Hold the line, Maryland.

When I was tabling at the polls in 2024, a lady from the Republican table came over and tried to start an argument. She left after I asked her what she was trying to accomplish 😂

Now Is The Time To Maximize Republicans' Political Pain It shouldn't matter that the Texas gerrymander might be dead. Democrats have to stay on offense.

One reason (the main reason?) Democratic-majority state legislatures should plow ahead with redistricting is the near-guarantee that John Roberts will intervene on behalf of Texas' wildly racist gerrymander.

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Chris Van Hollen is one of my senators here in Maryland. He's consistently standing up against Trump & is one of the rare members of Congress not taking AIPAC money. Van Hollen even went to El Salvador to check on a constituent who was illegally abducted & imprisoned by Trump & company at CECOT.

It is political malpractice for any Dem to not keep hammering this as hard as possible because

A) It clearly drives him nuts in a way basically nothing else can and that’s useful

But even more

B) It’s very entertaining to see him so angry and frustrated that he can’t bully this into going away

A chart showing a 20 year price change between sectors.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.

If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.

Change my mind.

There’s also the question of whether someone will listen in time to make a difference for the vote. In this case, I haven’t seen Van Hollen or Alsobrooks mentioned as wavering, so we’re probably safe there. The key thing is to make our voices heard.

Van Hollen: (202) 224-4654 (other offices: www.vanhollen.senate.gov/contact)

Alsobrooks: (202) 224-4524 (other offices: www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/contact/)

Maryland, you know what to do.

There are already food banks/depositories in every district & a ton of Democrats have been doing events to support them, but if no one besides a staffer posts about it, no one knows about it.

Even with a massive support, it's not replacing $100 billion in SNAP. We need a functional government!

My fellow Maryland state (and other govt) employees, you can easily donate $10/check to food banks (mine is split between local and DC) as part of the annual charity campaign. We are living off retirement savings, but at least we have that. You won’t miss $10 pre-tax and it helps so much.

Relevant once again. We've all been marinating in the idea that winning requires compromising your values since at least 9/11. I think the fear of "purity tests" is downstream of that.

But to present a credible alternative to fascism, compromising on values is exactly what we cannot do!

“The Democratic Party doesn’t do anything!” If you’re a Democrat, you ARE the Democratic Party. We need you. We need your help and we need your voice in the room.

I cannot emphasize enough how much your local Democratic Party committee needs competent and reliable volunteers, whether as committee members, precinct officials, comms help, or just someone who can be counted on to show up and sit behind the party’s table.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Broadly speaking, you win elections by energizing your base and demoralizing your foe's base. Trying to convert people en masse is a loser's game, as was amply demonstrated by Liz Cheney's bff in 2024. Inspire new voters and your base with your ideals and words and actions, this is how you win.

Split screen graphic featuring the following: First slide: Donald Trump, 'The demonstrations were very small and ineffective.' Second slide: Screenshot of a News Nation headline: '7 million turn out for 'No Kings' protests'

7 million people attended No Kings protests in 2,700+ cities across the country.

[hunter s thompson, at the kentucky derby, 15 juleps deep, and wearing a hat he definitely did not have when he got there]

you want me to come into the office lol. lmao even.

This is Johnson saying the GOP Nazis had VIP tickets to Trump's inauguration. As proof there's no reason to be concerned about Nazis in the GOP.

What a time to be alive. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I think what annoys me most whenever this happens (aside from calling adults “kids”) is diminishing the significance with absolutely no mention of even an apology, or why it was wrong.

I am a teacher. Kids say dumb stuff all the time, yes. Then: you make them apologize. That is like, the key step

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Exactly!

That’s why the denunciations from GOP officials ring hollow. If the party held their elected officials, staffers, and volunteers to any standards worth the name—and more importantly, if their “values” were incompatible with this verbal sewage—they wouldn’t have Nazis in their ranks!

I am in multiple Democratic and progressive group chats. Anyone who talked like the *grown adults* in that chat would be immediately removed. ”Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.” Anyone with that overflow has no place in a movement fighting for rights and dignity for all.

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

people who think older women aren't showing up have clearly not been involved with a single local organization doing anything good that has survived more than like a year of existence.

our entire activism and charity ecosystem only survives because of older women and I'm not joking

To any Young Persons reading this (or olds who offloaded all phone numbers onto your auxiliary brain), memorize the numbers of 2-3 emergency contacts TODAY. Right now if you can. When you most desperately need to call someone, your battery might be dead or you might not have your phone at all.