Before you get into an argument, remember this, "A bee does not waste its energy trying to convince a fly that honey is better than shit." Some minds are not meant to be changed, save your energy for what actually matters.

“This might just be the beer, but I think I have reason to believe we’re already living in an Orwellian surveillance state.” Cartoon, by Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski, The New Yorker We know it's not the beer!

Good people are always beautiful.

A new vision for the future is actually possible.

The space between fascism and democracy is not neutral territory! There will always be work to do to promote the general welfare and improve social and economic justice for all.

Health authorities in the DR-Congo—working with the WHO declared an Ebola outbreak over just three months, having contained 64 cases (45 deaths) through a revamped national surveillance system, a milestone hailed as a major public-health achievement. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The space between fascism and democracy is not neutral territory.

No. They're flouting not complying.

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

I don’t think I’m being alarmist. If anything, I worry that we’ve become so inured to Trump’s madness that we’re not alarmist enough. Trump must be removed from office as soon as possible. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-threat-of-trumps-madness

Great piece about my dear friend Melissa Hortman. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Chag Chanukah Sameach, Andrew. May the Festival of Lights bring you hope, laughter, happiness and inspiration. ✨🕎☮️

The GOP opposes the People's agenda. We're in this together. We can get back to building a more perfect Union to promote the general welfare, advance social and economic justice and defeat cruelty by standing side by side in solidarity.

Truth is the line between civilization and intolerable chaos - without it, everything breaks.

Buttigieg on Indiana Senate: “To be clear, they didn’t stop being Republicans. This is a conservative state. These are conservative legislators. But they figured out that the right thing to do and the smart thing to do was to say no to the WH, no to Trump, and not to JD Vance. ...

Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...

Truth is the line between civilization and intolerable chaos - without it, everything breaks.

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Remember December 7th ... and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the surprise attack. "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain," is from Lincoln's Gettysburg address Saalburg, Allen Russell, 1899-1987 (artist)

The path to freedom in healthcare

This blueprint rejects our profit-driven chaos for a coordinated system proven abroad: automatic universal coverage, fixed fair prices, budgets that reward keeping people healthy, and treating housing and food as healthcare. It's practical, humane, and already works. 1/2

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY: “The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need.” apnews.com/article/chic...

"If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that.” West Chicago brothers are on the front lines against ‘Operation Midway Blitz' - And they are teenagers! www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/c...

Courier created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

College basketball players are more at risk than athletes in other sports, NCAA found, especially around March Madness, when thousands of abusive or threatening messages flood athletes, many of them from gamblers, some of it so severe and alarmingly specific that the NCAA must alert law enforcement.

Donald Trump’s Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, acknowledged today that yesterday’s email dump undermines his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell.

The decade long conspiracy projections are unraveling for Qanon and MAGA in real time, the scrambling, the edits, the goalpost migration, the sudden “well actually.” A movement built on projection can’t survive contact with the mirror. Every new leak is another shattering event. Don't look away.

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

“Let this be a reminder: when they go low, we cave.” Cartoon, by Brendan Loper, The New Yorker

Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.

This right here.

The vote to reopen the government with no deal on health care is a brutal blow to all those who have stood together to save affordable health care for more than 20 million Americans. I will vote ‘NO’ with every fiber of my being. www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-voti...

REWILDING SUCCESS Finland expands successful daycare “rewilding” experiment nationwide after research showed that replacing sterile play yards with forest soil, plants, & natural materials strengthens children’s immune systems by diversifying their microbiomes. www.ethicalmarkets.com/how-a-radica...

They are so good at this.

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.

Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas. But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community. It was standing room only.

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

Trump is very belatedly recognizing he can't coerce Democrats into voting to bolster his Regime, and with it his "war within" America. But the now inevitable GOP climb down will further demonstrate how rickety a dictatorship Trump's presiding over, as I discussed a few couple ago. 1/

If yesterday’s election results were a bellwether for the midterms and 2028, ending the filibuster would be a godsend to Democrats

We're not there yet. Will democracy return and prevail? Thomas Zimmer provides a glimpse into possibilities.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

At a time when our politics feels broken, we need leaders like @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for Governor. Mikie will work to create jobs, lower costs, and do what’s right for the people of New Jersey.

"They won't hear your booing, but they'll hear your vote." -Barack Obama Bring it home, California, New Jersey, Virginia, and NYC!