I actually have strong disdain for you Jamie. You’ll be happy being the establishment while the rest of us have to do the real work and pick up the pieces from the mess you’ve made. You’ll always be a lame and you’re a disgrace to us black folk in SC. Sincerely fuck you.
The establishment gathered this morning.
Turns out it wasn’t billionaires, consultants, or smoke filled rooms.
It was Black church mothers in Sunday hats.
Some folks see “the establishment.”
I see the women who built this party.
And yes… I think (and DNC members agreed) they deserve a powerful voice in choosing the party’s nominee. #SC1st
🔵 Nearly 10,000 children in Gaza have contracted chickenpox as Israel’s blockade has left the Strip without the vaccine and deprived its health system of medicines and essential supplies, according to Dr. Ahmed Al-Fara, head of pediatrics at Nasser Medical Complex.
🔹A 2-year-old child died today from complications of the disease, Shehab News reported. Al-Fara said Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians into overcrowded shelters, alongside devastated sanitation, medicine shortages and collapsing healthcare, is accelerating the spread of infectious disease.
🔹Child malnutrition is also rising sharply, while anemia now affects 50–55% of pregnant women and the abortion rate has reached about 47%, he said.
🔹UN reporting has independently documented more than 9,000 chickenpox cases and the severe overcrowding and health-system breakdown driving the outbreak.
I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas.
I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life.
But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE.
If there were no police or prisons, if anyone in your neighborhood could do whatever they wanted, while politicians cheered on terror groups — would that represent PROGRESS to you? No, that would be a step back. Those are REGRESSIVE ideas.
On the other hand, if everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, get a good, free education and breathe clean air — would that represent progress? Yes. Those are PROGRESSIVE ideas.
They are NOT the same thing. And the difference matters.
Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them. I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas.
Right now, extremists are trying to sneak backwards proposals into our party, hoping mainstream Democrats are too frustrated with MAGA and the Democratic Party establishment to notice.
But we see you.
Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need "party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes.
They aren't. And we are smart enough to know the difference. 💩
Morning Mood:
Defiant dancing.
Joy contagious.
Energy unstoppable.
One person steps in…
and suddenly a room steps up.
Yes, there’s a lot going wrong in the world.
But don’t underestimate the quiet power of showing up with fire 🔥 .
Ignite the energy.
Break the tension.
Be the spark.
Lead the charge.
Because joy isn’t just a feeling
it’s resistance.
It's defiance.
It's a force.