Democracy can feel tiresome, boring, frustrating. It is all about constantly negotiating and re-negotiating conflicting interests and sensibilities. Not exactly the most rousing stuff. But it is the day-to-day implementation of the grandest and noblest of ideas: That all people are equal.

Shortly before the 2024 election, a video clip made the rounds showing an elderly Black woman in Mississippi waiting in line to vote. She recalled her experience growing up in an apartheid system in the Jim Crow South, how Black people were systematically excluded from political participation.

People need to accept that things can change – in either direction: It really could get much, much worse. But it could also get better. There is nothing inevitable about either doom or progress. We are neither fated nor guaranteed to experience the status quo for all eternity.

But America did not reach a consensus about what this nation should be in the 1960s. The forces who rejected the vision of egalitarian pluralism, they were not confined and condemned to an existence on the fringes of society. They have engaged in a comprehensive counter-mobilization.

A hierarchical ethno-state dominated by white Christians or a pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations? That conflict was not resolved in 1776. It wasn’t settled in 1865. Unfortunately, the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 didn’t usher in democratic consensus either.

There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.

And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

My suspicion is that the plan is to use a new investigation into Epstein as a pretext for not being able to release the Epstein Files, as it is DOJ policy not to release the evidence in an ongoing investigation.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

“The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.”

How is any of this okay?

What’s Trump’s next move in the Epstein cover-up? Check out the full discussion on Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig...

A second MRI in five weeks doesn’t sound like a routine check

Printable materials - Citizens' Impeachment These free printable materials are available for you to download and either print at home or at your local print shop. Hand out flyers at your next protest, put up […]

Are you headed to a rally or protest in your area? We have free printables for you, including signs and fliers: citizensimpeachment.com/printable-ma...

Keep your message clear, consistent, and actionable. Members of Congress must uphold their oaths of office. Trump must be impeached and removed.

”The situation is tense” – How Orbán has tried overcome Fidesz’s internal crisis - Direkt36 Fidesz underestimated opposition leader Péter Magyar so much that they realized too late that he posed a real threat to them. Direkt36 reveals how Viktor Orbán launched his spring offensive against Magyar and how this caused tensions within the government.

🇭🇺 EXCLUSIVE: An in-depth look at how Viktor Orbán and Fidesz underestimated Péter Magyar until it was too late. Direkt36 reveals how Orbán’s spring offensive against him backfired—fueling internal tensions and exposing cracks inside the government.

Racial Profiling Is ICE’s New Norm. Activists Are Mobilizing in Response. Arizonans long endured grim racial profiling under SB 1070. Now the Supreme Court has greenlighted its use nationwide.

Racial Profiling Is ICE’s New Norm. Activists Are Mobilizing in Response. truthout.org/articles/rac...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green... V @RepMTG X.com I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. The man I supported and helped get elected. Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type rhetoric being directed at me right now. This time by the President of the United States. As a woman I take threats from men seriously. I now have a small understanding of the fear and pressure the women, who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal, must feel.

Getting worse.

Post Marjorie Taylor Greene @mtgreenee This and the Epstein files is why I'm being attacked by President Trump. It really makes you wonder what is in those files and who and what country is putting so much pressure on him? I forgive him and I will pray for him to return to his original MAGA promises. core Conservative Review ... CI Rep. Marjorie Greene (GA)-R | in Office Since 2024| BERT CORE A 100% RIN core Conservative Review Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC)-ll 1 is Cerice Since 2000 F 43% MAI TRACK MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE U.S. REPRESENTATIVE (R) GA-14 $0.00 RECEIVED FROM AIPAC 3/5/25 @TRACKAIPAC Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Good morning. @RepMTG • 1h I want to thank everyone who texted and posted and commented support for me, you all are so kind and l appreciate, love, and support you too. Show more

Keep’em coming.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
Would you have stood up?

Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.

We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Progress!

Connect with others in your area and keep the momentum rolling. It's time for Alberta to have a gov't that respects the rights of their constituents.

OperationTotalRecall.ca

#ABpoli #ABleg #Alberta #RecallThemAll #canpoli #cdnpoli

Trump reverses course and cuts tariffs on US food imports Order exempting coffee, beef, bananas and other items comes as White House fights off concerns about rising costs

He dropped his own tariffs, that were NEVER going to do anything except raise prices and create hardship? Right. GOP formula:
1. Create problem.
2. Blame others for problem.
3. Then un-do problem & take credit.

We're tired of it.
Oh- and release the Epstein files.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Yes, sort of, but "salami tactics" refers to the way Communists after 1945 would infiltrate parliamentary systems by gaining control of key ministries and other positions one "slice" at a time. Today people use it as a generic frog-boil metaphor, but it used to have more precise meaning in E. Eur.

Rev. Woolf is the faith leader in this viral photograph:

Another victim of a campus shooting

Why wasn't the shooting mentioned on the news around the country?

Have we become so insensitive that it's seen as uninteresting?

Will America ever work to stop the cause=Gun access!

As Trump says, “Smart people don’t like me.”
This is why he said he “loves the undereducated.”

This clip from the documentary Art of the Surge gives some insight into how Trump's tweets are made.

Trump can be seen dictating to his aide Natalie Harp. We also see the entire room brainstorming, with Matt Gaetz and Stephen Miller contributing ideas.

gizmodo.com/does-preside...

WOLFF: “@RepTimBurchett long supported the release of the Epstein Files. However, his tone quickly changed once Trump was named in the few documents that have been released…”

Nobody in Knoxville/Tennessee is buying the act, Tim.
www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”

@mediaite.com #GA14
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🚨 Signs that you are entirely detached from financial reality of Americans. This man has not been in a grocery store for the better part of his life yet he is on TV telling us how cheap it is to live. He represents the people who are banking on our suffering.