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The American Oligarchs Have Arrived to Destroy US Democracy Oligarchy is corrosive. It destroys trust and confidence in government. It breeds cynicism and discontent. If not challenged, it will swallow us whole. - please read this 👇 www.commondreams.org/opinion/olig...

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

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“It’s so much worse than people realize… we are sitting ducks…” Service members and military families share accounts/photos/videos of being attacked in Trump’s pointless war, as leadership fails them, and hides the truth. (From @MeidasTouch) meidasnews.com/news/so-much...

Remember: If your vote didn't matter, billionaires wouldn't be spending their fortunes trying to buy our elections. Stay calm, support good candidates, do whatever you can to get out the vote, and vote as soon as you can. Don't let Big Money win.

Please check tour machine. Take your Time!

Saturday Stop #1: No Kings rally in Washington Square Park. Some high quality speakers including Al Sharpton doing what he does best and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was also pretty impressive. Decent showing, as usual. #nokings

Have a great #NoKings4 kinda day! @indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social

Brooklyn is FIRED UP about #NoKings and early voting! A massive local march taking the streets down Prospect Park Southwest. Get involved with your local group and help save this democracy 💙 🗳️

Folks, I know it’s easy to get excited about all the polls showing Democrats ahead and feel like this election is a done deal. But we can’t take anything for granted. That’s why I’m urging you to take part in a No Kings early voting event today where you live. https://www.nokings.org/

UPDATE: While the No Kings Instagram is back up, admins remain locked out and cannot post Meta must restore full access immediately Until then, continue following for updates: @ACLU.org , @MoveOn.org , @publiccitizen.bsky.social & @Indivisible.org -TN

Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.

Most Americans blame Trump for the rising cost of gas, groceries, health care, and more. They are right.

As we try to restore access to the No Kings instagram today, this is what I am thinking about.

🎶 All you Facists bound to lose 🎵 No kings, no thrones, no crowns; just voters with zero interest in being managed by a man with a crown complex. Vote early & show up ready to defend the plain, radical idea that power belongs to the people. #NoKingsDay

californian.nation SAN DIEGO SHOWS UP! 👀🔥 More than 80,000 demonstrators reportedly gathered peacefully Saturday near Waterfront Park in downtown San Diego for the nationwide “No Kings” protest! 🇺🇸✊ 📍 Waterfront Park | Downtown San Diego, CA

No Kings movement calls marches to polling places this weekend to boost early voting

You can get fired for showing up late to work. John Roberts handed a president immunity from prosecution, and he can’t be fired at all. Lifetime seat. Except for one thing most Americans have no idea about: Congress can impeach him.

“They can’t erase history.” The administration pardoned the rioters, fired the prosecutors, and scrubbed the website. But the facts are still there. Tom Joscelyn's "January 6 Memory Project" is making sure of it, and the link to it is in the comment below.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

👑 NO KINGS 👑 NO KINGS 👑 No Kings banner at Ocean Beach in San Francisco for the #nokings day 🗽 #UnitedAgainstTyranny #DefendDemocracy #VoteBlue2026

Trump’s new order limiting the childhood vaccine schedule could sow confusion at a precarious moment for the U.S.’s vaccine policy, @willgottsegen.com argues.

Do the math, folks. This would be more than $5 trillion PER YEAR And instead of this money giving us Medicare for all, reducing grocery prices or making housing affordable, we get insane health insurance premiums, more expensive food, and evictions Plus measles and ICE shooting people 78 days

Is this the calm before the storm? If Trump and his pals play the 'fraudulent election' card before or during the November elections, or the Republicans cheat in some way. what will the aftermath be?

Media sleepwalks past a banking bloodbath where Capital One torched hundreds of Trump Org accounts over laundering stink. Felon in the White House, yet the press pack plays deaf and dumb. Absolute circus of selective blindness.

It’s a searing indictment of the media that the family business run by the US president had *hundreds* Of bank accounts closed by Capital One based on suspicions that they were involved in money laundering And-especially since Trump is a convicted felon-it barely registered as a story

Report: 12 Tennessee rural hospitals at ‘immediate risk’ for closure tennesseelookout.com/briefs/repor...

"Before the Safe Task Force ever arrived in Memphis, violent crime was already declining. In fact, by many measures, the city had already reached its lowest violent crime levels in roughly 25years. That reality alone should have prompted the most obvious journalistic question:

Russia has built ten new bases for advanced long-range drones capable of reaching Poland close to its borders with Belarus and Ukraine, The Telegraph reports.

"[🤡 is] scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring N Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that [not a great idea]" Anyone else hearing echoes of another ill-advised military endeavor? ('nah, they'll give up quickly, & won't close the Strait')

They didn’t have one before the war started. Weren’t in any position to have one for many years when Trump tore up the Obama deal. But Netanyahu wanted us to go to war with Iran, as he has for decades, & claimed Iran was “weeks away”, just as he has for decades. So here we are.

But the ballroom!!!!! www.huffpost.com/entry/lake-p...

The entire body of the DNC literally voted yesterday to include abolishing ICE in their platform. How can you have a majority leader who is against the platform?

America will never recover from this. And christofascist administration, congress, Supreme Fascists are still quiet. #MotherFuckerPedophile #VoteLikeYourLifeDependsOnIt

AOC needs to be the next speaker. She won't stand for their shit, from either side of the aisle and those who sit in the middle.

Agree. He'll be a terrible, absolutely terrible 3rd in charge. But he'll be nonetheless, & this party will have to deal with the consequence in 2028, which will be *far* harder to win the presidency when he's speaker for 24 months beforehand. He will singlehandedly make everything harder to win.

AIPAC has him on a leash. At this point anyone who wants to remain in Congress really should denounce them and refuse any further funding.

The thing Democrats need to internalize is that the stuff Trump broke can’t simply be put back the way it was. The breaking demands bigger solutions.

We need new leadership in the senate. There’s no bbb without Schumer.

Absolutely this too. Schumer is even worse than Jeffries. Charisma voids both.

The “government understander” is the most obnoxious type of liberal apologist. Justifying weakness with appeals to nebulous political and institutional realities the common folk just don’t grasp. It’s simple: Jeffries has failed to meet the moment. Democrats deserve better. Country needs better.

Of course, it’s not just polling that matters here: Medicare-for-all would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have research showing it. For a Democrat to be unwilling to wholeheartedly embrace this policy in 2026 is disqualifying.

Jeffries is also unwilling to commit to abolishing ICE. The fecklessness is staggering.

Hakeem Jeffries cannot become speaker in 2027. It would be a colossal waste of power and opportunity for Dems to elevate him again. They need to choose someone stronger and preferably isn’t to the right of the vast majority of American voters on healthcare.

Our country is not for sale.

WTF! Trump is siding with North Korea…👇 And, we have troops and a base in South Korea! Please let that sink all the way in. THANKS! You fucking stupid MAGA idiots! 😎✨

The states tell me they are ready. Time will tell.

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