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Hopeless Optimist — Efficient Procrastinator | Read too much of the beat generation growing up | Progressive #WomensRights #LGBTQ+ #Equality #ClimateChange

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Minnesota Voter: “Is C-SPAN going to do a fact check on Donald Trump's speech last night — obviously he doesn't go shopping

Prices aren't down, gas prices are the same as they were when Biden was in office — Coffee went up to 20 bucks for two pounds, and it's still 20 bucks for two pounds”

25.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 1678    🔁 478    💬 83    📌 14
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Joy Reid: “Attention all MAGA trolls — your bullshit is not welcome here. And to paraphrase one of my favorite actors in the world, Robert De Niro — ‘f**k y'all’

We're here to hear the truth & to hear from impacted people — so go back & pay attention to your orange lying friend”

25.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 2610    🔁 502    💬 66    📌 22
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TY Patty! 🩵🫶🏼🩵

25.02.2026 00:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
FBI Director Kash Patel partying with the victorious U.S. men’s hockey team at the Olympics

FBI Director Kash Patel partying with the victorious U.S. men’s hockey team at the Olympics

Brock Nelson, Jackson LaCombe, Jake Oettinger, Kyle Connor, & Jake Guentzel chose not to attend the U.S. men’s hockey team White House event today

Hard to remember a championship moment that lost its shine faster than this U.S. men’s hockey team win

24.02.2026 21:31 — 👍 3898    🔁 718    💬 349    📌 92
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James P. McGovern: “He's going to say the economy is great, the tariffs are working, he's ending wars - not starting them, and he's going to spew all kinds of nonsense—

The problem, Mr. Speaker, is the facts are the facts — and the fact is that his economy sucks”

24.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 3170    🔁 687    💬 52    📌 19
Rep. Tony Gonzales during a House Committee hearing. Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Rep. Tony Gonzales during a House Committee hearing. Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for Congressman Tony Gonzales to resign after text messages allegedly showed him pressuring a staffer for nude photos — the staffer later died by suicide

Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace, & Lauren Boebert have defied Mike Johnson in publicly condemning Gonzales

24.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 1782    🔁 561    💬 99    📌 42
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TY Doc — hope your week is off to a good start! 🍻

24.02.2026 02:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
“For the last five months, I watched ICE dismantle the training program,” Ryan Schwank told congressional Democrats on Monday. PHOTO: Kenny Holston/The New York Times

“For the last five months, I watched ICE dismantle the training program,” Ryan Schwank told congressional Democrats on Monday. PHOTO: Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Ryan Schwank, ICE whistleblower & ex-academy instructor:

“At the academy, we took out the class that tells the officers that they have an oath to the Constitution”

23.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 1929    🔁 729    💬 66    📌 45
U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California) speaking to reporters

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California) speaking to reporters

Rep Robert Garcia: “Annie Farmer is a courageous survivor of Epstein’s abuse. I’ve invited Annie to the State of the Union so she can join other survivors & remind the President of his refusal to release all the Epstein files

I’ll be at the People’s State of the Union and tell her story”

23.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 2160    🔁 547    💬 53    📌 26
Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a press conference. PHOTO: Candace Dane Chambers/Sun-Times

Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a press conference. PHOTO: Candace Dane Chambers/Sun-Times

JB Pritzker: “Trump is a danger to the future of our country & our democracy — authoritarians don't go away. They get more powerful if you don't stand up to them early

People said, you're alarmist. That's over the top — I don't think a year later anybody's saying that about what I said a year ago”

23.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 3446    🔁 838    💬 80    📌 26
Greenland Prime Minister Frederik Nielsen speaking to reporters. PHOTO BY LEON NEAL /Getty Images

Greenland Prime Minister Frederik Nielsen speaking to reporters. PHOTO BY LEON NEAL /Getty Images

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “President Trump's idea of ​​sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted — But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. It is a deliberate choice"

22.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 6634    🔁 1491    💬 187    📌 79
U.S. Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (R) and Angie Craig (D-MN) speak to press after conducting oversight at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in St Paul, Minnesota. The two congressional representatives from Minnesota were touring the facility after being denied access last month. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)

U.S. Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (R) and Angie Craig (D-MN) speak to press after conducting oversight at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in St Paul, Minnesota. The two congressional representatives from Minnesota were touring the facility after being denied access last month. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)

Angie Craig: "They removed everyone from the ICE facility 30 minutes before we arrived — this is not the intent of the law. DHS is violating the law"

Ilhan Omar: "What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties"

21.02.2026 21:31 — 👍 5135    🔁 1948    💬 160    📌 91
U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Lithonia, speaking during a congressional hearing (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Lithonia, speaking during a congressional hearing (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rep Hank Johnson: “By striking down Trump's tariffs, SCOTUS has finally found some backbone. Kavanaugh's dissent warns the decision will cause a "mess"

Too bad he doesn't see that this Court's pro-Trump rulings already made a huge "mess" — we must clean house in November so the cleanup can begin”

20.02.2026 20:07 — 👍 2080    🔁 495    💬 117    📌 24
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) at a press conference (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) at a press conference (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

Kamlager-Dove: “Trump’s Temper Tariffs are coming to an end — we said this sh*t was not legal, & today SCOTUS confirmed it — the president does not have unilateral authority to impose tariffs on whatever he pleases. The Constitution makes clear that the power to impose tariffs lies with Congress”

20.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 1222    🔁 305    💬 64    📌 23
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi answers questions from reporters after leaving a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi answers questions from reporters after leaving a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington

Nancy Pelosi: “We’re gonna win the House — we only need a few to win, but that’s not what this is about. I want 10x that. If we need 3 to win the House, I want 30 — we came out ahead on redistricting. They should never have gone down that path. They did, we won.”

