For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?

Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU. YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.

GOP: Plows through any risk of political fallout or decorum to get anything done the way they want. DEMS (“independent”):

Why do Dems struggle with turnout? Why do they always lose voters to the green party? Exhibit A:

So it goes…

The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.

I just put this together. Time to force Senate Dems to tell us where their loyalties lie: With Chuck or with voters.

DEM PARTY FINALLY HAD PROGRESSIVE MOMENTUM FROM ELECTION DAY BUT 8 SENATORS CAVED TO THE FASCIST GOP PATHETIC IM DONE WITH THE DEM PARTY. WHEN THEY LOSE POTUS AGAIN IN 2028 AND BLAME THIRD PARTIES REMEMBER THIS DAY WEAK AND CORRUPT

These 8 weaklings. Dem party is weak and pathetic. This is why we need a progressive party and why people showed up on Election Day.

Zohran Mamdani has made history as New York City’s first Muslim, socialist mayor — and for In These Times contributor, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, his victory feels like a love letter to the New York that both embraced and opened the world to her.

Zohran Mamdani has made history—New York City has elected its first Muslim, socialist mayor. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social reflects on what this moment means for working-class New Yorkers, for Muslims, and for the city itself.

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges. What we’re seeing is the 13th largest army in the world unleashing violence in Chicago, writes @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @lindsaykosh.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

@jesmimi.bsky.social “Sing Unburied Sing”, “Salvage the Bones”, and “Let Us Descend” are three of the most beautifully written works I’ve ever read. Thank you for sharing your gift and vision with us.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have for years worked alongside private security to surveil protesters who oppose Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousands of pages of law enforcement communications.

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And… they believed him!

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👀 That F-35 budget...

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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

If you are watching and support Cory Booker, we should be following each other. Please 💙 or comment below!

A rapidly growing Christian Right movement has become a driving force behind unqualified U.S.—and global—support for Israel.

Proposed changes to Texas’ abortion law aim to mitigate the criminal risk for providers handling pregnancy complications, but leave in place steep penalties for those who violate the law. By Kavitha Surana and @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

The law behind the warrants bars concealment of people in the country illegally, yet the students were legal residents living on campus.

The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected 👇

Native Americans, and the health centers that serve them, disproportionately rely on the program, which could see major cuts under the Republican budget proposal.

"[Young people] can see that there is no history that can justify this, what is happening in Gaza today," Pankaj Mishra said. Listen to the full podcast on ▪️ Spotify: interc.pt/4hN3qBf ▪️ Apple Podcasts: interc.pt/4hMxHQs ▪️ Everywhere else: interc.pt/4ivsldL

"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View

EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!

If we're not doing these things to better society, then what the fuck are we doing?

The Trump administration is defunding and censoring science to serve corrupt corporate interests.

Trump has directed the federal government to use conditions of confinement as additional punishment — which is unconstitutional.

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

“I knew we could do better in the U.S. because I had seen better elsewhere—we don’t have to cut from whole cloth to build the world we need.” — @natashakimiz.bsky.social

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

Trump has wasted no time attacking workers' rights.

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.” - KT c/o KV

“It’s a full life, and a merry one.”