Paying for universal health care instead of unnecessary tax cuts for billionaires isn’t “communism”, it is common sense, and a fulfillment of FDR’s New Deal.
Dan Wentzel
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Trump talks tough from inside his Truth Social bubble, but suddenly has nothing to say when he's actually in California. While the president uses LA to raise campaign cash, survivors of last year's firestorms are waiting for him to finally deliver federal relief to recover.
Governor Newsom Press Office@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 8h agoTrump's visit to California was a total snoozer. Very low energy. No speech. He could barely take a question on the tarmac. Night night, Grandpa!
When you ask voters to approve taxes for public transit, what you mostly get is a map of residential density. Here's the latest from Spokane, WA where the measure narrowly leads at the moment.
Imagine if we aspired to have the world’s best and strongest universal health care system with the same zeal and resources that go into our military.
There is not a big enough fake “caravan” for Republicans to manufacture to save them in the midterms from their having made gas, groceries, housing, healthcare, and everything else massively more unaffordable by choices that they have made.
On 1 August 1966, three years before the Stonewall Riots, customers rioted at Compton’s cafeteria in San Francisco, following repeated harassment of trans people by the police. 📷 Getty
I'm not sure why I have to two-factor to sign on to view my household utility accounts online? Is someone else trying to pay my bills? And if so, why are you trying to stop them?
My teenage nephew and niece learned coding in school and are helping me migrate a website. When I was in high school I took a typing class on an old Selectric that I thought was the bomb.
Elon Musk is going to try to buy another election for Trump. Anyone still using 'X' or driving a Tesla is part of the problem. If Musk has that much money to spend buying politicians, he isn't paying nearly enough in taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending to Help Republicans
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
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Trump denies fire aid to Oregon just like he denied fire relief aid to California, just like he denied flood relief aid to Washington State, even though we pay far more in taxes than we get back from the feds. You know, Pacifica could do more than simply hope for the best in the midterms.
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
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Iowa confuses me. On one hand it voted big for President Obama twice. Dukakis even carried it in ‘88. It has been very MAGA for the past 10 years. Now it looks like it may be swinging back again. Any Iowans have some insight? youtu.be/1xfmB05Zg5U?... #Iowa
Rural Hospitals Are Closing and Iowa's Had Enough
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Sadly, Nashville is not getting light rail. But it is getting much better buses, sidewalks, and traffic signals. How to pass a transportation sales tax measure? Have something in it for everyone. youtu.be/v1nmgex25mo?... #transit #Nashville
Nashville’s Transit Comeback Is Finally Happening: And There Is No Plan B!
YouTube video by Structures Unchained
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I swear that Pete Buttigieg is the Fox News whisperer. He sure as heck would make an awesome Secretary of State if not President. youtu.be/OoYN4AW3KHI
Pete Takes On Trump, Live on Fox News
YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg
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EXCLUSIVE: California Dems are ramping up their campaign against a nationally-watched voter ID initiative in the state, with gubernatorial frontrunner Xavier Becerra leading a new effort to quash the measure.
California Dems ramp up anti-voter ID fight
Xavier Becerra, the gubernatorial frontrunner, will fundraise for a new effort to defeat a state voter ID initiative.
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: "We need to move as fast as working New Yorkers do. If a New Yorker is late, the speed they're walking at is faster than our city buses — that's why we have to speed up our buses, and that's why we have to bring our housing code up to the year we're actually living in."
I'm over it. If "soft-secession" is too strong a term for people, it is time for blue states to ramp up our 10th Amendment "uncooperative federalism". At this point, it is a codependency issue. When are we finally taking care of ourselves? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Who among us has not broken down and cried at the discotheque? youtu.be/7CiOWcUVGJM?...
Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque (Video)
YouTube video by AlcazarVEVO
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Steve Hilton says Californians can hate Trump but still vote for him. So Hilton says can hate Mango Mussolini but still vote for his stooge to be Governor . Hard pass. A MAGA with a British accent is still a MAGA. We are in our Becerra era now. laist.com/news/republi... #california
Steve Hilton tells Californians they can hate Trump but still vote for him in governor’s race
Steve Hilton launched his general election campaign at the site of the Lineage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights.
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It is as if Donald Trump and Republicans looked at you and your family and said, "You are not paying enough for food, clothing, and gas yet. You need to pay even more!" Throw out every Republican you can find on the ballot. VOTE. youtu.be/tn7n0vmh5Lo #tariffs
News Wrap: Trump announces new tariffs on dozens of countries
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Repeal the the Trump Republican tax cuts for corporations and billionaires in their “One Big Bill”. They wanted Trump, so THEY can pay for his unnecessary, unplanned war in Iran, not people on Social Security and Medicare nor middle class taxpayers struggling to pay his sky high prices and tariffs.
End the war in Iran right now. Use the money for universal health care, child care, elder care, and high-speed rail instead. Let Trump take the L for launching an unnecessary war without a plan. Not one more U.S. soldier or civilian should die for his foolishness.
If you see this, I am sending you love and holding you in light. May a heartfelt dream come true for you today.
End the not-in-the-U.S. Constitution Senate filibuster. For stuff Republicans want -- such as tax cuts for billionaires -- the filibuster does not apply and is not a hindrance. For nearly everything Democrats want, such as universal health care, the filibuster applies and thwarts passing it.
Not one more dime for Trump's unnecessary war in Iran until we have universal health care. Not one more dime.
Trump inflation is so bad and getting so much worse that my supermarket was playing Woody Guthrie in the background as we were shopping. youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s?... #trumpflation
Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land
YouTube video by rutaloot
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"I introduce myself as a Catholic nun, I tell them I went to Mass this morning for you, and I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process, I'm here to accompany you, to go in with you if that's OK," said Sister Kuhn. "Most days I go, there are unaccompanied minors.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2w agoSister Rose Kuhn, who accompanies children forced to go to immigration court alone, “has seen 14-year-olds told they are mature enough to handle their case by themselves and file their own paperwork.” www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/mi...
If Spain can build a high-speed rail network and have universal healthcare, then so can we. youtu.be/rKxMGpLPyL8?...
How a Near-Bankrupt Spain Built Europe's Largest High-Speed Rail Network
YouTube video by MegaBuild Projects
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In honor of Spain winning the World Cup, I am using Vosotros conjugation when I speak Spanish informally to more than one person at a time. blog.duolingo.com/what-is-span.... #spanish
Dear Duolingo: What is “vosotros” and when do I use it?
What does “vosotros” mean, and why is it only used in Spain? Here’s how to use “vosotros” and the story of how it ended up in one country only!
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