Linda 🌊🌻☮️🟧

To damage the earth is to damage your children. - Wendell Berry, Farmer and Poet. Artist, leukemia warrior, #Resist, No DMs 🌊

[Dumfukdetector 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 @Dumfukdetector]

Why do I care? I'm a white, middle-aged, straight male with my own business. I'll never need an abortion, gender care, or equal employment protections. I'll never be followed when I'm shopping, refused service at a bakery, or denied a marriage license because of who I love. And as of right now, I dont have to worry about health insurance, food or shelter, thankfully. So why do I care about people affected by these issues? Frankly, it goes against my best interest, because these red blooded "patriots" who love 'Merica want to make life terrible for everyone EXCEPT people like me. So why do I care??

Simple: I have 2 nieces, about a dozen gay and lesbian friends and relatives, elderly neighbors, black friends , and hundreds of former clients who will always struggle financially, emotionally, and physically. And I don't want to live in a country where it's citizens are oppressed and denied basic rights because those in charge want to police morality and make America white again. No thank you please.

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[Linda 🌊🌻☮️🟧 @tatlinl]

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[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Absolutely

[Linda 🌊🌻☮️🟧 @tatlinl]

@seanhelaosouse What's a New Year's Resolution? Wishing you a fantastic 2024!

[Linda 🌊🌻☮️🟧 @tatlinl]

@LakotaMan1 Congratulations!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Radio shock jock Howard Stern urges Americans to vote for Democrats because the “only fucking issue on the table” is saving democracy to prevent “waking up” in a “dictatorship” run by election-denying MAGA Republicans. RT TO THANK HOWARD STERN FOR SPEAKING OUT!

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Women should not have to get permission from a judge or fight in court to get an abortion.

That decision is up to her and her doctor.

RT if you agree.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: MAGA fans screech bloody murder after a Philadelphia school board president chooses not to be sworn in on the Bible — swearing instead on a stack of books that are frequently banned by right-wing fanatics.

And that's not even the best part...

Central Bucks president Karen Smith's oath is going viral, with Democrats loving it and Republicans throwing one of their trademark fits. Her bold stand against local Republican board members who tried to ban "sexualized content" is becoming a rallying cry for pro-education advocates.

"The Bible doesn’t hold significant meaning for me," said. "The banned books, they do mean something to me."

Smith ascends to the presidency of a Democratic-led board after Republicans controlled it for two years. During that disastrous stretch, they banned two books and might have banned sixty more.

On top of that, the conservative radicals banned staff from advocating "partisan, political or social policy issues" to students, which in practice just means anything that Republican's don't like.

At the top of the stack of books Smith swore on was "Night," the Holocaust autobiography of Elie Wisel.

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation,” Smith said. "Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

Also included in the pile was "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, "Lily and Dunkin" by Donna Gephart, "All Boys Aren’t Blue" by George M. Johnson, "Flamer" by Mike Curato, and "Beyond Magenta" by Susan Kuklin.

Most infuriating to conservatives, Smith is a former Republican who abandoned the party because she believes its "lost its way."

She could not be any more right.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you support Karen Smith's bravery — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[Linda 🌊🌻☮️🟧 @tatlinl]

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[Linda 🌊🌻☮️🟧 @tatlinl]

@PoliticsVerse_ .

[James Womack🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇦 @retiredtrnman]

The #FBI has identified many people who incited violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, but it still needs your help to bring others to justice. If the person in this photo looks familiar, submit a tip at https://t.co/LRUnRA40bG or 1-800-CALL-FBI, and mention photo 248-AFO.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨🚨🚨BOOM: AOC DESTROYS Kevin McCarthy for the holding the national debt hostage and for suggesting Washington needs to “spend less.”

“Ok, then undo the yacht and private jet tax breaks the GOP passed for themselves,” AOC retorted.

“Why should single moms and veterans have to pay for the GOP’s giveaways to the rich?

