Róisín Dubh

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🌹📎 I'm pro: Peace,keeping people alive;also healthcare,education,democracy,justice, our world&nature 🐸🐾🌎 The grapes of wrath'25 making a mighty fine Château Schadenfreude'26 rosé🥂 DM=Block Que la honte... No a la guerra🕊️ (profile pic via Wren 🙏🏼🎨)

🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied a right-wing group’s request to force Michigan to place a proposed constitutional amendment requiring proof of citizenship to vote on the November 2026 ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Supreme Court denies right-wing group’s bid to force Michigan proof-of-citizenship measure on November ballot

The denial, issued by Justice Brett Brett Kavanaugh, likely means the measure is dead.

democracydocket.com

As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

nytimes.com

This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾

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A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

But…. But…. Who needs science and science is too woke anyway. Anybody who doesn’t believe in science must not live in the world. They must go and live in a cave, no doctors, dentists, modern amenities. No phones…. Nothing…. Without science, we would not have a functioning world 🤬🤬

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Gov. Pritzker: I have to find money that we don’t have to fight problems that didn’t exist before Donald Trump. I’m not the only one.

REMINDER: There are now just 62 DAYS until the Nov 3 midterm. Saying this is the most important election in our lives is an understatement. This is the most important election in the life of our Republic. Our freedoms and our democracy hang in the balance. We must UNITE to win!! - Dean Obeidallah

Gas was over $4 a gallon nationally every single day in August. What’s it gonna take? What is America’s breaking point?