Back in the Day When Joe was a Lizard

She/her, I love my community

[Acyn @Acyn]

Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa, Ashley Hinson, is suggesting that her family struggles with groceries despite disclosures indicating she’s millions richer since taking office.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr dissolved the CDC Division for Parasitic disease

Now a parasite is causing huge outbreaks of explosive diarrhoea across the US

What a foolish move

[Project True North @proj_true_north]

The Minnesota GOP platform calls for an outright abortion ban. They have made promises to anti-choice activists, and they plan to keep them.

[Ally Sammarco @Ally_Sammarco]

The following 3 House Republicans are currently being accused of assault or sexual harassment:

Cory Mills
Chuck Edwards
Max Miller

Are you going to call for their resignations, @GOP?

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Three Florida Republicans were just charged with creating a fake voter guide to steal an election.

They did not hack the machines. They did not stuff the ballot box. They printed a fake Republican voter guide, made it look nearly identical to the real one, and mailed it to tens of thousands of voters before a 2024 primary.

It worked. An incumbent won by fewer than 1,000 votes. Now three elected officials in St. Johns County, Florida are facing criminal charges for it.

[Karthik @KarthikForTexas]

They interviewed all the three witnesses separately, and they all say the same thing.

They did not ram the car; ICE agents fired at them, and then mocked Mr. Salgado as he lay there dying.

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.

There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.

[Josh Turek @turek4iowa]

This is devastating news. Another Iowa hospital is ending labor and delivery services, this time in my community of Council Bluffs.

Iowans shouldn’t have to drive further to have a baby because politicians like Ashley Hinson voted to slash health care funding and jeopardize our hospitals.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

“We’ve got a party that is fighting for fraud and a party that is fighting against fraud." — JD Vance

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump has abruptly fired the remaining members of the federal Election Assistance Commission, the nonpartisan entity tasked with preparing local election officials for the 2026 midterms.

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent.

There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's @JRogalskiKHOU found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off.

Renee Good all over again.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Wisconsin has lost 3,700 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office. @RepVanOrden let this happen, and supported Trump’s policies which raised avg household prices by $3000/year and stripped their healthcare. Wisconsin, don’t send Van Order back to Congress.

[Bridget Early @bridget__early]

The lede on this NYT story is devastating. As more parents reject Vitamin K shots for their babies, docs are increasingly treating brain/abdominal hemorrhages for infants who hadn’t received the routine injection, per Maggie Astor:

[Harry Triple O @HarryO1975]

Unarmed Black Man Darius Chappell Died In Police Custody After Being Attacked By Police And Police K-9 In Clarksville, Tennessee

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨CAUGHT ON TAPE: Trump ADMITS the SAVE Act is designed to disenfranchise voters: "Republicans have to win this one. We'll never lose a race for 50 years."

He’s talking about YOU. Your vote gone. Your voice erased. So they never have to answer to YOU again.

#SAVEActIsPayToVote

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump has denied $227 million in disaster aid for 4 Democratic-led states.

Two days prior, he approved disaster aid for 6 Republican-led states.

[Project True North @proj_true_north]

The Minnesota GOP voted to pass a 2026 wishlist (“action agenda”). “Phase out Social Security" is #9 on the list.

They’re telling you exactly what they would do if they win.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

When I was younger, we had a house fire and all of our birth certificates and SS cards were lost as well as my mom’s marriage and divorce papers.

In Pennsylvania it cost $30 to get a new birth certificate. It’s $40 for a copy of your marriage license and another $40 for any divorce paperwork that you may have lost. Add another $165 in for a passport because married women need several forms to prove who they are.

Now add time away from your job so that you can go to the courthouse to get all of this done before the election, because they’re not open weekends and they’re not open after 4pm weekdays.

All of that just to verify that you can vote. The constitution calls that a poll tax. And they’re illegal.

This has nothing to do with preventing fraud and everything to do with preventing YOU from voting.

#SAVEActIsPayToVote

[Naithan Jones @NaithanJones]

After graduating college he went back to home to LA to be a youth mentor and gang interventionist. He was a beloved leader who worked for low pay for the public housing authority in LA (Watts / Compton). He was murdered at a 4th of July event in Compton. His story is barely getting a fraction the attention of some other stories this week

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

We just hit a harrowing milestone. There are now 1,000 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics that have closed or are on the verge of closing since Republicans gutted Medicaid and the ACA to fund tax cuts the wealthy.

Billionaires over patients. With deadly consequences.