-- Trump lets Americans starve before releasing SNAP benefits; -- Most military officers fired have been Black and/or women; -- Spends > tax $ on golf trips than on childhood cancer; -- Muslim becoming Mayor of NYC is a problem but Muslim nation owning an air force base in ID OK; -- It's only 4PM.

As a timeline cleanser to briefly interrupt your doomscrolling: We live 30 miles from the nearest town. A year ago today, we lost power in a snowstorm for most of of the night. Scary thing. This was the view from our back deck the next morning. Never surrender to the darkness.

News media should stop covering elections as, "I wonder which football team will win?" and more as, "Is democracy going to survive the night?"

🧵On November 7, 1931, Juliette Derricotte, Dean of Fisk University in Nashville, TN was driving 3 Black Fisk students to Atlanta. A white man swerved in their path + struck her car, overturning it into a ditch. The white driver yelled at Dean Derricotte and her passengers for damaging car AND LEFT.

On November 7, 2000 in the first major election of the 21st Century FL voters were disenfranchised when they were not allowed to vote or had their votes not count. George W. Bush claimed the electoral votes and ultimately won a SCOTUS decision ending up with < popular votes than Al Gore. #History

On November 7, 1950 Dr. Alexa Canady, the first Black woman to become a neurosurgeon, was born in Lansing, MI to parents who graduated from Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry + her mother from Fisk University. She was also National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

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-- Trump defies court order to spend money on SNAP benefits; -- Ordered the cancellation of latest jobs report; -- Most top military officers fired are Black and/or women; -- Spends more tax $$ on golf than childhood cancer research; -- Could release Epstein files by XO but won't; -- it's only 1PM

James Watson just died. Believe it or not, there are lots of Americans who don't accept the reality of evolution. I blame Republicans for that. Republicans are crippling American education. www.cbsnews.com/news/james-w...

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeats John McCain becoming the 44th U.S. President + first Black President. The 47-year-old Democrat = 365 electoral votes and nearly 53 percent of the popular vote. The Affordable Care Act + saving the auto industry were only two of his many achievements.

On November 5, 1986 State Senator Lawrence Douglass Wilder was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia -- the first Black person to hold this position in a southern state since Reconstruction. This military veteran was elected Governor in 1989. #History #BlackSky

On November 6, 1947, six white police officers shot and killed Roland t. Price, an unarmed 25-year-old Black WWII Purple Heart recipient military veteran in Rochester, New York in his uniform. He had no weapon on him, did not resist and the murder was deemed “justified." Source: EJI.org

On November 6, 1973 former Tuskegee Airman Coleman Young was elected the first Black Mayor of the city of Detroit, MI, which at the time had a population over 1M people. Born in Tuscaloosa, AL he faced racism and discrimination in the military, on the job and as a labor union organizer. #History

On this Friday, 11/7, at the end of the week when Democrats absolutely kicked ass, here's a reminder that Trump is a very toxic 34-times convicted felon and a serial rapist and pedophile.

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Trump has abandoned even the appearance of pretense that he would divest from his businesses to avoid conflicts of interest (he at least made the pretense in his first term). More: He is now openly acquiring new and intentionally corrupt businesses to purposely and blatantly increase his conflicts.

Federal taxes have never been lower in the past 65 years. Taxes aren't a punishment. They're a public responsibility. Stop letting the rich define their greed as anything but a shirking of that responsibility + a middle finger to us all. That's my TED talk.

Elites hated Biden. Newsom wants their hate, too. Is the No Kings movement the new Tea Party movement? A THREAD.

Public Service Announcement: We're coming off Daylight Savings Time. Since this is the Trump era, remember tomorrow morning to turn your clocks back three centuries.

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Thread about the upcoming Arc de Trump

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I bet all y'all have forgotten one year ago, on the campaign trail, when Trump debuted the prototype for his new business venture, Trump Limos. He never followed through. Another campaign promise broken.

I'd put up any money that Trump is on the side of Rio cops. and is looking for an excuse to do this ASAP in, say, Chicago. And not because he gives a shit about drug gangs. He just wants his brownshirts to kill Americans. Prove me wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

The Marie Antoinette ballroom wasn't enough. Trump plans to order up a triumphant arch in honor of himself. Here's a model he was displaying in the Oval Office less than ten days ago. That's the Lincoln Memorial in the foreground, and the Arc de Trump across the Potomac. 1/4

If a foreign nation did this, or any person or power who wasn't Trump-- -- we would be at war right now. If it was any president other than Trump, impeachment articles would already be enacted. Benedict Donald owns the Republifascist Party. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

What's to keep Trump from demolishing the Lincoln Memorial? The Washington Monument? The Smithsonian? The Vietnam, WW2, and Korean War memorials? Really, why shouldn't he? And pave Washington DC to make the parking lot for a Trump DC Golf Resort? Whythefuk not?

On this No Kings Day, remember that Benedict Donald is a 34-times convicted felon, a serial rapist, and a pedophile.

I want to remind you all, Donny Diapers is a 34-times convicted felon, and a serial rapist and pedophile.

America has no king. America will allow no king. Get out there and shout it. www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

Daily reminder: Benedict Donald is a 34-times convicted felon, and a serial rapist and pedophile.

Generals and Admirals who have served our country with distinction for 20 or 30 years do not need to be lectured on the warrior ethos by a professional drunk who wants to be a bully when he finally grows up.

Midnight tonight, Republicans will shut down the government.

Trump is openly declaring war on America. This is precisely the thing everyone in the military has taken a sacred oath to prevent. www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

This is what allows me to sleep at night. I do believe this is the guiding light of America's military. It has been for a quarter of a millennium. We will find out if it still is, in the next forty-eight hours.

Here's a reminder for today that Dicktater Don is a 34-times convicted felon and a serial rapist and child abuser.

To extort concessions from Democrats, if the government runs out of money and there's a shutdown next Wednesday, Trump is threatening not to temporarily lay off federal workers, but to just fire them. "Nice country youse got there. Shame if somethin' happen to it." www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

Fifteen months from now, Jan 3, 2027, is the day Hakeem Jeffries becomes Speaker of the House. It came come soon enough.

Cancel the Cuts. Lower the Costs. Save Healthcare.

Consider this your daily reminder that Dementia Don is a 34-times convicted felon, and a serial rapist, and a child predator.

Y'know how there were rumors that Disney was gonna allow Jimmy Kimmel to be back on television if he apologized and agreed to "tone it down"? Yeah, that's not how it happened.

Well done to Jimmy Kimmel for hosting a fantastic comeback episode last night and refusing to be silenced as well as having absolutely no fucks to give.

Here is your daily reminder: Fascist dicktater "Dementia Donald" Trump has 34 felony convictions, and is a serial rapist and a child predator.

Here's your daily reminder that Trump is a 34-times convicted felon and a serial rapist and pedophile.

"Good Christians" oppose programs like SNAP that give food to the poor. When reminded that Jesus said we should feed the poor, "Good Christians" say that's different from having government force you to do it. But they're okay with government PREVENTING a trans kid from getting medical care. Odd.

It's odd. "Being a good Christian" means opposing reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights, and never is about feeding the hungry or clothing the poor or healing the sick. I mean, Jesus never said anything about abortion or gays or trans folk, but he did talk about that other stuff. Weird.

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

I'm not an intellectual property attorney but I have to believe that Trump, RFK Jr, and their gang of lunatics and quacks are callous, foolish, and reckless by persistently isolating and impugning the brand name Tylenol instead of the generic chemical, which is acetaminophen.