In Illinois, 29 trans teens have died by suicide this year, per Trans Up Front, a trans youth advocacy group. Last year we lost four; six in 2023. “This administration is targeting our children, they’re trying to take the next generation… [But] we’re gonna be here forever. We’ve always been here.”

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Karoline Leavitt is never honest about ANYTHING. She lies and lies and lies. Members of Congress did NOT ask soldiers to defy lawful orders. They asked soldiers to defy UNLAWFUL orders. MAGA is just a torrent of blatant lies and distortions. Fuck Trump and his lying regime. #FDT #ETTD #WPE

You’ll notice that the same media who couldn’t stop attacking Biden’s age or Hillary’s emails to her daughter or President Obama’s tan suit are now okay with a convicted criminal bulldozing the White House for his ballroom and inviting actual murderers to the Oval Office.

What do we bet the 28-point plan was created using AI? MAGA idiots

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

New Texas map lasted about five minutes. Turns out “because we want more seats” isn’t a valid argument.

Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year. That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined. It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks. It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks. Billionaire greed is out of control.

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Girls and women are commodities "traded and passed along," not human beings with personal agency, rights, and dignity. This is what MAGA and its enablers believe and want us to accept. We cannot. We will not. We must not.

Fucking Nancy

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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

THIS. I would be willing to bet that everyone reading this post from the US either is or knows someone who is currently reliant upon SNAP or has been at some point in their past.

JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?

Tell me more about ‘Sleepy Joe.’

Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

Why do Billie and Taylor get this and other millionaires and billionaires don’t?? www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

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This needs to go viral!!

Brilliant idea! Let’s out this into play 👏🏻 👏🏻 @housedemocrats.bsky.social

"Thank you for your attention to this matter" Democratic leaders ask Trump for meeting to end shutdown New letter ===>

Hospital leaders in CT made it clear — the expiring ACA subsidies & cuts to Medicaid & Medicare will leave people uninsured & increase healthcare costs. People will come in sicker & emergency departments will overcrowd. I’m fighting for healthcare because lives are on the line.

Trump doesn't get it! His solution to last night's results: Eliminate the filibuster. He can't comprehend the vote was a referendum on HIM, taking away Medicaid, food assistance, making things less affordable, letting ACA subsidies expire, terrorizing people, and ignoring due process. Fucking 🤡

He was very much on the ballot last night. The shutdown was on the ballot. Medicaid was on the ballot. Medicare was on the ballot. SNAP was on the ballot. The ACA was on the ballot. ICE was on the ballot. The whole Nazi agenda was on the ballot. And we told you what we think of it.🖕🏼DT #SheShed

Prop 50 passed in CA!

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

On top of refusing to reopen the government while withholding SNAP funding, this regime has cancelled USDA's annual hunger report. They can try to erase the data that proves their cruelty, but they can’t erase the pain of MILLIONS of hungry Americans. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

A secretive organization named the Rockbridge Network has become one of the most influential forces in GOP politics — and it wants to make sure MAGA outlives President Trump.

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He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.

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Re: #SNAP loss - everyone seems to focus on families with kids, and rightly so, but people, please check on your #elderly neighbors. They may not be as connected or aware, they might not drive, and the need will be significant. Please make sure they have access to #food as best you can.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

I wonder the percentage of voters who show up to the polls and don’t understand what they’re voting for?

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

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