My god…they just took 50 million from the general budget for vouchers going to private religious schools. Now, another 100 million?

I lost my job, I can't afford health insurance, and my son is about to get deployed to Venezuela. But at least I know I'll be able to buy Coca-Cola made with real cane sugar now.

MAGA stands for freedom of speech (with the exception of journalists, elected members of the opposition party, former administration officials, anti-fascists, students, librarians, scientists, federal civil servants, immigrants, and any US citizen who criticizes their lord and savior Donald Trump).

Ah yes, the tan suit fiasco.

Throwback to October 2024

Ain’t that America? 🇺🇸

ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers. "What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder. "The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back. Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure. Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities. EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni. ucop.edu/communicatio...

The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 after protesters in Selma risked their lives for equal access to the ballot. Now the Supreme Court is weighing whether to gut one of its last working provisions. bit.ly/4qeZmz4

The poll watchers are back

Average Obamacare premiums are going to rise 30% next year

Is it good when even judges are saying you can’t trust the government anymore?

IT'S HERE. NOW.

We're seeing relentless attacks on freedom of speech in America today, and they reveal the ideology that's driving the Republican Party I talked to @adamserwer.bsky.social and @maryannefranks.bsky.social about that for my newsletter

President Trump signs an executive order for the US to guarantee the security of Qatar, in the wake of Israel's strike on Doha last month https://cnn.it/46LVmgj

Trump: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States.  He's the one that has to get people together...The President of the United States has to get this done." (2011)

#TrumpFucksKids SPREAD HIS SHAME

OBAMA disagrees with Kirk’s ideas, but says “that does not negate that what happened was a tragedy” adding: “There are extremists on both sides… but those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t putting the weight of the 🇺🇸 government behind them.” (PART ONE)

“.. It’s hard to imagine that Trump cares much whether or not his promises work out .. He already has what he wants: freedom from accountability for a lifetime of lawbreaking and an easy way to line his pockets.” @jamellebouie.net @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

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This testimony needs to be cited in every state lawsuit as evidence of bad faith of his prefectural reasons for calling in the military

Yes. #ReleaseAllEpsteinFiles. Unredacted! #Resist 🗽💙🍀🙏🌻🫂🌥️⛅🦋🐝🐦🐿️🌈💕

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ICYMI — last night Senators @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty voted to keep the Epstein files cover-up going. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

That's the ticket

Some fire from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

It would be terrible if he became upset over some chant like "WE. 👏 WANT. 👏 THE EPSTEIN. 👏 FILES. 👏" I earnestly hope and pray this does not happen. 🙏🏼

EJ Antoni tweeted, "You can’t run a race on your knees,” in response to a tweet of a doctored campaign poster that depicted a sexually explicit image of Harris (it was a photoshop depicting Harris with semen around her mouth calling her "Cumalla Harris." www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

Started / Going

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

AND, let us not forget that state visit to the UK, where all will be tippy-toeing around the PRINCE ANDREW/EPSTEIN SCANDAL…

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!