The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse How we got to “I love Hitler.”

“Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman,” George Packer argues. The Young Republicans’ texts “degrade all of us”:

Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Focus: Trump’s crackdown on EVs hits home in the Battery Belt Roughly two dozen battery projects were announced, promising to inject tens of thousands of jobs in Republican-dominated states. By last year Americans’ waning enthusiasm for EVs led automakers to delay or scrap some projects. Now, the additional fallout from President Trump’s recent policy changes is descending on the Battery Belt.

Focus: Trump’s crackdown on EVs hits home in the Battery Belt reut.rs/48Two1h

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

10 Congressional Republicans Could See Personal Tax Benefits Skyrocket While They Refuse to Protect Healthcare for Millions of Americans WASHINGTON, DC – Earlier today, government watchdog Accountable.US released a new report detailing how ten congressional Republicans stand to pocket up to $328,400 in collective personal tax breaks un...

“While millions of Americans are worrying about how to pay for healthcare, this report makes clear that Republican lawmakers are using their power to line their own pockets." - Kristen Crowell

Elections calendar Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

#USDemocracy
Stacy Abrams, from her book,
Our Time Is Now:
“Beyond Congress, there are the unmentioned corridors of power we too often cede: state and local elections [...] These elections matter because the architecture of our rights begins closest to home.”
To find such US elections, check out:

We’re doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

#WarRavagedPortland

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

17 Guardsmen have died on Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border mission, soldiers speak out | Houston Public Media Since Abbott's Operation Lone Star began in 2021, at least 17 Texas National Guardsman have died from a multitude of causes, including a drowning in an attempt to save migrants, negligent discharge of...

17 guardsmen died in what basically amounted to a private security service for rich West/South Texas patrons and he can still be re-elected until the heat death of the universe at this rate.

Public Policy Priorities 2025-2027 - AAUW California AAUW’s mission is to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. AAUW California’s Public Policy Priorities are consistent with AAUW National. AAUW California princip...

The approval of Proposition 50 by CA voters will help AAUW CA advance its public policy priorities: economic security for all women; social and racial justice for all; equal access to quality public education; and increased representation of women in leadership. www.aauw-ca.org/public-polic...

Sign SB 771 to Hold Social Media Companies Accountable for Illegal Intimidation Text SIGN PCJNIY to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Major social media platforms have altered their content moderation practices, allowing AI and algorithms to amplify credible threats and intimidation targeting historically marginalized groups. These platforms should be held accountable under existing California law. resist.bot/petitions/PC...

Don’t Forget to Register or Re-register to Vote by October 20! Check out the CA Secretary of State Website for Information: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/vo...

Prevent Sex Discrimination in Healthcare Coverage in California Text SIGN POULBK to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Prevent sex discrimination in healthcare coverage in CA! Encourage Governor Newsom to sign SB 418 (CA). This bill will protect anyone subject to discrimination, generally, and sex stereotyping, specifically, from losing coverage or being denied benefits based on sex. resist.bot/petitions/PO...

California doctors can now prescribe abortion anonymously A new state law, which took immediate effect on Friday, is meant to shield doctors from out-of-state lawsuits.

AAUW California is a supporter of AB 260 & is ecstatic that it will become law! "[Passage will] shield health care providers and patients from legal threats & disciplinary action" & "keep abortion drugs like mifepristone available even if the FDA revokes approval."
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AAUW California Public Policy Publishes 2025 Prop 50 & Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Member Toolkit  - AAUW California The Public Policy Committee’s Proposition 50 and Get Out the Vote (GOTV) 2025 Guide is a comprehensive toolkit comprising over 25 resources to support GOTV efforts, including a Pro 50 Messaging Guide,...

Join AAUW CA in our GOTV efforts for the special election in CA on November 4, 2025! Check out our guide for reliable nonpartisan information to educate voters on deadlines, voting how-tos, and the positive impacts of Proposition 50. www.aauw-ca.org/aauw-califor...

White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led city during the U.S. government shutdown.

White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says reut.rs/4mFOoPX

Israel intercepts last Gaza flotilla boat, begins deportations The Israeli military intercepted the last boat in an aid flotilla attempting to reach blockaded Gaza, a day after stopping most of the vessels and detaining some 450 activists including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.

The Israeli military intercepted the last boat in an aid flotilla attempting to reach blockaded Gaza, a day after stopping most of the vessels and detaining some 450 activists, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg reut.rs/4mQu5zF

US says financier Howard Rubin and assistant have been indicted on sex trafficking charges The retired financier Howard Rubin has been indicted on sex trafficking charges for allegedly coercing women to fly to New York to perform sex acts with him, including in what he called a sex "dungeon" in his Manhattan penthouse, prosecutors said on Friday.

US says financier Howard Rubin and assistant have been indicted on sex trafficking charges reut.rs/4pJ0VF8

You have to be a special kind of stupid to take medical advice from the orange moron.

MORE corruption

🔥 @adammockler.com : “Every time one of these tragic shootings happens everybody’s at each other’s throats about which side did it but we’re missing a broader pattern in 🇺🇸— this was another white young white dude in his 20’s… an acceleration of radicalization of young men…”

If Comey is indicted for lying in testimony to the Senate, then indict the three lying justices who said Roe vs.Wade was settled law and that goddammit Robert F Kennedy Jr who has already killed many Americans with his lying ignorance and will kill many more.