WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️ If you needed any more proof that the Voting Rights Act is still necessary, just look at what’s happening right now: red states rushing to wipe out Black representation the second SCOTUS gutted it. What went down this week is going to have devastating consequences. 🧵

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: a lot of white Americans aren’t having the conversations they need to be having with each other. In Black communities, these conversations are constant. They are not optional. They are passed down. They’re how we survive. 2/4

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Following up: I'm not in endorsement business. But Sacramento Bee (like Gov Newsom) is. They've also just endorsed Josh Fryday for Lt Gov. www.sacbee.com/opinion/elec... I vote in DC, but if I still voted in my home state I'd vote for Fryday. Based on knowing him for many years.

Donald Trump is a dangerous, narcissistic black hole of a human being. His policies are creating chaos as he obsesses over a ballroom. Some thoughts on the American psychopath. www.youtube.com/shorts/-PCV9...

In the last year, ICE has deported nearly half a million people. Killed dozens. Disappeared tens of thousands... These 23 protest songs are soundtracking the movement to stop it

Both my nephews in the 82nd Airborne have now been deployed. All but the US call this the Iran “war”, yet no congressional approval. All bloodshed falls fully on the shoulders of this president & the complicit Reps who give him free reign to play god with human lives. #SheShed #BlessOurTroops🇺🇸

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1 #ONEV1 If you have Republican reps in Congress, they voted for this. The law's damage will start to bite AFTER the midterm by design. Yet we cannot capitulate. Vote Blue in the Midterm for a fighting chance to push back.

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The ignorance of the people who vote for these criminals is why we are where we are. Good morning everyone. ☕️☕️☕️

Senate Judiciary ranking member @durbin.senate.gov responds to my reporting: “This is terrifying. After Director Patel purged the FBI workforce, 9,000 seasoned professionals were forced to work on a Trump pet project. …

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In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

10/ The msg to communities: conserve water,accept rate hikes, wait for state control.To the wealthy: pump what you want, buy utilities, file documents in secret, pass costs to poor families.This isn't a market. It's a system rigged by design, & designed on purpose magnoliatribune.com/2023/02/07/p...

9/ Targeting is not random. Jackson, MS: majority-Black city with Dem mayor.State takeover proposed. Corpus Christi: majority-Hispanic.Petrochemical plants get exemptions; residents get restrictions. New Mexico: forty percent in poverty.Vulnerability equals extraction www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QAA...

8/ NAFTA and USMCA shield corporations from environmental enforcement. The same trade deals that decimated Mexican farms also gave Smithfield legal cover to pollute Veracruz with impunity. Open investment rules. No community protections. That's the deal they made.

7/ Here's how system works: find states with weak groundwater laws. Texas has an 1894 "Rule of Capture" doctrine. That means biggest pump wins. Arizona had no cap on extraction. Indiana called it a construction "exception." Find the gaps.That's where they extract www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona...

6/ Blackstone owns QTS Data Centers. Now it's trying to buy PNM, New Mexico's largest utility for $11.5B. Blackstone files most regulatory documents under seal. Forty percent of PNM customers live below the poverty line. Those customers will pay for this acquisition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9PH...

5/ Amazon built its largest data center in Indiana. It got "dewatering" permits. The Vanloo family's ponds drained completely. Amazon needed water for cooling. The state gave permits nobody asked neighbors about. Those permits were supposed to be temporary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjka...

4/ Kyle Bass raised $185 million through Conservation Equity Management.His plan: pump 15 billion gallons a year from the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer in Texas. Neighbors' wells drop a foot per month. Vista Ridge residents are paying over $10,000 just to replace their pumps www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfzw...

3/ Smithfield operates 121 hog farms in Veracruz under Granjas Carroll. Five new water permits after a 20-year ban lifted. Fined $12.6M in Virginia for dumping hog waste in rivers. So why Mexico? Because the laws are weaker and enforcement is essentially nonexistent.

2/ Investigations from @truthout.org & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social document the pattern across 8 states & Mexico.The corp actors differ.The strategy doesn't.Smithfield in Veracruz. Kyle Bass in Texas. Amazon in Indiana. Blackstone in New Mexico.Same extraction playbook truthout.org/articles/us-...

1/ Two farmers killed in Veracruz for protesting. Wells in Texas dropping a foot per month. Families in Indiana losing their ponds overnight. This isn't scattered crises. It's a coordinated plan. Corporations are systematically draining aquifers. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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Democrats really should sue CBS for big bucks, as @brianbeutler.bsky.social proposed here. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

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So Eric Trump is now threatening to sue MeidasTouch because our editor-in-chief simply reported on the massive amounts of money he and Don Jr. are making off government contracts. File the lawsuit Eric. We’d love to put you under oath. Our message: www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-fami...

I am an nyc teacher and my students will be doing a public service announcement project on a topic that is meaningful to them. They will need to take pics of their action based research project to share. Please repost www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

"A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities..." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

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Jimmy Kimmel has outdone himself this time! This pharmaceutical ad about Felon47 is hilarious! 👏👏👏👏👏😂👏👏👏👏👏 #ReZyne #JimmyKimmel

Another one: Craig Long is a Trump loving, conspiracy- and Big Lie-spewing, election denying, felon and convicted January 6th terrorist with 500K followers on TikTok. Trump pardoned him. He was just arrested in a prostitution and human trafficking sting operation in Florida.

Trump pardoned January 6 terrorist Andrew Paul Johnson who described himself as an "American Terrorist" and "Proud J6er.” He was just convicted of five counts, including molesting an 11-year-old boy and exposing himself to children. Yet some wonder what they support a rapist and hide #EpsteinFiles

“But he doesn’t take a salary…

You get to choose our Democratic nominee this November. Our statewide Democratic candidates are ready to lead and move South Carolina forward. Don’t forget the primary is June 9. Make your plan to vote and be part of shaping our state’s future. #scdems #scpol #VoteBlue

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 this week. It was a slap in the face to the countless activists who fought for the VRA — and those who died for it. But we cannot give up. Here's how we should respond.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ex... #sheshed

Attorney and journalist Katie Phang is taking the fight to Todd Blanche. She just filed suit to force the release of the hidden Epstein files—including documents allegedly pulled back because they named Trump. Read the full story: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-...

I’m not surprised by this hypocrisy, seeing the Supreme Court trash Article 2 and the MAGAs popping champagne. They think kicking Democratic voters out of minority districts is going to save them. Anyway, those same voters are just going to go mess up their nice red strongholds. #ProudBlue #DV1

They want forced birth and women under complete control. It’s more than abortion care, as critical as that is. It’s everything.

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I just finished a short book by Anne Applebaum titled "Autocracy, Inc." These monsters/authoritarians use EXACTLY the same playbook. Victor Orban met w/Trump multiple times (mentor to mentee). Putin told Orban to have an assassination attempt to regain supporters.

I didn’t know this. Did you?

Is Noem still living in a rent free, waterfront, coast guard property even though she was fired over 2 months ago? Garcia questioned Mullin asking for receipts that may show fraud & government waste after it’s rumored Noem refuses to leave. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 thehill.com/homenews/hou

#ResistanceUnited #ResistanceEarth Having recently learned how damaging lithium mining is to the planet, I was equally surprised to learn that data centers can be just as harmful, if not worse for the environment. 🧵

If russia stops fighting, there will be no war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine. The fact that this still needs repeating says everything.

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