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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

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.

The Democratic Party needs to get younger, feistier, smarter at messaging and more in touch with the electorate, both at the state and federal levels. Democratic voters need to get more discerning about who they choose to fight against the rising tide of oligarchic fascism. 1/6

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

A barista at my Starbucks reminds me of Cameren. She’s not thrilled with the humans, but she loves dogs. We chatted before I head to a Protest. I cried as I drove away. Cameren would have loved a protest & would have made the best signs. RIP 07.07.2023

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.

Word is SuperValu/UNFI has been under a ransomware attack since Friday. Company has been unable to function for two full days and grocery stores around the country can’t order anything or scan in their orders IF a truck does arrive. Grocers impacted include Festival Foods, Kowalskis, Cub, ect.

I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.

The guilt you feel for setting boundaries is how deeply you were taught to abandon yourself.

I’ve been traveling for work since 2021. Nearly every flight I’ve been on in 4 years has been full…till this week. 2 planes nearly 1/2 empty…

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Senator @corybooker.com just made history. Thank you for fighting for Americans these past 24 hours.

Disruption is all they seem to understand—so that’s exactly what they’re getting. For 14 hours, @booker.senate.gov has been on the Senate floor, speaking truth within the rules. This cannot be business as usual when our democracy’s on the line. Thank you, senator.

Watch @corybooker.com @booker.senate.gov live www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Circling back on this…

Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.

You know what to do…

They’re not even trying to hide the pay to play corruption.

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

Yosemite National Park workers hang distress flag to protest Trump and Musk coming for their jobs.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

In this last month I have made the mental transition from "air travel is very safe" to "at least it would be a relatively quick way to go"

This is probably the most accurate take.

Better headline options: US Retail Sales fell sharply as democracy began to crumble. Economic uncertainty caused by a madman President impacts retailers in the US. As retailers rolled back their DEI policies, consumers rolled back their spending.

Every day they claim they're finding vast amounts of fraud in the federal government. Fraud is a crime. They've made zero criminal complaints. Odd.

A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong. www.dei.watch

I never understood the musicians playing music while the Titanic sank. Now I do.

This is supremely fucked up. I mean, I read about this earlier, but to see it in writing is devastating.

You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.

More of this please. Every hour of every day. Thank you @repjasmine.bsky.social