LisaRad

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Call your senators and remind them that they can’t trust republicans.

The weathiest country in the world doesn't mean a thing if it won’t feed its own people.

Cartoon by @rubenbolling.bsky.social.

I’m One of the Clergy ICE Assaulted. They Treat Immigrants Worse I learned the hard way that my clerical collar doesn’t offer much protection from ICE. But immigrants have no protection at all.

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to,

not because the voters want them to,

not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to…

they are caving because their DONORS want them to.

And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt

A "vote on healthcare later" is D.C. slang for "never, but thanks for playing."

DO NOT CAVE!

The current GOP lie is that they’re going to replace Obamacare with something better.

Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.

They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.

One of the few positive aspects of this era in American history is that it's super-easy to identify the villains.

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A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.

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Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.

Cowards

What on earth are we doing?! Read the whole thread

Anybody else think it's really strange for him to say "I have...."? He uses "I" a LOT

Mamdani sign: No one's actually leaving for Florida

That’s the thing, there’s really not an heir apparent. None of them have the cult following of Donald Trump, and none of them are really all that charismatic.

I think we’re more likely to see a major GOP civil war for control, that will result in a fractured party.

Without googling it, name a red city with a population greater than 250K.

Judge blasts Trump’s Chicago border ‘Blitz,’ extends curbs on use of force that ‘shocks the conscience’ Judge Sara Ellis said Trump's Justice Department lacks credibility, partly because of a lie told by U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino.

Time after time, Homeland Security’s accounts of its violent incidents in Chicago turn out to be lies. Local journalists and a federal judge have done a good job of calling them out. I wish the national political media had the same level of skepticism toward “official” accounts by proven liars.

Many in Trump’s administration now live on military bases, to shield themselves from the majority of Americans they are screwing over in favor of the oligarchs.

Many Republicans won’t do town halls.

They avoid the citizenry because they’ve stopped serving them.

We deserve much better.

Wow!

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona.

Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

The most corrupt America Last President in history. Every day a new pardon worse than one the day before.

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Fourteen suburban mothers formed a silent circle outside the Broadview ICE facility, refusing to move until the deputies forcibly removed them.

11/07/2025

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952