"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Trump said he would fight for “forgotten Americans.” I didn’t know that meant Jeff Bezos. Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes. This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for. Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.

What divides us now is not our political views, but our ethical beliefs. #Truth

Look at this skip find. I've always been quite proud of the clothes airer I hauled out of a skip in 1988 (still in use), but this is something else.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Don't know who this quote is from, but man...

They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

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This is Georgie. He heard sirens outside his window. Thought he would show them how it's done. 14/10 excellent vibrato Georgie (TT: georgietheboxr)

If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Is anyone making the connection between Indiana Republicans saying no, and Trump paving the way for Pence‘s murder? Those Hoosier Republicans just love Mike Pence.

Wow, actual chills. This is so powerful. Amazing work @handsoffnyc.bsky.social.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

Imagine if we did this but instead of paying people to racially profile and terrorize communities and grab mostly innocent people we did it for teachers

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This makes me sick. That’s our House, our history. The fact that it happened today stinks of retribution for Saturday.

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Truly disgusting ICE detained an autistic 5 year old girl in Leominster, Mass Using this child-a US citizen-as bait to lure her father-who has lived in the country for 20 years-out so they could arrest him How do these people live with themselves www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AmrWut/

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫,

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care. Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park. His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m. The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom. While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop. The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

RIP Jane Goodall

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

In North Carolina's state legislature, the vast majority of seats - 85% - are drawn to be completely non-competitive. This not only deprives a huge swathe of North Carolinians of a meaningful political choice, but increases extremism and polarization in our politics.

📌Consider where we are in our nation's history: European prime ministers and presidents are urgently flying into the United States to oppose the actions of its unstable authoritarian leader.

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.

Abortion bans are not about objection to abortion, but about objection to women’s autonomy and freedom from male control. The anti-choice movement often has no objection to abortions that are instigated and commanded by men.

Tomorrow, the President is going to order the national guard to militarize the nation's capital (despite crime being at a 30 year low) after sending Congress home to prevent them from investigating evidence he committed sex crimes against children. The Congressional GOP is unified behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.

Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man. Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

Heres just a taste of what the recissions will do. Repost far and wide. And remember that this was all in Project 2025. If you voted for Trump, you voted for this. And if you didn’t vote because of some principle something something, you also voted for this. rudepundit.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

just looping back on this october 2024 warning and yep we have ticked through them all

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin