Congress cannot approve BILLIONS in a supplemental budget that ONLY addresses critical emergencies around the world. We have crises here at home too — child care, health care, housing, opioid addiction — that need major funding NOW and must be included in the supplemental.
DACA recipients are teachers, service members, business owners, doctors, and parents. They are our friends and neighbors. We are a better nation—a stronger nation—because they’re here.
As we mark the 11th anniversary of DACA, let’s continue to organize and push Congress to build an immigration system that offers these Americans a permanent pathway to citizenship.
On this Transgender Day of Visibility, Michelle and I want every trans person in America—and around the world—to know that we see you and we stand with you. Every LGBTQIA+ person deserves to feel safe and protected.
I know I'm supposed to tweet all day about today’s school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. With three kids and three adults shot and killed.
Just like I was supposed to write about the 11 other school shootings this year alone.
But f*ck it. I refuse.
We all know damn well who's to blame. You know it's the NRA. You know it's Republicans who are blocking sane gun reform.
At best, they ignore these murders. At worst, they LOVE them — because talk of gun reform will come up, and that INCREASES gun sales.
Either way, blood is on their hands. And the rest of us are filled with rage.
It's always the same. Every. Single. Time. And it must change.
WTF more is there to say?
Sending love and good prayers to all innocent people of Ukraine and Russia and Europe who are caught up in this sad and corrosive moment of asymmetrical violence and destruction, especially the young people. You have done nothing to deserve this perversion and obscene spectacle.
I used to think that using the Lord’s name in vain meant not saying,
Oh my God! or Jesus Christ! But it doesn’t.
Using the Lord’s name in vain means that church leaders must not manipulate the poor to pay for yachts, vacations and mansions, while ignoring the needs of the poor.