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A #Colorado judge let this monster go free and no court date has been set: www.9news.com/article/news...
We should be doing what we were sent here to do: making people’s lives better. But the Republican majority has stopped that.
In the last nine months, the Republican majority has given up the power and the responsibility of Congress to serve the American people and has turned this Congress into nothing more than a rubber stamp for Donald Trump.
Instead, I’ve seen two impeachments, an insurrection, a pandemic, cyber attacks, social unrest, political assassination, mass shooting after mass shooting, wars, tumultuous elections, and a rapid collapse of our social fabric.
I came to Congress assuming that, together with my colleagues from both sides of the aisle, we could solve these problems together. And we could have open and safe debates in a free society.
I came here because the American working class has been gutted, left behind, and excluded from the American dream while the elites grow wealthier than ever. The lives of average Americans everywhere are getting much worse.
I came here because like so many of my fellow veterans I harbor deep resentment for our wars that cost thousands of lives, trillions of dollars, and decades of lost opportunity.
I came here to represent a state that has been wracked with trauma: Columbine, Aurora Theater, Club Q, Boulder, and most recently Evergreen High.
Remember what it is to be inspired by a public servant. #Colorado Rep. Jason #Crow speaks for all of us: crow.house.gov/media/press-...
A new policy for the National Endowment for the Arts to review grant applications to see if they comply with President Trump’s “gender ideology” order violates the Constitution, the court said.
Court Rules Against Arts Endowment on Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/a...
This is rich! Melania got an "Einstein" visa; or was it an #Epstein visa?! Trump Says the U.S. Will Institute $100,000 Fee for Skilled Worker Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
“There’s a tradition in the paratroopers,” #Crow said, “that the leader of the unit jumps out of the plane first and then the others follow.” He concluded: “I’m ready to jump.”
“When I think of America, I still think of those young paratroopers. How we came together, despite our differences, we served together, we fought together, we found great strength in one another. “That is America.”
“As a young paratrooper, leading an infantry platoon in the invasion of Iraq,” he said, he was responsible for young men: “Black, White, Asian, Hispanic. From the North, from the South, East, and West. From farms and from cities. Rich and poor.
“Defending due process. “Defending the rule of law. “Defending the right of schoolchildren to learn without fear of being shot. “Defending government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
“There is courage everywhere we look,” Crow said. “We have not yet lost our power. “ He continued: “Now is the time…for us to stand with all those defending democracy. “Defending free speech. “Defending freedom of religion.
Massive demonstrations across the nation. Parents in D.C., patrolling schoolyards to protect the rights of students and other parents as ICE agents are raiding and the National Guard is on the streets. Journalists around the country “reporting the truth, despite threats to them and their family.”
A schoolteacher in Twisp, Washington, who joins protests against cuts to Medicaid and SNAP every Saturday because, she says, “Democracy only works if we work it.”
Crow contrasted those elite failures with “the courage we’ve seen from everyday citizens”: Coach Youman Wilder, who stood up to ICE agents when they started interrogating kids on a baseball diamond in Harlem.
Thank you, @crow.house.gov, for saying what the Weiss family of #Colorado is feeling. Our country is failing us! And thank you too, @hcrichardson.bsky.social, for your patriotism! open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
“We will not shop at your stores. We will not tune into your TV and radio stations. We will not send our kids and our money to your universities, or use your services if you are going to enable our slide to authoritarianism.”
“If those with power and influence want to sell off our rights and freedoms to enrich themselves, then Americans should make it clear that cowardice and greed will fail them,” he said.
He noted that “[s]ome of our nation’s most powerful law firms have bent the knee. Some of our finest universities are buckling. Some of the most powerful CEOs have capitulated. And some of the largest media companies are simply surrendering.”
In his speech, Crow warned that Trump is tearing down the walls of our democracy and called out “some of our most elite and powerful individuals and institutions” for “failing to defend our democracy.”
Crow, who entered Congress in 2019, is a former Army Ranger who completed three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 75th Ranger Regiment.
#Colorado #Democratic Rep. Jason #Crow has a message for Trump and the #GOP's anti-American disservice to our nation: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Unreal: The US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia has now resigned after Trump threatened to fire him for failing to find sufficient evidence to prosecute NY AG Letitia James. Reupping this piece/thread on how appallingly corrupt this all is:
He explained: “I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.’”
