A president who speaks of death for dissent isn’t defending a nation, he’s claiming a throne. He names enemies so others will swing the sword. Power that fears questions always reaches for blood. Don’t give him the submission he’s seeking. Stand when he demands you kneel. #AuthoritarianAlert

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What begins as “voter verification” today could be expanded later to background checks, travel screening, benefit investigations, or other government systems setting a precedent for federal data use the public never agreed to. On November 18, 2025, secretaries of state from ten states sent a formal

Because the SAVE system is known to contain incomplete or outdated records, U.S. citizens may be wrongly flagged as non-citizens due to name changes, clerical errors, or mismatched files resulting in voters being removed from rolls or forced to prove their citizenship just to cast a ballot.

This data sharing has triggered legal and constitutional concerns. Data sharing at this scale appears to expand federal power into state-administered elections, raising serious questions about the constitutional authority of states to control and manage their own election systems.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly shared state voter-registration data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite earlier assurances to state election officials that the information would only be used for routine voter-list maintenance. Beginning in May 2025, DOJ

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🚨 BREAKING🚨 Doritos & Cheetos are going dye free after MAHA’s latest push, but it reads like the public health version of a Band Aid on a bullet wound. Dr. Céline Gounder says the risks of dye are tiny compared to the mountain of salt, sugar, & fat driving our health crisis. More on substack.

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Republicans are hard at work protecting Trump while destroying healthcare in America for millions of Americans. Hospitals will fill up, medical debt will skyrocket, and lives will be lost. Subsidies aren’t political, they’re survival. #SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles

I just received my health insurance open enrollment. Employee + spouse: $$525.09 Family: $702.97 I make $823.13 per pay period!! How tf am I supposed to also pay medical bills, utilities, rising grocery costs, gas, etc? And our president’s only concern is himself?? #SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles

Republicans keep covering for predators while calling your healthcare “too expensive to protect.” We see the priorities, and they’re rotten. #SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles

Keep your eyes on Texas, folks. The TXGOP overplayed their hand. Tuesday night proved it and they’re panicking! Great video!👇🏽 Time for everyone to help us organize for the 2026 midterms, and say adios to Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and John Cornyn. Yippee ki-yay motherfu…

#ThankYouNancy for your vision and climate leadership in congress! Thank you for being a champion and partner with @envirovoters.bsky.social !

Alaskans stood together today to feed their neighbors outside of Nick Begich’s office. If he is not going to feed the people, we will. Nick do your job! Pay out SNAP benefits immediately. Photo credit: Jeff Chen, Native Movement.

#ThankYouNancy for your vision and climate leadership in congress! Thank you for being a champion and partner with @envirovoters.bsky.social !

@pelosi.house.gov leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of leadership as the most effective and pro-climate Speaker in modern history: ✅Protected voting rights ✅Safeguarded public lands ✅Strengthened environmental protections ✅Held Big Oil Accountable #ThankYouNancy

Nancy Pelosi taught me lessons I’ll carry forever.  Winning is a decision.  No wasted time, no underutilized resources, and no regrets.  Don’t agonize, organize.  Her leadership and grace changed Congress and our country.  The Greatest Speaker of All Time. #ThankYouNancy

"WE DON'T AGOGNIZE WE ORGANIZE " ALWAYS "FOR THE CHILDREN " THE GREAT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EVER I WISH SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT PELOSI OUR COUNTRY OWES HER A WORLD OF GRATITUDE I LOVE YOU SOOOOOO MUCH SPEAKER EMERITUS NANCY PELOSI

Thank you Madam Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi! You fought for our healthcare, our environment, and for the people. Your service to our community and our nation will be celebrated through history, but your legacy will be the “Volunteers In Politics” that carry on. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

This is such a grift, we can figure out food, housing, or water but they have the audacity to ask for MORE MONEY for the plagiarism machine that sometimes becomes evil. bsky.app/profile/unus...

Young people are organizing in their schools, on their campuses, in their work places. This is like going to a Sonny and Cher cover and concert and swing no one under 50 and saying “young people must not like music.” We all have our role and many of us are playing it.

He wants to enrage you with stories of “lazy kids” as they kick over 40 million people off food ASSISTANCE - pushing children, families, vets & the elderly off of a program that makes it so they don’t starve. All while shipping BILLIONS to Argentina. Get angry. Kick them out of office. #YesOnProp50

SNAP cut off. Children and seniors going hungry. ACA premiums skyrocketing, huge cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Trump and Republicans would rather see Americans get sick and starve than negotiate. We MUST win the midterms and that starts with #YesOnProp50! Join us this weekend! linktr.ee/cadem

And USDA is blaming undocumented immigrants, trans people, and Democrats when it is all on Trump. Trump has an authorized $5B SNAP contingency fund he won't use because he wants to make people suffer to force Democrats to accept his terms. That includes children, veterans, active duty troops.

