This is one of those where I can’t understand how it isn’t the biggest story in America.

We’re at the point with data centers that yesterday a Pennsylvania virtual town hall got 700 people with minimal advertising and a *Republican* legislator walked the crowd through the need for a moratorium.

It’s pretty cool we have people in “red” areas who set things aside in their lives to run write-in campaigns to make sure Republicans don’t go unopposed. Here is one, my new friend Sue Mulvey, who is doing this in Crawford County. I’ve seen it other places too. They refuse to be counted out.

He is the loudest voice for the worst decision in a generation (Iran). His options are a pile of cash or the brutal honesty and accountability of a long hard primary. Gee, I wonder which he chooses.

I liked what Conor Lamb had to say in Schuylkill County, PA, recently. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

Re Voting Rights Act and Republican gerrymandering: “I think you have to step back and remember, what are they doing here? They are trying to keep a majority of congressional seats with a minority of public support….It’s not how democracy is supposed to work.”

Gave me chills to look at this again after the voting rights decision. In 2021 I was starting to speak in churches and asked a colleague who was a pastor and had been in SCLC for help. He was generous enough to write this for me on the House floor. If you see this @cleaver.house.gov thank you.

If you’re anywhere near Bucks County on Saturday, we’d love your help talking to voters about these essential races for the future of democracy.

Since Hegseth was asking for $1.5 trillion from Congress today — keep in mind much of that goes to contractors not the troops — here’s a chart showing how unbalanced that would make us. The only thing even close to defense is debt service.

I guess the administration is done taking a stand against violent rhetoric. This is the Secretary of War saying America’s greatest enemies are not those we are currently at war with, but Congressional Democrats. Several of whom served honorably in uniform.

This week in Schuylkill County PA, for the first time in TWENTY YEARS, the Democrats gained registered voters while Republicans lost them. Change is gonna come.

Hard to imagine why you fire a Navy secretary during a naval war unless he was refusing to be a yes man. He needs to be subpoenaed immediately. Scary stuff.

Made this for TikTok to try to get the younger people to see why a military draft pushed by a major military contractor is corruption, Palantir showing the exact opposite of what the military teaches about leadership.

A real senator would hammer away at an administration that caused 130,000 of their constituents to lose healthcare because they couldn’t afford it. But you hear more from Fetterman and McCormick about affordable bulldozers for Israel than about affordable healthcare for Pennsylvania. Pathetic.

Inspired by Pope Leo I’d add woe to those who manipulate Tarantino

Farmers are ringing the alarm bells: 70% can't afford enough fertilizer. "[N]itrogen fertilizer prices have risen more than 30%, while combined fuel and fertilizer costs have increased roughly 20% to 40%. Urea prices have increased by 47% since the end of February." www.fb.org/news-release...

An inspiration. This group from Pittsburgh walked all the to Moshannon to protest the horrible treatment of ICE detainees there. I caught them outside of Osceola Mills and spirits were high.

Trump made healthcare $367 more expensive every month in Juniata County, PA. Highest in the state. So I went there today to help the local candidates.

New @puck.news > My exclusive look at a new push by Priorities USA to re-imagine how Democrats advertise on social media — and reach non-political audiences — as the right continues to dominate organic content online puck.news/youtube-midt...

So after tonight’s big breakthrough we are $30-60 billion poorer from a month of war, all the same nuclear material is in Iran’s hands, and now you have to coordinate with their military to transit the Strait (not necessary a month ago). An enormous blunder, in no way a “deal.”

Anyone else notice @fetterman.senate.gov lost his “moral clarity” right around the time Trump was threatening war crimes?

Maybe people are sick of these posts but I can't get over it. Put these 120k people on Medicaid for a year and it equates to ONE DAY OF THE WAR WITH IRAN. The cost of a single day.

Today I’m going to pray for all the Christians who haven’t seen through this yet and tomorrow go back to working to make it impossible for them to ignore.

A starkly different example of Christianity than we get from the White House and Pentagon.

