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November 4th is Election Day! Polls will be open from 6am to 9pm. Y’all know what to do 🙂↕️🗳️

Damn proud to be a Chicagoan right now. We resoundingly say NO to ICE and the national guard invading our home!!

If you only believe in free speech when people are saying things you agree with, then you don’t believe in free speech. Hope that clears things up.

Brendan Carr, the FCC Chairman, threatened ABC and Jimmy Kimmel after his comments about Charlie Kirk. Now Jimmy’s show is indefinitely suspended.

First Stephen Colbert. Today Jimmy Kimmel. And now Trump is calling for Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon to be next. Let’s call this what it is: a coordinated attack on free speech. No amount of gaslighting changes that fact.

Living in the United States is such a dysregulating experience. My nervous system is in shambles.

And y’all wonder why this generation of kids struggles with high rates of anxiety

MAGA argues that all this discussion of racism and slavery is dividing us and thus needs to stop. You know what’s really dividing us? Refusing to reckon with our storied past and how it proliferates into the present moment. What’s dividing us is the failure to engage in genuine repair.

What you refuse to reckon with will reckon with you

“yOu LiBs ArE oBsEsSeD wItH tAlKiNg AbOuT rAcE!” Are we obsessed with race or are we insistent on naming the harm caused by people who uphold racist systems? Stop the problem and we won’t have anything to talk about. See how simple that was?

Call me crazy, but if you’re more offended by slavery being taught in museums than the tragedy of slavery happening in the first place then maybe…just maybe…you’re the problem.

The most wild thing to me about this claim from the White House that the Smithsonian museums are "too woke” is that we already get a super tempered history of slavery in this country. We’re rarely taught that enslavers used to literally eat us.

Cracker Barrel unveiled a new logo without the old white man. MAGA called it a “woke rebrand.” Within a day, the backlash forced the company to restore the original logo. Nothing like a challenge to the status quo to bring out unfettered white backlash and fragility.

So tired of people like Snoop Dog proliferating the idea that seeing PG queer relationships on screen is inappropriate for children or too inconvenient to explain. Like bro you’re “scared” for your grandkids to see two married animated women kiss on screen? Really?

This is Mariam Abu Dagga, a 33-year-old journalist killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. In her will, she told her 13-year-old son: “Never forget me and remember that your mother did everything she could to make you happy, comfortable, and at ease.”

When told about the hospital strikes, Trump muttered he was “not happy” and wanted to “end that nightmare.” Blasé, empty words. This is the same man who bankrolls Israel with our tax dollars and attacks free press here at home while defending an ally murdering the press in Gaza.

Israel has now killed at least 197 journalists and struck hospitals again and again. Yet it continues to claim having “the most moral army in the world.” What morality is there in starving children, bombing doctors, and murdering reporters? This isn’t morality.

Netanyahu called Israel’s strike on Nasser Hospital — which killed at least 20 civilians, including 5 journalists — a “tragic mishap.” That was not a mishap. This is genocide.

The hypocrisy is the point.

Because we don't do performative allyship in this house thank you very much! 👋🏼

I swear y’all better leave Ms. Rachel alone! She’s just out here advocating for Palestinian babies who deserve peace, safety, and a real childhood like every other child on earth. If that offends you then you’re the problem.

Why should anyone have to explain why a Black woman would refuse to be “escorted” by police? An institution rooted in slave patrols and systemic anti-Blackness? Of course she said no. Of course.

Let’s keep it a buck: Black women have always borne the brunt of hyper-surveillance and punitive measures in the U.S. What’s being done to Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier isn't a deviation from that status quo, it’s an explicit continuation of it.

Texas Republicans literally locked Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chambers for refusing to sign a “permission slip” forcing her to take a police escort. She’s not a criminal. And treating her like one after drawing maps that silence Black and Brown voters is a shameless display of misogynoir.

