HeidiJoy🌴🥥

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive- Howard Thurman ENTISH

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

While billion-dollar law firms and elite universities bow to the Mad King, more and more ordinary people are drawing a line. This is what real citizenship looks like.

[MamasPajamas @MamasPajamas]

@JakeSherman @gtconway3d @SpeakerJohnson Trust trump? The same trump who filed for bankruptcy SIX times?! That trump? The one who bankrupted casinos? That trump??

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Before vaccines, babies got breastmilk, sunshine and love.

And 1 in 5 of them didn't live to see their first birthday

[HeidiJoy🌴🥥 @loveslit]

Olympia, Washington this afternoon

[pourmecoffee @pourmecoffee]

The Trump economic policy

[Medical Xpress @medical_xpress]

#Wealthy Americans have shorter lifespans compared to their European peers. Analysis shows higher #MortalityRates across all wealth levels in the U.S., highlighting systemic health disparities. @BrownUniversity @nejm https://t.co/R1yhnzMPP0

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

the only two countries on earth exempt from Trump’s tariffs are, no joke, Russia and North Korea

[HeidiJoy🌴🥥 @loveslit]

https://t.co/A5JVRbdy34

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

What I think a winning agenda for Democrats could look like:

1) @AOC/@SenSanders-style economic populism. Tax the rich, expand public services, balance the budget. Skip the ideological fluff: no anti-capitalism and degrowth blabla, just good old-fashioned social democracy.

2) @davidshor-style popularism: relentlessly double down on your most popular policies. Universal Pre-K, affordable child care, higher minimum wage, cheaper groceries, cheaper college, cheaper prescription drugs.

3) @Yascha_Mounk/@mattyglesias -style cultural move to the center: moderate on immigration, tone down identity politics, admit men & women are different, stop the obsessive language policing, explicitly distance yourself from far left cultural warriors. Reclaim patriotism. Be smart on crime: no 'defund the police' but more cops and better cops who solve more crimes. Be the party of cleaner streets, fewer guns, and public order.

4) @ezraklein/@DKThomp-style YIMBY/abundance agenda. Slash red tape, defy silly rules and procedures. Declare an emergency if necessary. Shovels in the ground, make a big show of building affordable housing and clean energy (livestreams etc.). Set targets and deadlines. Be the party of progress that (visibily!) builds.

5) Build a big tent of progressives, moderates and independents. Unite in opposition to Trump. Attack him when he engages in economic arson (tariffs etc) and democratic arson (blatant disregard for due process, civil liberties etc.), and when it highlights your strengths: competence, solutions, basic human decency.

And most importantly of all:

Win elections. Then do the right thing. (In that order.)

[HeidiJoy🌴🥥 @loveslit]

The Lancet
https://t.co/yOrqjXVeIL

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

Absolutely massive pro-democracy protests in Turkey yesterday.

This is what we're going to need in the US sooner rather than later if we want democracy to survive.

[HeidiJoy🌴🥥 @loveslit]

Now we’re really f***ed

[Post Politics @postpolitics]

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist https://t.co/MoOC8bA1dI

[City of Tacoma @CityofTacoma]

🚲E-bike rebates coming soon! We’re excited to take part in Washington State’s E-Bike Rebate Pilot Program that will launch in April. Qualifying applicants will receive rebates for either $1,200 or $300, depending on household income. Learn more at https://t.co/MWLBO0iHcg.

[HeidiJoy🌴🥥 @loveslit]

@CountVonCount This is a very good number

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

1.2 million children will die, so billionaires can get a tax cut. The Republican Party is in a state of complete moral collapse.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The stages in MAGA responding to a negative story:
1: It's all lies
2: Most of it is lies
3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter
4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it
5. F**k you

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Pete Hegseth: “Nobody texted war plans.”
Also Pete Hegseth, war plans that he texted: