You and your neighbors should not be subsidizing the electricity needs of a data center run by a trillion-dollar corporation.   My Power for the People Act would force Big Tech to pay for their own power needs. We should pass it today to protect consumers from rising costs NOW.

Congress should be making it easier for families to put food on the table. That's why I joined my colleagues to introduce this bill to let SNAP participants buy hot rotisserie chicken. There’s no good reason a family can buy a cold one but not a hot one.

It's a good thing he caught a nap on camera earlier in the day, sleeping through a meeting in the White House so he could be well rested for his actual job of "night shift internet grandpa"

Obviously it does not matter to the people who think he's a business genius, but Trump not understanding percentages gives an indication of just how much actual work he's done managing his own businesses

At least 10 people were wounded today in a shooting at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge. This comes just days after eight young kids were killed in another mass shooting in the state. Our communities don’t even have time to grieve between tragedies.

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

PabloReports: What do you make of Stephen Miller and Tom Homan asking for all this money but then refusing to show up to the hearing today? Frost: That’s what happens when you have a lapdog as speaker.

BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated? RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy RFK Jr: *death growls* BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?

AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.

I can't help anyone who is so indoctrinated that they really think the world is shitty because it has to be that way. It so clearly doesn't. We're not even talking about political activity in the world. We're talking a basic foundation to be able to say, this shit's not right, it could be better.

something about being in my late 30s really has me sitting at the window watching the birds jumping in the little dishes of water i set out for them in the garden, i can’t get enough of this shit despite having no preexisting interest in the business of birds.

RFK Jr. is testifying to a House committee. Dem Rep. Diana DeGette tangling with him over cuts to family planning services. "The secretary refuses to tell the American women whether he will let poor women used the contraception method of their choice." "Let the record also reflect: It is 2026."

The Trump Administration desperately wants to win the war with Iran, and desperately wants to lose the war with Russia - but can't seem to manage to do either.

Exactly one year ago today:

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE. www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point

AOC: "The President of the US is a rapist. The President of the US is implicated in the Epstein files. He is convicted in court on 34 counts of felony fraud"

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

Not sure how this "no tax on tips" stunt was supposed to play out, but showing a senior citizen who is stuck driving Door Dash because she can't afford her husbands cancer treatment is not the flex they think it is. Or was that part bullshit too?

Yeahh. I was walking around town and passed some college students gossiping about someone else's dating life. No issue with them, I just felt a sense of "wow I cannot imagine caring about that." The difference in age shows so much to me now. I just want someone to look at plants and rocks with me.

Instead of ending his illegal war in Iran, Trump spent the weekend attacking Pope Leo & posting pictures of himself as Christ. This unhinged man is unfit to be Commander in Chief. He is putting Americans & the world in danger. We must end this war now.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

I realize not everyone can completely get rid of Amazon, but anything you can do to reduce your dependency on it is a good step. This coming out the same week as that fluff piece about Lauren Sánchez Bezos not apologizing for her happiness is vile.

performative, knowing falsehoods that we see rising now. Claims that average, centrist Dems are actual communists; snark attributing airline and military accidents to female/POC presence. It's easy to imagine next-gen Republicans sincerely believing these things. [Update: new defense sec does!] >

But I'd argue that what were at first performative, knowing falsehoods radicalized an up-and-coming generation of Repubs who genuinely believe them on a religious level, and in some cases are willing to commit violence in support of them. This doesn't bode well for the >

I'd argue that popular Republican falsehoods about affirmative action, environmentalism, Islamic fundamentalism, and gender roles in media all began as performative, *knowing* falsehoods too; in the 1970s, the 1990s, the early 2000s, and the early 2010s respectively. >

The basic problem, though: the Repubs who conceived of it as a game, and promoted it knowing it was false, are now losing party control to those who took them seriously and are—as a result—limitlessly more dangerous. As I said in the other place back in August: >

When a USAID whistleblower told Trump people that it'd be hard to pull together accurate info on Malaria since DOGE had turned off access to the whole team who worked on that issue, one of the guys shouted “See, this is why, just because it might work at Twitter does not mean you can do it here!”

A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Are we just randomly blowing up boats and people who happen to be traveling on routes that drug smugglers also use? There has never been any evidence provided about how we know these are drug boats. And this admin loves to blow things up and then have something to brag about. I'm suspicious.

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

When I was a child, teachers sat the best girl students next to disruptive boy students. The girls were responsible for keeping the boys calm so that the teacher could continue teaching. This sort of emotional regulation by proxy, using girls and women to calm boys and men, still happens.

Los Angeles at the ICE Detention Center

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.

Today I met an elderly woman who lost her husband unexpectedly, has an autistic son, no financial cushion, no life insurance. She was begging by the side of a shopping center parking lot. I gave her what I had in my wallet. What are we even doing in this country?

Just a reminder to Congress: Any time you send soldiers to another country to start bombing shit and shooting at shit and killing the people of that country, THAT IS A WAR. If your President is DOING WAR without Congressional Approval, THAT IS A CRIME AND HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain Massachusetts' unredacted voter file. A victory for our clients the New England NAACP and the MA Alliance for Retired Americans and the Commonwealth. My firm is now 4-0 in these cases against DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/massac...

Thousands of children have been separated from one or both parents amid heightened immigration enforcement in Minnesota and nationwide. The impact, from immediate adult responsibilities to chronic stress, is lasting, therapists say. By @bzosiad.bsky.social

Newly unsealed search warrants in the California ballot seizure case paint a chilling picture of how the types of anti-voting conspiracy theories weaponized by the White House to investigate the 2020 presidential election can be used to target elections on a state and local level.

My latest message to my reps: "Please do all you can to support the impeachment of President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth. Both are willing to commit war crimes and pursue illegal wars of choice. Neither is fit for their office, and both are a threat to the United States and the world."

All my besties are leftists, but leftists who make hating on religion their entire personality are annoying and ineffective af. You cannot organize people you have contempt for, and most people have religion. You will not annoy, pester, or troll them out of their beliefs ffs. Be better.

Go science! Go art! #steam #stem

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.