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RUN FOR OFFICE; defeat the far right radicals.

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social , I learned that there are 52,000 elected offices up for election on 11/4. That’s 52000 chances to vote in candidates who share our values and who will protect the constitution.

I voted and returned my ballot.

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He THINKS he knows about building. So do my kids who play Legos.

SNAP benefits are about to expire for millions.

Health insurance costs are about to skyrocket for millions.

Food prices are rising.

The government has been shut down for 25 days.

What is Trump focused on?

Tearing down a section of the White House to make way for a billionaire-funded ballroom.

What the Heck Just Happened? YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

For our #democracy, I enjoy these Saturday morning livestream chats on Facebook & YouTube with American historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Joanne Freeman about what happened the previous week. #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyNow

We need more Nancies.

Pelosi advocated for increasing food assistance programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
She has supported and passed large-scale federal funding initiatives in food assistance. These include the $12 billion for food aid in the Americam Rescue Plan.

Loads of cyclists playing Mexican folk music have ridden up and appear to be joining the protest, when it starts marching.

Velshi Banned Book Club: “All My Rage” by Sabaa Tahir Equal parts a meditation on young adulthood, a tribute to the power of friendship, and an examination of what it means to belong as an immigrant in America, “All My Rage” by Sabaa Tahir is proof we all need to be listening to what teenagers and young adults have to say. 

“All My Rage” is predominantly an immigrant story, but those feelings of wanting to belong and of finding yourself? According to author Sabaa Tahir, “they’re universal.” #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

a group of protesters stand in 26th street. a person holds a sign that reads “ice can gargle my balls.”

the crowd of a hundred or so community members has taken 26th street underneath the little village arch.

a person speaking from the back of a pickup truck decries the violence from feds in the neighborhood this week, including abducting two high school students and causing multiple car crashes.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Epstein. Blow up the ballroom idea

Decoding the alarming message inside Trump’s bulldozing of the East Wing In a stunning move, President Trump has taken his “builder” image to new extremes by ordering the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make way for a $350 million ballroom. Critics say the decision is an unprecedented overreach; a literal bulldozing of history and presidential norms. MSNBC Political Analyst Jennifer Rubin weighs in: “it’s not his house. It’s our house. He doesn’t have the right to do whatever he wants.”

Trump is reshaping the “people’s house” in his image with his demo of the East Wing. @jenrubin.bsky.social says the “ballroom can be stopped. Congress can pass a law.” @hayesbrown.bsky.social argues Trump is trying to distract the public. "Change the subject, that's what they're best at." #Velshi

They’ll use it in any way to benefit the regime. Remember: they are Post-Law.

Election Conspiracy Theorist at DHS Denies Department Is Using Voter Data From DOJ Read more here.

Last September, a DHS spokesperson said that the voter registration data being collected by the DOJ is being shared with their department as part of a broad push to remove noncitizens from the rolls. Now, a different official says otherwise. https://bit.ly/3JsQa9C

Alumnae Council: Athena Award - Alumni Association of the University of Michigan The Alumnae Council Athena Award is bestowed upon alumnae who have distinguished themselves in professional and humanitarian endeavors.

I was honored to join the @UMich Alumnae Council for their annual Athena Award event. Lifting up students at the University of Michigan since 1917. We stand on the shoulders of these remarkable women, and we still have more work to do. 
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Incredibly, NONE of the broadsheets reported the death of the great Jamaican-born theatre pioneer Yvonne Brewster, or ran an obit.

Here's a fitting tribute... please share and let's celebrate this giant of British theatre. 🙏 💪

Shout out!!!

It’s not even a cumulative effect. This effect is often immediate. I’ve now seen at least 10 incidents of ICE goons showing up, getting yelled at, and then giving up

Rep. Don Davis: Voting is about 'empowering people, not short term power plays' North Carolina has adopted a new Trump-backed map designed to give Republicans an additional House seat during the 2026 midterm elections. This could effectively unseat Democratic Congressman Don Davis, who represents the state’s majority-Black district, in what’s known as The Black Belt. “They met to take up a new map to attempt to predetermine…the outcome of an election 377 days away,” Davis said. “So we are sitting here in North Carolina without a budget. A lot of the schools are trying to figure out the future, what pathway they're going to head on, and decisions that need to be made. We're dealing with health care issues, but we're redrawing maps. Everybody's left scratching their head.” 

“The most important thing that we could ever do right now, is to implement a national ban on mid-decade redistricting that's not court mandated,” Democratic Rep. Don Davis said in response to NC’s new congressional map, designed to ensure he’ll lose his seat to a Republican next year. #Velshi

No off shore drilling. CALIFORNIANS will fight this once AGAIN.

Our California beaches and coast may threatened by Trump’s plan to expand drilling off our coast. This would greatly impact LA & Orange County beaches.

I'm co-sponsoring 3 bills to fight back against these reckless actions.

Keep shaming them.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

J. William Middendorf II, 101, Dies; Navy Secretary and Musical Diplomat

A distinguished Rhode Islander and ardent Navy man. RIP, Mr. Secretary.

He called the period of lynching and terrorism after Reconstruction “redemption”…I didn’t think we were still using the confederate language for that period. 😟

Texans used to read the great Molly Ivins. Good Texans are still there. Rise up again!

This guy rocks!

No shit.

Conservatives represent inbred hate.