This order gives Mullin the job of deciding who can vote by mail. If he honored his oath at all he would refuse or step down, but he is an election-denier and a yes-man. That was why no one should have voted to confirm him.

Greensburg and Johnstown - supposedly red - very fired up today

Pennsylvania, let’s make it impossible for this poor excuse for a senator to miss the true meaning of #NoKings today.

We could have funded the ACA this year for what we already spent on Iran

I’ll be at 4 No Kings rallies around western PA this Saturday: Sewickley, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Mt. Lebanon. Wherever you are, please get out and make your voice heard.

Heading to Montour County PA today. Trump won it by 20 percent. Same percentage their property taxes were hiked this year, just as Trump cut taxes for himself and other rich people. We could fund all of Montour County government for 89 years with the money from a single day of the war in Iran.

Sorry if anyone believed this vigilante would do a thing to protect their rights. Not what he does.

Against the Fetterman/Republican photo ID requirement for voting

St. Patrick's Day is an immigrants' holiday. The NYC parade is still led by the "Fighting 69th," which battled Lee at Fredericksburg but began as an Irish militia against nativists. I wrote about how we can truly honor our immigrant ancestors this year: conorlambpa.substack.com/p/st-patrick...

Wore my only hoodie today for fellow veteran Caleb McCoy’s special election campaign. If you take the two of us combined does it remind you of any other tall Democrat who used to roam the rural counties?

Nobody owes me an apology. We do all owe each other our teamwork and support. This weekend is GOTV for a special election in Altoona PA. A win would rock Trump's world. Our candidate is a National Guardsman and a nurse. Come out and help! www.mobilize.us/blaircounty/...

Is there a coder out there who could create an Iran video game for him so we don’t have to witness his fantasies become actual policy and human rights violations?

Can’t emphasize enough how outrageous this is for veterans. Basic officer training is almost all planning and supervising: the five P’s (look it up), “Always time for more reconnaissance” and “Supervision is the most important troop leading step” are dogma. Hard to watch a failure like this.

Like a true statesman he isn’t focused on our surging gas prices. London real estate is the key issue.

Up to $2 billion per day. Enough to give $200 to EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN CHILD LIVING IN POVERTY instead. Every single day.

If the preliminary Pentagon estimate holds, that this war costs $1 billion per day, it will mean in one month we could have given $25k to everyone who dropped ACA coverage or built a nuclear power plant.

Today @fetterman.senate.gov will go on the record for all time in support of a war Rubio admitted was prompted by Israel not any imminent threat to us. He will never debate this or answer to us about it in any open forum. Inevitable but in no way acceptable.

If you’re anywhere near Pittsburgh on Friday night, come out to Braddock to hear Michael Fanone. He put his life on the line for people like me and he still isn’t giving up. See you there. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

This war is dumb and illegal

“There’s rumors of war, and wars that have been. The meaning of life has been lost in the wind.” youtube.com/watch?v=eiPP...

My friend and former helicopter pilot Matt used the concept of entropy to explain why veterans need to be at these ICE trainings.

This Ash Wednesday, thankful for Cardinal Cupich of Chicago: “The Holy Family … were refugees, fleeing state violence, crossing borders in fear. The Son of God begins his life on the run. We fail in living up to our faith if we claim to follow Christ while dismissing the suffering of migrants.”

In PA, which John represents, the EDPa has had to reject *NINETY* attempts to imprison people “without cause, without notice, and in clear violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.” The cases keep coming because of Trump’s defiance.

He really is the weakest senator there is. Two people have been murdered, there’s been no accountability, and he believes the Senate is powerless. He believes Trump gets what Trump wants.

If you’re a Pennsylvanian who thinks the human warehouses ICE wants to construct in our state are immoral and intolerable — as well as an insult to the memory of the immigrants who built our state — PLEASE sign the petition here: c.org/HkRJXBRNkD

Haven't seen the longer version of this on BlueSky so hope this works. The speech itself is chilling, but the minute before McKellen explains it is a little-known work of Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More delivering "the strangers' case" against an anti-immigrant mob. substack.com/@letsgetinto...