Patricia Koehler

Remember how Facebook was created? Objectifying women ultimately leading to the disinformation hate-mongering & data mining/selling monstrosity that’s destroying our collective health & every idea about democracy or caring society writ large. #FeminismIsPowerVsForce

Buttigieg: It is not too much to ask that, in this country and in this state, one job ought to be enough, which means wages and benefits that make that possible. It’s not too much to ask that you ought to be able to afford to raise a family in this country—to put your kid in child care if you want, or stay home and take care of them yourselves if you want, or do some combination of that if you want—and still have it add up at the end of the month. It is not too much to ask that the wealthiest country in the world have the best health care in the world and that it have the best-funded public schools in the world. And it is not too much to ask that the largest corporations and wealthiest people in this country pay at least as much of their income and wealth in taxes as a schoolteacher, a bus driver, or a firefighter. It is not too much to ask for a different kind of politics, where you look at your leaders in action and actually feel your blood pressure come down a little bit instead of going through the roof. That is a reasonable thing to expect of our leaders. It is not too much to ask. We can do this. Most of us already want this. So the obvious question is: Why hasn’t it happened? And that’s where we’ve got to talk about the system that we’re living with, which, by the way, as a politician, they kind of tell you not to do. Consultants say, “Look, no one’s going to get too fired up about the details of our democratic system when they’re just trying to keep their heads above water in this economy,” which I get, and to some extent I agree. But the reason that so many things are wrong with our economic picture is that so many things are wrong with our political system. And we’ve gotten so used to it, we can forget that there was a time when our political system was the pride of this nation. Wars have been fought for our system, starting with the first one—the one that launched 250 years ago with the Declaration of Independence, the one that gave this nation its being. The Founders risked their lives for a better political system. So don’t tell me it can’t stir people’s hearts. Don’t tell me that it’s not worth fighting for. Especially because until we do something to change our political system, we will continue to suffer from an economic system that lets us down: monopolies squeezing families and farmers on both ends; consumers and workers caught up in a system that can’t serve them; small businesses swamped by the big guys. Right now, what’s at stake is nothing less than the American dream. It is endangered.

Jim Marter wants to end Medicare, cut Social Security, and take food off your table by gutting SNAP. He is not hiding who he is, and neither am I. I have passed 19 pieces of legislation, and I fight every day for lower costs for everyday Americans right here in IL-14.

Trump mentioned a handful of companies this week. I checked his disclosures and he holds positions in almost every single one of them. Here are the exact tickers and how much he owns:

BREAKING: Governor Wes Moore just announced he is planning on barnstorming across South Carolina, Georgia and Nevada to ensure Democrats win up and down the ballot in November. This is how you put in the work and win.

If people had only listened to @carolecadwalla - we could have saved a few years!

There is exactly ONE active criminal investigation into Epstein's ranch. It's stuck. Not for lack of evidence...because the DOJ won't hand it over. New piece. JackHopkinsNow.com

Photo 1 (widely shared 2023 version): Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao in a recovery/rehab setting. McConnell wears the red gingham shirt, smiles broadly while holding printed material, seated in the blue chair with white linens behind Photo 2 (the version associated with the July 12, 2026 update): Appears identical to Photo 1 in every visible detail — same clothing, exact same pose and expressions, same background, same blue chair, same item in McConnell’s hand, same lighting and composition. Side-by-side observation: These are the same photograph (originally from April 2023). No meaningful differences exist in subject positioning, clothing, facial expressions, background elements, or any other visual detail. Minor variations in cropping, resolution, or on-screen overlays (e.g., news logos or borders in different articles) may appear depending on the source, but the core image content is unchanged. This confirms the image being referenced in recent discussions is the older one being recirculated. If you have different specific versions/URLs in mind, share them for further comparison! Someone has some splaining to do!

Just throwing this out there for your consideration….. #DemsUnited

Trump called in to Meet the Press this morning and said that Lindsey Graham was “scheduled to win by a lot. He was scheduled.” He used the word SCHEDULED. Twice. Tell us more @realDonaldTrump.

Un equipo secreto de contratistas israelíes, que afirma haber manipulado más de 30 elecciones en todo el mundo mediante piratería informática, sabotaje y desinformación automatizada en redes sociales, ha sido desenmascarado en una nueva investigación de The Guardian. La unidad está dirigida por Tal Hanan, un exmiembro de las fuerzas especiales israelíes que ahora trabaja de forma privada con el seudónimo de «Jorge». En más de seis horas de reuniones grabadas en secreto, Hanan y su equipo hablaron sobre cómo podrían obtener información sobre sus rivales, incluso pirateando cuentas de Gmail y Telegram.

Ossoff, to conservatives: "Why are gangs of masked men... [in our cities] shooting people? What happened to 'Don't tread on me?' Are there any principled conservatives left?" Good question. Conservatives cannot claim a belief in liberty if they refuse to speak out against ICE.

Who believes that Mitch McConnell was likely brain dead when he was hauled out of his Capitol Hill home on June 14th? Do you believe that the Republicans are this Devious?

Amid all the corruption, this is especially gross: the billions Congress/Biden approved to build fiber internet in places left behind has been redirected to Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos for doing nothing. Musk has pocketed $738 million so far. Places like rural Louisiana were screwed.

Union leaders were some of the first people sent to Dachau. The unions were all replaced with the German Labor Front which had the same logo as DOGE—14 teeth and all.

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly “apocalyptically angry” that everyone is calling the diarrhea epidemic “Trumporrhea.”

President Donald Trump’s crusade to take over voting continues to falter in the courts. So he’s pulling out a range of dangerous new strategies to exert control. That makes this an especially perilous moment — and one that Democracy Docket is tracking. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/th…

It can be done. 👏👏👏

Just trying to imagine if you disappeared from work for month (or months) refused to call your bosses & expected to keep your job, your health insurance AND to be paid. And yet GOP Rep. Thomas Kean & Sen. Mitch McConnell have both done that. We US taxpayers are their bosses.