Christa Lewis

Some good news news

This Is Exactly the Right Time for Democratic Infighting Tim Walz says we 'don't have the luxury' to fight ourselves. He's wrong. The Democrats who created Trump will create the next one too.

This Is Exactly the Right Time for Democratic Infighting
open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country.

“Our leaders must follow their example.”

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Uff. June has been such a long year.

American. Hero.

The Big Fucked Up Bill, is NOT a spending bill.

It’s a government restructuring bill, that consolidates power in the executive, defunds critical services to the point of absurdity, removes the power of our courts to enforce the law and dramatically curtails voting rights.

It’s Project 2025

As well as the fact that it ends our system of democracy by tearing power away from the judiciary

The troubling overlap between Jared Kushner's business interests and US foreign policy | Mohamad Bazzi A congressional inquiry has raised the possibility that Kushner supported a blockade of a US ally as payback because it would not fund his family’s business

According to reporting on Trump's first term, Kushners dad was refused a real estate deal. In Qatar. . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Utterly privileged to narrate Magdaléna Platzová's Life After Kafka - highly recommend must reading for fans of exquisitely deft literary explorations.

Did not have 💯 agree with Rand Paul on my bingo card, but here we are.

In other news, meet Freckle #adorbs

#surreal

There are 195 countries on earth.

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

These 4 House Dems just voted for the SAVE act ... which potentially disenfranchises all married women, overseas voters and anyone who doesn't have a passport ... est. 21 million voters

House Democrats Jared Golden, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Henry Cuellar and Ed Case voted in support. huh.

I wonder if he's vaccinated

Call them all
#5callsapp

What do they hope to gain?

thanks for the recommend! I'm listening now too

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

you might like the Heathcliff Lennox Investigates series by Karen Baugh Menuhin. The narrator is BRILLIANT. Loads of nice British accents :-) xox

Defying Silence, Igniting Hope At the edge of fear, courage becomes the spark that lights the path forward.

Defying Silence, Igniting Hope
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/defying-si...

Still life with Dragon.

The Rubber has officially hit the road

You have a right to call any senator not just your own.

Use this intro:
Senator you were elected to a national level office and your votes impact every person in the country. I am calling you as one of those citizens.

202.224.####
Use the last 4 digits in PHONE column

Call every day
Blow up VM

Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!

This. Stand up

CARTOON OF THE DAY

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.