"Multiculturalism is not a threat to civilization. The only thing it threatens is #Extremism. As America becomes more mixed, we will have a greater capacity for empathy. People with hyphenated identities are familiar with multiple ways of being...." - Jean Guerrero, investigative journalist, author

"The book is... the origin story of the Trump administration’s breaking of norms and foreign policy to seek his own benefit... it explains to us how we got here today, including the war in Iran, because that project started in 2017... ." - Matthew Cole, investigative journalist, author

Established in The Hague in 2002, the International Criminal Court #ICC has jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute individuals for international crimes, such as war crimes and genocide. The U.S. is among those countries that do not recognize the ICC's jurisdiction. www.icc-cpi.int

So much appreciation to the warriors at #EMILYsList and their supporters, grinding it out year after year... discovering, developing, and encouraging highly qualified women candidates. Donate to express your appreciation and support the continued efforts of EMILY's List. emilyslist.org

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HISTORY MADE! For the first time, more than 100 Democratic women will serve in the U.S. House. EMILYs List candidates made this possible, and proved the impact we can make when we support women and help them build winning campaigns.

Is this #BlueTsunami leadership? U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer: "I have many jobs as leader.. and one is to fight for aid to Israel - all the aid that Israel needs... We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that... ."

#VoteBlue #SaveDemocracy

"Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded #Disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim." - Dr. Michael E. Mann, climatologist

“Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow #Leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.” - Dr. Rachel Maddow

"Some eras are quiet. In others, great forces clash, bringing... breakthroughs in participation - or a lurch backward. That's where we are today: one of the most intense moments in our history in the fight for a meaningful right to vote." - Michael Waldman, J.D., law scholar, public policy advocate

"A quick warning, and maybe the most important advice about #Voting and #Polling: never let your candidate’s supposed probability of winning or losing keep you from going to the polls." - Erin Geiger Smith, J.D., journalist, editor

"A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions... 'what in God's name were they doing?' or... 'how did they find the uncommon moral #Courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?'" - U.S. Vice President Al Gore

On 28 October 2026, America celebrated the 140th anniversary of the dedication of the #StatueOfLiberty. May she inspire us all as we seek to right our ship of state. #Vote #VoteBlue #BlueWave

"It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the #Climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered... power than at any point since the 1920s." - Naomi Klein, Canadian author, social activist, filmmaker

#VoteBlue #Democrat #BlueWave #SocialSecurity

"Being critical of the #Nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism... is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them." - Professor Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor

"As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial #Inequality that exists in our society." - Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

"When people treat #Corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society." - U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke

1st U.S. Postmaster General, Benjamin Franklin, helped shape the postal service as a #PublicService, intent on connecting all Americans in a secure & efficient manner. Franklin might be horrified to see today's #USPS strong-armed into a political beast acting at the behest of the current regime.

"Globalization has... drained power away from national politicians & people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people... want to know, Why does everything take so long?" - Anne Applebaum, historian, journalist

"Attention must be paid to the mundane details. This is how #Authoritarianism will infiltrate your society and control your life, one little aggression at a time." - U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin

"A metastasizing swath of #Media is controlled by private-equity vultures and capricious billionaires... who genuinely believe that they are rich because they are smart & that they are smart because they are rich, and that anyone less rich is by definition less smart." - Megan Greenwell, journalist

My family & I voted #Democrat today up and down the ballot! "When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his Country." - Noah Webster #VoteBlue #VoteEarly #BlueWave

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"Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs... were all described... as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation... ." - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders

"White supremacy is something much more pervasive & subtle than the actions of explicit white nationalists. White supremacy describes the culture we live in... that positions white people & all that is associated with them (whiteness) as ideal." - Dr. Robin DiAngelo, American educator, author

"Wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever... the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there #Freedom exists." - Booker T. Washington, American educator, orator

"We are about to sacrifice our civilization for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue to make enormous amounts of money. We are about to sacrifice the biosphere so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury." - Greta Thunberg, author, climate activist

"Once a government is committed to...silencing the voice of #Opposition, it has only one way to go & that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens & creates a Country where everyone lives in fear." - U.S. President Harry S. Truman

"If we're not protecting our women and we're not protecting our girls and we're not protecting the most vulnerable people in this Society, who are we as a Country?" - Deb Haaland, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior

"Fascist rule is more nakedly dependent on charisma than any other kind, which may help explain why no #Fascist regime has so far managed to pass power to a successor." - Dr. Robert O. Paxton, historian, political scientist

#October17 #GOTVrally #StandUpForScience #GetOutTheVote

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 4w ago

Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams.com , voting rights advocate, New York Times best-selling author, and political leader is now scheduled to speak at our Virtual & Accessible Get Out the Vote Rally on October 17th, 7pm ET!