🚨 Despite Speaker Johnson's attempts to shut us down, House Democrats are forcing a vote on a 3-year extension of the ACA tax credits. Our communities can't wait any longer for healthcare costs to be addressed. Republicans need to bring this vote to the floor NOW.

A majority of the House supports extending ACA enhanced premium tax credits—yet Speaker Johnson is deliberately blocking a vote until AFTER they expire. Now, he’s forcing a vote on a Republican bill that does nothing to lower health care costs. Bring the ACA tax credit extension to the floor NOW.

The GOP is pro swastika. Folks, what the hell more do you need to see? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The FBI Dept Director is quiet quitting while the FBI is actively searching for a mass murderer

RFK Jr. has awarded $1.6 million to a group in Denmark to conduct a randomized, single-blind study of the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine (HepB) to be conducted in Guinea-Bissau. In my opinion, this is, quite simply, completely unethical, unacceptable, and predatory. Here’s why. 1/7

218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits. If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.

Every single Dem in Congress needs to bring this kind of fire and fact checking EVERY. DAMN. TIME. @lujan.senate.gov, THANK YOU! That was a masterclass!

Carolina Wren: #Kennebunk #Maine 12/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm fov. Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #wren #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Bovino's caravan just arrived in Cicero again.

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Russia needs Donbass to launch its full invasion of larger Europe.”

“Jake must be writing one helluva long book.”

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NEW from me: the cook county sheriff's office missed a state-mandated deadline to report that, from april 2024-march 2025, it owned and used 10 surveillance drones. it's the second time in as many years that a chicago-area police agency has violated illinois’ drone surveillance law.

"My brain surgeon is inexperienced and unqualified. Maybe that's a good thing"

"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."

#operationmidwaybliss help Chicagoans hurt by #abolishICE raids and kidnappings gofund.me/56219f7c2

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Four days to go before the start of the Saturnalia celebrations, and Hadrian is already wearing his pileus! #Saturnalia The pileus was a Greek-style conical felt cap given to Roman slaves upon freedom. During Saturnalia, everyone, including slaves, could wear it, creating a temporary role reversal.

Hearing the news of a campus shooter in the US, and how faculty map out exits, carry tourniquets and wound packings, and teach on campuses where weapons are allowed …. and it is *literally* unfathomable to me. Beyond fucked.

They hate on our Black queens because they can’t handle their greatness.

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

www.nbcnews.com/world/africa... #Sudan

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

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Maybe AI should be isolated to one data center until it can engineer a carbon-free unlimited energy source. Once it’s proved more valuable than creating shitty videos it can expand.

A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity

Meet some of the superstars of #MontclairSundays Week 42

"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot. 'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...” www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

You don't have to like the Muslim Brotherhood or the Council on American-Islamic Relations to think the government should be required to prove accusations before punishing people.

As an Indiana hater I am overjoyed that Indiana defeated our common enemy: Ohio State.

Beaumont, Texas Street mural artist: Candy Kuo #StreetArt #StreetMural #art #murals #artist #UrbanArt Dear #artists - get out there and beautify urban areas with powerful images of beauty with a strong message.

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

Sasha Debevec-McKenney en ‘Joy is my middle name’:

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

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Downtown Saturday Dec 6, noon. Skip brunch? Come after brunch? #chicago #venezuela #nowar #protest #resist

remembered i have leftover chinese food and i instantly have hope and purpose again

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

Kamesha Mumford will be the new senator for Mississippi Senate District 26 after a special election runoff on Tuesday. Though the special election was nonpartisan, she is expected to serve as a Democrat in the Senate. John Horhn, who is now the mayor of Jackson, had held the seat for 32 years.

Yes #epsteinfiles #25thamendment #warcrimes #abolishice meanwhile WOMEN ARE SUFFERING since Roe overturned. Abortion is healthcare

When a poem becomes a prayer. Siegfried Sassoon (1934)

Support continues to #Sudan and other places #USAID #humanitarianaid

Maybe, just maybe, if the FBI counterterrorism desk hadn't been retasked to chasing abuelitas, somebody might've followed up on the tips...

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

We're thrilled to announce that Amanda Gorman — celebrated poet, author and advocate — has been named our newest UNICEF Ambassador! 🎉 Hear directly from @amandagorman.bsky.social about why she believes in UNICEF’s work, and why advocating #ForEveryChild matters now more than ever.