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[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

White people wanted segregated water fountains but made Black women nurse their babies. Racism isn’t simply hatred; it’s exploitation.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

[JDRandom - RandomWhiteGuy @TheReelRandom]

This ad is fantastic.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

The Lincoln Project has wasted no time putting out a video ushering in Kamala Harris for President of the United States!

NGL, the beginning made me teary.

We owe President Biden so much gratitude!

[🌊Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🖋️ @herotimeszero]

Dear Independents,

If you were undecided yesterday, then today changed everything. The difference between Biden and Trump has now been crystalized.

Biden has been POTUS for almost 4 years. Vice president for 8 years. And in politics for 52 years.

And during all that time, the GOP found nothing on Joe. And we know they tried. Really, really, tried.

Biden never asked for immunity. Never asked for a pardon. Why? The same reason you and I never asked for it. WE DIDN'T COMMIT A CRIME.

Donald Trump has been in politics for 8 years. And has now been begging for immunity daily. John Gotti, Al Capone, Bernie Madoff, they’d kill to get immunity. But only Donald bought enough judges to actually get one.

This November, your choice couldn’t be clearer.

Trump, who as POTUS will be officially allowed to commit any crime he wants, giving him absolute dictatorship, allowing him to completely ignore his constituents, and turning this country into his playground of enrichment, atrocities, and vengeance.

VS

Biden, who had a bad day during a debate.

Remember in November... Asking for immunity is a confession. And only Trump asked for it.

#ProudBlue #DemsUnited #Fresh #DemVoice1

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

My daughter got bullied at school this year.
A bunch of mean girls forced her to sit totally alone at lunch.
One of the teachers saw and asked if she wanted to have lunch in her office, and do you know what my kid did— she said no thank you.
She said she didn’t want them to think they’d won.
Even though they had hurt her.
Even though they were still hurting her.
She didn’t want them to see.
She got knocked down and she got right back up.
She showed those bullies that she was tougher than them.
She had right on her side and she knew it.
And that is the kind of mindset we need in this country right now.
We don’t quit.
We don’t hide.
We get knocked down and we get back up.
We have right on our side.
And we can never let the bully think they’ve won.
Because they can’t win.
And just like my hurricane of a little girl said to me when she came home from school that day, we will never let the bullies win. Never.

[pjeanster @pjeanster]

@guelphgirlchris Yep. He’s OK.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Donald Trump is trying to steal history the same way he tried to steal the election. But we saw the truth with our own eyes.

Trump’s mob on January 6 wasn’t a peaceful protest—it was a violent assault on our democracy.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,

Now I know that questions like these are about as interesting to you as a tutorial on gun safety, an explanation of how Easter dates fluctuate year to year and a thesaurus, but you see, I’ve long since stopped giving a fuck, so I’m gonna ask it anyway.

And this isn’t really about you answering as much it is about me pointing out your culture war ridiculousness, so if you’re able to, and yer not too busy shooting up beer cans or rage-jerking to Tucker Carlson’s latest rants about unsexy candy characters in comfortable shoes, please do read along. If not, no worries, I’m still gonna say what needs to be said.

So here’s what I want to know - what exactly are Republicans FOR these days? What are they offering? What are they promising? What are they giving you?

Because it’s not infrastructure, the Dems did that. It’s not healthcare, which the Dems did too. It’s not all the other stuff the Dems are doing like lowering the cost of your insulin or lowering your taxes, it’s not creating jobs, not bringing manufacturing back, not honoring our vets, not actually “backing the blue” or “supporting the troops”, it’s not ending the opioid crisis, addressing the border, making Mexico pay for the wall, not lowering unemployment, raising wages, improving maternal care, feeding starving children, not keeping books on shelves, keeping the planet green, keeping you safe at work, protecting social security or growing the GDP, it’s not protecting your reproductive rights, your access to IVF and contraception, protecting Democracy abroad and it’s sure as shit not protecting your kids from gun violence at school.

When a bridge collapses after a ship collision and six workers die, they blame DEI. When a woman is killed they blame the border. When a movie theatre gets shot up they blame “mental health.” When a long-standing day of visibility for a group of people who pose no harm to them outside of the fact that they simply want to live their authentic lives, coincides with Easter, they blame “blasphemy.”

They say America sucks, that our economy is in ruins, and that our streets are rife with more crime than ever, when none of that’s true. They say prices are too high, but vote against stopping gouging, that our roads are in disrepair, but then vote against fixing them, and that our border is in crisis, while refusing to even vote on a bill THEY themselves demanded and co-wrote.

They’re not doing a damn thing about the kitchen table issues you think about every single night. In fact, they’re telling you that they’re coming for the shit you rely on like affordable healthcare, access to IVF and contraception, they’re telling you they are coming for the social security you have been paying into.

But you can’t hear them. You don’t want to hear them because you’re too busy being “scared” that your kid’s teacher wants them to be “furries” when they’re not, that immigrants come here to commit crimes, when they don’t, that some drag queen you’ve never met and you do not know tried to “indoctrinate” kindergartners with a book about earthworms when they simply would not and have not.

You’re too busy welcoming being stoked, poked and prodded with manufactured outrage and irrational fear, too busy letting them embrace your intolerance, empower your biases, and embolden your bigotry to ever care to notice that they offer you nothing which is real.

They’re for fostering angst, anxiety and anger in a “failing nation.”
They’re for telling you that someone else is to blame for your failures.
They’re “for” openly hating who you hate.

That’s it.
That’s all they are “for.”

