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roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
We cannot just turn the damn page on Donald Trump’s corruption.
We must expose the grift, hold those responsible accountable, and make sure it NEVER happens again.
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today:
“In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville. His value was placed at $1,400.
On another surviving document, Sheppard signed his name with an X.
More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of Georgia.
The distance between Crawfordville and the Governor’s Mansion can be measured in miles. The distance between a man once listed as property and his descendant, now elected to lead the state that sanctioned his enslavement, is harder to comprehend.”
Indeed.
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
BREAKING: SOMALI STRONG! 9 Somali Americans won their elections last night despite the vile racist smear campaign that Trump has been waging against their entire ethnicity.
Victory is the best revenge...
Trump called Somalis "garbage." His relentless attacks against their communities were the most consistent racist barb in his arsenal this election cycle. He was convinced that throwing hateful red meat to his base would carry the day for MAGA.
“I don’t want them in our country," he said.
“They contribute nothing," he said.
“Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage," he said.
“Let them go back to where they came from and fix it," he said.
He called Somalia “barely a country” and said Somalis come from “hell.” He said, “Their country stinks”.
But last night, the American people stood up and showed him exactly what they think of Somalis. We support them, value them, and we think they belong in government!
Rep. Ilhan Omar won reelection.
Omar Fateh and Zaynab Mohamed won Minnesota State Senate seats in Minneapolis.
Samakab Hussein won a Minnesota State House seat in St. Paul’s East Side.
Mohamud Noor and Anquam Mahamoud won Minnesota State House house seats in Minneaplois.
Abdi Daisane flipped a Minnesota State House seat in the the St. Cloud area.
Ismail Mohamed and Munira Yasin Abdullahi won Ohio House seats in Columbus.
Trump tried to make them a punchline. Instead, they made history. The MAGA era is over. We are sick and tired of letting these demented fascists divide us along racial and religious lines. America is vibrant, multiracial democracy and if Republicans don't like it, they can get out!
Please ❤️ and share to congratulate these winners!
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
This professional chef in Ireland is a really good cook and his specialty is simple ingredients. He is one of my favorites here on X. I like his accent almost as much as his food.
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
Women Soul of the Nation
My mother called on women to become the soul of the nation. I hear in her words a call to bring conscience to the decisions that govern people’s lives.
I celebrate Deb Haaland, New Mexico’s first Native American governor-elect; Keisha Lance Bottoms of Georgia, the first Black woman elected governor of a U.S. state; and Gina Hinojosa, Texas’ first Latina governor-elect.
I’m thinking of the people who have spent years asking their leaders to hear them. I pray they see their lives and concerns reflected in the decisions you make. That is how the doors you opened can change what is possible for others.
#WomenSoulOfTheNation #CorettaScottKing #DebHaaland #KeishaLanceBottoms #GinaHinojosa
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
“…you don’t seem to understand who you’re talking to…”
“No, I don’t know who you are, sorry.”
“Okay well f- you, you f*****!”
<rips earphones out, dramatically exist stage left>
“Huh.”
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
Mi esposo rescató a Zanahoria de un contenedor de basura. Estaba en los huesos, temblando y a nada de rendirse. Le dimos comida, amor y un hogar. Hoy está gordo, sano y feliz. ❤️
Pero Zanahoria no olvidó de dónde vino. 🥺
Hace un mes comenzó a salirse en las noches. En la madrugada, escuchamos un maullido en la puerta: venía acompañado de un gatito gris, flaco y asustado. Mi esposo le sirvió un plato.
A la semana siguiente, regresó con uno blanco con negro. Otro plato.
El lunes a las 6:00 a.m. abrimos la puerta y la imagen nos rompió el corazón: venía Zanahoria marchando por la banqueta con la cola levantada y, en fila india detrás de él, tres gatos hambrientos más. 🐾✨
Mi esposo se quedó parado en el escalón con la bolsa de croquetas, sin saber qué decir. Dice que "no somos un refugio"... pero ayer llegó del mercado con un quinto plato "por si acaso". 🥣😂.
Lo más hermoso es que Zanahoria no prueba un solo bocado hasta que todos sus invitados terminan de comer.
Él no solo encontró una familia; decidió convertirse en el héroe de los que nadie ve. 🐈⬛✨
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years.
Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question.
"What do you miss?"
She expects hamburgers.
She almost never gets hamburgers.
And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years.
"Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio)
"If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia)
"My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas)
"We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota)
"A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan)
"Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana)
"In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona)
"Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa)
"I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania)
Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand.
