Notices by Grassroots Joe (joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social)

"If a corrupt and broken Supreme Court insists on playing partisan politics, then we need partisan politicians to bring them to heel. Expand the court to 13 justices, impose term limits, and investigate and impeach any justices who broke the laws about gifts or anything else.
Radical steps? You bet, but the alternative is allowing a kangaroo court to finish the job of dismantling the American Experiment"

SCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wakeup call from a dream
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-20260430.html

The Trump regime, screwing their voters coming and going, all to serve their White Supremacist fever dreams.

New ICE facilities could bankrupt rural Pa. towns
https://keystonenewsroom.com/2026/02/10/ice-facilities-bankrupt-pa-towns/

"Democratic poll-chasing, combined with Trumpian radicalism, has not resulted in GOP defeats. Instead, elections have remained close while Trump pushes public opinion and discourse rightward on many issues.

Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it."

Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds
https://newrepublic.com/article/205884/democrats-pandering-change-voters-minds

Important piece. Please take the time to read & share it.

"I think the heroes of 2025 are the folks who actually stood up and risked something in order to push [back on] authoritarianism. And that’s not the elites, that’s not the media, that’s not law firms, that’s not universities, by and large. It’s normal everyday people who said, “Fuck this. We’re not going along with it.” Just very stubborn people. I think those are very clearly the heroes of 2025..."

What’s Next for the Normie Anti-Trump Protest Movement?
https://newrepublic.com/article/204929/normie-trump-protest-movement-2026

@steter

Congress or the MAGA Republican majorities in Congress?

@indivisibleteam

"[V]oters called the Democratic Party “ineffective, weak and spineless.” It wasn’t about policies or being too extreme. People think that we are not willing to fight for what we believe in."

"Fighting and losing shows people that you are willing to fight the hard battles. Taking a punch and not backing down is the only way to show people that we’re tough. "

Yes to Every bit of this

It's Better to Have Fought
Taking a hit and not backing down is how we show we’re tough.
https://reframingamerica.substack.com/p/better-to-have-fought

So JV Vance gave an outwardly racist speech today.

How long will it be before the outwardly antisemitic speech?

If you are Jewish and think MAGA won't be coming for us sooner or later, please, please wake the hell up.

We must stand up for immigrants, Black and brown people, LGBTQIA people and yes, Muslims too.

Everyone who is being abused right now is a precursor to our abuse if we don't stop this train to full blown fascism.

@Nonilex

No wonder they had to force out the prior Commandant of the Coast Guard, she never would have stood for this Nazi shit.

Why should you care about the competing bids to take over Warner Bros. Discovery?

Because "it’s not about entertainment, it’s about democracy. You should understand that Paramount’s hostile bid is, above all, a political move in the pursuit of cementing the dominance of MAGA-supporting tech billionaires and further eroding American democracy."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-the-broligarchs-and-the-media

If there was any question that the American century ended on January 20, 2025, there is none now.

America is officially ruled by White Supremacists voluntarily giving up our unique position in the world in order to make America a white ethnostate that bullies its smaller neighborhoods into positions of servitude just as the Soviet Union did after World War II and the monarchical empires did before World War I.
We know how well that worked out for everyone...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs

#NoKings
Norristown, PA
Bigger crowd than June, and bubbles and prehistoric visitors!

@thenewrepublic @breaking-news-thenewrepublic

Yet more projection and gaslighting from the regressive-right.

#NoKings2 protesters are committed to nonviolence.

Indivisible’s Commitment to Nonviolence
https://indivisible.org/commitment-nonviolence?akid=121293.3090489.UNV74A&rd=1&t=9

@dalias

(Caveat, I'm not trans and don't have trans people in my immediate circle.)

Moral clarity ought to be politically expedient, but it isn't because far too many politicians rely on consultant polling of what is "good" to talk about, i.e. polls well, and what is not, i.e. what does not poll well.

This cedes the field to regressive-right dog-whistles and scapegoating which is what created the bad polling in the first place, idiocy!

We and they need to ...

@thekitmalone

Lawyers for Good Government has put up a Policy Resource Hub for Transgender Rights with Legal Clarity, State-by-State, that is Updated Daily.

The website is at https://transrights.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/

@evan

I do understand and very much disagree.

Democrats taking steps to stop what is now a fascist party from cementing minority rule across every part of government is very much not increasing the rate of dismantling democratic infrastructure.

It's preserving the possibility of rebuilding the infrastructure MAGA Republicans have destroyed and are destroying.

There is no possibility of building or rebuilding any democratic infrastructure without first taking power back.

@evan

Let me get this straight, legally gerrymandering in Democratic states is anti-democratic and weakens election infrastructure, but refusing to accept districts established by a legislature and signed into law isn't and won't?

Sorry, that doesn't hold a tiny drop of water.

@evan

I'd really like to hear the reasoning from people voting no.

@_L1vY_

Amazingly great news.

Very nice to have something really significant to celebrate.

The assault on public education escalates.

The "reasons" for illegally impounding this money are 100% bullshit.

It's just another way to shove money into the pockets of the Mar-a-Lago set, the CEOs and billionaires sipping The Criminal's whiskey, paid for with the theft of badly needed services for our children.

Trump administration withholds $230 million in education funding from Pa. schools
https://share.inquirer.com/d6mLRo
Gift link.