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He/him. Bookworm. CrossFit🏋🏻‍♂️. Writer. Oenophile. Linguaphile (sporadic polyglot). Progressive patriot. UU. Consistently fascinated.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

I’m tired of being divided into teams.

Do you want a safe neighborhood?
Do you want a good job with good benefits?
Do you want a high quality, well funded public school?

So do I. We’re far more the same than we are different.

As one team, we’re unstoppable.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

New research indicates Walmart is working to compile massive amounts of data on shoppers and potentially charge them different prices, despite the company’s denial.

This shady tactic is called surveillance pricing, and Walmart isn’t the only corporation planning to use it.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United.

Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum.

Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

[PinkNews @PinkNews]

Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista has been outspoken in his support of the LGBTQ+ community, a stance he has often linked to being raised by a lesbian mother.

[Washington Blade @WashBlade]

LGBTQ community must vote in big numbers https://t.co/LeQA67b26A

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The subjugation of women is part of a neo-fascist, warrior culture going all the way back to the 1930s.

It was on full display during Pete Hegseth’s military speech this week.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

If Democrats retake Congress this November, a top priority should be investigating the Trump family's many shady business deals.

Perhaps they can start with Eric and Don Jr.'s ties to defense companies receiving lucrative government contracts?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Republicans win control of the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy.

Feel like we've been here before? Here's why it keeps happening.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump's attacks on our civil liberties didn't come out of nowhere.

The groundwork for his Orwellian surveillance state was laid by the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act.

Only one Senator at the time had the foresight to see what it would unleash.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

There is nothing magical or sacred about having nine Supreme Court justices. Congress has repeatedly expanded—and reduced—the size of the Supreme Court.

Now, after abdicating war powers, spending powers, tariff power and the power to control federal structures and buildings like the White House and the Reflecting Pool, this MAGA-controlled Congress wants to relinquish yet another essential constitutional power that goes back to the Founding—the power to fix the size of the Supreme Court. I argued and voted ‘NO.’

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 am.

I wish they would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools.

I wish they would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars in the Middle East.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Republicans promised to "drain the swamp." Then they gave us an all-time high tide of Washington corruption, while the only thing they've drained is the Reflecting Pool.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

The @HouseGOP’s big accomplishments so far in power:

✅Pretend to rename the Gulf of Mexico
✅Pretend to rename Lake Ontario
✅Pretend to rename the Kennedy Center
✅Introduced a bill to put Trump on Mt. Rushmore
✅Introduced a bill to make Trump’s birthday a national holiday
✅Introduced a bill to put Trump on the $100 bill
✅Introduced a bill to name the DC Metro the Trump Train
✅Introduced a bill to name Dulles airport after Trump
❌Made America more affordable

[Lavender Book Club @lavenderbook]

Happy 25th Birthday to Lavender Book Club!

What started as my way of learning about myself through books turned into a multi-decade reading community.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The Trump administration is pressuring the National Park Service to give a piece of Yosemite National Park to a private developer.

This isn't Trump's first attack on our beautiful national parks. Here's what you need to know.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

John Roberts and the SCOTUS Republicans have allowed Trump to proceed with his egregious mail-in voting restrictions.

21 years ago, I warned at Roberts' confirmation hearing he would be a dangerously right-wing Chief Justice.

I have sadly been proven right, over and over.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

The president has NO authority to make lists of voters & tell the Postal Service who gets a ballot

That power belongs to Congress & to the states, which have passed no such law. @CampaignLegal & @DDFund_ are in court to put and end to these shenanigans

@weeknightmsnow👇 -TN

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

It was revealed that Dolly Parton was secretly battling cancer but she didn't say anything and instead released this song as one of her last to raise funds for children with cancer. Even while she was sick she was still thinking about others. I’m absolutely devastated.