RT this if you believe we should expand Medicaid and ensure every American has access to high-quality, affordable health care.

16 alleged cases of voter fraud out of 160 million votes in 2020: let's pass 400 new voter suppression laws 610,000 deaths from COVID: who needs vaccines?

"The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding...And a fact-finding commission would be prudent." -- Kevin McCarthy, January 13, 2021

Cap Police sergeant Aquilino Gonell: "There are some who expressed outrage when someone simply kneeled for social justice … Where are those same people expressing outrage to condemn the violent attack on law enforcement officers, the U.S. Capitol, and our American democracy?"

It’s really not that hard to say it: Trump tried to overthrow our government & he needs to be held accountable. Nothing else really matters if we want to continue to be the United States of America. 🧵

Imagine where we'd be if the U.S. had been focused on climate change instead of spending several trillion dollars fighting terrorists in a handful of countries for the last two decades.

Wow. I don’t think I’ve heard it explained any better than this.

The reasons why women have abortions:

SEN. WARNOCK: "I want to remind all of us that the only reason that we’re here in this chamber at all is because someone voted for us. Voting rights are not just some issues alongside other issues. It gets to the heart of who we are in the first place: a democracy."

Anti-Defamation League head Jonathan Greenblatt writes to Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch about Tucker Carlson:

Steinbeck, once more, with feeling

Driving home tonight, I thought about Republicans' floor speeches today on the "sanctity of life". And how this concern for "life" apparently doesn't extend to the kids who were shot today in a school in Michigan. So I turned the car around, and went to the Senate floor.

If the filibuster can be eliminated by McConnell and Trump to put Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett on the #SCOTUS, it should be eliminated to pass my Women's Health Protection Act in the Senate to protect reproductive health care freedom for millions of Americans. #BansOffOurBodies

“Cowardice asks, is it safe? Expediency asks, is it politic? Vanity asks, is it popular? Conscience asks, is it right? There comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

follow @bencollins on bluesky Exploiting of the tragedy of people who suffered, were humiliated, tortured & murdered by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany - including children like Anne Frank - in a debate about vaccines & limitations during global pandemic is a sad symptom of moral & intellectual decay.

1/6 was not “legitimate political discourse”.

Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

🎯🔥WATCH: “These (racist, anti-Semitic, etc.) stereotypes aren’t meant to benefit us. They’re meant to pit one group against another in support of white supremacy.”