Why U.S. politicians are up in arms about new internet rules in Britain A growing number of U.S. politicians are condemning a new British law that requires some U.S. websites and apps to check the ages of users across the pond.

Republicans scold the UK for “online censorship” while their own states push for ID checks to use the internet, hiding behind the 1st amendment that does not apply to the UK.

It's performative theater meant to look like they are freedom fighters.

Heroes in speeches, tyrants in law.

#MorningVibe

Radiate positivity and watch the world transform around you.

💌 Good News from the Resistance, August 3-9, 2025 Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

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Do not pardon Ghislaine Maxwell! For decades, Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked girls and young women. His power and money shielded him from accountability—and he was enabled by those around him. Americans have been left...

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Remembering Virginia Giuffre Daughter, Sister, Mother, Survivor, and Fierce Advocate

Just dropped...

On what would have been her 42nd birthday, I'm thinking of Virginia and wondering how joyful her life might have been, "had she not been forced to slay demons."

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Thank Texas Dems

The Texas GOP's redistricting plan is a DIRECT ATTACK on voting rights! Thousands have testified against it, but Abbott & Co. are pushing forward.
Dem lawmakers are risking arrest & fines. #MessWithTexas social.demcast.com/s/Deyvd90s

Trey Martinez Fischer & TX Dems are risking it all to defend fair maps while Trump & the GOP scheme to rig 2026.

They’re standing firm against threats & lies—but they can’t do it alone.

📅 Mon 8/11, 6pm ET | 5pm CT — Join @votolatino.bsky.social live on IG to learn how to fight back.

We’re at the authoritarian tipping point, where the key systems meant to keep democracy in check are being controlled by one side, for example, SCOTUS.

Restoring democracy becomes almost impossible w/out a major systemic shock. It’s moving faster than most people realize & it's becoming too late.

We’re Quickly Running Out of Democracy People should get to pick their leaders, not the other way around.

A very important thing not to lose sight of is the overall nasty picture that Texas GOP's schemes fit into: Republicans are knowingly denying voters true choices, & killing representative democracy.

(Yet, they're trying to keep a veneer of legitimacy around their actions, which are anything but.)

Did you see Trump filed lawsuits against every major news outlet for publishing articles stating Trump is in the Epstein files?

No? I haven’t either. Trump hasn’t sued because he IS in the Epstein files.

Our citizens are being snatched off of our streets illegally. The rest of the country says it isn’t happening. We in Los Angeles know the truth.

Please share.
Our people are terrified.

The Founders would abhor Trump’s call to send the FBI after Texas Democrats The last remnant of the Constitution’s system of checks and balances is the one that remains partly in Democratic hands

"The abdications of the Republican Congress and conservativeSupreme Court in the past seven months have thoroughly discredited the framers’ assumption about human nature. Partisanship has proven more powerful than the separation of powers."
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Before her death, Virginia Giuffre confided to Tara Palmiere that Elon Musk personally promised to release the Epstein Files after they spoke in DMs on his own platform.

Today—on Virginia’s birthday—her voice is gone, but the truth is not.

Media in all its forms has killed the town square. They couldn’t segregate people so they segregated truth. When you find memes that resonate like a punch you in the gut - share them but go to your favorite print store and make stickers to put everywhere. 1/…

For those who think tariffs will help manufacturing here in the USA, your “Made in USA” fridge isn’t carved out of bald eagle feathers.

The parts come from all over the world & tariffs make those parts cost more.

So you’re paying extra for the privilege of thinking you’re sticking it to China.

Is he also wiping out the historic aspects of the building?

Like the folks who built it. It's always erasure with this controlling monster.
www.whitehousehistory.org/did-slaves-b...

Opinion | President Midas’ Terrible Touch

tRumpty-dumpty is obsessively terraforming the White House to be an extension of his attention-crazed id.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/o...

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

Felon keeps (mis)using the active duty military for his agenda, & what do they have to look forward to on the other end of their service?

Becoming part of another grp getting screwed by his policies. Thanks to the crazy cuts & instability caused by his DOGE bulldog, the VA is having hiring issues.

Ken Paxton just filed a lawsuit to remove me from office.

But this seat doesn’t belong to him or me — it belongs to the people.

My message to Ken Paxton:

Come and take it.

I believe factcheck.org and Michael Osterholm much sooner than I believe RFK Jr. RFK Jr.'s cut to mRNA vaccine projects is detrimental to our healthcare.

#MorningVibe

Do not give up your power.

I am determined not to dim my light, nor will I allow others to try to dim it. I will not shrink. I’m worth that. You are too.

#Mantra

North Carolina gerrymandered its state for the 2024 election-giving Republicans a majority in the House

They used it to pass Trump’s Big Ugly Bill

In return, he refused to release $100 million in funds pre-approved to help NC victims of Hurricane Helene

Because-for Trump-loyalty goes only one way

No Quorum, No Surrender: Texas Dems HOLD THE LINE! The Texas GOP is spiraling—and trying to appear dangerous.

TX Speaker Burrows failed again to reach quorum—so he went full dictator: FBI threats, budget cuts, paycheck blackmail.

Dems? Still holding the line.

If your ideas need blackmail to pass, they’re fascist BS.

Democrats won’t kneel.
Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherf*ckers.
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Trump rigging maps & dialing for GOP seats like he tried in Georgia in 2024—didn’t work then, won’t work now. Loser.

While Abbott & his wannabe dictator boss scheme, Gavin Newsom & Texas Democrats are on the front lines for fair maps & real democracy.

Texas isn’t yours to steal.
#MessWithTexas

Let's recap

2007-2008 financial crisis under Bush after years and years of financial deregulation

2010 Obama signed Dodd-Frank financial protections for us

Timeline: The U.S. Financial Crisis share.google/MYDaWTtxJ62q...

Protest erupted in Chicago’s suburbs as Cosplay Kristi “more plastic than brains” Noem arrived to push her ICE agenda.

But the community isn’t staying quiet—residents are calling out ICE for acting like a rogue force, detaining without cause,& terrorizing families.

WTG Chicago!

Donald Trump Demands New, Better, Illegal Census To Count Only Red Hat Owners Completely unconstitutional, a detail left out by more than a few outlets.

Some light reading & a reminder: Delusional wannabe king's call for a census is illegal & impractical. It's another one of his not-so-subtle attempts to cheat & keep avoiding any meaningful oversight, by retaining/increasing the # of his Republican yes-men in Congress.

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TX GOP Speaker Dustin Burrows just went full fascist:

Enlisting the FBI to hunt down lawmakers.

Pressuring Illinois officials to detain them.

Cutting pay unless picked up in person at the Capitol

Slashing 30% of their office budgets.
Canceling newsletters, blocking raises, freezing travel.

Drugmakers can race to find treatment for measles, which of course will cost money.
The logic:
“In America, we don’t like being told what to do, but we like to have options for our medicine chest,” said Marc Elia, Invivyd, a Massachusetts-based drugmaker.

#DemVoice1

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