TOUGH DAY IN TENNESSEE It's been a rough day for all of us. I'm so proud of everyone who showed up. Get some sleep, and the work continues! Love y'all. 💞

🇫🇷⚡ France’s power market just hit a new extreme: record-breaking negative electricity prices. In April, 90% of days saw zero or below-zero prices on the day-ahead market. At one point, prices plunged to -€479/MWh amid midday solar oversupply 📉

ICE Arrests Violated Order Requiring Warrants in D.C., Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important. Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin.

NEW: Tennessee voters came out to oppose the GOP’s new rigged maps 🔥

No control on the violence now And... what happened to the women and children ???

In a packed Capitol Hill room, survivors, family members of Virginia Giuffre and their allies demand accountability, systemic reform and an end to the silence that has long protected powerful perpetrators. msmagazine.com/2026/05/06/c...

Lindsey Graham's South Carolina seat is up for grabs in the South Carolina midterms, and pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews is determined to seize the opportunity to let him retire to Disneyland for good. The Damage Report's John Iadarola breaks it down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6fJ...

Um. Guys.

"The media's double standard for Trump needs to STOP Call it normalizing, sane-washing, or giving him the benefit of the doubt" He is 100% unfit & a clear & present danger to US BLAME THE GOP BLAME CORPORATE MEDIA Bravo @sulliview.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/margaret... #RemoveTrumpNow

Bravo!

Saher Alghorra won a Pulitzer today for his devastating images from Gaza. "But I found the child — extremely frail, unresponsive to any of my attempts. His eyes stared, barely able to open. Taking this photo tore me apart." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

Trump’s now stating people might have to vote twice. They are attempting to create chaos as a setup for the midterms. This administration doesn’t care about free and fair elections. They rely on gerrymandering to cling to power, all to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Terrorist talk

Thank you Governor Pritzker

Trump is doing badly but note to Dems, ( from a former DNC member)-don’t just be anti Trump, propose things that help the American working class like the Working Class Tax Cut or lowering health care costs. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yes!!!!

Good job NJ

The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama

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In Colorado, county clerks are discussing how to respond to federal subpoenas or the arrival of federal agents at polling places... in South Carolina, officials are planning for the presence of armed federal officers at voting sites... Read more:

Democrats in governance draw their staffs from professional fields where they have accomplished things and learned things. Republicans draw their staffs from propaganda outlets. Good luck getting media to acknowledge it, much less draw out the obvious implications.

61 days into Donald Trump's war with Iran, the national average for a gallon of gas is now $4.30 — up 44.3%. That's ON TOP of higher prices for groceries, shipping, flights, and more. And the response from the Trump Administration and GOP Congress? Crickets.

Continuing the horror show

GOP'S who care...thankful for that

We do this here in BC/Canada, too, & I loathe it. Plus, it kills all the aspens that are a typical tree in this region, which would provide a FIRE BREAK to help reduce wildfires from travelling so easily. @davidebybc.bsky.social’s NDP have failed to end it. thenarwhal.ca/bc-glyphosat...

"They show how Monsanto orchestrated, financed, and even ghostwrote studies that were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals under the names of supposedly independent researchers—papers that state and federal agencies have relied upon to justify copious sp www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨🚨🚨 WAKE THE FUCK UP USA!!!! 🚨🚨🚨 Donald Trump is a radical international terrorist and war criminal. He’s killing our brave troops and is a MURDERER! IMPEACH, CONVICT AND ARREST HIM NOW!!!

From CBC News: Canadian detained by ICE for 6 months says he's an 'indefinite' prisoner, has no idea when he'll get out. 58 Canadians are being held by ICE. Avoid all nonessential travel to the United States.

Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.

Thank you Melanie, really Thank you

Brave move Congressman Lieu Thank you

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

Some Happy News

Screw That Data Center,And Others. Shorter Showers, All While Much Of The Country Is In A Very Bad Drought, Stupid Waste Of Resources, FOR RICH INVESTORS........

Some cities in the United States are warming much faster than the nation as a whole. Reno, for example, has warmed nearly three times as much as the national average since the first #EarthDay in 1970. eos.org/research-and...

The young people in our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica. This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.

Georgia declared a state of emergency yesterday 91 counties, wildfires surpassing the 5-year average, extreme drought, high winds. FEMA approved assistance grants. But FEMA has lost a third of its permanent staff since January. Surge staffing cut 85%. Disaster response staff cut 41%. Good luck.

"Prostrate"...the Grand Old Party

And for $20 million you can buy the naming rights to "wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Balmer"

Clears it up a lot.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.