Democracy dies in silence. …when people are too afraid or don’t care enough to speak up. Not today. MILLIONS of Americans and allies of freedom and democracy, here and around the world, are taking to the streets. Showing their love of country and defiance of tyranny. It’s a beautiful sight.

More from Rhode Island. #NoKings #NoKingsRI #NewEnglandStrong

No Kings march in Rhode Island. #NoKings #NoKingsRI #NewEnglandStrong

No Kings March in Rhode Island. #NoKings #NoKingsRI #NewEnglandStrong

No Kings march in Rhode Island. #NoKings #NoKingsRI #NewEnglandStrong

Huge turnout in the smallest state. I love New England! #NoKings #NoKingsRI #NoKingsProtest #RIProtest #NewEnglandStong

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours. There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds. Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

Thanks, New Yorker

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

Vermont has since joined. Get your shit together, New Hampshire. #NortheastPublicHealthCollaborative

Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

They can’t win fairly with policy or eloquence or fairness or intelligence so they’ll just silence everyone who disagrees with them. It’s fascism but in its most cowardly and pathetic form.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

The thing is, as much as they want to immortalize Charlie Kirk to justify and escalate their platform of hate, they’ll forget about him in a month and move onto something else. Hate is a fire. It has no memory. It doesn’t need a reason. It just needs to burn.

Exactly! We don't give a shit if he goes down. I will never understand blind loyalty.

We can set an example for the whole nation in this election.

What a petulant little shit stain.

The late summer inhabitants of Bug-ingham Palace. #AudobonCenter #Insects #Bugsky #Nature #NaturePhotography 🌱🐞

CHICAGO…

Complicated syrup for complicated times. #TheNook #Cafe #NewEnglandCafe #EastGreenwich

Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.

No notes. Perfection.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. I'm confident Mandy and Lola would stumble through insane situations, each more hilarious than the previous, only to accidentally kill my kidnappers. I get "rescued" by default. #Mandy #BBC #BBCComedy

Usually, I am no fan of gerrymandering by either party, but I am tired of fighting with one hand tied behind my back. Tired of bringing balloons to a gun fight. Tired of playing by the rules when one party stopped doing that decades ago. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Join us. All the cool kids are doing it.

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!

Oh my God

Democratic Governors, you have to play hardball. Red states can't function without your economies. They clearly want to F around. It's find out time.

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer... #NewEngland #NewEnglandSummer #NewEnglandNature #Audobon #Nature 🌱

ANCHORAGE…

Pragmatic progressives — armed with bread-and-butter proposals to improve the lives of ordinary Americans and an upbeat message of hope — are the future of the Democratic Party. This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope

Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.

Comfortably settled in a pleather recliner at my local theater. Bring on the Jean-Claude Gosh Darn! #RiffTrax #RiffTraxLive

Please don’t call this number multiple times a day

I'm going to commission a recording of Republicans bullet point listing all the things they're afraid of. The never-ending prattling will put me to sleep like that 🫰

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

A bold statement, considering she's flanked by utter filth.

I recently celebrated the answer to life, the universe, and everything birthday. My towel was clean and ready to go. #fortytwo #TheHitchhiker'sGuidetotheGalaxy #Don'tPanic

My view as I stretch out my lower back. #cats #catsofbluesky #orangecats 🐈 #caturday

This is perfect.

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

I need at least a few subscriptions in my life that don't make me sad, mad, smad, or so fearful that I slip into a dissociative fugue. bitches gotta eat! #SamanthaIrby