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🧢💙🇺🇦🌞🧬🧫🧪🔬♻️ #AntiTrumpers Welcome Dems, Progressives, Centrists, Come Join Us! #BlueCrew City Councilman. FORMER: public school board trustee for 13 years; Chair of the SEMG (GROUP) of the Sierra Club. #MeToo #BlackLivesMatter

My mom would have had to update her voter registration and prove her citizenship 8 times under the SAVE Act, counting all her moves and name changes. That's just one tiny part of Trump's project to make govt exhausting, punitive and (for him) profitable. My latest www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose

Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.

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The GOP's ideological uniformity-behind extremism-demonatrates the party's dessication under Trump, setting up many of its candidates to lose winnable races. Democrats should not emulate Rs by becoming more rigid. Since FDR, Ds have won with a diverse alliance of politicians who reflect their voters

Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 10h ago

@mattyglesias.bsky.social: “Democrats are not exactly enjoying intra-party peace, unity, and good vibes this summer. But…the GOP is in a bizarre level of array for a party whose leader is hideously unpopular.” open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

Esther: “Democrats, let's come together! Rep. Haley Stevens, who got my vote, has conceded the race. Now it's time to beat neo-con, Trump follower Mike Rogers and put Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate. I believe El-Sayed wants all Michiganders to have a better, more affordable life.”

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I am 71 yo and firmly believe it's time for the old school politicians to move over; it's time to rest guys and gals. Let the upcoming politicians of our kids and grandkids generations take the reigns. Young, progressive, democratic socialists visions sound just fine by me!

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

If they postpone the vote on Blanche, we might have time to learn what Judge Sullivan sees behind the Epstein redaction bars in the @katiephang.bsky.social lawsuit, or whether Blanche just defies the court order. We might also get the internal comms in the NYT subpoena case depending on the timing.

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The website still says 14. One of the service members not being counted is Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad from Queens. She was married to a woman she met in the Army, and one of our podcast listeners pointed out that fact was not acknowledged at a recent memorial service. So I am acknowledging it here.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w ago

As of this morning, Trump's Pentagon still only counts 14 service members as having been killed in the War in Iran. The Pentagon claimed last night it was a tech error. It has not been fixed. They are refusing to count four service members. You can see it here: dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/conflic...