Lance Stewart

Tonight was a very bad night.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

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Maryland Governor Pushes For Redistricting to Counter Trump Gerrymanders: ‘Come Next November, We Will Have Fair Maps’ Read more here.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) announces the creation of a redistricting commission to consider redrawing the state’s congressional map to counter GOP gerrymanders. The move comes as Democrats have expressed reluctance to enter the fray given the risk. https://bit.ly/47U0EIx

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article) Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

The U.S. “still has a mostly free press and independent judiciary, and millions of Americans recently attended the ‘No Kings’ protests. But it has started down an anti-democratic path, and many Americans — including people in positions of power — remain far too complacent about the threat.”

The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

“Although I spent many of my formative years living in the White House, I always knew it wasn’t my house. It was my home, absolutely, but not my house. The White House belongs to the American people, and that’s why we call it the People’s House.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Another good one by Jamison Foser. @jamisonfoser.bsky.social

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

#IndivisibleReSistersContraCosta #Indivisible #NoKingsDay Walnut Creek, CA, 10/18/2025

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

yeah but you gotta understand. hegseth is insecure that the rest of the world doesn't think america is manly enough after spending all his time on twitter and seeing russian underwear models dress up for commercials bsky.app/profile/greg...

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Opinion | No President Should Have This Kind of Power

“Free, law-based countries do not shoot or imprison people based on only the government’s accusation that they are breaking the law.”

I’ve been wanting someone to put this history together.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment." The streaming star on how to reject political violence while staying honest about Kirk's rhetoric.

“Republicans will…redirect that anger back to vulnerable populations, marginalized communities, immigrants, trans people, gay people, Black people, women.”

Streaming star Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now, he’s warning of a “Reichstag fire moment.”