Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

The absence of accountability for the Iraq War—including Obama installing lawmakers who voted for that war in his administration (eg Clinton and Biden)—helped pave the way for our current moment.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Public Everything! These handmade screenprints are back in stock at Justseeds. justseeds.org/product/publ...

We're in @theguardian.com! 🎉 Thank you, Jason R Rich, for highlighting the Plum Village App in the article featuring the best apps for finding balance in a fast-paced world. We are honoured to be included and grateful to you, our community. 🙏🏽 👉🏽 www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us... #mindfulness

#tdih 1892. When Board of Trade said it would sign agreement with indiv. unions, but not Triple Alliance with primarily Black workers, more than half NOLA's workforce launched labor strike. They said NO to racist "divide and conquer" tactics. #TeachTruth Read ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...

An administration that for months claimed unilateral & absolute authority to shutter entire executive agencies suddenly finds without any agency to move money from one internal pot of money to another

This is beautiful, very much worth reading. Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

Martha Rich, a commercial and fine artist based in Philadelphia #WomensArt

help i can’t get up

ridiculous

This is an important next step for people who are looking to push Albany. Plug in.

Evanston mayor @danielbiss.bsky.social is launching investigations into reports of immigration agents brutalizing community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason.”

@saikatforcongress.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

So proud of the students who led Stanford's 5th Democracy Day yesterday. "Where democracy sprouts, university students are seldom far from its source. Search for democracy’s turning points—from Prague to Seoul, from Soweto to Santiago—and the pattern repeats: students move first, nations follow."

The Movement Behind Mamdani: Organizers & Supporters Celebrate Stunning Victory & Repudiation of Trump

Another mass call.

I'm a dues paying member and also there's a mass call tonight.

Ms Rachel 🤝 Zohran "I refuse to apologize for any of it"

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

"The results...are a marked contrast to the accommodation, capitulation and outright surrender of prominent individuals and institutions in the face of Trump’s demands."

"So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

"Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refused to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past. You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in a new era of leadership. We will fight for you because we are you."

Deeply moving to see this first family.

‘Party unity’ for the Democrats only ever applied to (usually White) centrists

As @mississippifreepress.org notes, what changed is the success of 2022 lawsuits mandating a fairer redistricting map—these were special elections for those new districts. Lawsuits possible due to VRA’s Section 2. which SCOTUS is contemplating gutting. www.mississippifreepress.org/court-approv...

what a night

the only way the GOP can stay in power is by ending democracy, so that's their plan

10.8 Million projected now. My goodness...

full thread of updates : bsky.app/profile/tani...

Resign.

i can't stop thinking about this video. how the campaign started w/ Mamdani as an unknown basically...just like out reporting on the political apathy in 2024. figuring out why people felt jaded. and then working to bring about the opposite. beyond remarkable www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tur...

Breaking: Multiracial working-class coalitions powered Zohran Mamdani’s stunning mayoral victory. Now they’ll need to build worker power to pry city governance from the stranglehold of billionaires to make the lives of working people better. labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr...

the thing that I find frustrating/enraging is that this is the really boring polisci explanation. it's not some secret code; like, it's what you learn if you just follow political scientists on social media, or read a few books. 1

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

Looking forward to all the postmortems asking why the GOP is so out of touch with young men, and why their fascist propaganda is so alienating.

more of a mandate than Trump

Oh my stars

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Man alive. The contrast between the courage of voters and the absolute cowardice of Democratic leadership is just undeniable and the story of the moment. The question is which will win out in the end and that question just got a whole lot louder.

wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱 www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...

Repro wins so far: - Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion - New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)

Waiting on: - California's Prop 50, which could stave off a GOP takeover of a Congress and a *national abortion ban* Lost: - Texas Prop 15 which codified 'parental rights' and will make it easier to restrict birth control, etc

Zohran Mamdani's platform called for: - doubling funding for NYC's Abortion Access Hub and the New York Abortion Access Fund, - $65 million for public clinics and sexual and reproductive health care providers - universal childcare and 'baby baskets' for new parents It's a good day for NYC ❤️

A package of conservative-backed election reforms is crashing to defeat 41-59 with Maine voters, with half the vote counted. It would have curtailed absentee voting and dropboxes and instituted voter photo ID. The vote had been expected to be a lot closer.

how we feeling, democracy fans?

Just wanted to follow up on this 👀 nypost.com/2025/07/19/u...

Over 1 million New Yorkers voted for Zohran. There's simply no question he has a mandate to govern and realize the policies he campaigned on.

I'm nowhere near NYC and yet I am celebrating Mamdani's victory with the rest of the country. We really needed this right now #mamdani #nyc

I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!