20.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 2601    🔁 475    💬 126    📌 46
Donald Trump holds up a signed resolution during a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Donald Trump holds up a signed resolution during a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump’s “Board of Peace” includes 27 countries — 11 are authoritarian states: Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Kuwait

Peace by authoritarian regime — from the same folks who dismembered Khashoggi

19.02.2026 19:36 — 👍 1654    🔁 636    💬 256    📌 83
US Representatives Thomas Massie (R‑KY) and Ro Khanna (D‑CA) speak to the media.
(photo credit: reuters/kent nishimura)

US Representatives Thomas Massie (R‑KY) and Ro Khanna (D‑CA) speak to the media. (photo credit: reuters/kent nishimura)

Thomas Massie: “Prince Andrew was just arrested — this was the metric I established for success of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Rep. Ro Khanna & I got passed

Now we need JUSTICE in the United States — It's time for Attorney General Pam Bondi & FBI Director Kash Patel to act”

19.02.2026 18:06 — 👍 4387    🔁 987    💬 269    📌 55
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to reporters as he returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to reporters as he returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Chris Murphy on Trump’s State of the Union address: “These aren’t normal times and showing up for this speech puts a veneer of legitimacy on the corruption and lawlessness that has defined his second term”

19.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 4703    🔁 1050    💬 189    📌 79

I posted this earlier today without abbreviating it, and engagement was way below what I normally see. I’m not sure that’s the reason — but this is a bit of an anecdotal test

18.02.2026 23:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dan Koh: In the last year, this leader tried to take sovereign land unilaterally, use the justice system to jail enemies, & actively shut down independent media voices

That was Vladimir Putin—the fact that so many ppl thought I was describing Trump right now shows how much our democracy is at risk

18.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 3176    🔁 1069    💬 40    📌 40
Demonstrators gather to protest removal of explanatory panels that were part of an exhibit on slavery at the President's House Site in Philadelphia.    Photo: Matt Rourke - AP

Demonstrators gather to protest removal of explanatory panels that were part of an exhibit on slavery at the President's House Site in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke - AP

Conservation & history preservation groups sued the Trump admin Tuesday, alleging National Park Service policies are erasing U.S. history & science from national parks

The Boston lawsuit says directives from Trump & Interior Sec. Doug Burgum led staff to remove exhibits on slavery & climate change

17.02.2026 20:27 — 👍 1733    🔁 595    💬 44    📌 23
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. speaking to a crowd (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. speaking to a crowd (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

AOC on Randy Fine: “This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official — It should not stop shocking us that the Republican Party openly embraces this — Fine should be censured & stripped of committees. To ignore this is to accept & normalize it”

17.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 7297    🔁 1891    💬 184    📌 59
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Stephen Colbert: “I don't usually say this to a guest, but if people are watching this right now, it's cause they found us online on YouTube”

James Talarico: “This is the party that ran against cancel culture — and now they're trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read”

17.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1860    🔁 741    💬 29    📌 22
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks during a ‘Not My President’s Day” rally outside Dallas City Hall, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.

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U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks during a ‘Not My President’s Day” rally outside Dallas City Hall, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. ELÍAS VALVERDE II / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Jasmine Crockett: “Other countries have CEOs that are stepping down & princes that are being indicted — in the United States, crickets. Nothing is happening — we have a president that says that the Epstein files are a hoax because his name is in there more times than I can count”

17.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 7551    🔁 2022    💬 151    📌 68
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AOC: “You are the Attorney General of the United States of America & you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable — resign or be impeached"

16.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 10141    🔁 2539    💬 192    📌 119
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AOC: “We are seeing our presidential administration tear apart the transatlantic partnership — rip up every democratic norm — & really calling into question, as was mentioned by Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum, the rules-based order that we have or question mark, do we have?”

14.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 2935    🔁 835    💬 98    📌 31
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TY RB! 🩵🫶🏼🩵

13.02.2026 19:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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AOC in Munich: “They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can into an age of authoritarianism — of authoritarians that can carve out the world, where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere & Latin America as his personal sandbox”

13.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 3264    🔁 1069    💬 114    📌 67
Attorney General Pam Bondi holds a piece of paper labeled "Jayapal Pramila Search History" at a hearing on oversight of the Justice Department on Wednesday.Kent Nishimura / Reuters

Attorney General Pam Bondi holds a piece of paper labeled "Jayapal Pramila Search History" at a hearing on oversight of the Justice Department on Wednesday.Kent Nishimura / Reuters

Rep Jayapal: “Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed history of exactly what emails I searched — we’re going to demand an end to that”

Rep Raskin: "Spying on Members of Congress conducting oversight in yet another blatant attempt to intrude into Congress’s oversight processes"

13.02.2026 17:49 — 👍 2413    🔁 726    💬 88    📌 33
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez amongst a crowd
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez amongst a crowd Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images

AOC on Bondi: “The redactions of the names of perpetrators, the holding of 3 million files, the unexplained moving of Maxwell into a new cushy facility—

All of these things are what she personally oversaw, & that’s before even digging into whatever questions may arise from her history in Florida”

12.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 5918    🔁 1600    💬 156    📌 50

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