This is my friend and hero Allison Polidor. Republican lawmakers in Tennessee had her arrested for silently holding a small sign during a public safety hearing; if she’d been holding a gun, they would have given her an award.

Video by Justin J. Pearson

I think public dollars should not be spent on sports facilities, but the inclusion of collective bargaining for service workers might change my mind.

'In total, since 2020, Deer District union workers have seen their wages more than double.'
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We really should note how extraordinary and awful it is that in a trial of a former U.S. president the judge has to take steps to protect the identity of jurors, as though the defendant were a mob boss or drug lord.

Carl Quintanilla EVERY voter should hear this:

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PHOENIX — A top leader of the national conservative group Turning Point Action, which has amplified false claims of election fraud by former president Donald Trump and others, resigned Thursday after being accused of forging voter signatures on official paperwork so that he could…

Sen. @Ossoff: No one is interested in lectures on border security from Republicans. In one of the most stunning acts of political cowardice, a bipartisan border security bill was denied even a debate on the floor because Trump told Republicans to kill it

I see a future where the middle class finally has a fair shot, and the wealthy have to pay their fair share in taxes.

Happy Birthday Malcolm X, born on this day 1925.

His summary here of on what progress in tackling inequality is and isn’t. Just perfectly expressed. Hear it again:

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Thinking about this chart again

“There was no campaign as disgraceful in the misuse of money, power, and propaganda as that of 1896. Irresponsibility went into office, and the era of monopoly in earnest began.”

— Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall, “The Menace of Monopoly,” 33(3) Southwest Rev. 217 (1948).

Under Biden and Harris the U.S. has had unemployment rates under 4% for 26 months, the longest streak since the 1960s. Wages for the bottom 80% of Americans have risen faster than inflation, chipping away at the huge disparity between the rich & the poor. open.substack.com/pub/heathercox…

THIS is so great!!!

Too obvious perhaps to need saying:

Republicans don’t have a problem with non-citizens voting, since there are no non-citizens voting.

Republicans have a problem with black and brown citizens voting.

David Sedaris nailed it. The man is a genius.

Clarity.

I cannot put into words the amount of courage and bravery Justin Jones shows every single day. He is actively working in a legislature that has targeted, harassed, expelled, and demeaned him. But he stays and fights for the people. Truly an American hero of this generation.

If this country had a free press, reporters would be asking Speaker Johnson to NAME NAMES. If Democrats are signing up millions of illegal immigrants to vote, then he must be able to identify SOME of the people doing it.

Good to see this work from Manhattan Institute, using evidence to illustrate the need for partnerships between cops and community members.

Number 2 explains most of what we see in the media about the election.