Good Trouble Solutions

“Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”
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@repjohnlewis

[Good Trouble Solutions @WhoDeannyPod]

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[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

Jd Vance will go down in history as the only VP that used the situation room to cover up his bosses involvement in a sex trafficking pedophile ring 👍

Your legacy is secured jd Vance 🙄

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Jan. 6 rioter Dillon Colby Herrington was indicted after raping an unconscious woman in Alabama.

Trump pardoned him anyway.

[Pat Dennis @patdennis]

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Jesus didn’t build a grand arena to hold gladiator fights for his own amusement.

That was Caesar.

[Nora @Heal_within96]

Black people make up 50% of all exonerations in the US, despite being 13.6% of the population. Black people are 7 times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of serious crimes (murder, sexual assault/drug offenses) than White individuals.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Biden at 80. Trump at 80.

One rode bikes, worked out daily, passed historic legislation, released yearly physicals, and answered endless questions about his age and health.

The other falls asleep in public, rambles through speeches, looks visibly swollen, and has reportedly taken multiple cognitive tests ordered by doctors.

Guess which one the media treated like a five-alarm health crisis. 🙄

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Mitch McConnell is in the hospital.

But, he won't have to worry about medical bills or skipping tests because he has high-quality, government-subsidized healthcare — the same thing he has spent his career cutting for tens of millions of Americans.

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

Epstein's phone directory from his computer: 14 phone numbers for Donald Trump.

Emergency lines. Car numbers. Numbers to Trump's security guard and his houseman.

EFTA00597791. The files had this the whole time.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

The Southern Baptist Convention will disfellowship a church for ordaining a woman. They will not disfellowship a church for supporting and protecting a pedophile.

And that tells you all you need to know about the SBC.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: IT'S MURDER! Death of a 31-year-old woman dropped by ICE at a Pittsburgh bus stop in freezing weather with no coat ruled a homicide!

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office has ruled the death by hypothermia of Haitian immigrant Daphy Michel, who spent more than 30 hours shivering at a Pittsburgh bus stop after being dumped by ICE, a homicide.

Three days earlier, Michel had been in Washington County Jail on misdemeanor charges that a judge dismissed. Her family was waiting to pick her up in Charleroi – just a 40-minute drive away.

But because ICE had placed a detainer on her, instead of releasing her to loved ones, authorities handed her over to immigration enforcement.

ICE fitted her with an ankle monitor, put her in their “Alternatives to Detention” program, and then dropped her off on the South Side of Pittsburgh, far from home, in February cold, wearing only light clothing. She never made it back.

“When you release someone like that that far from home, it’s a recipe for disaster,” Her attorney Joseph Murphy said. “She would have been in her own environment. She wouldn’t have been sitting around a bus stop [with no coat] in February, and she’d be alive now.”

The death at the hands of ICE was no accident. It was the direct result of cold, bureaucratic cruelty, with immigration officials choosing enforcement theater over basic human decency.

County Executive Sara Innamorato said the death was “a tragedy that appears that with a little humanity, it could have been completely avoidable.”

After the death, friends and family gathered at the bus stop where she died and held a vigil for her (photo, right).

This horror is part of a pattern under Trump’s ICE that hasn’t dissipated since the agency has fallen from the headlines: they still treat people as disposable, and appear to get perverse satisfaction making life as difficult as possible for the people they harass, like dropping vulnerable individuals in unfamiliar places with no support.

Michel didn’t deserve to die alone in the cold on a bench because the system cared more about optics than people. Her death should haunt every official who signed off on this cruel process. Each one should be worried about the pendulum of justice swinging in their direction now that the ruling is official.

If this preventable, heartbreaking tragedy makes you furious, like and share this post.

No one should die abandoned in brutal winter's cold because ICE decided their life didn’t matter.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

The Supreme Court is allowing Republican politicians to wipe out Black political representation and power.

We need to make it impossible for politicians or the courts to manipulate these maps once and for all.

[Jett 🜲 @iky_fwjett]

Why do Republicans say AOC is “just a bartender” when she has a masters in economics, but they don’t say Markwayne Mullin is just a plumber?

HINT: racism and misogyny

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Jan. 6 rioter Kene Brian Lazo was charged with the rape and aggravated sexual battery of a 13-year-old.

Trump pardoned him anyway.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“We are deeply disturbed to learn so many senior members of the Trump administration gathered in the Situation Room to discuss the release of the Epstein Files as a reputational problem… we are separately concerned Todd Blanche was at that table.”

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

One year ago today, Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were senselessly murdered in an act of political violence.

In their memory, we recommit ourselves to the values that Melissa and Mark exemplified: building a kinder, more just, and loving world.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. More specifically, his net worth is $1.2 trillion or $1200 billion. That number doesn’t even compute for most of us, so here is some helpful context:

The USDA needs $18.8 billion to feed every child in the US school system breakfast and lunch each day. Elon could pay for that 64x and still have money leftover.

The World Food Program needs $13 billion to feed the 110 million hungriest people on earth. Elon could pay for that 92x and still have money leftover.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness needs $9.6 billion to provide housing for every unhoused person in the United States. Elon could pay for that 125x and still have money leftover.

The average American teacher makes $74,495 per year. Elon could pay the annual salary of over 16 million teachers and still have money leftover.

The problem is not that we don’t have enough money. The problem is that we have built a world where one person can accumulate more wealth than the GDP of 180 countries while children go hungry, families drown in medical debt, teachers are forced to buy school supplies for their students, and people sleep on the streets.

This is a complete moral failure.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP: Trump’s $10 million renovation of the reflecting pool is already filled with algae just days after it opened.

Is this what you all voted for?

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

If you claim to honor God but you’re not disgusted by the GOP incessantly toying about with His holy name, it’s time to ask yourself what you really believe and where your loyalty actually lies.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

What?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Public corruption, all out in the open, at a scale we’ve never seen.👇