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IT’S TIME Dear California gov candidates, 🚨 There are 61 candidates in this race. SIXTY ONE! That’s how we hand the general election to TWO Republicans. If you’re still in single digits, the window’s closed. If you care about the Democratic Party, do the right thing. Drop out. Be loud about it.

Great explanation of a very depressing problem

“It’s not just about moderation vs radicalism, it’s about who gets health care and who gets tax cuts.” 💯

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Maine business owner #mepolitics “This was a good way to offer competitive employee benefits, and do the right thing by people,” Barr said. “Everyone gets a humane set of benefits for their basic needs that people need in order to thrive.” www.pressherald.com/2026/04/30/m...

💯 #MEpolitics

💯 she’s my number 1 ❤️

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios was completing her residency in South Texas when ICE locked her away. Her colleagues call her Ruby. They say that as an emergency and trauma doctor, she serves every patient with empathy and dedication. Being bilingual, she makes people feel seen and heard.

I’m hoping now that at least a few people will open their mind a little and take a serious look at what Graham Platner has said to apologize for and explain his past decisions and comments that they find so troubling - if they would take a moment to consider that people CAN change and grow.

How is this even legal???

Per Maine DOL, 2,000 Mainers have already applied for the state's new Paid Family and Medical Leave program which starts tomorrow! This is in line with expectations and it's great to see people benefiting from the program on day 1 #mepolitics

My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.

Just a reminder that Susan Collins is largely responsible for Brett Kavanaugh becoming a SCOTUS justice and overturning Roe v Wade.

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Love this!! Wish I could go to both. #MEpolitics

My two top candidates, love that they’re doing this together!

Understatement of the day

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

So fcking true

It was a microcosm of an endless dynamic we keep seeing play out. Democrats finally get the spine to propose something, republicans say no and democrats slink away

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

Amazon has its claws in me pretty good, but this would make me shake it loose and leave.

Nice company you keep, Senator Collins

I think it's cool that the DOJ now froths like a pro se litigant. It's cool and good and I like it.

Yep

Good lord, this brief sounds like it was written by trump himself, in all his deranged glory

The Republicans are now talking about how this proves we need the ballroom as if the White House is going to host the WHCD instead of the other way around. Complete capture.

What a disgrace to the whca

Guess I'll say something else out loud, too: Assassinating a fascist leader is not a shortcut to defeating fascism. It also has blowback effects: cults of martyrdom, crackdowns, retaliatory assassinations, etc. We need mass protests, strikes, election wins, and new governing structures.

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

unrelenting

Maybe I’m just too naive but I can’t get over the brazen level of partisanship here. Calling yourself an “investigative journalist” at a “non-partisan” nonprofit org and cutting a campaign ad endorsing Paul LePage #mepolitics Facebook link to vid: www.facebook.com/share/v/1DjY...

Susan Collins poses with bottom feeding racist Jon Fetherston who has been harassing Somali-Americans in Lewiston. Last month he went to a local mosque on Eid to wave this sword around.

Combat zone. Maine. Come the fuck on.

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My hometown airport!

And obviously it's not solely a modern phenomenon. Ancient civilisations erected immense monuments that stand to this day by the simple expedience of not giving a shit if the people actually who built them lived or died.

Like so much else in the modern world, incredible convenience for (wealthy, western, white) customers comes at a huge cost for everyone else. It's not impressive, it's just the logistics of exploitation.

Helluva thread

Uh oh: Somebody saw his horrible 33pct approval/67 pct disapproval numbers and is lashing out online all hours of the night. Shows just how laser-focused he is on the lives and economic hardships of regular Americans.

Anyone else remember when “war profiteering” was considered shameful?

You never too old to get fly.

Back in September, I wrote about Ukraine's long-range drones. Now that they are regularly and accurately striking Russian refineries and oil infrastructure, I think it's worth reading again, for those who missed it. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Tucker Carlson apparently is now saying he’s sorry for misleading people about Trump & it wasn’t intentional. But as @brockm.bsky.social points out, we know from the Dominion suit discovery that he was indeed intentionally peddling claims on air he knew were false. open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

George Washington LITERALLY would not have won the Revolutionary War had he not vaccinated the troops against smallpox. Meanwhile, this idiot: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Yeah sure he won’t do trump’s bidding - dude won’t even admit trump lost the 2020 election Live Updates: Fed Chair Nominee Asserts at Hearing He Won’t Do Trump’s Bidding