“Anyone who believes in multiracial democracy needs to understand where power is actually built in this country. State legislatures draw the maps. Governors sign the laws. State courts interpret voting rules. Secretaries of state oversee elections. America’s democracy is shaped in the states.”

As a recovering catholic, I hope all those devout right wingers who love Trump are paying attention…to his actions and the lack of outrage from the GOP. Time for them to choose between false prophets and the true leader of the catholic faith. Damnation or salvation? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I don’t think the Trump regime and the GOP could have screwed this up more if they tried. We went from a fully open Strait to a formal agency imposing tariffs in under 3mo. Iran creates new agency to control shipping in Strait of Hormuz while reviewing peace deal with US apnews.com/article/iran...

Bravo to University of Michigan Professor Derek R. Peterson for not backing down and showing that empathy for Palestinians is not antisemitism and free speech is something we should fight vigorously to protect. Shame on the University for not supporting those ideals.

Suspending the primary by claiming there’s an emergency. Redrawing maps in the middle of an election. Eliminating positions that were legally won because you don’t like the candidate voters chose. Louisiana seems to be leading the South’s Jim Crow 2.0 push. Despicable. apnews.com/article/new-...

SCOTUS gutted the VRA. Today, a court restricted the distribution of mifepristone. Both decisions made to further a right wing agenda to re-enslave woman & minorities. We need clear legislation passed that doesn’t allow partisan interpretation. We need a progressive wave! apnews.com/article/abor...

Amazon laying off tens of thousands and imposing a fuel surcharge on private sellers while profits surge, all due to AI. Greed rules and this trend, which exasperates income inequality, will grow until we all start placing more value on ppl than we do on convenience. apnews.com/article/amaz...

Given the Court’s disgraceful decision to gut the voting rights act, two things need to happen. States controlled by DEMS need to gerrymander to combat the unfair advantage red states are trying to enact, and we need to vote like democracy depends on it, because it does! apnews.com/article/voti...

Perfect branding for MAGA supporters, even if they’re not wearing the red cap. Are Americans not hated enough overseas? Glad ppl can at least opt out of having his pic on their passport, I just hope they realize before it’s issued. Should read “for cult members only.” apnews.com/article/pass...

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

Amazing article that illustrates the harmful and deadly ramifications of hiding the truth and disregarding the lives that are impacted by it. PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger apnews.com/photo-essay/...

Trump, his cabinet & GOP reps live streaming scripture readings from the Bible. Courts ruling that states can force PUBLIC schools to display the 10 commandments. While hate and cruelty is committed worldwide, and the separation of church & state is ignored. WTAF? apnews.com/article/texa...

“Americans know that when their rights are being trampled on, it is not God who will come to their rescue. Only government can do that — and it only does so when we as citizens demand it and have the power to ensure it.” www.ms.now/opinion/clar...

Trump tries to bully Iran and they close the strait again. No surprise there. He keeps trying to get the upper hand and Iran slaps it down. In the meantime, the stock market responds to every truth social post as if it’s gospel, and ppl with inside info make tons of $. Déjà vu, all over again.

In rural MAGA land today, at a satellite lab for the local hospital, listening to people lamenting that the hospital is closing the lab, cancelling hospice services & no longer accepting trauma cases at the ER. Refused to believe that this is due to cuts to healthcare. This is what we’re up against.

You’d think Vance would steer clear of the controversy after seeing the backlash from Catholics over Trump’s depiction of himself as Jesus. Instead, he joins in scolding the Pope, just as he’s asking ppl to buy his book about his religious conversion. Keep digging that hole, JD.

Incompetent negotiators fail to get an impossible deal in one day, so Trump threatens to expand the war to countries that have struck a deal with Iran. But Harris was going to start WW3?

Sending warships thru the strait (or gulf, as Trump likes to call it when he’s confused) to see whether Iran would dare fire on US ships during peace talks. How about how dare we sail warships thru during peace talks? During the last negotiations we bombed them. No wonder no one trusts the US.

When Oz falsely claimed that 5 mil New Yorkers, nearly 3/4 of the states Medicaid recipients, receive home health care the right wing media and the WH exploded with allegations of fraud. Turns out that it’s actually 450k. Won’t hold my breath waiting for the retraction. apnews.com/article/new-...

I don’t even have to read the article to know that @fetterman.senate.gov is NOT one of the fifty Dems calling for Trump’s removal, although he should be. Seems like Fetterman is on board with any illegal act Trump commits or threatens to commit. It’s infuriating! www.ms.now/news/democra...

Yay Amsterdam, but I can’t help wondering if the US will reach this milestone, given the current composition of SCOTUS and the distorted power of the right wing. The fight, unfortunately, continues. Amsterdam celebrates 25 years since the world's first same-sex weddings apnews.com/article/gay-...

Let me get this straight. The company that runs the facility decides IF they want to investigate an accusation and IF the allegation is reported to police? The sheriff has no jurisdiction? Sounds utterly ridiculous, but not surprising given how sexual assault is treated. apnews.com/article/otay...

Gas prices souring and obviously too dependent on stability in the middle east, but let’s waste $1 billion of taxpayer money to cancel a clean energy project and have them invest it into fossil fuels. 👍 www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

Every time I see a commercial for St. Jude’s Hosp it reminds me how this regime has gutted cancer research. I’d like to see RFK Jr., everyone who supported his nomination, all the anti-vaxers who champion his cause, Elon Musk & his DOGE lackeys have to sit thru hrs of these stories until they break.

“if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good,” sounds more like Netanyahu describing Trump & Hegseth than him talking about attacking Iran. This is not some blessed holy war…it’s aggression by a war monger and his puppet who both believe might makes right.

