Janet Hoover

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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...

Next Saturday, October 18th there are #NoKings protests planned across the country. With around 2,500 planned, you can find one near you here:
www.nokings.org?fbclid=Iwb21...

Don't want to wait until Saturday? The big list of protests is a great source for protests happening daily:
theblop.org

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

22k jobs added in August. June revised to NEGATIVE jobs for the first time since the pandemic.

Are we great again yet?

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else.

#USAnotRFK

Lets gooooo

Driving scientists to work for corporations. What the absolute hell?

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Thousands of jobs. E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽

ICYMI: “Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social has filed a bill to ban law enforcement officers in Tennessee, including ICE, from wearing masks while making arrests (and ID themselves) — the “Stop American Gestapo Act” www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

A simple idea that could save your life and help you to be found

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

@padilla.senate.gov: "We’re a co-equal branch of government, our job is oversight and accountability... If there's an opportunity for me to ask a question in-person at a press conference in my home state, that's me doing my job."

Did he have tears in his eyes while he said it? 🙄

ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments.

If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

What would encourage you to add to the baby supply?

Anyone surprised?

I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

‘We are flying blind’: RFK Jr.’s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer, HIV and more — POLITICO Fired workers and outside experts say the cuts leave the nation more vulnerable to health threats.

This cabinet just keeps getting worse and worse.

apple.news/A5uwI4_KNRNK...

Finally! How much misery has he caused by waiting so long? 🤬

The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Facts 👇👇👇

I found a Trump branded ball on the golf course today. I took extreme pleasure in whacking the $;&@ out of it!