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Let’s Make It Happen Hi friends, I’m raising money for Rank MI Vote because I believe we deserve elections that give us more choice, less division, and leaders who actually reflect what most of us want. Ranked-choice vo...

Let's get Ranked Choice voting on the ballot in Michigan! I am helping with some fundraising and will also have petitions

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Homeland Security Slammed After Sharing Bonkers AI Image To Promote 'Alligator Alcatraz' The cruelty is the point.

A reminder that the cruelty is the point with MAGA.

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk

ICE raids are leaving fields full of rotting food in California.
Even the documented workers are not showing up.

And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones.

This isn’t border security.
It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.

Many are asking: “What can I do now?”

Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

We need more states to speak up and more elected officials to push back. Meanwhile, act locally and don't give in to despair.

Undocumented immigrants' payments into Social Security detailed in report Undocumented residents paid £25.7 billion into Social Security funds and $6 billion into Medicare in 2022.

Undocumented folks keep SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICAID afloat and CANNOT use either one: "undocumented residents paid 25.7 billion into Social Security funds & $6 billion into Medicare in 2022; both programs that they are not entitled to use.

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"I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will be still rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. We may again with tear-drenched eyes have to stand before the bier of some courageous civil rights worker whose life will be snuffed out by the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Speech at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Aug. 16, 1967, in Atlanta, Ga.

This MLK quote really spoke to me today:

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964.

Remember two months ago when stern fact checks were being issued to Kamala from the media for linking Donold to Project 2025? God remembers.

it disgusts me the national democratic party barely pushes back at this attempt from the right to wind back LGBTQ rights decades after claiming to be the party of LGBTQ rights

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I want to remind everyone that the far right sees transgender people as being worthy of segregation out of general society, "separate but equal" treatment that of course, is never equal.

So much so that Iowa Republicans literally tried to redefine the word equal to not mean "same" or "identical."