On its 90th birthday, Social Security deserves to be celebrated. It is the most successful anti-poverty program ever, but Donald Trump and JD Vance are marking the anniversary by trying to pull the plug on a system every American pays into.
(ht: @normornstein.bsky.social)
conservatives/republicans going full on fascist with occupying cities with the military is yet another reminder to NEVER TAKE CONSERVATISM SERIOUSLY. THEIR CRITICISMS AREN'T REAL. YOU CAN'T MEET THEM HALF WAY. THEY AREN'T A SERIOUS IDEOLOGY. THEY CAN ONLY BE CRUSHED, NOT DEBATED.
thank you.
I used to intern for Robert F. Kennedy Sr. a long time ago (longer than I’d care to admit).
Here’s one of my favorite memories from that time.
"We don’t have a king, we have a president. And the president doesn’t get to pick what’s on television, in movie theaters, on stage, on our bookshelves, or in the news..."
full letter and list of signees here: www.wgaeast.org/get-involved...
www.thewrap.com/wga-members-...
In April, Trump approval among men = 48%
Now = 39%
April, Trump approval among women = 39%
Now = 35%
April, Trump approval among independents = 31%
Now = 21%
"This is really bad news for Trump, and for Republicans who depend on independents in close elections...”
www.umass.edu/news/article...
I'm not sure 65-69% of Americans would agree the sun is hot and night is dark, but they apparently agree on this:
Americans who say Trump is "very" or "somewhat dishonest" =
69%
Americans who say Trump is "very" or "somewhat corrupt" = 65%
www.umass.edu/news/article...
It’s that time of the week. Leah and Ezra are here, so let’s get started. 👇
The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket.
It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.
We must speak up now.
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This is *not* accurate. How do I know? Well, when it was exposed in 2018 that judge Roy Moore, running for an AL US senate seat, was hanging around with Christian Reconstructionists who want to strip voting rights from women, AL Republican women activists began fighting among themselves because...
Christian Reconstructionists gained so much influence in part because few Americans know that this movement even exists, let alone what its policy objectives are. By the 1980s the CR movement had penetrated elite US evangelical circles & the elites subsequently pushed its ideas to the masses...
Hamas’s crimes do not excuse Israel’s actions in Gaza. The Jewish state is a democracy. Its leaders should hold themselves to higher standards than terrorists
Sounds like this survivor of Epstein and Maxwell is saying she'd take Trump pardoning Maxwell as an admission of guilt, which sounds like a smart message.
Democratic governors and legislators need to make it clear that if Republicans redraw maps to rig the system, blue states will respond. Let’s get to work: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
When you put it that way:
Pizzagate was actually Epsteingate. It all makes sense now.
Music to the ears of every expansionist country that would go to war with a neighbor. “Earned” is deeply offensive to Ukraine and dangerous to the world
This former Green Beret, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was working for a humanitarian aid group in Gaza, witnessed an IDF Merkava tank fire its main gun into a crowd of unarmed people.
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"
Epstein accuser Maria Farmer on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life. She’s a very dangerous person. The woman is not a victim, she’s a victimizer.”
via @msnbc.com
(ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social)
Wow! “Crazy Train” on the xylophone! That kinda shreds!😃🫶🏽 #resteasyozzy 💔
This eighth grader just nailed how white people should discuss white privilege.
#whitepeople #blacksky
Listen to Obama: "I'm asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours."
We are the ones that we have been waiting for.
#NoKings
This is great! Thank you, @booker.senate.gov! 👊
"Do not let this president shout you down! Do not let him, in any way, suppress your freedoms!
In America, we don't bow down to tyrants! 🇺🇸
🚫👑 #NoKings
