Protesters staged noise demo through the rich Seattle neighborhood of #Laurelhurst that lobbied against noisy helicopters flying sick and injured kids over their mansions to Children's Hospital. 🤪 It got a bit noisy.

Americans often complain about the two-party duopoly here but in the UK it seems that a multiparty system just means an endless cycle of "here's an even *more* racist party for you"

Never stop talking about this until justice is served •Ŕėlėå§ė ťhė Ėp§tėįņ Fįĺė§•

It's darkest before the dawn Virginia was a setback But we're litigating in Florida, organizing across the South, & marching in Montgomery on May 16 This is how democracies survive & how you can help on @contrariannews.org contrariannews.org/p/we-promised-to-fight-gop-gerrymandering

If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots

🚨 Trump’s new National Counterterrorism Strategy identifies the “left-wing” and “anti-Fascists” as terrorist threats equivalent to jihadi groups like al Qaeda and ISIS. This follows the recent federal terrorism conviction of nine anti-ICE protesters in TX www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Note: I haven't added NEW YORK yet even though their filing deadline passed over a month ago because it's difficult to find an official list of certified primary candidates--most file w/the state BoE but some file at the county level for some reason.

All to avoid releasing the Epstein files...

wait

The GOP has a big problem with answering one simple question

At the age of 100, Sir David Attenborough springs out of his seat like a Jack-in-the-box.

“I keep thinking about what Pope Leo XIV said. ‘But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.’ That is what occurred at Doral.” open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

I don’t understand why we have to keep telling and begging people to pay attention to what’s actually in front of their face. It’s exhausting and I’m tired of trying to explain it. jsri.loyno.edu/repeal-14th-...

Why don’t people understand it’s not just about overturning the 14th amendment? It’s about weakening it. And when are people going to realize these folks don’t care about precedent or the law? How/why do people still think the GOP cares about rules or law? Pay. Attention.

Someone in the White House knew Epstein could blackmail him and ordered Lutnick to change his story. Sadly the world seems to be moving on from demanding all the Epstein files be released in full. We really shouldn't let that go.

Gas prices: record seasonal high Beef prices: record high Farmers: bankruptcies up 46%, can’t get fertilizer Foreclosure rates: 6 year high Epstein pedos: still being protected MAGA: at least we owns the libs.

Even smaller jobs, or conglomerates, ask you to do shit like this (specific to what they work with in their company), and if you are unwilling to do that, they will reject you. And to that I say: Good. Free work is not why you apply for jobs. Simpe rule: No compensation, no work.

you try to get a job at? Yeah, nobody needs a special talent for that. They just want you to do free analytic work for policy questions, that are only pertinent to the company you answered a job offer to. Don't do that. If they want you to do that: They must compensate you for your work.

@aoc.bsky.social is correct, even though the British aristocracy wasn't as obscenely rich. Several of the causes of the American Revolution prove her point. Most notably, the Boston Tea Party was a protest against a corporate monopoly that was mandated by the British government!

MAGA is dumb as fuck, Jesse Watters is sexist as fuck, Nick Fuentes is racist as fuck, and Donny Convict is delusional as fuck. thank you for your attention to 'this week in stupid,' my every-Saturday wrap-up of the dumbest fucking shit that happened. link is here, go read it: bit.ly/4faPLGb

WATCH: “It was never about ‘making Memphis matter’, it was about making Brent Taylor matter.” Kanew & @brotherjones.bsky.social discuss Sen. Brent Taylor jumping in to run for TN-9 LESS THAN AN HOUR after Republicans carved majority-black Memphis in thirds to drown them out with white power🤔

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For years, Hungary's Viktor Orban gerrymandered his opposition out of power. But in the end, all the dirty tricks in the world couldn't save him from sinking approval ratings and massive voter turnout. There's a lesson here for us.

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But trump IS a walking talking blunder! He doesn't really understand just how powerful and long China's reach is. China is already investing in countries trump has dropped and, look at what China is doing with Green Energy compared to the US. #FuckTrump

If you can't find inspiration within the United States, look to Hungary.

