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As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

“My family and I have long understood that standing up to Donald Trump comes with a cost,” Comey said in a video. It’s a sentiment many of us know too well because sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.

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"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it." --Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

Federal officers took 11 Democratic officials into custody inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan after the group demanded entry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells where migrants were being detained.

You can’t talk about cleaning up crime in D.C. while a 34-count convicted felon is running the country.

Congratulations to @teamsters.bsky.social Local 210 workers at Perrigo in the Bronx on your strong new contract. Workers shouldn't have to strike to win dignity and respect on the job — but sometimes that's what it takes.

We relaunched our canvassing operation a month ago— and our volunteers already surpassed 235k doors knocked, including 39,700 this past weekend. There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.

"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change." ~ Bob Kerrey  It’s Tuesday. A good day to go forth and offer an unexpected kindness😊 photograph is from atop Bald Mountain at sunrise🥰 #EastCoastKin #Sunrise #Mountain

Don’t forget to vote, Minnesotans! Today’s special election will determine who fills the state House seat after Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in June.

I'm starting to think that this whole feudalism thing mayhaps be a self-protecting system in which the nobles horde wealth and power that is grown by the commons. But mine salary be not to think, aye.

All of humanity has treated humans abominably. It has always been thus; no culture is exempt. Enlightenment is for every age and every moment. Kindness, compassion, empathy, inclusivity are not marketing phrases. These are the precepts of Our Constitution. Liberty. We are the People.

🔥 CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON: "We're not gonna surrender our humanity to this tyrant… Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny-- resisting those who wish to undermine the interests of working people. We're not gonna back down.”

If you’re in Chicago, pissed off at the thought of a military takeover of our city, and want an outlet, come to my campaign’s punk show this Thursday at Gman Tavern. God knows I need it: katforillinois.com/concert

@janecaro.bsky.social says it simply but well "we need to tax wealth rather than wages" ##sundayshot

The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.

This is what every governor should be doing now.

At this point, do we prioritize getting folks out of D.C., or getting folks in…. ?

Once we pay our taxes, it does not go from being our money to their money, to do with as they wish. We are the people. It is our government. We need to be represented.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

I wonder if i give more grace to Michael Jackson because i believe he battled his demons, rather than displaying behavior devoid of all empathy.

Also, spend cash where you can. In the immortal words of Cap’n Mal Reynolds, ‘I mean to confound these bungers.’

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Last night on @theweekendprime.bsky.social I got to talk to the @betoorourke.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President should not be allowed to trade stocks. Ban insider trading now.

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

Imagine our potential if we prioritized maximizing each individual’s capabilities rather than commoditizing them.

In response to the Congressional gutting of public broadcasting, KMXT, the Kodiak public radio station serving a community of ~5,000 people, raised $125k in just one day.

Truth,

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Well, this we can agree on, even Senator Thom Tillis is calling out his own colleagues: “Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who don’t really give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail,” the North Carolina Republican wrote.

The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.

I’m Indigenous. My people were colonized, brutalized, and brainwashed. And still—I believe in the good immigrants bring to this country. The benefits outweigh the harms. We cannot silo or isolate. We must adapt, evolve, live, teach, and love. That’s how we survive. That’s how we thrive. 🥳 🇨🇦 ❤️ 🍁

Our Congress should look like the United Nations. It’s up to us. Register to vote. Run for office. We are the people.