Politics & Policy Impact Our Everyday Lives

W/liberty & justice for ALL, even when its difficult. Breast cancer survivor, runner/walker, humanist, feminist. she/her Black Lives Matter. Trans wmn r wmn

[Politics & Policy Impact Our Everyday Lives @nikkisz]

From an officer at the Capitol “They refer to themselves as patriots, even as they’re [attempting to seize] the capital of the United States and they call us traitors even while they’re waving the ‘thin blue line’ flag and beating us with it, literally in some cases” Post Reports

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Y’all will never convince me this is normal.

[feminist next door @emrazz]

What does the average Trump voter feel when they read this? Is it really possible that they love it, undetectably, while existing in society? That we go to the same car wash, stand side by side in a grocery line, with people who *love* this? People who think it’s good and right?

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

For I was hungry, and you voted against the school lunch program that provided me my only meal of the day, I was thirsty and you voted against clean water legislation, a stranger and you voted to lock me in a cage at an I.C.E. concentration camp at the border.

[Politics & Policy Impact Our Everyday Lives @nikkisz]

American Association of University Professors calls on Duke to 'immediately halt' its employee buyout program https://t.co/CWEJfWE9jv

[Politics & Policy Impact Our Everyday Lives @nikkisz]

Netflix ‘A Different World’ sequel pilot sets filming date in Atlanta – WABE https://t.co/qkO54gKRCA

[Tim @trouble_man90]

The whole rationale behind trump was “yea he’s a criminal, yea he’s corrupt, yea he’s racist, yea he’s a fascist, yea he incited an insurrection, yea he cozies up to dictators

BUT AT LEAST!! BUT AT LEAST we had cheap groceries. Now he admits that he can’t even do that.

[Roxy @RoxyTall]

You’ll be at work talking to an older coworker like “we’ve had record heat & this is the first October Mt Fuji ever had no snow also it now gets so hot that animals just die en masse” and your coworker will be like “good! I love when it’s hot 😃 and hate when it’s cold 😡”

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

In the weeks leading up to the most consequential election of my lifetime, there’s been a great deal of focus on Black men. But the group we should have been focusing on is white women — the nation’s largest electorate. White women are the only American women where the majority did not vote for Hillary Clinton. Had white women voted like the rest of women, women would still have their constitutional right to abortion and affirmative action would still be legal. Two of Trump’s own former generals have warned that he’s a fascist. Black women were credited with saving democracy in 2020, will white women step up and do the same in 2024? My latest essay revisits the fraught history of white women’s solidarity.

[MollyPeonies @mollypeonies]

The way their husband, church, friends, community upholds patriarchal control, and the ways the internalize it in themselves. Just as “whiteness” and colonialism have become imbedded in all cultures, misogyny is also internalized in women.

[Michele Norris @michele_norris]

Stay tuned.
Stay strong.
Stay engaged. 

And Vote!

[Michele Norris @michele_norris]

We all know that this is the newspaper that boldly adopted the phrase “Democracy dies in darkness” as its official logo.
Actually — Democracy dies in silence.

[Kamala for PA @KamalaforPA]

Listen to this from @JordanHarrisPA.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

The more I talk about the election the more shocked I am by how many people memory holed 2016-2020. Every day was a new horror. New emergencies popped up constantly. I fundamentally don’t understand how people seemingly forgot about all of it.

[Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler]

“He peacefully gave over power”

- JD Vance, last night

“Make them riot.”

- unsealed testimony, today

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

More good news about cooling inflation!

Thank you to the American people.

Thank you @POTUS and @VP Harris.

Thank you to the Inflation Reduction Act.

[Politics & Policy Impact Our Everyday Lives @nikkisz]

Who is this Republican state representative on @wabenews? He’s NOT making his point when he starts with “I don’t really care about cats” and then pretty much backing what Tr*mp said about immigrants eating pets. He’s not doing himself any favors with that particular statement

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Kamala citing “I’m a better looking person” as one of the lies — IM SCREAMING