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I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mike Rogers believes in government of the billionaires, by the corporations, and for the special interests.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

I think of this every time Question 3 supporters say Question 3 is a solution to our lack of contested State House races. Nothing in Q3 helps change a one-candidate race to a two-candidate race, but it does make it harder to recruit candidate #2 by pushing up the cost and time commitment of running.

Can the CIA help us citizens of the USA coping with failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few? Just asking questions…

According to a YouGov poll, 67% of California millionaires believe it’s patriotic to pay your taxes. Prop 40 gives billionaires a chance to PROVE IT. Find out how a one-time billionaire tax can save millions of Californians’ healthcare ⬇️ californiansproudtopay.com

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

To understand the impact of a top-two primary, we turned to friends in California who have seen how it played out. Here's long-time climate activist RL Miller, who explains how it's been a way for Big Business to buy legislative seats and crush progressives. Massachusetts, vote NO on 3.

I don’t know, maybe I’m crazy, but I’m more worried about the government officials defending the right of masked men to shoot people with impunity than I am about the doctor trying to provide free healthcare and defending the constitution while he does so

When JFK ran, they said the country would never elect a Catholic president. When Obama ran, they said the country would never elect a Black president. Michiganders care a lot less about how I pray than what I pray for: peace, dignity, basic goodness for all of our kids.

Remember, friends: Vote no on 3, 5, and 8. These are the questions we hate! #mapoli

This isn’t in our “national interest.” It doesn’t lower our prices or create opportunities for Americans — It just actively emboldens Putin in his illegal and immoral war against Ukraine. Enough.

First Amendment lawyer, formerly NYT General Counsel: "Some of the greatest enemies of the First Amendment ever" are university "boards, including here at Yale," who "either do not understand the First Amendment or lack the courage to fight the" Trump DOJ lawsuits yaledailynews.com/articles/nev...

We actually do know how to reduce rape. We do it the same way we disincentivize other behaviors: we punish it severely and consistently. The issue is not that we don’t know the solution, but that we lack the will to carry it out.

Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

the important thing to know about every republican candidate who is pretending they will be an independent voice and not a rubber stamp for trump is that they're all lying

We deserve serious leadership in the White House, not a circus parade. Katie Zacharia Is Ousted After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

Vance is a little weasel who should shut his mouth. I don’t even care if he shows gratitude.

This is the result of 7+ years of Trump's attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social, Somali-Americans, & the Muslim community. Everyone, regardless of party, must speak out against this fascistic abuse of power. If they can do this to a sitting Congresswoman, they can & will do it to anyone.

Many of us knew this from the start, yet you motherfuckers in the corporate media insisted on treating it as an existential crisis for the league bc it was doing numbers on the Nazi site that you still treat as the town square

I’ve heard people confuse top two primaries with ranked choice voting. They couldn’t be more different. The NYC mayoral race shows why. Vote no on 3.

Just a little reminder… 👀 Make sure y’all vote for me on November 3rd!  Early voting starts Monday, Oct. 19 in 34 counties, so make your plan & bring your people.  VOTE ANGIE NIXON! #AngieForFlorida

My name is not the reason we're paying $5/gallon for gas. My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries. My name is not the reason you can't afford your mortgage or rent. My name is not the reason you can't see a doctor. Their policies are the reason.

There's a ton of "I don't care if you're a bigot or not, as long as MY life gets easier" voters out there. Republicans took their votes and saw it as a mandate to be bigots, and then went ahead and made those folks' lives worse. Now the GOP's "don't forget, we're bigots!" campaign is failing.

this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it

Did James Talarico tell his grandmother that he thought he might be gay? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Has James Talarico been in a 15 year mentor-protégé relationship with gay billionaire Peter Thiel? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Did James Talarico pose in drag? Oh, no! That was JD Vance!

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

I can give y’all 10 MILLION reasons why we should send one person home, and that person isn’t me! :eyes: Let’s pack Ashley Moody up and send her home, Florida. Vote for me on November 3rd to be your next U.S. Senator. #angieforflorida

FACT: Ilhan Omar has been a U.S. citizen longer than both Melania Trump and Elon Musk. #ResistTrump

How it’s going

Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

There is every reason for suspicion, skepticism, and outrage about the raid of a sitting member of Congress’s home after repeated and unjustified attacks on her character. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.

"We just don't know!" www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.

Yes. This.

Hahahahahahahaha!

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"