The White House recently tapped PragerU as an educational partner. Yes, the same PragerU that made a cartoon Frederick Douglass video downplaying slavery. And yes, the same PragerU founded by Dennis Prager, who once complained he couldn’t say the n-word as a white Jewish man.

It's always the most lawless and disorderly who are out here screaming the loudest about law and order smh

The second I hear law and order my spidey senses start tingling. Yours should too.

I just know he salty af right now. STAY MAD!! 🤭

Republicans gerrymander to silence Black and Brown voters. Democrats gerrymander to platform them. Are they both ultimately doing this to win elections? Yes. But don’t get it twisted, not all gerrymandering is made equal.

We can play the moral absolutism game right now and scream about how all gerrymandering is bad, or we can have a very grown up conversation about the fact that we cannot afford to lose these midterms. We have to protect the seats we have and pick up a few more.

I clowned Gavin Newsom in March after he did that podcast episode with Charlie Kirk and threw trans folks under the bus to pander to the right. That was foul. Still is. AND I’m here for his retaliatory gerrymandering to check Republicans trying to silence Black and Brown voters.

An Illinois judge just denied Ken Paxton's request to enforce arrest warrants for the Texas House Democrats staying here in Chicago. Why? Because it was an overreach of his jurisdiction. I just know Kenny boy is salty af right now! STAY MAD!!

ICE just deported three children to Honduras, including a 4-year-old U.S. citizen with Stage 4 kidney cancer. So to recap: the party of “family values” and “Make America Healthy Again” is harming sick kids. Got it.

Elitism is antithetical to collective liberation #unionstrong Original poster: @regularevolutionary

DON'T PLAY WITH TEXAS DEMS 🤘🏼

POV: Texas Democrats watching our reps show up with that knuck if you buck energy right now

The first election I was old enough to vote in was in 2016. At the time I was a freshman in college living in upstate New York, but I made sure to send in my absentee ballot for Texas. Why?

What Texas Republicans WANT you to think abandoning your duties looks like VS what it ACTUALLY looks like

While Texans are still recovering from devastating floods and mourning their dead, Governor Greg Abbott is busy calling a special session to redistrict the state to ensure he and his allies retain power. Truly tasteless behavior.

Gerrymandering is the manipulation of congressional district lines to favor one party over another. While it might sound innocuous, its impact is anything but. In Texas, Republicans have been transparent: redistrict along racial lines to ensure more seats for themselves.

Silly billy behavior with Qasim and Haley 💕

People often tell me I’m one of the only young Jewish people they see advocating for Palestinian liberation. That always shocks me because there are so many of us loudly condemning this genocide. And more are speaking out every day. KEEP. GOING.

“All life is sacred, but Palestinian lives are not treated as such, and that is a blot on our collective humanity.” — Alissa Wise, Founding Director of Rabbis for Ceasefire

This week, 27 rabbis were arrested inside Senator Thune’s office. They’re part of a multi-denominational coalition demanding 1) an end to Israel’s blockade and 2) the release of food aid into Gaza. THIS is what leadership looks like. And I’m d*mn proud of them.

How quickly we forget.

FYI only Congress can officially abolish the Department of Education. But Trump’s plan to gut it is moving forward because checks and balances in the United States are totally cooked. He packed the Supreme Court with a 6-3 right-wing majority to do his bidding. This is a calculated abuse of power.

Here to remind you: they told us they were going to dismantle the Department of Education in Project 2025. It was never a secret. And it shouldn’t be a surprise.

It’s shocking that in 2025 it’s controversial to say that k*lling and starving children is unacceptable. Food and water are fundamental rights. Depriving a child of basic necessities and with it, the very experience of childhood, is a horrific crime that should disgust every one of us.

On Sunday, an Israeli airstrike k*lled six Palestinian children in Gaza as they waited to fill water containers. The military is blaming a technical malfunction for the tragedy. But after months of mass annihilation, that excuse rings hollow.