Bob Urbach

What the Democrats Must Do. Now! Friends,

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Now’s Your Chance! Why going to vote in this off-year election is so important

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'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block The immigration agents' tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder.

"Hours after the confrontation in Lakeview, dozens of parents stood guard outside a school in Bucktown after hearing ICE and border patrol were in the area.

Some parents set up an informal checkpoint next to the school to check cars for immigration agents..."

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HEAR EPSTEIN’S VICTIMS BELIEVE EPSTEIN’S VICTIMS PROTECT EPSTEIN’S VICTIMS JUSTICE FOR EPSTEIN’S VICTIMS

why the fuck is 60 Minutes even bothering? in a world of new lows, a newer low

why the fuck is 60 Minutes even bothering?
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It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.

Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s Moral Collapse Heritage Foundation’s response shows the racist far right isn’t knocking at the door of the GOP—it’s already inside.

Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s Moral Collapse
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Healthcare for All: The Democratic Promise That Could Heal a Broken Nation When politics becomes personal, policy becomes powerful, and there’s nothing more personal than survival…

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Good fucking morning to everyone except Donald Trump, who admitted on CBS yesterday he has no idea who he’s pardoning. After all the whining about Biden using the autopen, you don’t even ask who your people are putting in front of you? Most corrupt president in American history.

• "We have no inflation." Inflation is at 3%. • "It's at 2%. It's-- it's the perfect inflation." Inflation is at 3%. • "Right now [grocery prices are] going down." Grocery prices are up 1.4% since Trump came to office. • "A year ago, we were a dead country." Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it "the envy of the world." • "11,888 murderers were let into our country." Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump's first term. • "Washington, DC, was... almost like a crime capital of the world." In 2023, per PolitiFact, "at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates. • "[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom." Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone - Ukraine - not under the control of US forces. • "I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn't do it." There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn't a 3,000-year-old conflict. • "Communist, not socialist. Communist. He's far worse than a socialist." Zohran Mamdani is not a communist. • "I can't give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally." The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked. • "They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums-- into the United States of America." Asylum seekers don't come from "insane asylums." Obviously. • "One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged." It wasn't. The courts agreed. • "And a lotta people say when it's rigged you're allowed to do it again." A lot of people don't say this. The US Constitution doesn't, for sure.

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.

Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

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"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings." ~ Nelson Mandela

Fund SNAP. Reverse the Medicaid cuts. Restore USAID.

(image cia @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social)

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Japan's solar-heated benches and bus-stop shelters collect warmth during day and release it at night for everyone to use.

Maga Republican conservatives make criminals of homeless people, including Veterans, needing warmth.

#GopHatesVets

🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasHomeless

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Funny how Trump claims the radical Left incites violence, yet in less than a week, FOX’s Kilmeade called for the execution of all homeless people, including veterans; and yesterday doofus Watters called for the bombing of the United Nations! Funny how they are unbothered by these😆

About 13% of the homeless are veterans. The Trump administration mass layoffs at the VA are despicable. A lot of our veterans already suffer needlessly. Such a lack of respect for those who served. Brian Kilmeade’s comments on the homeless are absolutely disgusting & he still has a job at FOX News.🤬

Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

In case you haven't realized it, the GOP attack on the Dept. of Ed is not about improving education.

It's designed to defund and de-power the teachers' unions, the NEA and the AFT.

Republicans see teachers as an enemy, both politically and socially, because they educate kids to discern the truth.

I guess if we know which wrestling event his girlfriend is singing the national anthem at this weekend we will know where the FBI Director will be with our jet.

If Ted Cruz is concerned about jihadists, he must *really* be upset about Trump pardoning the Binance bro whose platform allowed radical Islamic terrorists to launder money!...

@crampell.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:

Same plan republicans have always had....

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." ~ Melody Beattie

Action needs to be taken against him

The end of federal food aid could hit Black Americans hardest One in eight Americans use federal food aid but halting the SNAP program would hurt Black Americans more than anyone else.

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Forty years after the Flood of ’85, Roanoke is still doing what it can to reduce future flood risk. Mitigation efforts have proven effective thus far. Mayor Joe Cobb says the biomedical industry the city has grown wouldn’t be possible without the Roanoke River Flood Reduction Project.

Forty years after the Flood of ’85, Roanoke is still doing what it can to reduce future flood risk. Mitigation efforts have proven effective thus far. cardinalnews.org/2025/11/03/f...

General Assembly passes constitutional amendment to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps The effort to redistrict Virginia’s congressional districts in the middle of the normal 10-year period comes on the heels of other states’ efforts to do the same in hopes of affecting the U.S…

General Assembly passes constitutional amendment to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps cardinalnews.org/2025/10/31/g...