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A great reminder from our late friend #TG22110 #TGBrewCrew 💙 missing his kind hearted words of wisdom today.

“I agree!” shouted James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel, JD Vance, Rafael Cruz, Kashyap Pramod Patel, Nimrata Randhawa, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal, Anna Paulina Mayerhofer-Gamberzky-Luna, and Richard Lynn Myers (Rick Scott) to Donald J. Drumpf.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Here’s our No Kings: Vote Early October 17th recap! Thank you to all of you for coming out in thousands of cities and towns across the country and for mobilizing to make the midterms too big to rig!!! No Kings & No Billionaires!

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Jack Smith 💙 A Man of the People

I had so much fun at the Greentree Festival in Kirkwood where I grew up! So many friends stopping by to say hello! Thank you to all of our volunteers and Team Wellman staff that hung out in the heat! Got to hang with my friend Mark Boyko and the amazing Bonhomme Democrats! We’re not done yet!

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway👇 Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Found another cover that Dolly Parton did. Can’t believe I didn’t come across this sooner. This song I could actually feel as I listened to it. Hope you all find it as moving as I did. #MusicSky #DollyParton youtu.be/plUD6vN80dg?...

Puppy Court is now in session!

Yes, please. Puppy Court Mondays. ❤️🐶

A lot of people talk about engaging young voters. Santiago Mayer built an organization that actually does it. We talked about organizing, infrastructure, and what it takes to build real political power that lasts. @santiagomayer.com @votersoftomorrow.org Please read and subscribe 👇🏼

But, no worries about this “Great Replacement” movement?

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

NEW: In a 4-3 ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned the results of a special election in which voters approved a new Democratic-led congressional map. It found the legislature violated procedural rules in passing a constitutional amendment to redistrict and placing it on the ballot.

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️ If you needed any more proof that the Voting Rights Act is still necessary, just look at what’s happening right now: red states rushing to wipe out Black representation the second SCOTUS gutted it. What went down this week is going to have devastating consequences. 🧵

BREAKING: Trump loses war against wokeness

Some Goodness 😍

If you read anything today, read this: The Hungarian Candidate open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Watching the coverage of Artemis II returning to Earth on NASA’s YouTube channel. Great insight. The crew just said “Crew is suited and seated.” 😃😍

A corrupt and tyrannical regime that kills innocent protesters in their own country is claiming religious and nationalist authority to launch an insane war that could fuck up the entire global economy. And it‘s not Iran!

10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this. Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.

Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

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#Ukraine President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy awarded Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych the country's medal of freedom after he was disqualified from the #Olympic skeleton competition over his "helmet of remembrance," which depicted athletes killed since russia's invasion reuters / Instagram

Just a man of the people.

Guns for me, but not for thee. Who saw this coming?

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.

Paying it back to the Americans who paid the Trump tariffs.

Deliberately slaughtering non-believers on Christmas for Jesus is certainly from the Hegseth brand of Christianity.

Wow.

Brad Edwards, a lawyer who has represented many Epstein victims, tells us tonight that the the FBI could have prevented hundreds of victims from being abused if they had listened to Maria Farmer. "Shameful," he says, calling for an investigation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

The party that says we can’t define what a woman is seems to be having a really hard time defining what a child is.

Most Americans agree we need to get money out of politics. If that takes a constitutional amendment, then that's what we have to do. And if that's going to take years, then it's all the more reason to begin pushing now.

Donnell Whittenburg just won the world title on still rings (first American ever to do it). #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

“We’re grateful to RFK Jr.—otherwise we might put something unnatural into our bodies, like vaccines.”

3. The construction of the original World Trade Center in New York City displaced many small businesses, including those owned by Black entrepreneurs. It replaced the area known as Radio Row, which was home to numerous Black shops and businesses. (cont) www.thoughtco.com/the-twin-tow...

The road to Trump’s Project 2025 fascism is lined with smiling people telling you to stop overreacting.

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.