I'm telling you, Gallego is NOT a Dem that you can count on. His voting record is TERRIBLE. He likes to talk like he's on the right side. But he consistently votes BADLY. And I don't know WTF happened to Tim Kaine.

If you’re rich, and you spend your day thinking: How can I make more money?, are you any different from a poor person who spends the day thinking: How can I make more money? How is your wealth improving your life, if you spend every minute chasing money? Go fix a car, heal the sick, bake bread.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

If you aren't subscribed to Heather Cox Richardson's daily essays, WHY? SUBSCRIBE!! She regularly puts current events into historical perspective. It gives me hope that we can fix our problems. Today's email contained a WONDERFUL quote from S.S. McClure, who founded McClure's magazine in 1893:

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

LeGuin would have be pleased by this. So good.

I believe that the passage of Citizens United was the beginning of the the end and led us directly to where we are today...

#WeAintBuyingIt — and we’re not alone. We’re turning boycotts into power, shopping into solidarity, silence into strategy. Join us. Redirect your dollars. They profit off our pain — we’re building a future they can’t sell. 💥 #WeAintBuyingIt

This is really good. Actual numbers.

"The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings." Really makes me sad I guess we gotta spend our time with the men who see us as equal. Different, sure, ok. But equal. Find those guys.

As we enter the FO phase for politicians who supported Drumpf, Dems must hold firm. MTG can apologize; Tuberville can vote yes on the discharge petition: it is TOO LATE and it DOES NOT MATTER and it is likely a bunch of BS. To quote CJ Cregg from The West Wing, "they get no milk and cookies."

Priorities.

I have called, please join me Schumer (202) 224-6542 Hassan (202) 224-3324 King (202) 224-5344 Cortez-Masto (202) 224-3542 Shaheen (603) 542-4872 or (603) 358-6604 Kaine (202) 224-4024 Fetterman (202) 224-4254 Durbin (618) 351-1122 or (312) 353-4952 Rosen (202) 224-6244

Schumer (202) 224-6542 Hassan (202) 224-3324 King (202) 224-5344 Cortez-Masto (202) 224-3542 Shaheen (202) 224-2841 Kaine (202) 224-4024 Fetterman (202) 224-4254 Durbin (202) 224-2152 Rosen (202) 224-6244

I may not waste my time with Fetterman, but I am calling every single one of these f*ckers first thing tomorrow morning. Join me.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

This is the message that EVERY Dem needs to be shouting. It's so easy. It's so obvious. It's so true. It's simple enough that it would break through.

Whoops

Are we great yet?

The Democratic Party should be in every major city and small rural area running food drives and registering people to vote right now. But they wont. Because “at least we’re not Trump” doesnt require any thoughts or demands. It’s just “shut up and vote for us.” And that is a losing strategy

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

This is brilliant poetry, and absolutely encapsulates the way that tech, once so promising, has been turned into monetized junk.

It may be that the ethos of the Repub Party (freedom = get out of my way, and regulation = hardship) is incompatible with the idea of political SERVICE, which is doing what is best for others (those who elected you). The lust for power is shared by Rs and Ds, but the idea of service is different.

Missed this when it first came out; delighted by it now. www.megangreenwell.com/the-adults-i...

anyone who is a true artist feels this way about AI

Decades before MAGA, there was Patient Zero. The OG ignorant racist Archie Bunker, TV character known to every single Boomer. Carol Connor’s words ring eerily true 50 years later… damn.

This is really disgusting. I don’t support these big data centers at all, and I am entirely willing to live without AI.

JB Pritzker just perfectly explained why Donald Trump is going after only blue states and not red

Using some of my limited time on this beautiful planet staying informed about some of the stupidest shitheads in history

From the article: ”The Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of . . . Democrats need to stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow. They need to stop being lawyerly and timid.” YES YES YES.

Proud of my senator for continuing to speak up.

My 2 cents about messaging: Dems should stop saying "the American people." As in, "We are standing up for the American people." Instead, say: "I was voted in by the people who live in x state / x city / x part of the country. I am here to serve THEM. I work FOR THEM. This is what THEY want.

Great Chris Murphy quote from our interview: "I would be a sucker to agree to a budget that literally funds an operation to hunt me and my allies down—to imprison us, harass us, intimidate us. If you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness." Tons more like that all throughout:

We all love our iPhones, but corporate concentration means that a company like Apple can decide to block an ICE- tracking app, and suddenly you have less consumer choice, and less control over your rights. Slippery slope.

"They hated immigrants more than they loved their own country's freedom" would make a hell of an epitaph.

"A lot of folks on your side are too." WTF??? First off, there's only 1 person who is president. Fetterman is nuts, sure, but it's not the same. Second, his response is like a 6 year old child: "Well, YOU do it, too!" These people are emotionally stunted. And he's lying: he saw that speech.

The speeches that the 1st Felon and Hegmess gave to the generals were bad. The lies posted on hud .gov were bad. I can't remember a time when our government was this weaponized against the "opposition" party. The one bright spot was the ruling from Judge William G. Young in Boston. Very good.

He's not glamorous, but my senator is doing a good job at speaking out about things that matter.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

After that disastrous Tylenol press conference, I really missed Sarah Cooper’s lip-sync versions of the First Felon…

Merrill Markoe writes in Rolling Stone about mega-mergers and the First Amend: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

The fight is not over....

This article is horrifying, on every possible level. Sorry it’s paywalled but you might be able to access as a free read. The “Fish Cop” quote stopped me cold: “at the end of the day, who is qualified for any job, really?”

Corporate mega mergers are bad. Disney caved partly because we canceled our subscriptions. But if — for example — Disney+ABC+Paramount+Hulu+ESPN is bought by Amazon+WashPost, and they are bought by Twitter + Starlink, cancelling your subscription ain’t gonna mean a thing. They won’t feel it.

This is great

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.