Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈

So sorry for your family's loss.

The president of the United States is priming the US military for his coming war against Americans on American streets, and there are folks on here squabbling over the proper definition of fascism.

Yup. He sees them as race traitors

Trump sees himself as the Savior King of White America, so white people in a city that's about 70 percent white mocking and protesting against him absolutely pisses him off no end.

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Hassett is the worst. Reminds me of this (but without the too-small heart growing at the end)

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

The states' rights crowd really doesn't give a damn about the rights of (blue) states, do they?

Vance has all the charm of a pile dumped out of a vacuum cleaner.

More than 30 years ago I wrote a feature for @bostonglobe.com about the changing face of hunger and homelessness. Three decades later, the problems that cause homelessness have grown exponentially proving that the system hasn't failed, but is functioning exactly as designed.

Same!

This quote could have come from anyone in Trump's Cabinet.

Every act of resistance matters.

I was recently lambasted by a reader for suggesting that Trump is president in name only, and that other nefarious characters are really in charge.

Infographic comparing proposed premium rate changes for 2026 Affordable Care Act plans and annual premium payment for a benchmark Affordable Care Act plan for an average 55-year-old couple making $85,000. The chart shows a annual premium payment of $7,225 in 2025 with the premium tax credit applied, and in 2026 if the premium tax credits expire, the chart shows the annual premium payment tripling to $24,535.

Let’s say you’re a decade from retirement and make a middle-class salary.

Your health insurance costs are about to triple—yes, triple—because Trump would rather keep the government shut down than stand up for you.

Alumni that care about democracy and free speech should immediately cut off donations to any university that capitulates to Trump's extortion "compact" for federal funding.

Quote card from FPF Advocacy Director Seth Stern

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.

We should all be outraged.

freedom.press/issues/mario...

Starving for attention. Give her none.

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Not a drag queen. Not a trans person.

Also — six months?!?! That's it?!?!?!

How ‘Breaking Bad’ foretold today’s manosphere - The Boston Globe The show and the reaction to it, predicted the mainstreaming of misogyny that in its many forms, online and off, can make life miserable for too many women.

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That's right — she sure did!

Remember how Kamala Harris kept talking about Project 2025 and how it would be the blueprint for Trump if he won, but people didn't want to listen to that Black woman because she was a Black woman so now Trump is using Project 2025 as his blueprint just like that Black woman said he would?

Better headline: “Trump administration threatens to starve mothers and children.”

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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Damn near never made a bad song.

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

I often wonder if Mike Johnson gets paid by the lie.

Then release the Epstein files.