Lots of choices!!! Please pitch in! #PostcardsToVoters PostcardsToVoters.org Or Abby.PostcardsToVoters.org

#ResistanceUnited The National Park Service is removing interpretive signs that reference climate change, slavery, the massacre of Native of Americans and other “improper partisan ideology.” The Save Our Signs project is scrambling to create a photo archive. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Rural Virginia is losing all three Healthcare Facilities, run by Augusta Health, in the Shenandoah Valley due to the Big Bullshit Bill and loss of Healthcare funding. The Director of Virginias Republican Party said, "They can get Healthcare elsewhere." Sure, just nowhere near them. Perfect

This is not a thing — there is no “domestic terror organization” designation — and the president doesn’t have this power. (State does terror designations!) So media: Please make all that clear in any coverage. This is a random tweet on White House letterhead. That’s all.

As Trump criticizes Smithsonian, 'citizen historians' document exhibits : NPR share.google/NfKzPn5qnx9f...

Hey #PostcardsToVoters!!! 3 campaigns need your help asap! Abby.PostcardsToVoters.org

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

While ppl are boycotting Disney a reminder that Sinclair and Nexstar are also the problem. They started this. Canceling Disney subscriptions hurts Disney but does nothing to Sinclair/Nexstar. We also need to boycott companies that advertise on Nexstar and Sinclair stations.

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Incredibly detailed analysis of law enforcement helicopters flying over Washington, D.C. neighborhoods from August 7–September 7. Plus a comparison with 2024. Gift link! (They require a working email address to access the story.)

Be sure to find the Sinclair (and Nexstar) affiliates in your area and reach out to them and their advertisers with your thoughts. Links to both lists in here: bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Our top story, from @michellepitcher.bsky.social: At a North Texas prison, one nurse practitioner racked up more than 20 federal lawsuits over alleged medical mistreatment. The patients’ stories illuminate a healthcare system that often seems like another form of punishment.

D.C. usually gets blamed for local crime, but Congress also a role to play. Specifically, the feds are supposed to reimburse D.C. for the costs of using local police for things like big protests and motorcades. But congressional funding hasn't kept up with costs: 51st.news/trump-dc-tak...

The cruelty is the point

Pawpaw season is upon us. You may have heard of pawpaws, but many locals still know little about the “tropical” fruit that grows wild in some wooded areas in the DC region.

🚨 CDC Website Scrubbing Alert We do not have a complete list but can report that CDC plans to delete or otherwise takedown many CDC pages about LGBTQ+ health, health equity, disabilities, hepatitis, HIV and more.

The Administration's plans to fight crime using the National Guard are not the way to build real, lasting safety. Here's what the evidence shows can work, even as we continue to see national declines in crime. New from the @brennancenter.org: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Colin Kaepernick is funding an independent second autopsy for Trey Reed, the Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, after the Mississippi State Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide. www.mississippifreepress.org/autopsy-find...

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

RFK and the hacks he’s appointed have to go. Their incompetence puts the nation at risk.

Happy Friday! Short stack of #postcardstovoters going out today to peeps in Virginia HD-30 for John McAuliff. Every election counts, so please be a voter!! Learn more at John4VA.com

Don't trust American media anymore? I don't blame you! Here are some alternatives: (NZ Herald, not Hearld, apologies for the typo.)

"The acting assistant secretary for legislative affairs for the Department of Homeland Security, Dillon McGregor, apparently effusively praised El Salvador’s authoritarian president in one survey response that was included in the leaked database." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trump-...

We deserve some joy. We deserve some FAT BEARS. NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK!!!! Go Grazer Go you absolute unit! www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

Israeli Forces fired upon a clearly identified Médecins Sans Frontièreswater truck while it was distributing 10000L of drinking water in Gaza City. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to the Israeli authorities, as MSF does on a daily basis. msf.org.au/article/proj...

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

John Thune DC ofc number 202.224.2321 in case anyone would like to join me in calling and suggesting an appropriate answer

RFKjr gave orders to Dr. Susan Monarez for her not to speak to US Senators. He put a gag order on the senate-confirmed CDC director. Scream this story from every rooftop. Impeach and remove RFKjr.

A new report from Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state shows that noncitizen voting is vanishingly rare. Yet, some politicians are using that myth to push stringent requirements that will prevent eligible Americans from voting. Learn more by subscribing to The Briefing: bit.ly/3Yrz5jM

one teacher told @kitoconnell.com that on her first day of school, students asked, “What is going on, what do you mean that you can’t call us our names?” meanwhile, fearful of teachers violating the policy, "our instructional coach and assistant principal were circling like sharks.” @teenvogue.com

🚨SPECIAL ELECTION - GEORGIA STATE SENATE DISTRICT 21🚨 Democrat: Debra Shigley Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD🗓️ Area: Alpharetta and points north. Note: The runoff from the jungle primary back in August where Shigley easily got the plurality of the vote in this tough district.

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COVER STORY: From mid-August through September, Joyous and Wil will record the memories and faces of long-established Harlem residents for their new project, “Uptown Voices/An Uptown Story.”

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Cool, everyone should live-tweet and post Kirk's own words and videos during the tribute that show him mocking and hating on Black people, immigrants, women, Muslims, and LGBTQ+ people. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

We are off the looking glass & through the looking glass when Karl Rove has more spine than almost any national Democrat & The Wall Street Journal’s opinion editor more courage than any of the leaders at ABC or CBS or Fox or CNN or NBC.

Mario Guevara, journalist in ATL arrested & detained since June 14 for his news coverage, is still in detention. A judge ordered his release in July, but he remains in rural southern GA. We're fighting for his release. Next Monday will be 100 days in detention. pressingissues.org/five-questio...

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Contact ABC and tell them to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel Live! Boycott ABC until they do. support.abc.com/hc/en-us?ret...

On college campuses, where people live & learn in close quarters, anti-science policies put the heath of students at great risk. Where it comes to meningococcal disease, anti-vax sentiments & falling vaccination rates carry life & death consequences. 🎁 Article www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

Wyoming’s new reform mirrors a law Kansas adopted in 2011 to require proof of citizenship. That law was struck down in 2018, but in the interim, Kansas blocked roughly 30,000 citizens from registering to vote because they lacked the proper paperwork.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

New: How Jameson Govoni—a little-known former Green Beret and serial small-time entrepreneur—ended up at the center of a dubious scheme to deliver aid in Gaza. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

RFKJr and his tirades against vaccines of all sorts is have a clear effect: rejection of vaccinations is soaring, creating ideal conditions for epidemics of measles, polio and other childhood diseases.

🚨BIG NEWS: Republicans just quietly added a line to a defense bill that would empower the Pentagon and Pete Hegseth to deploy armed private mercenaries inside the U.S. at the southern border for the first time in American history. www.levernews.com/defense-bill...

NEW: A Republican member of North Carolina’s election board — who helped shift the state’s voting rules in the party’s favor — lauded the importance of bipartisanship on the election board at a U.S. Congressional hearing on elections. From: @jimsaksa.com

Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click. New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️

Surgeon general nominee Casey Means' ties to the supplement industry were already a cause of concern for some critics. New disclosures show how much money she made from promoting them (story by me and @isabellacueto.bsky.social): www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

As election season nears, several swing-district House Democrats are weighing support for Trump's uncalled-for takeover of D.C. in hopes of boosting their chance at re-election. Ankit Jain argues this approach could damage the future of the party and the nation.