These dancers are a common sight at Minneapolis protests and cultural events. Protesters are gathered around as they wait for the protest against ICE to start in south Minneapolis.

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

—FDR, 1944

He doesn’t care about you. At all.

Cold blooded murder.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

Two tweets from X: 1. Thomas @korn90 A medical doctor told you that you cannot control an airborne virus. 2. Al Haddrell @ukhadds I'm an aerosol scientist telling you that she is wrong.

Everything wrong with the last almost 6 years right there.

CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

CHRIS MURPHY: So what?

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

@cgrisales.bsky.social @amartinezla.bsky.social can you please tell your colleagues to use clear language? Yes, saying “girls” or “children” is shocking, but not as shocking as the actual behavior. Please don’t hide it.

@steveinskeep.bsky.social stop calling the girls abused by Epstein “underage women.” They were children when they were trafficked. There’s no such thing as “underage women.”
@npr.org

Think back to how you felt a year ago when Trump was reelected.

Now think about how you feel after last night's election.

You volunteered. You went to protests. You didn't check out.

You put in the work required for our democracy — and it's paying off.

Remember this.

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."

REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."

FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

The President just announced he is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to bail out Argentina. That’s outrageous. If he was willing to spend that money in America - to keep American health premiums from skyrocketing, the shutdown would be over tomorrow.

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

A small group of white people stands with a huge display of flags in front of a town hall. The flag poles are zip tied to the hand rails of the steps. Many of them read Trump 2028, MAGA, DOGE, Trump 2024, “We took America back”, and other similar slogans. There are also thin blue line flags. One is a mashup of the flags of the U.S. and Israel. One protester is dressed in 1700s garb with a tricorner hat and banging a drum. Another is wearing a jacket that says “ICE”. Hand made, spray painted signs have all-caps lettering and read “Trump is your daddy” and “Trump is your king $ $”.

In front of a town hall in Connecticut today. It breaks my heart to see people rallying for “Trump 2028” and “Trump is your king”. America has no king.

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.

Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.

Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

@gregggonsalves.bsky.social do you know anyone who can help the CT DOH with their social media? They could do so much more and gain more traction with a little attention to how they’re presenting themselves: www.facebook.com/share/1BCVht...

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Part of why we got ours a few weeks ago. There’s a wave starting and who knows what this government will be up to by October

BREAKING: I will object to Republicans moving forward on their Big, Ugly Bill without reading it on the Senate floor

Republicans won’t tell America what’s in the bill

So Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor

We will be here all night if that’s what it takes to read it

You know what would encourage people to get more physical activity? No, it is not wearable fitness trackers. It is:

1. A liveable wage so people have time for it

2. Safe parks and other infrastructure for such activity

But that’s too hard.

A student doing work this shoddy for a class presentation would fail. Shouldn't the standards be even higher for people making decisions about the health of all Americans?

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Tomorrow is a very good day to impeach a president and his entire cabinet. Today would be good too, but tomorrow will work for me.

They were there. Plain clothes too.