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Buddy, I gotta tell you, if I was a GOP representative, my ass would not feel comfortable watching a 15-point swing in a deeply red district ahead of a midterm where the President has been behaving erratically while consistently growing more historically unpopular.

if i worked in a White House with an elderly and ailing president who had a hard time staying awake, i would simply recommend against having 3 hour cabinet meetings that are boring af and pointless and best remembered for the fact said president is sleeping on camera

I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.

Canvass this morning to elect MIRA TANNA to the Orlando City Council with @annaforflorida.bsky.social! Election Day is just over a week away. Vote on or before Dec 9th if you live in any of these neighborhoods: COLLEGE PARK LAKE IVANHOE ROSEMONT BALDWIN PARK AUDUBON PARK PACKING DISTRICT

Holiday sales make up 20% of corporate profits. From now through Cyber Monday, we’re taking a 5% bite back by boycotting Target, Home Depot, and Amazon for unsafe working conditions, cutting DEI, and letting ICE target our neighbors. Join us in saying #WeAintBuyingIt!

Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots. Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth. Delete your account.

A million times spot on.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

As a part of the Miss Piggy generation, I just want to leave this right here. 😘

But CAN he protect them in red districts any longer? The recent elections suggested he's already terribly weak, and there are no signs that that weakness is going to turn around, even IF his mental acuity doesn't completely break down... which it seems daily to be doing.

The press contact for FACE THE NATION is [email protected] if anyone wants to explain to them why people might care about a massive pedophile sex trafficking ring that apparently implicates the president and several other powerful men.

If you’re willing to say, out loud, that it’s “worse” to rape a 5 year old than a 14 year old, this was never about protecting kids.

Old enough to remember when raping children was a dealbreaker in politics.

REP. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social : “Trump, if you didn’t do anything wrong, stop pressuring Republican members who signed the discharge petition for the Epstein files to get off… and just comply.”

Orlando City Council District 3! I want you to know that I’m very proud to be supporting Mira Tanna in the runoff election. She’s ready to champion bold ideas because she knows that business as usual won't solve the challenges we face. Vote Mira Tanna on or before December 9th!

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

It looks like I’ll be headed back to DC again this week to vote another HELL NO on a bad deal that leaves millions of Americans without healthcare. This is not what we fought for. I will always stand with the American people.

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"

My weekly email to my congressman…

It’s Halloween, but the only thing spooky here is the way Republicans are abandoning the American people.

We should have punished the Confederates.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Isn’t Artic Frost the dead zone between Trump and Melania?

Using your platform to debate people who don’t believe in climate change, or feeding kids, or funding schools, or bodily autonomy, or voting rights, or civil rights isn’t helping anyone change the political climate. It’s just giving a bigot your platform.

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

I’m still pissed - and gutted. The donor list for Trump’s White House ballroom felt overwhelming — like how do we even begin to protest this? So I broke it down into small, doable actions. If you’re upset too, here’s how you can push back — even in 5-10 min chunks. 🧵/1 #CollaboratorsList

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

I can’t wait for the media to tell us in 2029 all about Trump’s steep cognitive decline and psychosis while he was president, with numerous examples that they just discovered through extensive research and sourcing.

TN-7 CANDIDATE REP. @aftynbehn.bsky.social: “The victims have waited long enough. They deserve the truth - not more cover-ups to protect the powerful… if elected I’m a vote to release the Epstein files. Full stop. I can’t say the same for Matt Van Epps(tein).”

Do we call the new building the "Epstein Wing?"

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Who hates America 🤔 Not Aunt Tifa 🙂

Trump hates America.

#NoKings rally in Tallahassee, FL. Biggest crowd ever. @dworkin.bsky.social

#NoKings rally in Tallahassee, FL @dworkin.bsky.social

T Rex sighted at #nokings rally in Tally.

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few. Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

The first-ever live, in-person episode of Endless Urgency is here — featuring Congressman Maxwell Frost, the Gen Z leader calling out the chaos and corruption in Washington. We dug into the shutdown, ICE raids, and fighting from the inside. Watch it now on YouTube 🔥👇

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social created an index that she shares on her Substack and on the Contrarians Substack. She documents in fine detail all the illegal shit trump is doing.

I’m talking about collecting it in one place, indexed, in a form that is admissible in a court of law with a chain of evidence.

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Orlando! Trump shut the government down cause he wants to rip away your healthcare to give Billionares a tax-break. Rally with us tomorrow (Thursday) @ 6PM. RSVP 👇🏾 www.mobilize.us/frostforcong...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

We’re in the midst of a government shutdown, and millions could lose access to healthcare and see their monthly insurance go THROUGH THE ROOF! Why? Trump and the GOP want to “maximize pain” and keep the government shut down. Healthcare is a human right. We need universal healthcare for all! Now.

Women in Virginia deserve to know that their reproductive rights are protected here. Winsome Earle-Sears supports banning abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. Virginia, hear me when I say — as Governor, I will always protect your reproductive freedom.

Let me introduce you to my friend, TN State Rep Aftyn Behn. She is running in a special election for Congress in TN-07. She is the only woman running in a field of 14 men. She’s tough. She’s real. She knows what she’s doing. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...