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BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind. “How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families. W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Part of the statement from the children of Mark and Melissa Hortman who were gunned down in their home by a right wing political assassin. Their children asked people to "Love their neighbors" and "Treat people with kindness and respect." Beautiful thoughts.

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

The country is really against this president, by large and increasing numbers.

In a summit meeting with the countries that are still nominally US allies, discussing the largest war in the world in 20 years, the largest in Europe in 80, between the largest and the second-largest country in Europe, with geopolitical consequences that will last at least decades:

REPORTER: You previously said Hochul is 'fundamentally ineffective as governor.' What's changed? TORRES: I'll be honest -- there might have been moments when I underestimated the governor. And my message to Donald Trump is you underestimate Gov. Hochul as your own peril.

"Newsom is showing not just that resistance is plausible, but that especially when it's backed up with a plan it pays major political dividends — which hopefully will lead other Democrats to resist too."

Would it kill national democrats to do some solidarity on issues and moments like this? Think outside the box, for once.

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

To my critics who say that my position urging Democratic governors to redrawing maps is simply a race to the bottom, I say this: The only thing Donald Trump understand is overwhelming force. We shouldn't bring knives to a gun fight, we should be missiles. Unilateral disarmament is not an option.

Kauai July 1982 🩷

This bill if passed by the House will shorten the lives of millions of Americans and bring the republic to the point of collapse. It’s a gift to oligarchs at home and enemies abroad. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/p...

If someone doesn’t ask Karoline Leavitt why she posted on social media that this bill includes no taxes on Social Security when she knows it is a lie and she intentionally lied to the American people, everyone in the room should lose their jobs.

Thank you to Natalie for being a voice for thousands of clinical trial patients who are not receiving the care they were promised. This is powerful. www.instagram.com/reel/DLflEqh...

This quote from Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko really resonates. He said the Ukrainian people know why they have to keep going because "When Ukrainians are fighting against Russia, thousands die.When Ukraine is occupied by Russia, millions die.”

8 days ago millions of people marched against the President and held signs and listened to speakers and AFAIK not a single one of them (nor the people attacking them in RW media) mentioned a war against Iran because it just wasn’t a thing then.

All Possible LOVE to icon of my youth Lou Christie - & his family & all who loved him!! So happy when he joined me on stage for a song with my Is This a Cool World or What?!! Band at The Bottom Line NYC 1/2/82 (photo credit : Bob Leafe)

Weingarten: Their attacks on public education are relentless and why? Because they fear knowledge. Why do they fear teachers? They fear us because we teach critical thinking… their brand of greed, power, and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse educated citizens

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” — Desmond Tutu, the Book of Joy xoxo

Saturday newsletter: The NYT's Defeatism. It is the despairing voice that says resistance is futile; that capitulation is the only prudent move. But we need to call bullshit, because this is a fight that demands defiance, not defeatism. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

I am worried that even as we see the weaponization of government against Trump's political opponents, too few have stepped forward to object. I worry that as a result, we will see an escalation of political retribution that will be met with what MLK called "the appalling silence of the good people."

“All have their roots in the compulsive behavior of the world’s richest men. Enough is never enough when our instincts run amok.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

The Midterm attack ads write themselves.

“We ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism, and let freedom ring," Springsteen said. I hope it inspires other artists to use their voices in this urgent time. www.americaamerica.news/p/must-artis...

FYI: House Switchboard: 202-225-3121.

My statement on the charges against @replamonica.bsky.social. Rep. McIver was doing her constitutional duty. I stand with her and believe every American should be alarmed.

“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social

When will this media reckoning come? I’m thinking never. New from me https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now.

Dear SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts, Did we send you to Harvard Law School to enable an authoritarian takeover of the United States of America on your watch? No. We did not. Mom Ps. Don't be a disappointment to your mother.

For those confused by the China tariff news: • Trump caved and got zero in return • No manufacturing moved back to the USA • 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans • 90 day pause still causes uncertainty • Trump lost all negotiating leverage

"They’ve gotten just about everything they want, and it’s not enough. It’s never enough. These people are never happy. They crave outrage. They demand purity. They’re apoplectic that the first American pope actually reads his Bible." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/these-peop...

May 7, 2025

So many of you wrote to me about my appearance on 60 Minutes and offered such kind words of support. Thank you.🙏 I hope you read this, consider how you can speak out as well, and share with others. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...

Janet Mills announces the USDA has dropped their lawsuit against Maine over trans athletes: “A few months ago, I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, I did see him in court and we won”

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Why do Elon "Social Security's a Ponzi scheme" Musk and his DOGE cronies need to stick their fingers in your personal data — your work history, income, benefits, and health records? Trump and Musk need to get their hands off Americans' Social Security.

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.