Sora. Seventeen. Missouri.
"Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said.
She was wrong.
In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up.
It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to.
"Saw the storm. You home safe?"
Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways.
"Home safe."
Her host mom wrote back one line.
"Good. That's all I needed."
My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is.
They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home.
So, America. You think you've lost something.
You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather.
You don't remember doing any of it.
A kid in Tokyo will never forget.
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
Made a cat pinball machine in Blender. The mouse has his own little lair.
Pinball Wizard - The Who
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
First things Dems in the House should do: vote to restore the subsidies for ACA accounts and get rid of the cuts to Medicaid & SNAP. On Day One.
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.
While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
Hay un par de historias de revancha escondidas en los pliegues del resultado. Una es la de la demócrata Nancy Lacore, una veterana de 35 años en la Marina que ascendió en las filas desde piloto de helicópteros hasta convertirse en jefa de la Reserva Naval. Fue despedida en agosto de 2025 en medio de la purga del secretario de defensa Pete Hegseth. Acaba de derrotar a la republicana Jenny Costa Honeycutt y se quedó con un escaño en Carolina del Sur que ocupaba la integrante de MAGA, Nancy Mace.
La segunda es la de la congresista demócrata Ilhan Omar, la primera refugiada somalí elegida para el Congreso de EE. UU., quien acaba de lograr su reelección para un quinto mandato en el 5.º Distrito de Minnesota. Apenas semanas antes de la jornada electoral, agentes del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional allanaron su residencia en Washington DC, incautando dispositivos electrónicos bajo una investigación federal sobre su historial de inmigración y trámites de ciudadanía de los años noventa. Obtuvo una aplastante victoria con más del 75% de los votos frente a su rival republicano John Nagel.
Eugene Vindman y su hermano gemelo Alexander (ambos oficiales del Ejército) fueron retirados de sus cargos en el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional tras denunciar las llamadas irregulares de Donald Trump sobre Ucrania en 2019, desencadenando el primer juicio político e impeachment fallido. Eugene Vindman la reelección para su escaño en la Cámara Baja representando a Virginia, consolidando su perfil parlamentario en áreas clave de defensa y ética gubernamental tras años de hostigamiento del Ejecutivo.
Amy Acton fue la directora de Salud de Ohio que enfrentó duras presiones, amenazas y ataques del sector alineado con el trumpismo por aplicar restricciones estrictas de salud pública durante la pandemia, lo que la obligó a dimitir bajo acoso político. Acton ganó la gubernatura de Ohio como candidata demócrata, derrotando al oficialismo republicano en un estado profundamente conservador donde años atrás había sido blanco de protestas frente a su residencia alentadas por los grupos de MAGA.
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
Zohran Mamdani: “It’s not enough for us as Democrats to win power. We have to use that power to deliver change that Americans can feel in their wallets. When you look at these campaigns, if we want to speak about James Talarico, he campaigned on a vision for universal childcare. If you want to talk about Keisha Lance Bottoms, she campaigned on a vision of cutting red tape to build housing. If you want to talk about Jocelyn Benson, she campaigned on a moratorium for data centers. What I’m excited to see now is a recognition that the work is only just starting and this has to be delivered for working people across the country”
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
Thank you, Minnesota! I’m incredibly honored to continue to represent you in the People’s House with a resounding mandate.
We will not allow Trump to silence us.
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
I wish my mother could have seen Georgia last night.
When she called on women to become the soul of the nation, she was asking us to help shape what this country stands for and how it treats its people. She spent her life putting those words into action.
I thought of her as Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman elected governor of a U.S. state. I thought, too, of the Black women who went door to door, registered voters and organized for years. Many did not live to see what they helped make possible.
Congratulations, Governor-elect Bottoms. Congratulations also to Penny Brown Reynolds, Georgia’s next secretary of state, and Tanya Miller, our next attorney general.
I’m thinking of the Black girls who will grow up seeing women who look like them lead Georgia. I pray they see what my mother saw in leadership: the power to make life better for others and the responsibility to use it.
#CorettaScottKing #KeishaLanceBottoms #PennyBrownReynolds #TanyaMiller #GeorgiaHistory
roger, Roger 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈😜 ☮️💟☸️ retweeted
BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards...
Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times.
Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course.
The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more.
Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governor’s race in Nevada (6 votes).
10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50.
222 + 50 = 272.
And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact.
In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a “safe” state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states.
States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election.
We can fix our democracy. The time is now.
Please ❤️ and share if you support this idea!
