Gerardine Luongo Ranft

PLEASE READ limit what you respond to, stop reposting click bait. A resistance must be steady and strategic,not fly off with every crazy trump comment open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

In all seriousness, Trump and Republicans are setting the stage right now to attack our democracy, steal our elections, and violently crush any dissent. Wake up, America.

Warner on CBS: I was embarrassed that the president went before our country and networks like yours carried this as news as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods. It is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to pushback on this.

This is what fighting fascism looks like.

Ro! Ro! – Norway's World Cup team "rows" with 90,000 people outside Royal Palace in Oslo tv.vg.no/video/383250...

Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today. The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.

So the peace deal lasted about as long as the American blue paint job?

NOICE

Somehow, it's no surprise

🚨NEW: In a 26-18 vote, South Carolina senators adjourned their special session — effectively killing a Trump-backed GOP gerrymander ahead of the midterms. The state is now the first to fail in the rush to redistrict post-Callais.

The crooked cop-beaters slush fund gets a roasting. Good, because it was intended to fund Trump’s attack on American elections. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

Vietnam vets tear apart Trump in court over 'disrespectful' DC arch

No Shit, Sherlockian........

But it wasn't a "bribe", just a gratuity.

I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man —because some folks didn’t want us to. 2021: Memorial Day organizers cut the mic of retired Lt Col Kemter as he discussed how formerly enslaved Americans exhumed remains of soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵

"...Far back through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main, And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright." --Arthur Hugh Clough open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Along with an apology from the IRS, Trump's arrangement would also guarantee that the IRS would never audit any member of the Trump family ever again.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson isn't playing around. He just signed an emergency law making it a felony for any election official to hand your private voter data to Trump's DOJ. Read how WA is building an impenetrable fortress: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/they-cant-...

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI's work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged. Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer. So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?

Another late night in the fight for free and fair elections. To those asking me how they can help, here is my only ask -- subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content. That is all! Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

On May 11, OneAID hosted Service Remembered, Service Continued: a USAID Book Talk to bring together three USAID authors and former USAID Administrator Samantha Power, who moderated the event. 🔗 Read the article, watch the recording, and purchase the books here: oneaidcommunity.org/2026/05/12/s...

So we are now at the: 'throw off all pretence of democracy and do whatever it takes to maintain power'stage of fascism. The people of the USA are going to have to fight like Hungary to overcome this.

Unbelievable

This is definitely a good way to prove you're not a drunk.

It’s really nice that the Temu Taney Court recognized that he felt down about failing to overthrow democracy one way so they gave him another shot.

Rep. Pat Ryan: "This, frankly, utter bullshit argument that they just put forward that we're somehow not at war — tell that to our troops that are still there, 5,000 plus in theater…and tell that to the American people who are paying nearly $5 per gallon now."

Listen to Barney.

#FuckTheConvictedPedoPrick #FuckHIsEnablers #FuckHisWifesLies I stand with all of Epstein’s victims and wish you justice and peace ☮️

Democrats didn’t blink. Yesterday the GOP caved — zero dollars for ICE. This is what winning looks like 🔥

"Why would the Trump administration try to make it *harder* for families to care for their disabled children?" Hmm. It's because they're pro-life, right?

Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

Rage is the right response. So is action. Register voters. Show up. Fight back. Black Americans have been saving this democracy for 400 years. The least the rest of us can do is show up for it. @esglaude.bsky.social

Nine people were injured in a mass shooting near Indiana University last night, but you might not have heard about it because it’s the sort of thing that happens every single day in America. It’s long past time we did something about that.

Please tell me "I'm not a rapist. I'm not a pedophile" is going to be quoted for 50+ years the same as "I am not a crook" has been.

Here’s Trump threatening violence, calling for his political enemies’ executions, celebrating the deaths of people he didn’t like, and otherwise casually promoting political violence. There was also the small matter of Jan. 6 and subsequent pardons for violent felons.

Real... You can't make this Sh*t Up..🤡

"The Pitt" is like a television show that time-traveled from the era before streaming. If only we had more of that:

What the American "drug war" looks like on the ground: Ecuadorian fishermen were attacked in a double drone strike, arrested at gupoint, taken to El Salvador and then finally released. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win. These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It’s time for a third way that secures Lebanon, secures Israel and exposes Hezbollah for what it has become — a cat’s paw of Iran, ready to fight to the last Lebanese and last Israeli to serve its masters in Tehran,” our columnist Thomas L. Friedman writes.