Cruz called Carr’s threats “right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”
That unpopularity showed today when podcaster and senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) celebrated Kimmel’s firing but called the threat of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to retaliate against ABC “unbelievably dangerous.”
The administration’s pressure on ABC to fire comedian Jimmy Kimmel is very unpopular, as G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers notes, with people polled by YouGov on September 18 seeing it as an attack on free speech.
Hey, #Texas: If you believe that cheating Americans out of their votes is democracy, we have a surprise for you. Your own #GOP senator's message is a clue: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The Supreme Court has distinguished bully-pulpit persuasion, which is permissible under the First Amendment, from coercion and threats, which are not.
In Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
Why grocery prices are so high — and what people are doing about it www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...
The cases had been brought before Mr. Trump took office this year. Each involved people who later allied themselves with him as they pursued pardons for white-collar frauds that, according to juries in criminal cases, cheated victims out of huge sums.
The Securities and Exchange Commission this week dropped civil enforcement cases that could have led to penalties totaling hundreds of millions of dollars against three men who were previously granted clemency by President Trump.
Elect a felon and criminals go free: The S.E.C. Drops Efforts to Recoup Funds From Trump Clemency Recipients www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
NBC’s soon-to-be-spun-off subsidiary, MSNBC, just fired a contributor for comments about Kirk. With Kimmel gone, Trump is now demanding the ouster of two NBC late-night hosts, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon. Perhaps he was offended by one of Mr. Fallon’s bits about puppies or holiday sweaters.
ABC, and by extension Disney, already paid off Mr. Trump after he filed a comically spurious lawsuit targeting the “Good Morning America” co-host George Stephanopoulos. CBS had gone that same route over a lawsuit involving minor edits to a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris.
With the exception of Netflix, a hugely profitable public company without apparent immediate need for government favor, every studio is either already compromised or about to be.
We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
Laughter is the best medicine so please, @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social, can your network pick up the comedians censored in the U.S.? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Carr, 46, known for wearing a gold-colored pin modeled on Trump’s profile, was a lawyer in private practice before he joined the FCC in 2012 as a staff attorney. He later was an adviser to former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
“I think there’s a lot of people who have been in power or been in the White House who would, in the past, like to bend and abuse the power of the FCC, to bend the will of the media that covers them and the comedians that make fun of them — but they’ve never dared to go this far.”
“I think this is unprecedented,” said Craig Aaron, a co-chief executive of Free Press, a nonprofit organization that advocates against corporate monopolies in media.
Trump appointed Carr to a Republican seat on the commission in 2017, during his first term, before he elevated him to the top job. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...
But ICE rescinded a policy that shielded crime victims in January, and a growing number of them face arrest and deportation as the Trump administration prioritizes its crackdown on illegal immigration.
Hernandez has been in ICE custody since June 24, 3 days after he nearly died from gunshot wounds he sustained when 2 people tried to rob him in Muscatine. He wants to apply for a special visa under a program passed by Congress to encourage victims to report crimes without fear of deportation.
#ICE in #Iowa: cbs2iowa.com/news/local/i...
As Spencer Cox, Utah’s Republican governor, said afterward: “We need more moral clarity right now. I hear all the time that words are violence. Words are not violence. Violence is violence.” Yet it is the Trump administration, not the left, now violating Mr. Cox’s standard.
We are horrified by the killing of Mr. Kirk, and we mourn his death. The evidence suggests he was murdered for his views, which is the most fundamental violation of free-speech principles. We vehemently disagree with people who suggested that Mr. Kirk bore any responsibility for his own shooting.
"Freedom of speech for ME; NOT FOR THEE, America!" You can read this without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Mr. Carr said. He also urged television stations to stop broadcasting the show. Two major station owners quickly did so, and ABC has suspended the show indefinitely.
In a direct exercise of government influence, Brendan Carr, the chairman of the F.C.C., threatened Disney for remarks that Jimmy Kimmel made on his late-night ABC show.
The intimidation campaign is already having an effect. Federal officials have urged companies to fire workers who have criticized Kirk, and some have done so.
