🟧Deborah e. Hecht (she/her)

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[Congresswoman Susie Lee @RepSusieLee]

Republicans in Washington are preventing us from giving extreme heat protections to workers.

They should come to Vegas where hardworking men and women are out every day in 100+ degree heat. These protections aren’t red tape, they are keeping people safe and alive.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

NEWS: Governor Wes Moore, along with Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott, have overseen an over 40% decrease in homicides in Maryland putting the state on pace for its lowest homicide rate in over 40 years. That’s huge.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, the lawyer who defended Ken Paxton during his impeachment trials just announced he is endorsing James Talarico. This is huge.

[Assembly Democrats @nvassemblydems]

Tomorrow is Election Day. Polls are open from 7 AM to 7 PM. If you plan to return your mail-in ballot, you can bring it to any secure ballot box, polling location, or return it by mail. If you do return your ballot by mail, make sure it’s postmarked on June 9th and no later.

[Mr. Christopher @iamalmostlegend]

Someone called 911 on two young brothers selling lemonade at their lemonade at their lemonade stand. The Police and Fire Department showed up.

Watch what happened next:

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

I am getting my own show on @MSNOWNews. mind blown. grateful doesn’t cut it. sending love, my profound thanks and max respect to everyone for the years of support. more soon.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

i’m not crying, you’re crying. 😭 thank you again to the greatest, @AliVelshi.

[Myron J Clifton @AuthorMJClifton]

Mormons got axed from military list of approved religions lol

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

This is a clip that is so on point it may be very uncomfortable for some to watch. However, the Chinese man featured in the clip is saying out loud what I have written about at length and many academics have articulated.

You’ll have to excuse the captions which struggles with his Chinese accent, but that doesn’t detract from the message.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/FvZxHZpe4Z

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

After their time is up, they tell the truth.

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

Cleveland did not send me to Congress to be interrupted, talked over, and lied to.

Especially not by Trump officials who are punishing people with SNAP cuts and higher food prices every day.

[BlackBird444🇺🇸 @BlkBird444]

This the only birthday song I wanna hear from here on out 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😁😁😁 I Love Being Black 🖤

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Veteran journalist Jim Acosta is vindicated in the worst way possible as Trump’s latest outburst proves he IS a danger to democracy and a free press!

Back in Trump’s first term, the former CNN anchor was among the first journalists to sound the alarm that Trump’s antipathy towards journalists presented a serious threat to democracy, a free press, and basic truth.

Naturally, the MAGA world lost its collective mind, accusing Acosta of grandstanding, making it all about himself, and being a rude, overdramatic showboat.

But Trump just spent years proving Acosta right on a daily basis, and it's gotten demonstrably worse during his second term, culminating in yesterday’s angry, sexist attack on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins before she’d even asked her a question.

Acosta posted the receipts last night, resurfacing the infamous 2018 press conference clip where Trump personally berated him and insulted him personally on live television:

“CNN should be ashamed of itself, having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN… You are the enemy of the people.”

Acosta’s question that day was about the Russia investigation, one that Trump clearly didn’t want to entertain. He told him to sit down, and launched into his first major “enemy of the people” rant against the press.

“When I called out Trump years ago for being a danger to democracy, a free press, and truth itself, I was accused of making myself the story and showboating,” Acosta wrote today. “How did things turn out? Trump is all of those things. Tonight, the free press is very much in danger in America. Wake up!”

Like a modern day Cassandra, he was right then, and he’s even more right now, and he should be heard.
Trump never stopped attacking the free press, and has only intensified his derision for journalism, and disrespect for the truth, and accountability.

The pattern of screaming “fake news” whenever he hears something he doesn’t like and launching ad hominem attacks on reporters as professionals and human beings has been part of the playbook since day one, and will continue to be so if we let it.

History has proven Jim Acosta correct. If the United States no longer has a free press, it’s not the same country. That must not happen.

If you agree, like and share this post.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Mic 🎤 drop… boom 💥 mom‘s for liberty school board member

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just got the House Armed Services Committee UNANIMOUSLY to force Pete Hegseth to explain every senior military firing within the next 5 days. Hegseth has fired 24+ officers without cause or explanation. Even Republicans want answers.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 This Is Not A Normal Campaign Ad.

Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and other progressive candidates are running as a team and asking New Yorkers to vote for the entire slate.

Their message is simple:

Elect all of us, and we’ll take on billionaires, landlords, and corporate power together.

🔥 That’s what makes this ad interesting.

They’re not selling individual candidates.

They’re selling a governing coalition.

Now New York voters get to decide whether they want a team…

or a check on one.

[Brinda Adhikari @brindaadhikari]

I worked at CBS News for almost 6 years. It was a place that frequently drove me crazy bc of how resistant it was to change. How difficult it was to get things done bc you had to fight so many people and their “Cronkite and Murrow would roll over in their graves if they saw” mentality.

For those who think Scott Pelley was part of the problem, you are wrong. Yes he could be rigid and a stickler for certain traditions. But I will tell you now the Gen Z people I worked w all loved him. Like me, they forgave a lot of his boomer ways bc we were in awe of investigations he did using hidden cameras exposing snake oil salesmen hurting Americans; showing us how Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people; the pain of rural Americans waiting for half a day to get affordable healthcare in a parking lot of a mobile clinic; his searing interviews w survivors of mass shootings.

Yeah he was old fashioned in some ways. I used to tease him bc he always had trouble pronouncing Beyoncé’s name.

But he was willing to be pushed. He was open to new ideas. The fact that someone like me and someone like him got along so well is proof of that. The guy made me a better thinker and a better journalist.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Oh hell yeah… little girl needed clarification…🤣”Which end”

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”