America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

I cannot emphasize this enough: everything we are seeing right now with voting rights, and especially the racist gerrymandering we’re seeing in the South, makes complete sense if you remember it was all in Project 2025. This was part of the plan. It’s white supremacy and too many ignored it.

DEAR RESTAURANTS: Your servers are not volunteers. If you can't afford to pay them more than 2.13% of what you charge, you can't afford to run a business. Thank you!

Bernie ain't saying shit because he might lose half of his supporters calling out racism. He doesn't like "identity politics" so his base of upper middle class white people and white adjacent folks will be more comfortable with him not saying anything.

The Gilded Age was the progenitor of The Great Depression. The wealthy convinced average Americans that they could participate directly in the same economic system that benefited them. It was nothing more than a wealth consolidation scheme that seems to be repeating itself today.

I don't only want fully funded libraries but I want fully funded parks, public education, FREE HEALTHCARE, actual affordable housing etc... these are ALL CONNECTED.

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

The NAACP is out here fighting too. I appreciate their work and I am glad to be apart of this organization.

We stand with Memphis, and we also stand with the thousands of Nashvillians impacted by redistricting. What’s happened to Memphis is happening to all of us.

There are some hard truths here, and every Democrat needs to watch this segment. African Americans are being targeted because we are the most consistent Democratic voting bloc. The GOP knows this. Every Democrat must start speaking with one voice about court reform. 🧵

The more things change The more they stay the same.

@democrats.org 2026 Plaforrm We will always tell the people we are fighting for them. We will appear to fight for small wins and only on laws Trump will likely ignore. We will ensure there are always enough officials who will break with the party on all bills critical to moving fascism forward.

Holy cats the Chicago Public Library needs to start using this typeface again—it’s so gorgeous @chipublib.bsky.social

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

Everything happening in the US right now has a precedent. Everything. The US has not gotten ‘worse.’ Trump‘s administration has just abandoned the long political tradition of hiding injustice and violence so people could pretend it didn’t exist. But the US has *always* been like this.

"It'll be okay as long as we still push through a Democratic majority." No, bitch, it will not be okay. It will never be okay that Black Americans do not have a voice and have to depend on the kindness of strangers who have shown repeatedly that they do not give a shit about us in the voting booth.

centrist liberals invented a character (nonvoting leftist who cost them the election) to avoid taking responsibility for the inherent weakness and failure of centrist liberal politics

Truth. Americans are afraid to act against their new fascist regime. Afraid.

To put it mildly.

Should be us. This is the price of the corrupt Trump administration decision to cede this entire industry to the Chinese, just for added gasoline sales for his big fossil fuel donors. Corruption has a cost. American industries will pay.

Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

The Virginia Supreme Court just overturned the new congressional maps that voters in Virginia approved. The American people are already losing trust in the courts, and this total violation of the will of the people will only make more lose faith.

The FELON fucked up. 1) Netanyahu is no help. Attacking Lebanon gives him an out 2) The FELON Is alone. UN opposes. NATO opposes. The entire world opposes 3) Time waits for no one. Iran is rebuilding military assets. FAST. Nations are secretly rooting them on 4) Why? The US is a 10 X bigger threat.

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

Hang it in the Louvre 🔥 This is why young progressives resonate with so many voters — constituents are exhausted by performative “strongly worded letters” from the Democratic old guard

They are wiping Black politicians off of the map and erasing Black voters. Y'all have no idea how bad this is for you.

It took me nearly 20 years to pay off my student loans. I don't want the new generation of students to have student loans that they have to pay off. This is a minority position in the U.S. and speaks badly about this country.

If they want to take ivermectin this time, don’t try to stop them.

“What has remained constant since Reconstruction until now are nefarious changes to voting that disempower Black voters….It has been and presently is all about race.” LDF Director of Policy Demetria McCain www.theroot.com/why-the-supr...

There's no competent opposition party in the US that can narrate what's happening coherently for a general public.

“The Civil Rights Movement is why we need racism.” - SCOTUS

The average price of a new car today is $50,000. What was a linchpin of affordability for the middle class in the Henry Ford Model-T days is now a luxury good out of reach. Harold Meyerson reports. prospect.org/2026/05/04/h...

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I was forced to the back of the bus. This ain't theoretical for me. I lived this shit.

Americans were sold "We caught you here illegally, we're sending you back to your home country." Instead we got a torture victim being deported to Africa. It is worse than you think. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:

REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social : “This is a power grab… they’re spitting on the graves of all that work, saying we’re going to allow Black political voices & representation to be dismantled across the South- following marching orders of the White House. We’ve gotta fight back.” @GovBillLee

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people." -Martin Luther King Jr. #SpeakUp #Act #RiseUp #StrongerTogether #LFG credit: IG @susanitalareportera Tucson AZ #MayDay

We need more white people to step up and say this isn't ok!!! It will take all of us.

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Bingo! It’s their common denominator.

Anybody else notice they just gutted the Voting Rights Act? They very *literally* just undid the legal gains of the Civil Rights movement in America While Dear Leader steals your money & brags about being the most powerful man in history America is looking deeply unAmerican rn

We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-content/u...

Fellow white people - Now is not the time to worry about rocking the boat, what the neighbors will say, or ruining a family holiday. We need to start making those other white people uncomfortable in their own skin. It’s past time. If you already are speaking then start mobilizing friends.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

If we cannot vote, we aren't citizens of this country anymore. You can unfollow, block or mute me. I don't care. This is the reality of the situation and if that makes you uncomfortable, I don't give a fuck and you never cared about any of us to begin with.

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

This country was built on the literal blood sweat and tears of kidnapped black people. The Revolutionary War was financed by their labors. 250 years later, we still can't reckon with that fact enough to accept that black people are our equals and often our betters. What a fucked up nation.

In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

Unfortunately the administration seems to have latched on to a key vulnerability in our constitutional order, which is that if you charge ahead and do the illegal thing, you often get most of the result you wanted even if you later lose in court.

Note: A pry bar is not a battering ram; otherwise note that ICE is still operating in Minneapolis without any care for those who may be harmed. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...