Especially when you don’t even have the votes of your own caucus?” She added.

Let’s get this straight:

The Republicans want nothing more than to pretend that the debt ceiling needs to be lifted to accommodate next year's budget. They frame it that way relentlessly, and sad to say, lazy journalists buy into their framing. The debt ceiling needs to be raised to pay for all the spending the Republicans authorized in 2017 when they gave away a substantial chunk of the Treasury to their rich pals.

So now the time comes that we need to pay the country's bills incurred in the last several years and now coming due. But we're a little short on cash since we gave rich people more money, so now it's time for disabled and retired citizens to pungle up, and single mothers living close to the bone have to forego SNAP benefits. Because Kevin McCarthy couldn't possibly ask
mega billionaires to pay more.

The middle class should no longer carry the majority of the tax burden and the tax breaks for the rich. Let them pay their fair share for a change.

Now, McCarthy is trying to shift blame to DEMOCRATS.

We know who’s FAULT this.

If you want to help send that message, please RT and use the hashtag:

#BlameKevinMcCarthy

[Linda 🌊🌻☮️🟧 @tatlinl]

@hduverge WTF?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The Associated Press drops a bombshell on Twitter owner Elon Musk, reveals that a new study just found that Trump’s Big Lie that the election was “stolen” is “thriving” on Twitter — suspiciously unchecked by Musk’s “community notes.”

But it gets WAY worse for Musk.

The new study analyzed the 10 most viral posts that pushed Trump’s Big Lie in the aftermath of Trump’s CNN townhall last week.

Here’s what it found: “While Twitter has a system in place for users to add context to misleading tweets, the 10 posts, which collectively amassed more than 43,000 retweets, had no such notes attached.

The most widely shared tweets included false claims from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Kari Lake, a Republican who lost her bid for Arizona governor last year.

Twitter’s policy on civic integrity and misleading information says it “may” label or remove “unverified information about election rigging,” but the 10 tweets and dozens of others claiming a “stolen” or “rigged” election in 2020 or 2022 in recent days remained live and unlabeled on the platform as of today.”

The study places the blame squarely on Musk because he “has reinstated notorious election deniers, overhauled Twitter’s verification system and gutted much of the staff that had been responsible for moderating posts.”

This should concern EVERY American who gives a damn about our struggling democracy.

Please retweet and ❤️ to expose Elon Musk — and consider joining Tribel, a new Twitter alternative that is growing like wildfire because it stomps out Trump’s fake news and Big Lie. Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account last week in a desperate effort to stop Tribel’s growth — but he hasn’t yet banned this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨🚨🚨 Holy shit: A group of parents in Tennessee are OUTRAGED that a local school board caved to a conservative group and cancelled a librarian’s Mother's Day lesson inclusive to kids without moms.

The parents boldly confronted the Hamilton County School Board and held nothing back:

One dad said, “This is 2023. I'm a Christian man, married to a woman, but I think everyone should be represented fairly. If you want to keep your kids in a closet and just shelter them from everything, homeschool them. Send them to Christian school. This is a public school for everyone. Everyone. I've dealt with that woman. She loves these kids.”

The organization Moms for Liberty is a right-wing organization that campaigns against social progress and civil rights. They target local school board meetings and has deep connections to the Republican Party. Moms for Liberty also promoted stripping districts of protective COVID-19 measures and are bad news.

Thank you to these brave parents for speaking out! 💙💙💙

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Bam. President Biden just called on Congress to ban assault weapons & high capacity magazines once again, calling them “weapons of war.” Grateful to have a president who actually cares about our safety. This is real leadership. Thank you, President Biden.

[Katherine Grace @KATHERINGRACE18]

Why do you have an open mind?

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

I was not expecting dude to drop fire. https://t.co/1ZQbOknLbO

[Linda 🌊🌻☮️🟧 @tatlinl]

@myopinionyour No words, just love sent❣️