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“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” John Lewis Former military, government, entrepreneur and a lifelong pragmatic progressive NM via Boston, Denver, DC and NYC
On point.
03.08.2025 17:28 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Has anyone else noticed that for a guy who claims to never drink alcohol (and Noel Casler told me that was straight up bullshit), the president sure does like to appoint alcoholics?
03.08.2025 02:56 — 👍 7504 🔁 1579 💬 344 📌 51What could possibly go wrong? God help us
31.07.2025 01:44 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0Don't say I didn't warn you.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is the way.
Dropkick Murphys played Trump/Epstein clips during their song “First Class Loser” on Sunday.
“This next song is dedicated to a guy who wears orange makeup, shits his pants in his diapers, rapes women, touches kids. It’s called ‘First Class Loser’!”
www.mediaite.com/media/news/f...
0253Z, 7/30: #Tsunami arrived along the #Japan east coast roughly 15 minutes ago.
30.07.2025 02:54 — 👍 255 🔁 104 💬 1 📌 3Why is it acceptable for the president to use taxpayer money to fly overseas and cut a ribbon at his own golf course?
Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.
Gotta love this billboard in NYC
23.07.2025 21:33 — 👍 684 🔁 154 💬 14 📌 7Gabbard cannot answer a question about how she can explain why Marco Rubio when he was a senator exonerated Obama of the very things she’s now accusing him of
23.07.2025 18:19 — 👍 15886 🔁 4481 💬 1623 📌 502The Trump Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts.
He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan.
Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
Let that sink in for a sec.
22.07.2025 18:39 — 👍 35336 🔁 13682 💬 2016 📌 967A lawsuit filed by former Commissioner Thomas Donlon alleges that the NYPD’s Community Response Team — championed by Mayor Eric Adams — was a “rogue” unit that answered “only to City Hall.”
The complaint draws extensively from ProPublica’s reporting.
By @ericumansky.bsky.social
The Department of Homeland Security says federal agents arresting immigrants are hiding their faces for their own safety. Legal advocates say the practice undermines public trust.
10.07.2025 12:53 — 👍 686 🔁 175 💬 152 📌 36NEW: Newly revealed messages from fired DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni show in real time how DOJ officials handled court orders related to the Alien Enemies Act, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more — as well as Emil Bove's alleged suggestion to say "fuck you" to the courts.
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
💯 All for boosting this man!
10.07.2025 00:40 — 👍 819 🔁 328 💬 21 📌 14The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.
07.07.2025 16:56 — 👍 17233 🔁 7797 💬 860 📌 493The Go-go’s release their debut LP “Beauty and the Beat” today in 1981 — to this day, the only #1 Billboard album by an all-female band who wrote their own material & played their own instruments.
“I remember saying, 'Wow, if we sell 150,000 copies,” said Belinda Carlisle, “that would be so cool.’”
Ossoff: There is no constituency for this. There is no voting bloc in Georgia that's crying out for more expensive health care…
09.07.2025 04:05 — 👍 8275 🔁 2112 💬 143 📌 62“The question Trump and his team ought to face is simple:
'Why has American job growth slowed this year to a 15-year low?'”
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has always been a nonpartisan agency focused on serving the public, until now.
06.07.2025 21:53 — 👍 11720 🔁 2331 💬 253 📌 81It's appalling that Mike Johnson, a smug, sanctimonious scold, claims that there is nothing to do but pray in response to deaths that HE HELPED CAUSE by allowing money to be taken from the National Weather Service.
I'm surprised he didn't say, "As Noah teaches us, the Lord LOVES to drown folks."
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸
Continue to fight tyranny
"Power must never be trusted without a check."
John Adams
Let’s keep this little experiment alive 🇺🇸
Happy Independence Day!
Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
30.06.2025 18:01 — 👍 4898 🔁 1421 💬 205 📌 63Just trying to bring a little beauty into this messed up country of ours - garden goodness from New Mexico
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