I will be direct: Here how you can help me. 1. Spread the word about the threats to democracy and free and fair elections. 2. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Every student deserves to feel safe, supported, and respected at school. I-001 threatens students’ access to counselors and could expose sensitive info about young people seeking help.
We need to protect Social Security for the next generation.
"Fascism will come at the hands of brainwashed, brainless, Americans."
I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters
Seattle likes to be known as a progressive safe haven. It’s become an identity. But we are only as safe and progressive as the people who live here make it. The cops and state government have made it clear they wont stop this. What does it say about our community if we don’t meet the moment?
WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 3d agoJuly was ICE’s busiest month yet in the Puget Sound region. It’s a stealthy surge, without the helicopters or smoke grenades of Chicago and MN. But the surge is real, with real people taken every day. Each red pin is someone’s family member, neighbor, coworker, loved one.
he did this so people would blame the democrates.
You're goddamn right. They ripped off the public and we won't forget. The midterms will be our revenge. So vote BLUE for ME and YOU to keep America great in 2028!
Thanks to everyone who've shared Harry Potter alternative recommendations! Keep 'em coming! For sure can be interpreted however — doesn't have to be YA or about a wizard school per se.
Erratic Reader@randomreader.bsky.social · 5d agoGregor the Overlander. No magic school, but it's chock-full of weird creatures. Boy protagonist, meets kick-ass girl who he doesn't get along with right away, prophecy, battles. Suzanne Collins wrote this before the Hunger Games. www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/gregor_the_o...
I used to be a Social Security trustee. The real reason the program is in trouble has nothing to do with the postwar baby boom or increasing life expectancy. It's because of widening inequality. Watch.
How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich
Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it.A CEO earning $20M/yr pays So
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People are finding out just how evil Mike Johnson is capable of being. How dishonest he is. That he is actually a member of the criminal class. And that's a good thing. His synthetic, superficial, "holy man" social veneer is cracking to expose a vicious, ruthless, dishonest, sociopathic criminal.
Any politician who says we couldn't avoid coming climate disasters but voted for £millions in oil & gas subsidies is lying "This week the temperatures in Nino 3.4 are the warmest ever recorded for early august and almost the most above the average for any day of the year." via Dan Satterfield
Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
Warning: the President of the United States is kidnapping American citizens off the streets of blue states. Some of them return —most do not. Some are murdered in concentration camps owned by the President’s cronies. All of it is one big fat crime. None of our electeds will stop him. Will you?
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
As millions of Americans lose their healthcare and food aid and struggle to deal with surging gas and grocery prices, what are Senate Republicans focused on? Protecting Trump's sweetheart IRS immunity deal. Priorities.
'Corruption on Steroids': Republicans Kill Effort to Prevent Trump Tax Audit Immunity | Common Dreams
"Trump’s sweetheart audit immunity deal is perhaps the most brazenly corrupt action taken by a president in American his
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Prisciliano Trejo, who had leukemia, was reportedly denied medical care by ICE for 8 days while in a detention center run by CoreCivic. He died just days later — and ICE is already shirking accountability. (1/3)
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
In an attempt to downplay the number of dead & wounded in his illegal war with Iran, Trump's DOD is playing games with its official war casualty database. Sen. @duckworth.senate.gov calls out this disgusting move & she updates us on the status of the $1.15 trillion NDAA. youtu.be/9rdIa7g0mbQ?...
Trump LOSES CONTROL as Iran War BLOWS UP in HIS FACE!!
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I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
The only thing worse than having one of the biggest morons on the planet running your country is having one that thinks he’s actually smarter than everyone else.
yeah because they're just shooting fishermen.
Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 2w ago67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult
It’s what dictators do. Even “wanna-be-never-was” versions.
Zelensky says that Russia is helping Iran kill our troops. In the Oval Office on Friday, Trump said Putin told him he wasn’t and he trusts him that he was telling the truth.
🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 👉 Young men & boys in shackles are herded by hired thugs from a chartered Eastern 737 to a waiting bus, to be transported to GEO Group's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington 👀
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 3w ago🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 ⚠️ GEO Group thugs prepare to load three busloads of chained humans from the Northwest Detention Center on to a plane bound for ICE's notorious East Montana Concentration Camp near El Paso, Texas 👀