Californians keep pushing!!! CA get your ballots in NOW for YES ON PROP 50! Drop your ballot off in a drop box or at an in person voting location! Find the closest drop box or in person location here: caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov. Prop 50 is temporary & levels the playing field! VOTE YES to stop Trump!

I LOVE this Yes on Prop 50 ad! Easy to understand & gets the point across! youtu.be/6tQyBFAZlf8?...

If you are speaking to “working class voters” - who are they and what do they care about?

Great afternoon phone banking voters to make sure they vote YES on Prop 50! 🗳️ Piper joined in too! 🦮 Let’s keep knocking those doors and making those calls! We need everyone to pitch in. This is how we fight back and together we WILL win! 🌊🇺🇸 Join us: linktr.ee/cadem

CALIFORNIA! Get your ballots completed and mailed or dropped in an official dropbox. Only 20% of CA has returned their ballots! Republicans are too. Please don’t wait. Vote #YesOn50 and return your ballots NOW! #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

The Republicans’ “leadership” is keeping millions of Americans unpaid while they twiddle their thumbs.

Reminder that food banks have the ability to buy food in bulk and can make the most out of the economy of scale so cash (if you have it) is always preferred. But also, they're not going to say no to your pantry items. 💚

Ok democracy reform question time - There’s a push to ban retired members of admin/retired members of. Congress from becoming lobbyists after serving their terms. Assuming someone serves 10 years - what job would you expect them to have after they term out?

House Speakers who had more spine than Mike Johnson: McCarthy Pelosi Ryan Boehner Gingrich The rest of them.

This is insane - federal workers aren’t getting paid, yet the DOI is prioritizing permitting for destructive extraction.

Here is what I will say, the fact that we don’t have a bench big enough to run 3 or more good options for a senate race in case one of them has Nazi tattoos is a cause for concern.

FDR expanded the East Wing in 1942 in the middle of World War II to strengthen America in its darkest hour. It was built for service, not spectacle. Trump is bulldozing it to throw himself a party, to build a gold-plated ballroom, a monument to his ego, not the country he is supposed to serve.

The Affordable Care Act became law in 2010 Since then, Republicans tried to repeal, replace, defund and overturn it NEVER did they offer a viable alternative to it Now-as health insurance costs are exploding-they’re terrified Because it threatens their hegemony over the American body politic

The Graham Platner defenders are like Gavin Newsom podcasting with Steve Bannon and Ezra Klein declaring that Charlie Kirk did politics in exactly the right way. They’re caught up in the idea that 2024 was a referendum on American culture, the bigots won, so appealing to them is just savvy strategy.

11,000 views in one day! Not bad for our little podcast. Thank you all for taking an interest in Paulina. Big things coming SOON! Promise!

Dude you rock! Keep up the great work and it’s cool to chat with people and at least see where they’re coming from and go on the journey to see where you agree!

If you’re in California - TURN IN UOUR #YesOnProp50 Ballot. If you’re not in California (or have already voted) CALL A FRIEND & REMIND THEM TO VOTE! Retweet this post and tag a friend who needs to vote #YesOnProp50 ! Together we can fight back to make sure we have fair representation in congress!

I appreciate the comments, even if we disagree, but I will admit that for a lot of people demanding boldness from our leaders they are not demanding that boldness from their communities. Every older person in government won primaries and a general. If you want change engage in primaries and win.

You’re right! No one is entitled to a seat! SUPPORT YOUNG CANDIDATES IN PRIMARIES! Voters keep these people in power - an age cap doesn’t solve corruption etc.

Your whole thread argument with someone who isn’t me or what I said. Let me be clearer - no one is entitled to a seat. Primaries are checks on power, we need people to run in them and people to vote for them. Voters are choosing these folks despite their age. Age caps won’t solve this problem.

You are missing the point. Age caps, cognitive tests, etc are all ageist ways to exclude people. If you want someone to leave office you make rules that define eligibility over things they can control. It’s infantilizing & disrespectful to pretend like voters aren’t making choices. Do better.

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks This breaks my heart. The destruction of the People’s House. What’s next? The Washington Monument? America does not need or want a gold gilded vanity ballroom. I hope the next occupant of the WH tears it down and also restores the rose garden.