Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙

Gaza is not starving. It is being starved.

Say it with your full chest.

You need to be as excited for Mamdani as you are for Grijalva and vice versa. Trying to do this weird thing of claiming that an election in Arizona is somehow a rebuke of an election in NYC is insane and doing the work of the Republican Party for them.

Grijalva winning just shows what anyone who actually examines the Democratic Party for more than a second already knows; it’s a lib-left coalition that is going to nominate and elect representatives across that political spectrum depending on numerous factors for any given race.

To me the NYT is WMD lies, Clinton email obsession, trans bashing and constant whitewashing of Nazis. The way liberals hold it in esteem is one of the worst parts of liberalism and a testament to media illiteracy nearly as bad as the right’s.

<stares in Rimworld>

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

4/x And that's the Dream. To be that shining city on the hill. To live by the words of the New Colossus. To be that land at whose gates stands the Mother of Exiles and welcomes in--you get it. I'm crying, whatever.

And now we are reminded, as we were not a year ago, that the opposition hates that.

3/x I grew up arguing civics around the Shabbat table, with family friends both Jewish and gentile, of all backgrounds. Grew up so immersed in pluralism and striving for a better future that I had to learn later how unusual it is. (Small wonder my first published novel is so drenched in this.)

2/x My father's side of the family was cast out of their homes and washed up on these shores. My mother's side of the family found sanctuary here where they lived, as the other branches of the family burned.

These are stories told over and over, in the tens of millions. And some people hated that.

A year ago, I knew these two things: America was the greatest country in the world, and I was going to work my ass off to keep it moving forwards.

We lost that battle. Lost it to complacency, vs the openly monstrous. But the Dream lives on; American liberalism may yet raise our banner higher. 1/x

Happy birthday to the greatest articulation of critical American patriotism, Frederick Douglass’ “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July” www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

I'm sorry y'all, but you should stop playing Wordle.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I have had at least three people tell me that I'm "vote-shaming" or that the Democrats have to "earn their vote" and no, I am sorry, I am not your mommy, I do not have to persuade you to eat your vegetables by pretending they're an aeroplane.

Last night a bunch of Republicans in the House were saying how awful this bill was.

Only took a couple hours, some merch, and a few words from Donald Trump, and they’re lining up to rip away health care from 17 MILLION people.

I’m sadly not surprised — but I am still outraged.

Jeffries speaking at the House floor lectern

Jeffries has been speaking since 4.53am.

Over fours hours on his feet now.

If nothing else, it means the GOP cannot pass this Death Bill while America sleeps.

The Republicans in this crime scene deserve all the sunlight & exposure possible.

Davis is hot as hell in summer but famous for having excellent cycling infrastructure, so.

Enjoying things is reactionary. We should be miserable at all times. There will be no dancing in the revolution.

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

Downtown Sunnyvale is great! Downtown Santa Clara was mostly demolished decades ago but what’s left of it has a nice Italian restaurant (Mio Vicino)

Having lived in Riverside… lol no

I saw today a German publication referred to Trump as a sadist. It's true. It's a strong word. And we should use it more. He's a sadistic monster. Millions upon millions will die and suffer because of policies that he and those around him gleefully celebrate.

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing

You are looking at a picture of an American concentration camp

How about we have party leaders focus on the words of a United States congressman - Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama - who’s calling Black people “inner city rats” who leach off of America’s taxpayers.
Stop the focus on municipal elections and get to this.
Where is the censure and condemnation?

If the bargain the Democratic Party leadership wants to make to the left is, the left should compete in primaries and then support the Democrat in the general, even if it isn't their favored candidate, it has to go both ways: When leftist candidates win primaries, the party needs to get behind them.

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.