This mentality pushes millions of voters away from us and into the arms of rightwing grifters and fascists who then use religion to justify harming the vulnerable because they see us as anti-religion.

*legislature, damn my fingers!

Agreed. We need a full time legislatur!

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People keep saying "Getting arrested is bad, actually" and while I'd certainly prefer not to be, the administration's entire strategy is built around the idea that I will live in fear of it, and shape my behavior to avoid it, and cry in shame if I am. That is how THEY CONTROL YOU.

I understand the logic behind this but given everything else that is happening, in what world do they comply?

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

We have just witnessed state security services execute a protestor in cold blood.

If they can get away with it, we have entered a new, exceptionally dangerous stage in America’s authoritarian slide.

We need this energy!!!!

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Honestly, statements like this should be followed with directions for local law enforcement to escort ICE out. Unfortunately law enforcement in blue cities has been captured by right wing elements (case in point, the Seattle Police Department).

Same thing happened to me. I never finished it. Her newest book has that same quality but its much better!

More rich people in and around Seattle should use their wealth like this.

Oh. Oh no.

counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right

a baseball player with the number 52 on his jersey ALT: a baseball player with the number 52 on his jersey

It just hits different

this is absolutely correct. Problem is that there is nothing we love to do more than fighting the last war as opposed to fighting the current one, or heaven forbid the next one!

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

If you're a Tennessee Republican looking at these results in #TN07, you gotta be scared for #TN05 next year.

Republican incumbent who's not really raising any money, Democratic opponent who's raised nearly $1 million already, AND it's a district that's 10% bluer than TN-07.

as per a post you had earlier, a major problem with this is that you cannot somehow finesse yourself past the political party as an institution.

Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"

It's almost like people need to know what candidates and electeds stand for and support!

Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol

wild

3 concrete things men can do to be protectors of women instead of the status quo:

So much for that.

Cortez Masto
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
Fetterman

Those are the Democrats selling out the people and the party

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.