On Monday, Vice President JD Vance mentioned both the Ford Foundation and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, saying that they benefited from a “generous tax treatment,” the same tax treatment that benefits nonprofit groups like religious charities and the National Rifle Association Foundation.
Trump’s aides are drafting an executive order that could come as soon as this week, The Times reported, and it will most likely target left-leaning organizations.
Now he is taking his campaign against free speech to a new level by using the assassination of Charlie Kirk as a justification to promise the repression of groups that he describes as liberal.
He has punished universities, immigrants, law firms, federal prosecutors, military leaders, national security officials and others for voicing opinions with which he disagrees.
President Trump is himself a purveyor of tasteless and even threatening language, speaking in ways that no previous president did. Yet his own exercise of his First Amendment rights has not stopped him from encroaching on those of others.
Three-alarm fire here, America! Read it without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
Every American should oppose this anti-American felonious want-to-be dictator: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President guilty of 34 Felons Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
‘No One Should Be Very Confident’: Four Economists Dissect Trump and the Economy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Really?? I was picking up the mobster vibe...again.
For the rest of us, the effect of Mr. Ellison’s gambit could be every bit as consequential, if not more so, than what happened a generation ago when Rupert Murdoch brought his brand of Down Under snark and cynicism to create what has become Fox News, intensifying our political polarization.
If all goes as anticipated, this tech billionaire, already one of the richest men in the world and a founder of Oracle, is poised, at 81, to become one of the most powerful media and entertainment moguls America has ever seen.
Larry Ellison is already a major stakeholder in CBS and Paramount. Now CNN, HBO and a major share of TikTok are in his sights.
Read it without a subscription: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
This followed the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and was widely seen as an escalation of political rhetoric targeting opponents.
Trump's "terrorist organization" designation: On September 17, 2025, former President Donald Trump announced on social media that he intends to designate Antifa a "major terrorist organization".
Guys: Google's #AI knows something we don't; calling Trump "former President Trump..." when you query "antifa." www.google.com/search?q=ant...
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In Ukraine, his battered military — after three-and-a-half years of his Special Military Operation and nearly 1.1 million casualties — remains mired in static trench warfare like World War One. But he is winning anyway in a variety of domains that are global in reach and nature.
Putin is winning WW3: thehill.com/opinion/nati...
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Biden responded with an expletive in a follow-up interview posted online, saying “f--- that, not gonna happen.” As of Sept. 17, Melania Trump has not filed a lawsuit against Hunter Biden.
The letter said Melania would otherwise seek $1 billion+ in damages. “Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer.”
Last month, the first lady’s personal attorney, Alejandro Brito, sent a letter to Hunter Biden and his lawyer demanding a retraction and apology for comments he made in a recent interview suggesting that Epstein had introduced the first lady to Donald Trump.
Melania threatens the truth: www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
The Democratic proposal would extend subsidies for low- and middle-income individuals who purchase health insurance through the Affordable Care Act and reverse Medicaid cuts that were included in Republicans’ “big beautiful bill” enacted earlier this year.
But Democrats said it wasn’t enough, releasing a counterproposal late Wednesday even as Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson said they wouldn’t consider it.
Republicans argue they are providing exactly what Democrats have insisted upon in past government shutdown battles — a clean funding bill free of partisan policy riders.
The House could vote as soon as Thursday on a Republican stopgap measure to keep federal agencies funded through Nov. 21, buying lawmakers more time to work out their differences on spending levels.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Democrats “have a choice to make” as the Sept. 30 deadline approaches. They can work with Republicans, Thune said, or “they can shut down the government with all that will mean for the American people.”
Shut it down: www.kcrg.com/2025/09/18/r...
Many of the projects were multiple years into their work before facing termination, having already received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of grant funds.
There are eight National Institutes of Health grants identified by Grant Witness to have seen termination in Iowa, with only one seeing possible reinstatement. They run the gamut of research — from cancer to cochlear implants, Alzheimer’s to vaccine messaging, genomes to access to research careers.
#Research funding in #Iowa is cut: www.kcrg.com/2025/09/17/f...
The act was caught on a surveillance camera that has been posted outside the fire and EMS station for several years, Chief Stephen Martinson told WHO 13’s Katie Kaplan.