🧵 An Englewood, CO cop, put a driver in an illegal chokehold for 12 seconds because he spoke Spanish. Bodycam footage shows the man never resisted. He begged, “I don’t know what you say… translator, please. My neck… water for me, please.” The cop shouted only in English: “We’re not gonna play this!”

Time to #LeakTheEpsteinFiles

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Oooooo

If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand. There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise. Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @deadder.bsky.social )

Following the Trump administration’s restrictions on a popular student-loan-forgiveness program for public servants, nonprofits, states, cities and unions filed two separate lawsuits to challenge the changes.

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

They spend our tax dollars to live like kings while Americans suffer. These are truly evil people

There’s a name for this. C O R R U P T I O N

Ouch 🚽

Our health care system is so broken it’s insane. Stop letting them make you believe a better one is impossible. #MedicareForAllNOW

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

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KOIN 6 News is working to confirm that more than 200 people have been arrested in just the last few weeks — including more than 30 in Woodburn on Thursday, according to immigrant advocates. www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support

"Hoarding that much is incompatible with KINDNESS, LOVE or basic HUMAN DECENCY." --- Reddit commenter #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

BREAKING: 20 Jeffrey Epstein victims are urging Mike Johnson to immediately swear-in Adelita Grijalva. STOP IGNORING THE EPSTEIN VICTIMS!

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Before The Board Can Even Authorize Chump's $350 Million Ballroom, He FIRES THEM.......

The White House is building a massive ballroom for fancy dinners with the ultra wealthy and elite, while millions of families across the country are preparing to lose aid for food they need to survive. A damning reminder that these big money politicians really don’t care about regular people.

Hold the line, Dems.

Newsom Not Afraid To Share His Plan For The World's 5th Largest Economy,California, in Spite Of Chump.......

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

If you think Trump can’t misuse the nuclear codes because "people would stop him" well those same people just watched him bulldoze a wing of the White House.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.