And unfortunately, despite the fact that nothing could be further from the truth, that’s all you seem to think you need.

And I want to know why.

[Sari Beth Rosenberg @saribethrose]

incredible nation while also being thoughtful & honest about the flaws that existed in our past that continue to hold us back. As President Biden often says, “Our diversity is our strength” and that’s what shapes his actions & agenda as President. 10/

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm going to post this video every day until the election

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

For the record — Donald Trump did not “allegedly” say that Mexicans were rapists, women were dogs, his political opponents were vermin and immigrants were poisoning the blood of our country.

He didn’t allegedly mock a disabled reporter, demean a POW or attack a Gold Star family. He didn’t allegedly brag about grabbing women by the pussy, didn’t allegedly sexually abuse and defame E. Jean Carroll, or cheat on his wife with a porn star and a playmate.

He didn’t allegedly ask Brad Raffensperger to “find” him 11,780 votes, didn’t allegedly tell the Jan 6th crowd to march to the Capitol or agree that the mob was right to want to hang his VP, and he didn’t allegedly wait 3 hours and 7 minutes before stopping the attack.

He didn’t allegedly remove highly classified national security documents from the White House, didn’t allegedly show them to people who had no right to see them, and he didn’t allegedly keep them in his motherfucking bathroom.

He didn’t allegedly make millions in foreign money while president, didn’t allegedly get his daughter dozens of Chinese patents and didn’t allegedly commit decades worth of egregious business fraud in the state of NY.

He actually DID all of those things, while alleging to be a devout family man patriot, while alleging to put America first, while alleging the 2020 election was “stolen” from him and alleging that he is being indicted for the many, many crimes he committed “for you.”

No matter what Trump says, no matter how the media frames & spins the truth, no matter what the angriest, loudest voices want you to believe.
There are the things Trump did, and the things Trump alleges.
We have eyes and ears.
We have facts and we have lies.
And we can never, ever lose sight of the difference between the two.

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
- George Orwell, 1984

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: The Biden campaign just released this devastating ad showing off Fox News telling their audience about President Biden’s strong economy. Retweet to ensure the whole country sees.

[pjeanster @pjeanster]

@tonyposnanski Always!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

To Those Calling Joe Biden "Sleepy Joe" for taking 14 days before he spent time on the ground in Maui, Hawaii, you likely don't understand what it's like to be in a disaster area when a President comes to town.

Last year I lived through Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 storm here in Fort Myers. While our family was very fortunate, the area was devastated, especially Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel.

President Biden arrived with Ron DeSantis 7 days after the storm. While it was nice for the area to get the attention it deserved, most locals were aggravated because we were still trying to move supplies around the area, move debris and boats off of the roads, and assess the destruction. We still didn't have power and most traffic lights were not working. When Biden arrived, traffic in a large portion of the city slowed to a crawl for several hours. People who were trying to get limited supplies and those conducting recovery efforts were slowed to a standstill.

Stop blaming Biden for waiting 2 weeks to goto Maui unless you understand what it's like to live through a disaster and have a President come to town.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I am 55 years old.
America is the only country I've ever known.
And I love my country.

When I was in school, I learned about the horrors of slavery. Sure, it was a limited education, but I totally got the gist of it.

We learned how people were taken from Africa, and how many DIED during the journey here, forced to labor in hot fields while being whipped, raped, deprived of education, and murdered.

In fact, when I was young, there was a mini-series on TV called Roots that depicted the brutality of slavery in horrifyingly explicit detail.

And then I did my OWN research, reading more books and watching more documentaries and movies.

But somehow, I was able to maintain my love of America. Despite all of the cruelty and brutality I had learned about, I was somehow able to figure out that the people alive in America today had NOTHING TO DO with slavery 200 years ago.

Somehow, I can still say the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the Star Spangled Banner, no problem.

But dishonest fascists like Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ron DeSantis want to deprive American children of the knowledge of slavery, and African American studies because they say it's "propaganda leftist agenda" designed to teach kids to “hate America.”

That's a preposterous lie.

There are PLENTY of evils and horrors America is responsible for, and if you don't teach kids what happened in the past they may be DOOMED to repeat those horrors in the future.

Today's kids are being asked to treat as normal these "shooter drills" where the possibility of being shot with bullets that make them unrecognizable is a very real possibility, but we think they can't handle learning the truth about what happened 200 years ago?

If you ask me, those of us who learned the truth about America, and STILL love our country, are even more patriotic than those who are trying to whitewash it and hide the truth from kids.

Don't minimize it.
Don't rationalize it, with bullshit like "oh, it wasn't all bad because some people learned skills."

RESPECT THESE KIDS.
TELL THEM THE TRUTH.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

This is one of the most profound videos I’ve filmed since the rise of Trump. I asked him why he was there. Tears rolled down his cheeks. His father who was a WWII veteran (like my dad) told him “We gotta stop this guy”. He was a squadron commander and he lost 110 men and he never got a scratch. And he lived his whole life trying to be worthy of their sacrifice. And he asked me to do the same. So this is a very small thing to do. But why everyone in the country isn’t doing this and trying to understand what this man is doing to our country. I don’t get it. But everybody needs to do something to stop this guy” Please listen to every single word and share. #TrumpArraignment #Truth

[𝐅𝐨𝐱𝐲 💔🇺🇸 🟦 SAVE DEMOCRACY @Getyourfoxyback]

Eight Republicans voted NOT to certify Biden’s win …
Remember these names!

[pjeanster @pjeanster]

Trumpism’s hidden casualty https://t.co/qh4cxJmtSH via @voxdotcom