“There are solutions out there,” Cohen insists. “We don't need to wait for something to be invented. We just need our leaders to have the political will to put them in place so we can start saving lives.” Via @people.com.

Echoing this post because my family also went 40 days without 60% of our income but we supported Democrats fight to ensure healthcare access for Americans. To see eight of them throw it all away is absolutely infuriating. What have so many people suffered for?

"On the eve of Veterans Day, we should also remember the fact that over 1 million veterans actually participate in SNAP." - Crystal Fitzsimmons, Food Research and Action Center

My favorite protest sign at the #NoKings protest in Lawrence yesterday. “Oh Lawd, he treadin’.”

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

Heres a fact sheet to use if youre calling your GOP reps office staffer who argues with you all morning about the government shutdown, calling it Dems fault. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm attending Healthcare Not Authoritarianism's event, “MASS CALL- Healthcare Not Authoritarianism: Shutdown Showdown” - sign up www.mobilize.us/healthcareno...

Called Rep Tracey Mann's Manhattan office (KS-1) to express my deep concerns about Trump threatening to use the military to attack the "enemy within" and the government shutdown and the staffer kept arguing with me,

To all my friends in the #CentralValley, please check out the platform that @villegas4congress.bsky.social is running on. I love this campaign video he put out.

There’s been a 24% increase in the price of my family’s sunscreen in the last 18 months (after adjusting for size). I wonder what it could be due to? 🧐 #Trump #tariff disasters

What if #California stopped paying taxes to the federal government? (A question that may not be answerable). Is this legal? California’s economy is enormous and the effects would be immediate if they withheld that money. @governor.ca.gov

Seen at my local Library’s book sale. Says it all.

I'm on the Capitol steps with ‪Senator Klobuchar‬ and families who are speaking out against the bill that Republicans are trying to jam through that would take away health care from 17 million Americans.  We are not giving up in this fight.

The biggest dividing line based on this map is that Cuomo did best in neighborhoods with the most people who have cars while Mamdani won among people who take the subway.

i gasped on the subway and read this out loud and everyone around me is very happy!!!!

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

#FederalWorkersAgainstDOGE has an official website now! 🎉 We will post all updates and information about events, campaigns, supportive resources and any calls-to-action on our website. Take a look around and send some words of support to a fed worker while there! federalworkersagainstdoge.com

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

A reminder that ICE did not exist before 2003 and has not had a Senate-confirmed director since 2017. We existed before it. We can exist without it. But at a minimum Senate Democrats should not allow a single other vote until Republicans are forced to confirm a nominee to lead Trump’s secret police.

An Unfathomable tragedy. May she fly free and fly high.

I hope to see you at our No Kings Day event in Kansas City on June 14! Join our nationwide day of defiance to reject Trump’s tyranny and ruin his self-serving birthday parade. app.sosha.ai/s/vhKSdOgb

Planners in Leavenworth could refuse to issue the special use permit to reopen a CoreCivic prison as a ICE detention facility. lawrencekstimes.com/2025/06/04/l...

All of our communities must rise up to say no to the fascist police state metastasizing under Trumps ICE regime. They are terrorizing our law abiding neighbors.

elmo cannot be killed, but his vengeful wrath could level this continent. something to consider

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

Pedestrians who are hit by SUVs are 44% more likely to be killed than if they were hit by a conventional car, new study finds. Children are 82% more likely to die when hit by an SUV than by a car. In children under 10, the risk of death was 130% higher. Regulate vehicle size now.

“Authorities have not released details about the circumstances of the crash or whether the driver may face charges.” Plowing a motor vehicle through a daycare is how to get away with murdering children in America. apple.news/AX0WSEmTYSwS...

USDOT Secretary Duff is soliciting comments from folks on what could help improve transportation for families. I asked that we get safe protected bike lanes and infrastructure and better public transit to safely and efficiently travel by bike and bus in our community. 🙏

Tell me how we can Make Traveling with Family Great Again! There’s no better place to start a family than the USA so I want to make it easier for you to travel with your kids. Here’s your chance to tell me, your Transportation Secretary, what I can do to make travel easier (cont in image...)

I’ve heard, “Where are the young people in this fight?” a lot. You know what we watched? The first round of Trump. Protests & impeachment didn’t work. Black Lives Matter. Palestine. Roe v Wade being overturned. Protests didn’t fix that either. We’re fighting differently this time. #GeneralStrike

Of course.

Anyone who runs a real business knows this.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

The Lawrence Journal World did a nice piece on the #bikebus I help to organize in Lawrence at Limestone Community school. It’s a joyful weekly ride we do with students biking to school. www2.ljworld.com/news/2025/ap...

At the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which ordered its workers back to the office four weeks ago, the $1 limit caused significant problems for those back in the office. www.wired.com/story/federa...

I just heard from a nonprofit affordable housing developer that they had to pay an unexpected $72,000 over the weekend to clear a lumber shipment out of customs. Utter insanity. No one voted for this. #tariffs

Build cities for children to explore joy, beauty and curiosity about the world around them. Create physical stories for their imagination @tomflood.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social

“Children have not yet built wide hinterlands: to them, the world is still opaque and full of necessary bewilderment. Those who write for children have the chance to point them towards beauty that they do not yet know exists: towards versions of joy that they have not yet imagined possible.”

BREAKING: MSPB member Cathy Harris (who trump tried to fire) GRANTED the stay requested by Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger (who Trump tried to fire) REINSTATING 5000 USDA employees (who Trump tried to fire.) osc.gov/News/Pages/P...

Under heat at a town hall in western #Kansas, Senator Marshall bowed out early from the event. Vote him out in 2026. @indivisible.org

@trilemma.bsky.social Drew the Bermuda Triangle

DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination Why has #HUD opened these confidential records to #DOGE?? @nlihc.bsky.social

From the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, this is how the GOP's 2025 Tax Plan will impact you.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Some of the most basic technical resources cities use to build bike lanes and sidewalks were housed on a single government website, which was scrubbed shortly after Trump's inauguration. Now, advocates are scrambling to replace them.