A woman’s right to choose ANYTHING is apparently the problem, “So their answer is to put women back in their place, to strip away their autonomy, push them out of public life and narrow the futures available to them.” No wonder so many of them are in the Epstein files. www.ms.now/ali-velshi/p...

I guess getting away with rape caught on camera applies to more than the Epstein file wealthy. When are we going to start prosecuting these crimes no matter who commits them? Israeli military drops charges against soldiers charged with abusing Palestinian prisoner apnews.com/article/isra...

Considering how red greene’s district is it’s a big deal for a Dem to advance in a ranked choice election. It would be a miracle if he won, but wow! Trump-backed Fuller and Democrat Harris move to Georgia runoff to succeed Marjorie Taylor Greene apnews.com/article/geor...

The government using taxpayer money to subvert the fourth amendment which protects against warrantless searches. Yet GOP reps wanted to be paid $1m for each phone record that jack smith LEGALLY obtained during the J6 investigation? Privacy for me, but not for thee. www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-...

We saw Israel target civilian residences, hospitals and critical infrastructure in Gaza. Did anyone expect it to be different with Iran? The Trump regime certainly won’t restrain them, or its own military. It’s not about nukes or protecting protesters, it’s about subservience and money.

Polls show that most Americans are against the war in Iran. It was planned for months, yet they fired the agents responsible for assessing Iranian plots against Americans & American interests. If attacks increase, how will it affect US support for the effort? Unavoidable consequence or strategy?

Trump must be heartbroken. Maybe Putin will stop playing Trump for a fool if Trump rolls out the red carpet one more time, invites Putin to the “United States” instead of “Alaska,” or says he’ll start aiding Russia instead of Ukraine? So out of everyone’s league. apnews.com/live/iran-wa...

Trump says, “We think about it all the time. We plan for it. “ After Noem fired ppl & moved the rest of DHS to the immigrant purge, and Patel fired everyone, including the team charged with monitoring Iran, no one thinks about it. No one is planning for it. Trump attacked them. We’re on our own.

@fetterman.senate.gov on the wrong side of the law, the wrong side of the aisle & the wrong side of history AGAIN. Only Congress can declare war, & Fetterman couldn’t even support the constitution by voting to force Trump to make a case. If the constitution doesn’t matter, voters certainly don’t!

These military commanders need to be removed, via retirement or tribunal. Extremism is extremism, no matter which religion you follow. www.ms.now/opinion/iran...

“Appalled” is an interesting way to describe a country’s counter attacks, regardless of how brutal their regime is. Amazing that world leaders stand with Ukraine, which was attacked based on unfounded accusations, AND support a war against Iran that is based on false pretenses. Pattern of hypocrisy.

“This war is about this poisonous region…I’m proud to stand with Israel…the president is absolutely correct,” says @fetterman.senate.gov on FOX. It’s not about support. It’s about unchecked executive power and a Congress that, like you, has abandoned its duty. It’s about US aggression. Do your job!

“The mayor also pitched Trump on getting more than $20 billion in federal funds to build 12,000 units of affordable housing…We don't yet have details on how amenable Trump was to offering up the money, but we do have at least one clear sign that Trump may be entertaining the idea.” Rock star!

Democrats invite Epstein survivors to the SOTU, while republicans invite misinformation spreading attention seekers. Enough said.

We’re supposed to believe he was duped when we know he sent an email after Epstein’s first arrest that in sum said “be more careful”? The gaslighting never ends. I don’t care how old you are. If you participated or enabled it you should be prosecuted.

3,000 ICE agents at a cost of $18 million per week manage to arrest 4,000 immigrants, most of whom are not criminals, all while terrorizing a city and negatively impacting local business. Moral issues aside (as hard as it is to do that), doesn’t seem like a good ROI even for the racists.

Apparently, the DOJ no longer believes that refusing a congressional subpoena is worthy of being held in contempt of court. We know they think all right wing republicans are above the law, but I’d love to have seen the excuse for the hypocrisy if the Clintons had refused and been prosecuted.

Not a lover of country music, but I could listen to this all day. It’s not Bad Bunny, it’s a country music band playing in TX, and being applauded by the bar patrons. Are ppl finally waking up and realizing that true patriotism means embracing the constitution and the words on the statue of liberty?

It’s no surprise that this openly misogynist regime that advocates ALL woman know their place & be happy serving a husband & making babies, lose their right to vote & stop stealing jobs from men would support the cancellation of woman’s studies. What’s surprising is how fast schools are caving.

So for Trump intention matters as much as results. A graze on the ear warrants life in prison, but shooting someone 10 times when they’re already incapacitated, or shooting someone in a car that’s driving away, doesn’t get prosecuted at all. Thank you, Cannon, for making the rules abundantly clear.

@fetterman.senate.gov This testimony is all you should need to motivate you to block more funding for ICE, to vote to rescind current funding for ICE, and to pressure Dave McCormick and other GOP reps to do the same. Our country’s history has enough stains. It’s time for humanity to be valued.

Released from custody after being beaten almost to death without holding accountable the officers who committed the assault does not “affirm” that the rule of law applies to all ppl. Sad that this is happening and that so little is now considered justice. apnews.com/article/immi...

I have to give you a hand @fetterman.senate.gov. You did the right thing by standing with other Dems and voting no on the spending package that included DHS funding. Please continue to stand strong!

Still willing to vote yes on ICE funding @fetterman.senate.gov ? If human lives aren’t worth shutting the government down, what is? For you, I don’t think there’s any reason that would be good enough. Learn to use what little power you have or move out of the way!

@fetterman.senate.gov is finally showing SOME resistance to ICE, but if he isn’t willing to vote no on funding his words are useless. Empty gestures that criticize Noem but praise the operation and Trump’s “border security legacy” don’t help the situation, or fetterman’s reelection chances. Shameful