Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

Van Hollen: (202) 224-4654 (other offices: www.vanhollen.senate.gov/contact) Alsobrooks: (202) 224-4524 (other offices: www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/contact/) Maryland, you know what to do.

There are already food banks/depositories in every district & a ton of Democrats have been doing events to support them, but if no one besides a staffer posts about it, no one knows about it. Even with a massive support, it's not replacing $100 billion in SNAP. We need a functional government!

My fellow Maryland state (and other govt) employees, you can easily donate $10/check to food banks (mine is split between local and DC) as part of the annual charity campaign. We are living off retirement savings, but at least we have that. You won’t miss $10 pre-tax and it helps so much.

Relevant once again. We've all been marinating in the idea that winning requires compromising your values since at least 9/11. I think the fear of "purity tests" is downstream of that. But to present a credible alternative to fascism, compromising on values is exactly what we cannot do!

“The Democratic Party doesn’t do anything!” If you’re a Democrat, you ARE the Democratic Party. We need you. We need your help and we need your voice in the room.

I cannot emphasize enough how much your local Democratic Party committee needs competent and reliable volunteers, whether as committee members, precinct officials, comms help, or just someone who can be counted on to show up and sit behind the party’s table.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Broadly speaking, you win elections by energizing your base and demoralizing your foe's base. Trying to convert people en masse is a loser's game, as was amply demonstrated by Liz Cheney's bff in 2024. Inspire new voters and your base with your ideals and words and actions, this is how you win.

7 million people attended No Kings protests in 2,700+ cities across the country.

This is one of the significant fault lines between the Left(s) and the Right. On the Left(s) [in general], we believe that everyone deserves public goods and to live in dignity. Period.

[hunter s thompson, at the kentucky derby, 15 juleps deep, and wearing a hat he definitely did not have when he got there] you want me to come into the office lol. lmao even.

This is Johnson saying the GOP Nazis had VIP tickets to Trump's inauguration. As proof there's no reason to be concerned about Nazis in the GOP. What a time to be alive. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I think what annoys me most whenever this happens (aside from calling adults “kids”) is diminishing the significance with absolutely no mention of even an apology, or why it was wrong. I am a teacher. Kids say dumb stuff all the time, yes. Then: you make them apologize. That is like, the key step

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines. We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

I am in multiple Democratic and progressive group chats. Anyone who talked like the *grown adults* in that chat would be immediately removed. ”Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.” Anyone with that overflow has no place in a movement fighting for rights and dignity for all.

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you! But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

people who think older women aren't showing up have clearly not been involved with a single local organization doing anything good that has survived more than like a year of existence. our entire activism and charity ecosystem only survives because of older women and I'm not joking

To any Young Persons reading this (or olds who offloaded all phone numbers onto your auxiliary brain), memorize the numbers of 2-3 emergency contacts TODAY. Right now if you can. When you most desperately need to call someone, your battery might be dead or you might not have your phone at all.

To expand on this a bit: winning most elections, most of the time, is not a *sufficient* strategy. But it is necessary.

Embrace Mamdani-and-also-Spanberger Thought like, unironically, this is the real and true big tent of liberalism. we have room for both of these strategies, where they are appropriate. they are, in very important ways, not in conflict.

Thank you @oagmaryland.bsky.social for signing on to this letter and standing up for trans Marylanders.

Gov. @iamwesmoore.bsky.social's message to Donald Trump: Stop this shutdown. You're the one causing it. We're the ones dealing with it.

This administration’s staggering corruption is dangerous beyond belief. And it’s a complete slap in the face to every single family working hard to put food on the table.

Warning for folks who are pregnant (or trying) and going to protests: we can't say for sure that tear gas causes miscarriages, but what we do know is alarming. Grateful to @gwensnyder.bsky.social for sharing her story and @blackavar-inle.bsky.social for linking this study: doi.org/10.3389/fepi...

Lukewarm take on the "should you RSVP to protests" discourse: it depends! Some people are under more threat than others, and some are temperamentally more risk-averse. Organizations' data sharing practices also vary. For transparency, here is how @mcdems.bsky.social handles volunteer data: 🧵

A 2020 Guardian piece that Congress should revisit: "One of the girls on the boat was Shawna Lee, then a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto. She recalls how the contestants were encouraged to parade downstairs, one by one, and dance for Trump, Casablancas and others."

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

The troubling rise of concentration camp euphemisms

Agree with his platform, or not, this is a guy who understands how to win

It helps to be actually willing to work in coalition with the Democratic Party! If you default to treating people as future coalition partners until you find out otherwise, it’s a lot easier to build support and get things done.

NEW: We are suing to block the unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to DC. Armed soldiers should not be policing American citizens on American soil. The forced military occupation of the District of Columbia violates our local autonomy and basic freedoms. It must end.

Let’s be clear: what the federal administration is doing in DC is wrong, and they don’t plan to stop here. We must resist the normalization of federal overreach and attacks on our right to self-governance. Read the full article: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/31/t...

Over 330 rural hospitals are at risk of closing or scaling back services due to Trump's Medicaid cuts.

Plus, local Democratic Party committees (at least in blue or purple districts where they have the resources) will organize volunteers to watch for voter intimidation and observe ballot counting.

It seems relatively simple and small-scale when you go to your local school gym and see a dozen poll workers and maybe a hundred voters. But America is big! Like, really big. Nationwide we're talking close to a million poll workers and election administrators. That's a lot of people to stop.

This is a real danger but to jamelle's point in this thread, folks often don't appreciate the scale of American elections: how many polling places, election workers, and decentralized redundancies, and how little of it is under any federal control. It far outstrips federal manpower in its vastness.

Thread. This is something to call your reps about. 🧵

putting this out into the universe: if rich Democratic donor(s) could donate $100,000 to the Montgomery County Democratic Party, we could secure the Maryland governorship and the MD-6 House seat by engaging voters in the parts of the county that are heavily Democratic and low turnout.

If your principle is “majority rule,” it is transparently obvious that unilateral disarmament is the action least consistent with the principle

These people have the jobs they have by and large *because* they are solid moderate-tempered normies who care about putting their heads down and their shoulders to the wheel and getting their work done, if they are freaking out that says something huge

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

CDC staff walkout happening now: m.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.