Cari Sanders

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. 

At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest. But time and again-including 250 years ago-those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.

And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted-but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum.

As we mark 250 years, what do we see? 

We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world— one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands —those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone —and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

If you watched the Obama Presidential Center opening, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade yesterday afternoon - and nothing else - you could actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250.

True story.

[Cari Sanders @carimsanders]

@dog_rates Tell your dog I said hi!! 😍

[Cari Sanders @carimsanders]

@CharmDeGrate @daisyjonesand6 @HouseofDragon Amazing!! ❤️❤️❤️

[Jack Jenkins @jackmjenkins]

Critiquing a gun-related bill today, TX Rep. James Talarico—a Presbyterian seminarian—rejected 'thoughts and prayers' rhetoric.

"There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves. God moves, God works through us."

[Cari Sanders @carimsanders]

@MichaelDTubbs @nytimes recently did a piece on Houston's "housing first" approach and its success. "The number of people deemed homeless in the Houston region has been cut by 63 percent since 2011"
https://t.co/yFeXKK3k9g

[DogWalkBlog @dogwalkblog]

@shannonrwatts Real activism looks mundane. Because it is. It’s patience and tenacity. Elected people expect you to give up. Not giving up is the most effective protest you can do.

[Esther Choo, MD MPH @choo_ek]

Well this is a helluva day to be in the cave of NIH study section. Coming up briefly for air, in sorrow.

[Cristian Farias @cristianafarias]

The three liberal justices, who dissented jointly to the decision to overrule Roe v. Wade, cite Justice Thurgood Marshall in one of his last opinions for the Supreme Court:

“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court’s
decisionmaking.”

[Bruce Ishkoday @FireDancer7474]

@Yankees 90% of children killed by gun violence in wealthy countries happens in the United States. Not because of an abundance of doors but because of an abundance of guns. People may not like that being the problem, but it is the problem

[Go to Bluesky to save your brain -- L O L G O P @LOLGOP]

There's no decent reason to sell another AR-15 in America.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Do people realize Robb Elementary doubled its spend on school security since 2017? They had a fence. They had surveillance. They had officers on duty. They had shooter drill trainings.

ALL OF IT FAILED.

The problem is easy access to guns. It's always been guns. ADDRESS THE GUNS

[The Lead CNN @TheLeadCNN]

Study: Firearms are the number one cause of death for children, teens in U.S. @jaketapper reports https://t.co/jlNgyrqUwq

[Cliff Schecter @cliffschecter]

Taiwan, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, Australia, Estonia, Croatia, New Zealand, Ireland, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, San Marino, Andorra, Monaco, Lithuania…ignore all those obv not applicable examples & how, oh how, do we ever figure out this complex puzzle???

[Cliff Schecter @cliffschecter]

As a reminder we have zero proof—ZERO—gun laws work. You know, if you don’t include Japan, U.K., Belgium, Canada, Iceland, Romania, Norway, Austria, Argentina, Netherlands, South Korea, Italy, Greece, Chile, France, Spain, Sweden, Singapore, Portugal, Israel, Czechia, Denmark,

[Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉 @Cleavon_MD]

How vaccines work
https://t.co/h9w5T3TtuO