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TOO LATE GOP Leader HAS URGENT SOS WARNING on Trump

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

The thing I love most about Zohran Mamdani are his ideas for how to make working people’s lives better. I also love how those same ideas make the most greedy people alive utterly furious.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social leads with clarity, conviction, & calm strength. A unifier with unwavering values, he speaks truth to power & fights for justice, equity, & democracy. His leadership, along with other strong Dem. voices, is the steady hand our future needs.

Any Christopher Nolan film that doesn’t have Batman in it.

Look at these medically fragile children & their parents. Republicans just cut their care. Yeah, the Medicaid that keeps them alive. I will fight for each one of these children & I hope you’re as outraged as I am & join me. We’re coming for every Republican seat. #CutMedicaidLoseYourJob

They want to freak you out, to paralyze you. Shock Doctrine is meant to demoralize you + make you cede your rights, fight, and freedom to them. Do not let their psychological tactics work on you. Set boundaries. We hold the line IRL and in our heads. Defend your psyche so you can defend democracy.

If binging news about our corrupt christofascist SCOTUS ruling in alignment with their unitary executive theory Christofascist ideals is stressing you out and causing you to spiral: please get off the internet. Set limits to your consumption of news that sends you into a spiral.

The question is whether these people would accept this formulation if the dominant voice belonged to another religion. The answer is no, of course they would not.

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

If I'm running a news room now, I assign everyone who has done piece on Biden's final-years fitness-to-govern, and have them apply same standards here. (Once heard Bill Clinton give 45-minute ad-hoc on what diff *counties* in Arkansas had done in Civil War. Trump doesn't know WHAT YEAR it was.)

You know, Europe has lots of Democratic Socialists in their parliaments. Oh and free national healthcare.

This is an appropriate time to remind folks that the judiciary was never going to save us. They are a useful tool to slow down the march of the fascists and buy us time. But they were never never never going to save us. We, The American People, will save us. Stop waiting for a rescue. Get to work.

This is an excellent point. Nationwide injunctions were fine when they limited Biden's power. But when they're a threat to their boy's power and their Christofascist agenda, they must rule against them. Roberts, Thomas, Alito are corruption and hypocrisy on full display.

I can't stop thinking about how Biden could have expanded the court, but he didn't. RBG could have retired under a Dem, but she didn't. Americans could have voted for HRC as bleh as she is, but they didn't. SCOTUS could be constrained by ethics rules, Thomas could have been impeached, but...no.

Zip-tying disabled and elderly Americans who are protesting the GOP's plan to gut Medicaid in order to give a handful of obscenely rich men a huge tax break. Are we great again yet, America?

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Unbelievable. Latest update from the nonpartisan budget office says the Senate Republican bill now cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.

Call your republican senators NOW and tell them you will never forget and never forgive if they vote for this big bloated bill which will cut over $1Trillion from Medicaid and balloon the debt. Congressional Switchboard 202-224-3121

The Supreme Court’s decision in the LGBTQ books case lays bare the extent to which the justices exist in a bubble. They don’t interact with anyone other than wealthy conservative Christian lawyers. The law exists to protect people like them, and no one else. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...

We are seeing more cases of ICE trumping up assault charges to chill dissent (like they have done with @replamonica.bsky.social). We need to understand how they're using this suppression tactic and how to continue to assert our Constitutional Rights.

A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

Time to call Josh Hawley, who is betraying Missourians by voting for a bill he knows is devastatingly bad for the American people. 314-354-7060 or 202-224-6154 Cutting $980 million from Medicaid to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Decent Americans will die. Hospitals will close. Hawley knows.

A corrupt system is when ~155 million Americans are represented by 53 MAGA Senators but ~200 million Americans are represented by only 47 Democratic Senators—so the will of 155M is enforced on the will of 200M. Tyranny of the minority is not a functioning Republic, its an aspiring Autocracy. 3/3

I'm so angry at my hometown right now underscoresf.com/sf-pulls-tra...

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DISTURBING: ICE in Las Vegas threw teenagers against a wall, handcuffed them, scraped up their faces, bruised their arms — just for looking “illegal” while they were on their way home from a birthday party. This is what cowardice looks like with a badge.

Word. #NoKings

What It Feels Like For A Girl star says new queer BBC series is ‘Pose meets Skins’

Just saw this on Insta... Weird... I'm in Philly (saw Bruce play at the Ambler Caberet... Iykyn) kind of a fan. Seen him 38 times. It's weird that I have never seen these "scheduled tour dates" on his schedule. BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T EXIST! MAGA IS NOTHING BUT FUCKING BULLSHIT!!! COPE HARDER

American Exceptionalism is Killing Us #ABlueView🧵1/4 "“Americans die earlier & are sicker than people in other high-income countries. This has been true for a long time & the trend is getting worse.” Drug overdoses from opioids, alcohol, suicide & chronic diseases drive most"

The GOP Will Throw 13.7M (20%) Off Medicaid to Fund Top 1% Tax Cuts #ABlueView🧵1/3 CBO just estimated that at least 13.7M (20% of enrollees) would lose coverage & the ranks of the uninsured will explode 150%, from 26M to 40M! CBO report: tinyurl.com/mveutesp#ABlueView🧵1/3 #NoMedicaidCuts

Oh, Kristi, the Hunger Games called, and they want their concept back. What an awful human she is. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #MomSky

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"To pick something out in the world you need to know both what makes it one thing, and also what makes it different than other things – identity and individuation, sameness and difference. Each of these aspects of individuality also tends to come in degrees." Even individual identity is a spectrum

Elon Musk has said he wants to "delete" the CFPB. One of his employees is working to do just that -- pulling double duty as a DOGE employee involved in efforts to unwind the consumer watchdog. @propublica.org's Jake Pearson has the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Nothing is ever joyful. Nothing is ever not political. How people forgot that and voted for him yet again I will never understand

I refuse to listen to the audio or to this person’s voice, but: ▪️Library of Congress is NOT a library that children browse. ▪️I’m amazed the “journalists” in the room didn’t correct her. ▪️Pursues “DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children” will be used to attack all libraries.

Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens

I'm just saying..

Woman from Haiti died in ICE custody at a for-profit immigration detention center owner by GEO Group 👇

Trump had 48,000 Mar-a-Lago guests near classified documents and only screened 6% of them. 31 of 37-counts against him were brought via the Espionage Act under which the Rosenberg spies were executed. The prosecutor? Trump’s sinister mentor, Roy Cohn. Trump got away with it all.

Governmental agencies adopting the aesthetic of fascist paramilitary groups and organizations sure has been fast.

He was also invited through the fence by ICE. So it was never trespass, unless FOX would like to call a Congresswoman a liar.

Did you know that the ICE detention center in Newark was opened without permission from the city & in violation of state law? Mayor Baraka has been fighting to close it down. RT this to THANK Mayor Baraka!

Get up stand up! 💙

The arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka without cause is a wake-up call for all of us. We must recognize the danger of Trump's authoritarian tactics and stand together to fight back against his attacks on democracy and human rights. Speak out against this blatant attempt at intimidation.