Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.

Franchising hate.

Making admission free to national parks on federal holidays is not woke. Please don’t make their racist arguments for them NPR.

Trump has already lost but is too busy accepting fake awards to care. Make America irrelevant again is apparently the goal.

Twice actually, if we are counting the Kavanaugh stops

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

This isn’t just a political win for Trump. It’s a blessing for racial gerrymandering for political goals. It’s a gift to the administration’s and congressional GOP’s open embrace of white nationalism to hold power by stripping marginalized groups of their rights. This is an American tragedy.

We not prayin’ hard enough cuz wtf

"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record. Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal

December elections alert!

NEW — South Shore residents who still live in the apartment building that was raided by ICE nearly two months ago in Chicago spoke out about the unlivable conditions there. “No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.” thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...

“An economy cannot remain resilient while sidelining its most educated women and breadwinner mothers… It cannot grow while concentrating Black women in the lowest-paid jobs and locking them out of higher-wage industries.”

Pope Leo is gonna have to make an appearance in his home state. The statement from the bishops is insufficient I fear.

When the base of your party are being targeted specifically because of their identity - Black, Latino, immigrant, women, gay, trans - telling the party to ignore them is a strategy for the end of your party. But go off I guess. Meanwhile, the white reunification strategy is a bipartisan effort.

As the country celebrates its veterans and the service they provided, it’s worth noting that the current president is actively fighting to keep 1.2 million veterans from receiving their food benefits. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

This! Throwing every Senate Dem up for reelection next year under the bus.

“If you’re attempting to feed hungry people, STOP immediately!” -the US federal government to states

Win by more. Lose by less. It sounds simple but it’s a recipe for success executed by both Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill this week. Pollster Cornell Belcher says affordability was key, but “It's not just the cost of things. It's the nature of things in America.” #Velshi

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

So much big news in local elections.

And when CA finally finishes counting its ballots 6 weeks from now, 11 out of 10. 🎉

They are about to redistrict that map like nobody’s business and we love to see it

Oop! When tweets become reality.

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making a last minute push for the boomer vote

LOL.

Isn’t the Trump administrations persecuting Christians at Home Depot’s, construction sites, and in the streets of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, etc right now?

YOU could also end this TODAY. But you’d rather play political games than feed children and senior citizens. Very Christ-like behavior.

Will opposing fascism make you a target of Trump's new "Antifa" executive order? Does learning history violate CRT laws, or does your skin color already fit the description of a "diversity hire?" Take the quiz and find out!

2. In Georgia, there's exceptionally statewide races on an off-year. (Some places have local elections & others not.) 425K votes so far. —10 biggest blue counties account for 50.2% of votes cast. (Up from yesterday.) —Black voters account for 32.3%. (Last year at this time, it was 45% & 25.1%)

“The report urges party members to abandon some of the progressive language about race, abortion, and LGBTQ issues” it’s not the language they want to abandon, it’s the people - Black people, gay people, and women. I say roll the dice. Also LOL promoting the report at events “in DC and New York.”

“The Democratic Party has a problem. The party’s leaders think they have a problem with Trump voters. Some polling says white men without college degrees don’t like them, don’t trust them and won’t vote for them, so they think the only logical way forward is to pander.”

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THIS is the heart of the problem. I would offer that historically, and today, there is little to no interest in seriously engaging voters outside of presidential election cycles. Dump a bunch of money in the on year and then radio silence. In this vacuum, voters are bombarded with propaganda.

Embarrassing

A perfect image to explain the state of our Republic right now, bulldozed and in shambles.

The cost of living is already too damn high, and Republicans are making it worse by allowing health care premiums to increase for working families. But no expenses will be spared for the best private jets money can buy for Kristi Noem!

In John 6:15, Jesus miraculously feeds 5,000 people and the crowd's so impressed they try to seize Jesus and make him their "king," by force. But Jesus "withdrew again to a mountain by himself" to avoid their attempt, bc he was not about earthly power. Jesus = "No Kings."

Some of y’all got Jesus f*cked up so I’m excited to have @johnfugelsang.bsky.social on the show this evening to clear some things up. 4pmPT/7ET

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The original bill at $19 an hour was the right thing to do. But how about just meet the California minimum wage of $16.50. Or the Los Angeles minimum wage of $17.87 if you’re risking your life fighting fires in the city. This ain’t it.

The consequences of an incompetent government focused on the wrong things.

These are members of right-wing militias. We can keep calling them “ICE agents” I suppose but let’s at least acknowledge who they actually are.

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

So, are “tariffs” the president’s personal slush fund?

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police. Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Y’all will just both-sides any thing. Only one party has openly declared war on the other, is using federal law enforcement and the US military as a surge force against citizens, is assaulting and detained American citizens including children, and is promising more to come. Fix ur fuckin headline.