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🚨BREAKING: The Senate just failed to end the Iran war. 49-50. The one vote that blocked it: John Fetterman. A Democrat.

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Welcome to Texas, Mr. President.

Enjoy being while becoming

We just learned that Georgia is moving forward with gerrymandering for 2028. There is an extreme movement in this country that will stop at nothing to hold on to power, even if it means stripping representation away from millions. I will fight this with everything I have.

In 1871, Darwin claimed women were evolutionarily inferior. Four years later, Antoinette Brown Blackwell-America's first ordained female minister systematically demolished his theory in " The Sexes Throughout Nature." She proved Darwin cherry-picked evidence and mistook oppression for biology. He never responded. At 95, she became the only Seneca Falls Convention attendee to vote, proving women's brilliance through seven decades of undeniable scholarship.

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…

It was great joining @JamesTalarico and @GinaHinojosaTX today in Texas. They're working hard to make a difference in the lives of all Texans, and will be able to do even more as your next Senator and Governor. Let’s get it done, Texas!

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: It’s not a secret the disdain Ted Cruz has for people who work working-class jobs. It’s not a secret what he thinks of the waitresses, the line cooks—he thinks we’re less than him. He thinks that because he has a Harvard degree and has never scrubbed a table that it makes him better than someone who has actually had to work for a living. I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President, he became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

The fact that almost every former Confederate state is moving to completely eliminate Black representatives immediately after the SCOTUS decision is more than enough proof that voting rights still need protection, and MAGA racism is far from gone in this United States.

We live on a planet where trees communicate, octopuses dream, elephants honor their dead, bees dance to find their way, crows remember, ants build, cats heal with their purring, and the forest, after the fire, blooms again.

@karlykingsley Then make it hurt for them. As much as possible.

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Samuel Alito quoting FAKE DATA in his ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act should be GROUNDS FOR DISMISSING THE DECISION AND FOR HIS IMMEDIATE REMOVAL.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Heather Cox Richardson is spot-fucking-on — and it was all preventable.

gentle reminder that ‘high functioning’ just means you’re suffering in a way that’s convenient for everyone else and i said what i said

Peace begins in the human heart, passes through relationships, takes root in neighborhoods and peripheries, and expands until it embraces the entire city and the world. Peace is built by promoting a culture that rejects violence, through daily gestures, education, and practical acts of justice. #PastoralVisit #Naples

So Republicans can gerrymander the entire south in a matter of 2 days but when Dems take it to an actual vote (and win) it gets tossed. Great fucking country we have. 👍

Women: I want to go for a run. Society: You can’t go alone. You’ll get raped. Women: I want to walk to my car in the parking garage. Society: Alone? You better get someone to escort you, or you’ll get raped. Women: I want to live alone. Society: You need a gun, an alarm system, a dog and probably a gun for the dog too. Women: What about going to the park? Society: Dangerous. Women: Okay, I’ll just go out for a drink then. Society: Don’t take your eyes off your drink. Watch out for predators spiking your drinks. Stay alert at all times. Women: I was raped. Society: Are you sure? That just seems impossible.