Pamela M.Lessenberry

Pilates trainer - teaching people to move & age gracefully. Social justice warrior. Black Lives Matter as much as yours. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally. She/her.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

The moral alteration in an unthinkable expanse of people who call this place home has been stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths. The worst part is that we can’t reach them in the ways reasonable human beings can be reached.

Before Fox News, we could meet the people around us on the common ground of our shared faith in Jesus, our respect for the Constitution, the clarity of objective truth, or shared compassion for vulnerable people. Now, they no longer have use or tolerance for such things.

Those of us who’ve lost people we love to this curated pestilence should file a class-action suit against Fox News for thirty years of malpractice and murder: for the relationships they’ve destroyed, the deaths they’ve been complicit in, the betrayal of the public trust, and for purposefully killing the goodness in human beings who will never be who they might have been otherwise.

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[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

In defiance of political censorship, laid-off federal scientists have successfully resurrected a massive, shuttered climate data site.

When the federal https://t.co/w14ZARZ5XG website was shut down and hundreds of researchers were laid off, a dedicated team of former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees refused to let decades of public science vanish.

Led by Rebecca Lindsey, the former program director of the original government site, these scientists launched a monumental counter-effort. Rallying over 80 volunteer researchers, the team successfully launched https://t.co/LsNaM1n7Ks, a new, independent website that painstakingly recataloged and restored more than a thousand vital climate reports and datasets previously hidden from public view.

This grassroots resurrection was made possible by a powerful mix of public solidarity and collective action. Nearly 2,500 small-scale donors crowdsourced $250,000—covering one-third of the operational budget—to safeguard critical environmental data.

Climate scientists have lauded the project for helping everyday citizens connect global climate patterns directly to their local communities.

By bypassing political interference, these scientists have established a protected, permanent refuge for the public data necessary to understand and combat our changing world.

source: Bonasia, C. (2026). Fired Scientists Revive the Climate Website Trump Shut Down. The Energy Mix.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.

My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

They want you to blame the single Mom getting $6.20 a day in food stamps, not the 88 corporations like Disney, CVS, Citigroup & Ticketmaster that paid $0 in federal income taxes last year while making $105 billion in profits ripping you off.

The problem is corporate greed, boss.

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

It’s been 1 year since the Big, Ugly Bill was signed into law and billionaires are getting richer while the working class is getting squeezed. #TrumpRepublicanCorruption is so brazen that they think doing it in broad daylight somehow makes it okay. Rep Crockett (D-TX) explains👇

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

People are traveling, gathering together, barbecuing, celebrating the 250th anniversary of this nation in various ways. And then we have this…

An American service member using his right to free speech, guaranteed in our nation’s constitution. A right given to all of us every day. Regardless of your political affiliation, read or watch Major Jason Watson’s full statement. It’s powerful. He has served and is serving. He is speaking up and out, and for that he was arrested.

Free speech, freedom of religion, a free press, the freedom to vote for who you choose, the freedom to love who you choose. These are all things we celebrate on our nation’s birthday. They are what makes us a democracy, among many other things. So as you gather, as you grill, as you plan your day, think of Major Watson, think of the freedoms you hold dear, and don’t just celebrate them, but make sure generations to come will have these rights as well! 🇺🇸

[DSA @DemSocialists]

Whether you joined this week and want to learn about DSA or you are looking for an update on all of the exciting work we are doing, join us on Thursday to hear how we’re keeping up the fight!

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[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If a nurse gives a Senator $50 to vote for Medicare for All, it's illegal.

But Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, spent $45 million to get Trump elected. So Trump is helping his family control:

CBS
CNN
TikTok
HBO
TNT
MTV
BET
And more

That’s a corrupt campaign finance system.

[Loni Love @LoniLove]

If your state is listed, you have an online voter registration deadline for a statewide primary election coming up SOON. 👀 Take three minutes to check your voter registration right now @whenweallvote #ambassadorLoni

[Maryam @hell_line0]

I love how they found a way to use a blood test for men’s prostate cancer, but I still have to get my titties slammed in a press and my cervix scraped with a brush...

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

This week, the House will vote on an amendment that would block $3.3 billion in military funding for the Israeli apartheid regime. I will vote yes.

We should not spend another cent arming a military that is committing genocide in Palestine, ethnically cleansing Lebanon, and committing war crimes in Iran.

A majority of Americans and a supermajority of Democrats support ending military aid to Israel. It's time their representatives listened.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Woodstock vs. Laughingstock

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Supreme Court Lets Stand Civil Jury Finding That Trump Sexually Abused E. Jean Carroll

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal, leaving in place a $5 million judgment and the civil jury’s finding that he sexually abused and defamed Carroll.
https://t.co/Gye6BGHru7

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Millions Lose ACA Coverage After Trump and Republicans Let Subsidies Expire

After enhanced ACA subsidies expired, enrollment fell sharply, premiums rose for many families, and the fight over health care costs moved from Washington into household budgets.
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[Jordan Zakarin @jordanzakarin]

. @MelatKirosCO could be the next young leftist to upset an establishment Democrat tomorrow — as well as the second whose campaign origin story begins with the crackdown on Gaza student protestors at Columbia.

She explains here:

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 DR. @AbdulElSayed: "They’ve taken to calling me ‘dangerous’ — I'm not dangerous if you need government to work for you, but I sure am dangerous if you're a corporation or special interest or a politician who does their bidding.”

[AZ Chicano for Harris @ChicanoDevil]

@thedailybeast

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

Dozens of files related to the FBI’s interviews with Trump’s 13-year-old accuser are reportedly still unsealed. https://t.co/0J5RBUEKae

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Google’s founders, Sergey Brin & Larry Page, paid $0 in California income taxes in 2019, 2020 & 2023.

Since 2019, Brin & Page got $400 billion richer & are worth $573 billion.

Today, Brin is spending $57 million to defeat a tax on billionaires to save healthcare for 3 million.