Demet Haksever

People should lift each other up and cheer each other on, not try to outdo each other. The sky would be terribly dark with only one star.

Van Hollen Criticizes Democratic Leaders for Delay in Endorsing Mamdani

I really like Van Hollen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans.

And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich.

Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.

Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."

It's a #prism of sorts, this thing that separates light from its different shades to darkness. Each has its purpose, its value. There is no one prettier than another. They are all interdependent, relying on each other for their display. Then they are all one. Yet not. #vss365

ICYMI: 9,000 Philadelphia city workers are on strike for the first time in 40 years as they fight for better pay, benefits, and more.

These workers provide essential services for their communities day in and day out. Philadelphia doesn’t run without them.

Solidarity!

“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb

The Supreme Court is set to issue opinions tomorrow in some or all of the 10 remaining cases it heard this term, including:

⚖️Birthright Citizenship/Nationwide Injunctions.
⚖️Louisiana Redistricting.

I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 to keep you informed. Sign-up now for free. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Thank you for including me!

Haverhill made history on Saturday, June 7th with its very first Pride event! It was an honor for GHI to join the parade as a group, as one of the participating organizations. We are so proud of the Haverhill community and everyone who participated, marched, and cheered along the route.

"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."

Asking for a "best and final" offer might be a useful way of auctioning a house. But it doesn't really seem like a sincere form of negotiation.

And how should these countries respond to Trump randomly adding new tariffs every time he's called a TACO?
www.reuters.com/business/us-...

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937

New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years.

We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. 

If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

🌎🫶🌎🫶🌍🫶🌏🫶🌎

The world can be better because of YOU…

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

If House Republican Medicaid and ACA cuts pass, and enhanced ACA premium tax credits aren't extended, the state with the biggest increase in the number of people uninsured: Florida.

www.kff.org/affordable-c...

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?

RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research

D: I just read them to you!

R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

If you’re born in America, you’re an American.

Pass it on.

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:

-Paid family leave
-Equal pay
-Universal childcare

(But get your mom flowers, too)

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing moms and mother-figures!

Michelle, the girls and I are so lucky to have you in our lives. We love you.