This year, during the World Series, when the game is paused for the always emotional “Stand Up To Cancer Segment”…they should make members of Congress attend and hold signs that say, “I cut pediatric brain cancer research”; “I helped cut cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood”; etc., etc.
Racism and xenophobia aside, it’s truly remarkable just how much they attempt to be joy killers. The Barbie movie, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny…literally any and everything a lot of people genuinely enjoy.
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)
Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.