one resident tells TRNN

🚨 New Working People @therealnews.com, new "sacrifice zone" investigation: I speak w/ residents of Granbury, TX, who all started suffering ill health effects after a 300-megawatt bitcoin mine moved in next door. This is "environmental euthanasia," one resident said.

therealnews.com/a-bitcoin-mi...

It should horrify you that it took a major media organization publishing a full investigation into the forced disappearance of a Venezuelan man for DHS to admit where it sent him and what his current location is.

No Kings–Then or Now: Historian H. Cox Richardson, AG Campbell, US Rep. Raskin - Rescheduled! · Volunteer Blue/Together We Elect No Kings – Then or Now: Fighting on All Fronts RESCHEDULED: Volunteer Blue and its 40-plus partner organizations are (re)inviting you to join us on Friday, May 9th, for this special event. We will ...

I'm attending Volunteer Blue/Together We Elect's event,
No Kings –Then or Now
with Historian H. Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social
AG Campbell @massago.bsky.social
US Rep. Raskin @raskin.house.gov
Sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/volunteerblu...
#DemVoice1 #DemsConnect #USDemocracy

Resistance is NOT futile