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Living my life with sweet old dogs, my beautiful kids, entirely too many chickens, and so much hope for our future.
After 25 years, the American Ballet Theatre’s first Black principal ballerina, Misty Copeland, performs her last show on October 22.
21.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 62 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 4I'm not giving up. And thank you for not giving up either.
08.10.2025 01:56 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Senior military leaders should have stepped in to prevent Trump from turning addresses at Fort Bragg and Naval Station Norfolk into political rallies; the silence of the Army and Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some top generals and admirals is appalling.”
08.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 349 🔁 97 💬 6 📌 1No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.
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Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
The speech Republicans are still seething over
27.07.2025 23:11 — 👍 960 🔁 397 💬 61 📌 54
Hey, decent humans of Texas. You’re getting a massive concentration camp. Get organized and fight back.
26.07.2025 20:40 — 👍 1723 🔁 622 💬 117 📌 43
Okay. I'm gonna watch this.
It's a rally against redistricting in Austin last night. Beto, Castro, all my local electeds.
www.youtube.com/live/03TME7Q...
The people of Texas are speaking truth to power. Listen to your neighbors explain why they’re fighting against manipulated district lines that threaten to divide our communities.
These are the voices that matter most in the redistricting process.
#txlege #texas #houston #redistricting
"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."
26.07.2025 22:16 — 👍 970 🔁 324 💬 21 📌 1810. You might lose health insurance entirely, meaning that a trip to the emergency room could bankrupt you.
The money you lose will be handed directly to a handful of giant corporations and billionaires as tax giveaways.
We still have time to stop it.
"If the US had voted for Kamala, we wouldn't have tariffs, we wouldn't have ICE deporting people following quotas, and the US wouldn't have bombed Iran today.
Those are all certain."
Everyone post this everyday until someone wakes up!
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
ktla.com/news/local-n...
🔥 DENIRO AT CANNES: “In my country we’re fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted… Art looks for truth, embraces diversity — that’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists.” 🇺🇸
13.05.2025 23:40 — 👍 5226 🔁 1491 💬 81 📌 112Incredible tribute by Robert De Niro last night at the Operation Renewal Hope Foundation supporting our Veterans. Thank you so much for your support. Great time hanging out with Harry Dunn, Daniel Hodges, and Michael Fanone.
26.04.2025 23:05 — 👍 1450 🔁 300 💬 38 📌 17This — the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s arrest today of a sitting judge — against the backdrop that the President of the United States is, at this same moment, defying an April 10 Order of the Supreme Court of the United States
25.04.2025 20:02 — 👍 10209 🔁 3222 💬 242 📌 130"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson
11.04.2025 20:44 — 👍 21364 🔁 5023 💬 488 📌 219NABTU President Sean McGarvey: We demand SMART Union apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia be returned to his family. Bring him home now.
09.04.2025 15:36 — 👍 514 🔁 170 💬 13 📌 53
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03.04.2025 03:00 — 👍 1260 🔁 345 💬 22 📌 14Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
02.04.2025 23:58 — 👍 5972 🔁 1320 💬 69 📌 35Please take a moment to watch this video. Says it as it is. So refreshing.
30.03.2025 00:58 — 👍 118 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 0Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
27.03.2025 19:57 — 👍 48834 🔁 12382 💬 2316 📌 2811The sheer journalistic laziness of this Washpost Opinion endorsement is going to linger for a long time
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
27.03.2025 01:51 — 👍 6889 🔁 1712 💬 364 📌 99
NEW: TCE, a chemical used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, can cause cancer, organ damage and a potentially fatal heart defect in babies.
Republicans in Congress want to reverse a ban on it.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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