An important step to have full voter enfranchisement in DC! @councilofdc.bsky.social should support @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social’s amendment.

Also interesting: Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto is proposing an amendment to fund semi-open primaries in D.C., which was one half of Initiative 83. The other half, ranked-choice voting, is being funded separately. If this passes, D.C. would get RCV and semi-open primaries in 2026.

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

They disappeared a man right off the streets just like Putin for exercising his free speech. They won’t stop at immigrants. We are all targets now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

If the government were functioning, I’d be against a shutdown. The government is not functioning. Democrats should stand their ground and refuse to fund DOGE. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

This should be an ad for @runforsomething.net . “Maybe you think you don’t have the education credentials or general smarts to run for Congress…Believe us, you do.”

If confirmed this is going to blow MASSIVE holes in the US budget. It will serve only to transfer wealth from American taxpayers to the wealthiest Americans who are the hardest to audit. This isn't fiscal responsibility - it's theft by Elon, Trump and their grifting goons.

Oh. You can do that. Interesting

We are calling for impeachment—America has no kings.

MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

America destroying itself to get rid of immigrants it desperately needs to survive and thrive. Wild times, folks.

“I heard it was very successful. I haven’t checked it. Where is it today?” Trump said shortly after the coin launched.

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This is exactly what we want to see from Democrats right now! There’s no excuse for Senate Democrats to be confirming any of Trump’s nominees while MAGA’s illegal power grab continues. If you’re represented by Sen. @schatz.bsky.social, be sure to thank him for fighting back against President Musk.

Enough. The Democrats must shut down the Senate and use their power. Stop voting for these idiots. Stop all unanimous consent. Demand answers. Filibuster. Where is the fucking outrage?

I think we need to reframe the doom vs. optimism conversation to an action vs. inaction one. We obviously can’t ignore the issues, but if our messaging discourages action, then we’re not doing a very good job.

What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

A 58-year-old poll worker is among the 60,000 North Carolina voters whose ballots could be disqualified if a Republican judge's election challenge succeeds. “I want people to know today it’s North Carolina, and tomorrow it’s another state,” she said. Read more: https://propub.li/40Jcbpc

The oligarchy is currently doing this.

The kind of headlines we should be seeing.

Trump's extreme and illegal Project 2025 action to pause all federal grants will immediately harm millions of people. It's time to fight back. Join us at the White House at 5 PM ET today for a rally in support of essential federal programs. REPOST TO SPREAD THE WORD!

134 million chickens killed due to bird flu seems like a lot... until you realize that 9.5 BILLION chickens are killed every year, regularly, just in the US. That feels... bad? This incomprehensible scale is how animal agriculture is 2nd only to fossil fuels as a contributor to climate change.

‘Trump’s grifting tendencies’: how the president’s crypto ties could spur corruption

Yes

Funny, it’s like #DOGE already existed… and they’re called the Inspectors General… and Trump just illegally tried to fire them

Wow. 🔥🔥🔥 This new bombshell Oxfam report is exactly what billionaires don’t want us to know: Apparently 60% of global billionaire wealth comes not from entrepreneurship… …but from inheritance, corruption, cronyism & monopolies. Share the truth:

If Democrats can't make immediate hay out of such wanton cruelty....

Commentary: "Without meaningful campaign finance reform — and a Supreme Court that will uphold those reforms — the erosion of our democracy will only accelerate."

President Trump overturned President Biden’s executive order on private prisons. This move will allow the federal Bureau of Prisons to expand use of for-profit prisons, known to prioritize profits over people. Mass incarceration should not be a business venture.

This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.

Can’t afford eggs…that’s weird.

New from me: Big Oil and Big Ag are teaming up to turn cow poop into energy — and profits. The math doesn’t add up. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Regulation matters

The Democratic Party establishment is worse than useless. Pelosi and her generation of pro-corporate leaders keep crushing the left, while losing to fascists. Get out of the way.

Our campaign finance system is a national model for amplifying small dollar donors and leveling the playing field of democracy. Today’s decision by the CFB upholds the integrity of this landmark program. Now it's up to voters to end the Mayor's culture of impunity next year.

Last time Trump imposed tariffs on China They retaliated against American soybean farmers-who then lost all their Chinese buyers And the farmers had to get bailed out by subsidies So not only were the tariffs an abject failure They wound up costing the American people $23 billion in subsidies

The next two months are crucial for Democrats in the 15 states with trifectas. Check out our blueprint for blue states to prepare for Trump 2.0, and make sure your elected officials aren’t wasting any time to take action to protect our rights and freedoms. 👇

We must take pandemics off the menu. And stop subsidizing factory farms, aka pandemic factories.

Which states get the most % of their money from US Dept of Education? Versus that state’s Trump vote. Red states hurt themselves the most if they eliminate the Dept of Education. Graph by @jamessmurphy.bsky.social

And we must work to ensure Spanberger wins the governorship in 2025

What this means is that the bird flu virus (H5N1} has*potentially* found a mutation that brings it closer to infecting humans more easily.

Teaching the Bible in public schools isn't just bad for non-Christians. It's also an awful idea for Christians. Who's to stop the state from determining how Christian a student is based on their interpretation of the Bible? This is messy and the pushback should be swift and unequivocal.