Chuck4Democracy 🦋
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Celebrating democracy, opposing MAGA/Trump authoritarianism with hope and perseverance. We’re still here! My vision for Bluesky: Intelligent, respectful, engaging and pro-democracy community.
Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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MAGA is loud. We’re subdued. But there’s an old saying: “Watch out for the quiet ones.” We need to encourage everybody who’s a decent person & hates what is going on in America right now to VOTE. We don’t need to let them know in advance. Just VOTE.
I don’t know about anyone else but when I first open Bluesky I’m looking for one particular breaking news headline. Then see what else might be going on.
I like the idea of a government of the people by the people FOR the people. This government of the billionaires by the billionaires for Trump (and thus, the billionaires) tastes very Putinical.
Some really encouraging Senate polls… 📍Georgia 🔵 Jon Ossoff: 56% 🔴 Mike Collins: 43% 📍North Carolina 🔵 Roy Cooper: 53% 🔴 Michael Whatley: 44% 📍Ohio 🔵 Sherrod Brown: 53% 🔴 Jon Husted: 45% 📍Iowa 🔵 Josh Turek: 50% 🔴 Ashley Hinson: 46% Keep organizing. Keep fighting.
If Mitch McConnell was a California senator in hiding (if alive at all), do you think Gavin Newsom would have waited this long to get a definitive answer? The Kentucky governor has failed the Presidential leadership test for me on this one.
🚨 98 DAYS TO GO! W/THE VRA DEAD, FLIPPING THE SENATE JUST BECAME EVEN *MORE* URGENT. --TBD donations go to the eventual Dem nominee. --No donations through this page go to me. --Opt out of sharing your email/phone w/campaigns Donate today. #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/senat...
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How do you become more informed and enlightened on #Bluesky but not enraged? I don’t want the dopamine hit rage generates. Nor the likes/responses rage generates. The hate is unhealthy. Martin Luther King didn’t hate. There’s a way.
Rep Zack Nunn of Iowa think it’s a good idea to smack somebody for asking him a question. I think a better idea is to make sure he’s not reelected. Republicans are assholes.
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
There’s incredible power in history. Ignorance is power wasted.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w agoAmericans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I n all seriousness, I suspect the cast of the fictional Bartlet Administration from “The West Wing” could run the executive branch better than the current Trump Administration. At least it would be more entertaining.
Leaders like Sen. Mark Kelly addressed the Platner allegations head-on instead of looking the other way. That's one of the clearest differences between the two parties.
NEWS: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”
What I love about Bluesky: We cover the truth of what’s happening in our country. What I dislike about Bluesky: We cover the truth of what’s happening in our country. I need a way to balance the dreadful news with the abundant beauty and goodness in life.
Updated: Over the last 8 days, I'm counting 15 Democratic incumbents who have lost to a challenger to their left. —3 congressmembers (2 NY, 1 CO) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —8 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD, 2 CO) Here's a thread for you to know about all 15 results:
The Cook Political Report just shifted the Alaska Senate Race from Lean R to Tossup.
AK Senate 2026 | Cook Political Report
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By a 5-4 decision SCOTUS affirmed water is wet. Hooray!
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
All living US Presidents and First Ladies attending the Obama Presidential Center today. Epic trolling against the fascists currently harboring themselves in the bulldozed White House.
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C-SPAN junkies will be delighted to see that its longtime communications director Howard Mortman is now on Bluesky! You can follow both at @c-span.bsky.social @howardmortman.bsky.social
Howard Mortman@howardmortman.bsky.social · 2mo agoWatch LIVE via C-SPAN livestream: Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfk...
Watch LIVE via C-SPAN livestream: Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfk...
Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center
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Because today is National Making Life Beautiful Day, I want to thank Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social for making my life beautiful by causing me to pause, reflect, and learn via his impactful posts. Sharing a photo of a covered wooden bridge in Frankenmuth MI. I was there last Sunday.
Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday is National Making Life Beautiful Day. let us celebrate all those around us who make life better and more beautiful in all the small impactful ways, and let us each try and do something each day to make life more beautiful.
