more than 4,400 times ***since October***

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Attorney General Pam Bondi tells a member of a co-equal branch of government during a public hearing: “You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up loser lawyer.” The disdain for our own government is appalling. This administration is destroying our democracy.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Immigration court blocks Trump from deporting pro-Palestine Tufts student The Trump administration is actively trying to deport students like Rümeysa Öztürk without providing credible evidence for how they took part in antisemitic activity.

Immigration court blocks Trump from deporting pro-Palestine Tufts student

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Denied his father’s care, a disabled son died after ICE detained dad Federal immigration officials refused to free Maher Tarabishi to care for his disabled son. When the son died, ICE wouldn't let him go to the funeral.

Federal immigration officials refused to free Maher Tarabishi to care for his disabled son. When the son died, ICE wouldn't let him go to the funeral.

In Ukraine, when a funeral procession with a fallen soldier goes by, everyone stops whatever they are doing to stand silently. Traffic stops. Public transportation stops. Conversation stops.

In Lviv, people take this tradition a step further. Most people the procession passes take a knee.

Wait, didn't Woody Allen marry his adopted daughter? Talk about super creepy. Oh I'm sure he was framed for that too.

If you still support Trump at this point, you are a racist.

Thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, Amazon saw its corporate income taxes shrink by more than HALF last year, even as its profits climbed.

But instead of investing the savings into their workforce, Amazon just announced thousands of layoffs and plans to spend $200B on AI.

Textbook corporate greed.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is waving in the wind Alt: a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is waving in the wind

Before safe surgeries were developed, ruptured brain aneurysms killed my relatives but yesterday, mine was safely repaired.

So grateful for medical advances, the #ansky superstar @cpaolag.bsky.social and the rest of the surgical team.

I paid $0 to live.

#Canada
#CanadianHealthcare
#Medsky

How Autocrats Meddle With Elections The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.

"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide

Let’s be clear: when the Trump administration kills or stalls energy generation projects, that’s the White House choosing to make your electricity more expensive. Americans deserve better.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.

But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Interesting move from Gov Tim Walz here: He calls on Kristi Noem to release detailed information on how many migrant kids from Minnesota that DHS has imprisoned in the vein of 5-year-old Liam:

French police raid X offices and summon Musk in probe involving sexual deepfakes Grok, the social media platform's AI chatbot, has sparked global outrage for generating a slew of sexually explicit images and Holocaust denial statements.

French police have raided the Paris offices of X and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of a cybercrime investigation into artificial intelligence-generated pornographic deepfakes and Holocaust denial. www.ms.now/news/french-...

Social movement scholar here. Earlier activists had petty beefs but those were wildly exploited by the FBI's COINTELPRO programs, particularly in the case of the Black Power movement. 1/

Rep. Lieu demands Deputy AG Todd Blanche be fired: "Yesterday, he said essentially that it is not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein. If Jeffrey Epstein was human trafficking minors for these sex parties, and you show up and patronize the establishment at that party, yes, you're guilty.”

A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Files Tipster Tells Me About Her Friend Being Trafficked to Epstein Through Trump Modeling Agency One of the tipsters released in the Epstein documents this week reached out to me. She sat for a formal FBI interview, but her 302 wasn't released pursuant to the Transparency Act.

Watch here. No paywalls. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Seniors earned their Social Security and Medicare benefits by working and paying into the system. Receiving those benefits isn’t up for negotiation.

I promise to always protect the benefits millions of Arizonans depend on.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.