Washington mourns the loss of a man who could deliver a 45-minute speech on constitutional principles and then vote like he lost a bet.

The Republican Senate succession plan is apparently just a game of musical chairs where the music is played by a haunted organ.

every workplace has people secretly keeping the world humane. the nurse sneaking extra pudding cups. the librarian extending deadlines. the call center worker finding discounts they “aren’t supposed to.” saints, honestly.

That Alex Cole is a cool cat.

Mamdani has New Yorkers so beholden to him...

Why Vote Democrat? Affordable healthcare keeps families out of bankruptcy & communities stable.

In private call, Education Dept. tried, but failed, to reassure disability advocates https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/11/disability-groups-left-concerned-confused-after-ed-dept-briefing/

This is my new favorite meme. It's even funnier cuz MAGA won't get it.

8 men indicted in planned drone and sniper attack on White House UFC cage-fighting show https://www.kgw.com/article/syndication/associatedpress/8-men-indicted-in-planned-drone-and-sniper-attack-on-white-house-ufc-cage-fighting-show/616-6a69178c-09e9-446d-9cda-7816a33bc3b4

We👏Fucking👏Told👏You👏So👏

My weekend just got better. Lindsey Graham was objectively the cause of a lot of suffering. Imagine that being your legacy. Such a waste.

Minnesota is pulling troops early from D.C., as pressure grows on Michigan https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/11/minnesota-is-pulling-troops-early-from-d-c-as-pressure-grows-on-michigan/

Ezra Klein & Bill McKibben-- www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...

Lego

You don't have to be famous to exercise power Every person with 40 people who trust them has power Every parent, organizer, group admin, every person whose name lights up someone else's phone & every account with a handful followers.

Hey, remember what we could have had?

NOW is the time to pay attention. We're in freefall.

If you don't teach your feed who matters, it'll decide for you.

Totally absurd—Trump can’t accept that he lost his case to end birthright citizenship, so now he’s asking the Supreme Court for a re-do until he wins. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Compromise is a governing tool. It is not supposed to become your entire personality.

PSA: Leave Flock cameras alone!

There’s a very specific kind of exhaustion where your brain stops storing information unless it immediately becomes a survival priority. Like cool cool cool, glad my nervous system decided “why you entered the kitchen” was nonessential data.

I don’t think this is about one election or one party for me anymore. It feels more like trying to track direction over time. I’m wondering if others are also voting based on trajectory instead of promises.

Every election cycle Democrats ask us to vote like democracy itself hangs in the balance. Maybe stop governing like universal healthcare, affordable housing, and living wages can wait until next cycle.

Before asking why someone uses, ask what they're trying not to feel.

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I don’t think people fully understand how disorienting it is 2 realize u were taught a story about stability that wasn’t actually real I’m voting Dem cuz I’m watching the scaffolding come off things I assumed were structural. My kids are growing up in the afterimage of what I thought was permanent.

Every policy has a receipt. Deport enough workers? Crops rot. Slash public health? Hospitals strain. Undermine science? Reality doesn't negotiate. Eventually every slogan meets a spreadsheet.

JD Vance displays a photo of a Black woman and says, "I want to be clear that the woman in the back did nothing wrong. But look at this woman in the front with the smug look and the Louis Vuitton bag!"

The Minnesota 15 left the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis after their first appearances, greeted by supporters waiting outside.

REQUIRED reading. Don't kid yourself that it will stop there. Children forced to attend Sunday School 6 days a week are not taught about things like safe & unsafe touches, or civics, girls are taught domestic 'arts' and to defer to men.

Help us build the biggest grassroots "who should we be paying attention to?" list in Oregon. https://forms.gle/TiLvFf6NPxwz9hLx5

I accidentally opened my junk drawer today and found the missing Allen wrench from the IKEA bookshelf I assembled in 2018. I have achieved closure.

All of this could have been avoided if we just BELIEVED WOMEN

Somebody tell the consultants to stop trying to find the mythical undecided suburban unicorn who's still waiting for permission to care. The people who've been carrying this movement are already here. Start acting like it.

I grew up thinking rights were something you protected occasionally, not constantly negotiated. Now it feels like maintenance work just to keep them recognizable. Is that just adulthood, or something more specific to this moment?

And here we are.

Today took more out of me than I expected. So I'm borrowing a little peace from people making tiny crafts on the internet. What's everyone else watching when their brain says "absolutely not" to the real world?

Of course it would be Texas.

i have a theory that some of us didn't become people-pleasers because we wanted everyone to like us. we became people-pleasers because we learned that reading a room was safer than existing inside it.

Preach! Having worked in and with volunteer organizations for most of my life, I'm appalled at those within the organizations who think they can treat volunteers any which way and believe there'll always be more people they can use and abuse in the name of the organization. I learned to say no.

Our biggest challenge isn't finding passionate people. It's building organizations capable of respecting, retaining, & empowering them. That's where @workingfamilies.org comes in.

Being brown while driving out of a Home Depot parking lot is enough to get you hassled in 2026.

Oregon pear growers are in crisis. And yeah—this is exactly the outcome people warned about when climate disruption + labor instability + broken ag policy all stack together. But sure, let’s call it “unexpected.” #OrPol #RuralOregon #FoodSystems

The man is literally above the law

We've accidentally built organizing cultures that treat volunteers like an unlimited natural resource. They're not. The people who always say yes eventually run out of yes.

The main difference between “school choice” and defunding public education is the branding team.

if you’re wondering why sexual assault survivors don’t come forward, it’s because dudes with 160K followers post shit like this. And then horrible people show up to heart it

As trump ratchets up his Red Scare v2026, it's important to understand the actual meaning of the terms being thrown around.