Shame on @nbcnews.com for their softball coverage re: Trump’s $5,000 illegal bribery scheme to dupe people into voting for Republicans. They called it a “plan” and a “proposal” giving it an air of legitimacy. Buying votes is ILLEGAL! Ask any Constitutional attorney, how hard is that?
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And platforming @fetterman.senate.gov as he lies about progressives while ignoring the growth of corrupt fascism in the MAGA movement was totally one sided. The entire segment was a free political ad for the GOP. Shameful capitulation from @nbcnews.com
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you are making the SAME MISTAKE about #DemocraticSocialists that @hillaryclinton.bsky.social made in 2016 and we’re still paying for it. The young progressives are ascendant & you better get onboard or step aside. United we win, divided we lose. Wake the F UP!
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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.
@whitehouse.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com @hirono.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov here’s a good question for #ToddBlanche today: Do you know how many women and children that were arrested & deported were sexually assaulted while in custody or trafficked after deportation?
@mainedems.bsky.social nominate Steven King to replace Graham Platner for the Senate
Preach it brother Marshawn. Amazing testimony against the gerrymandering effort in Louisiana. We shall overcome
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social VP Vance, your boss is clearly not in a sound mental state and his words and actions have put America at risk. We need you to step up and invoke the 25th Amendment to save us from further destruction. It requires courage on your part. I pray you are able to find yours.
After seeing how well @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is standing up to the #MadKing, I’m just gonna go ahead and say it: #Newsom4President2028.
We’re behind you @govpritzker.illinois.gov 100%. Stop fascism America! Say NO!! to military occupation of our cities.
Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law. A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections. We need to stand up together and speak up.
100% why Trump wants to end mail in ballots. Long lines with police, ICE And even troops on scene to create fear and elicit a reaction as a predicate for closing polling stations and seizing voting machines.
Trump wants to get rid of mail-in ballots so he can intimidate voters with federal troops stationed at the polling stations. Hard to scare people who can just quietly mail in their votes. Protect mail-in voting at all cost.
This is the intro for Chapter 6 in @timothysnyder.bsky.social book On Tyranny. This is exactly why Trump dispatched Marines & coopted the National Guard to be commingled with ICE (AKA Pardoned Insurrectionists). Anyone who thinks the 2026 elections will be free & fair doesn’t know their history
In honor of #PrideMonth, here's the latest episode of my podcast "Being Trans in America Today". I invited three Trans Americans onto the show to talk about their lives & their experiences in the most intimate & personal way. I hope you find this discussion compelling and thought provoking.
The second episode of The Pardee Line is linked below. I fully intended to cover a lot of policy issues related to being Trans but the discussion went in a different direction that was more personal and emotive and the three guests really opened up about their lives. The experience changed me.
Wake up America. Trump is coming to take away your right to vote. This is a 4 alarm fire bearing down on our democracy.
The Justice Department is ending voting rights lawsuits, and dozens of attorneys are leaving the Civil Rights Division of the department. It's a dire warning about the state of voting rights under Trump: youtu.be/4b-h3LnQolk%22