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Chuck Schumer still thinks it's the era of polite letters and handshake deals. But those days are over. Fighting the rise of authoritarianism demands steely resolve - not compromise. Schumer’s time is up. Only bold, unflinching leadership can save our democracy. @schumer.senate.gov The Reformers

"Democracy dies in darkness" ...You know, I always thought that line from #TheWashingtonPost was a warning, not a goal. #JeffBezosIsAnOligarch thehill.com/media/514849...

America is under attack. youtu.be/2B6gS_WyXKo

It is an awful, sickening feeling to be erased by your own country.

Dear Leaders of the Free World, Fight him at every turn. Make his life miserable. Expose his ignorance and sociopathy. Oppose and condemn and marginalize him. The decent people of this nation are not with him. We stand with you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

I needed this reminder. 💙

This is especially true in the United States.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Don't let them rob you of all your joy. #hopepunk is my new favorite term! 💯

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

By pardoning the most violent January 6th attackers, Trump is telling them to commit more violence in his name, and if and when they do — he will protect them. We are all in terrible danger.

In an attempt to stop doomscrolling on Facebook, I have begun doomscrolling on Bluesky. 🤦 *Sigh*

to recap: — Trump was *for* the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

@skyewizard.bsky.social 😆🤩

Sooooooo, Facebook doesn't believe in fact-checking, eh? 🤔 Shared by The Sons Of Liberty on Facebook. (The image is obviously satire.)

Every holiday season since 1966, the city of Gävle, Sweden, has erected a giant Yule goat made of straw in the town square. This festive symbol has become famous not only for its impressive size, but also for its history of repeated arson. ➡️ w.wiki/_BC2

The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a powerful symbol of shared humanity during one of the most difficult periods in modern history. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

Ever felt like your brain is stuck in a loop of mindless content? That’s brain rot – Oxford Word of the Year 2024, describing the cognitive drain of endless digital scrolling and trivial media. Explore how "brain rot" has become a cultural reference ➡️ w.wiki/CS7u

Establishment Democrats continue to double down, somehow not realizing they're destroying their own party's viability by alienating the Left. I'm afraid they will continue to lose if they continue to ignore voters & representatives farther to the Left.

"You have to screw with the systems to create an environment where consciousness-raising can occur, & people can see a new vision; & with a new vision, turn the world upside down." -- Miguel A. De la Torre

This is "rich" -- Forbes posted a "poor me" article about how the billionaire lifestyle is SO expensive & that inflation hits them too. - As if we're expected to feel sorry for these poor rich people while millions of people go without enough food or healthcare & struggle to simply survive. 😡

That terrible sinking feeling happened on Election night 2016, and it happened again on Election night this year, but it's SO MUCH WORSE this time!

Being mad about corporate greed doesn’t mean you’re an extremist terrorist. It means you have a brain.

"The sad stories we hear about — anxiety, depression, and suicidality... — don’t come from our trans identities; they come from the way the world around us reacts to our trans identities." --Ben V. Greene

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

If we forgive student loan debt, what’s next? We forgive medical debt? We outlaw punitive interest rates? We reorganize our economy around the needs of the many rather than the interests of a few? Is that what you want?? A society where human life actually has value??

Right now, the executive class and the millionaire/billionaire class knows we are pissed at them. And they are going to use every tool at their disposal to propagandize us back into thinking other people are our enemies. We can’t dare let their message win. Stay angry at the right people.

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

Inclusion is a social pact against bigotry; an alliance built by people that share an equal respect to each other's diversity and uniqueness. Tolerance to the intolerant is a fallacy. They are not part of the pact, by definition, and accepting their views is a trap.

There isn't much about the United States that *is* healthy.

Conservative right-wing Christians who scorned the idea of a "President Trump" in 2015, turned around and embraced him as "the most Christlike President ever" in 2016. 🤯 The flip was astounding to witness. Their 2015 selves would be HORRIFIED at their terrible transformation in 2016.

Read. It. Again. 👇

Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'

5 years ago, I read "Frauen" by Alison Owings. I was chilled by the sheer number of parallels I saw between National Socialist Germany & MAGA America. Now, I'm rereading the book, & I see even more parallels between then & now. We have every right to be alarmed. #Resist

I find it literally impossible to get my head around the American attitude to health care & guns A country that is happy to send 5 year olds to school with bullet proof backpacks & then not to provide free health care if they get shot? No words

"When you're 1% of the population, it's very hard to see how the democratic process will protect you" was quite a statement at the court after the TN attorney argued that the equal protection should be declined in favor of “the democratic process.”

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

I don't know who needs to hear this, but "owning the libs" is NOT acceptable criteria for selecting members of a Presidential cabinet that will affect the lives of millions. Picking family members, sex offenders, and Russian assets is proof that trump remains a threat to America.

If the ACA is ever replaced, it NEEDS to be replaced with single-payer truly universal healthcare. #MedicareForAll

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Good reminder. 🤍 Remember to take care of yourself too. 💙

Whenever we make ourselves smaller for them, they just shrink our box again.

The Justice Department is seeking to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser and make other major changes to remedy its illegal search monopoly, setting a marker in the landmark case before the incoming Trump administration makes its own determinations about how to proceed.