Anyone familiar with VA budget reconciliation rules? Could the state assembly get a Supreme Court age limit bill into the budget?

NAACP presses court for preliminary injunction against Trump's "mail-in voting" exec order: "Words matter and threats have consequences. Plaintiffs are already suffering the resulting disruption to their voter-registration, voter-assistance & vote-by-mail programs nationwide"

Here are some of the most dramatic and powerful examples of how Black Americans — from elected officials to ordinary voters — have responded to the wave of GOP gerrymanders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

That these heroes have to watch what they fought for...for the betterment of AMERICA...what they risked...be shat on and dismantled, just makes me furious. Worse, the number of people who are indifferent and prioritize things elsewhere with an arrogant IDGAF attitude about here.

Sandhill cranes walking towards the edge of the beach.

Just saying

🧊🛩️ HEADS UP TENNESSEE‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Memphis Air Wisconsin CRJ-200 Tail: N463AW – ETA 9:10am 👀

Trump’s recent appearances continue to raise serious questions. Difficulty walking in a straight line. Visible hand discoloration. Erratic speech. Missed basic putts despite spending all that time on the golf course. The pattern is getting harder to ignore.

In Hogg’s case it’s even worse—he endorsed Platner LAST FUCKING AUGUST, long before the primary field was set & when there were several other progressive candidates running who presumably would’ve been better on gun control.

🚨 W/THE VRA *AND* VA REDISTRICTING DEAD, FLIPPING THE HOUSE JUST BECAME EVEN *MORE* URGENT. Flipping the House blue is an ABSOLUTE MUST this year. Donate today. #Blue26 NOTE: This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts. secure.actblue.com/donate/house...

I wonder what the difference is?

Says the guy who calls Catholicism a "false religion." Righteous Baptists... They don't come any worse. Hypocrites.

*shows this to annoying ass doomers in my country*

📌I have been a vocal supporter of Va. Gov. Abigail Spanberger, but her feeble response to her state's corrupt SC ruling that went against the will of the voters was sickening capitulation, and everything that is wrong with Big D Democrats, who have made surrender an art. Where are the fighters???

Bro. Lewis some of us have not forgotten your sacrifices and are morally arming ourselves to reclaim that which you sacrificed for. Rest in power ✊🏾 #PBS calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

The 14th Amendment includes this sentence: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which granted citizenship to those formerly enslaved. If you're anti-14th Amendment, you're pro-slavery. 🤷🏿‍♀️ #blacksky

The Mouse Bites Back "Disney is mounting its most aggressive pushback yet against Donald Trump’s attempts to censor his critics, signaling that the company has concluded it's wiser to fight rather than fold." by @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/the-mouse-...

His legacy.

This is the crux of my argument in this piece: Let's not play dumb about the real intent behind Trump/MAGA bullying Dems to accept the ballroom, which is to get them to symbolically submit to dictatorial rule by getting them to genuflect before Trump's building of a Caesar-like monument to himself.

...afford. I vote because I live today in a neighborhood that was redlined, a place my family wouldn’t have been allowed to live in within my mother’s lifetime. That’s not history to us. That’s muscle memory. It’s instruction." "...if you’re white, talk to each other. Challenge each other. ...

Everyone: sit down and read this today. "I vote because my great-grandparents couldn’t. I vote because my great-grandfather sent his children north just to access an integrated education. I vote because my grandfather moved west chasing opportunity and still got locked out of housing he could ...

Let's go!

We are absolutely under-reacting! What personally frustrates me is how many times I would tell people "X is going happen" and they would tell me that I was being ridiculous. And then it happened. Over and over for years. It gets discouraging.

🧵If California wants to restore its healthy wildness in less populated areas, it should consider bringing back the state animal, the Grizzly bear, gone for 100 years. "A peer-reviewed feasibility study published last year ...estimated that California could support nearly 1,200 grizzlies."