JUST IN: The Texas House has moved to allow civil arrest warrants for Democratic members who left the state to prevent a vote on new, Trump-backed congressional maps. cnn.it/4lXIASh
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Those warrants only work in Texas. So they’re performative.
aug 4, 2025, 8:47 pm • 14 0 • view
Wtf is a civil arrest warrant????
aug 4, 2025, 8:47 pm • 3 0 • view
It means it’s not a warrant for a criminal act. "They will not face civil or criminal charges from the arrests. The warrants apply only within state lines…" www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
We are at war with Texas. @chriscillizza.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social
aug 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 5, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I hereby decree that Greg Abbott must be arrested and detained for being a smug, cheating asshole.
aug 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 5 0 • view
AG Bird: Iowa will send the State Patrol, National Guard, and our public teachers to Texas to help apprehend these criminals! Texans: Umm… First, the legislators left Texas. Second, where was this help last month?!
aug 4, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Not the TX House... Texas REPUBLICANS How hard is it?
aug 4, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
THESE ARE UNENFORCEABLE OUTSIDE OF TEXAS. YOU MIGHT WANT TO MENTION THAT, YOU BAG OF OATMEAL.
aug 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
🎯 www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Texas like Florida is so fucked up.
aug 4, 2025, 8:48 pm • 4 1 • view
How do they pass bills without a quorum?
aug 5, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
TX civil warrants mean zip point shit in IL.
aug 4, 2025, 8:48 pm • 3 0 • view
💯 CNN doing the work of the GOP by writing purposely misleading clickbait www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 9:06 pm • 1 0 • view
What BS
aug 5, 2025, 5:08 am • 0 0 • view
If you can’t win with a straight vote change the districts and rules! America is just SO CORRUPT it’s only a matter of time when the 400mil guns come into this!
aug 4, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
What is wrong with a clever usage of a Democratic right? Hasn't any Republicans boicotted anything since 1800s not to allow a law related thing they didn't want to pass?? And has 'any' kind of such 'fascistical' dance tried to be applied on them??
aug 4, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Anything you'd like to say about the nature of those new maps?
aug 4, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn’t this exactly the tyranny the 2nd amendment nut jobs always took as reason for being armed to their teeth? Maybe Dem Members should make use of their constitutional rights as well.
aug 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m sure ICE will get involved.
aug 4, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Every day I’m thankful I do not live in that terrible country and feel bad for all the people who voted blue.
aug 4, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Pound sand.
aug 4, 2025, 8:46 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm confused. Not a lawyer, so please explain if you understand. Didn't the House adjourn to avoid having to vote on releasing the Epstein files, which is okay. But the TX House Dems leave to avoid having to vote on this, and that's illegal? SMH this nation is a shit show.
aug 4, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
How could they do that if they don’t have quorum?
aug 4, 2025, 8:52 pm • 8 0 • view
Geren laid the groundwork by motioning for a “call of the House,” which requires all members to stay within the chamber unless excused. Members not present can be “sent for & arrested, wherever they may be found” by the sergeant-at-arms, according to House rules www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀, making them ᴀʀɢᴇʟʏ sʏᴍʙᴏʟɪᴄ as most of the legislators in question decamped to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t they need the absent legislators to pass the motion?
aug 4, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Now do the asshat republicans in DC who left to avoid the Epstein vote.
aug 4, 2025, 8:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Fuk Republicans!
aug 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
How would civil arrest warrants apply out-of-state?
aug 4, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Are these actually lawful warrants?
aug 4, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
These “civil arrest warrants” will likely be carried out in the most extreme way possible to intimidate and scare folks.
aug 4, 2025, 8:43 pm • 7 1 • view
The warrants apply only within state lines... www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 8:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Shorter: Texas GOP is big mad!
aug 4, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Gotta love all freedom Texas provides.
aug 4, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 1 • view
@democrats and @housedemocrats FILE THE LAWSUIT NOW! What Walker is doing is illegal. He has no right to order the arrests of duly elected representatives he disagrees with.
aug 4, 2025, 8:45 pm • 14 0 • view
Republicans have turned Texas into the snowflake state.
aug 4, 2025, 8:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Ummm… if they don’t have a quorum, how can the vote on anything ??
aug 4, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 4, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Complete BS what’s going on in our country!! We indeed have to fight!! Can’t believe we have a Felon in the White House but yet we’re threatening arrest because our democracy is under attack🤬
aug 4, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans will do anything to steal elections. Sure the gerrymandering is “legal” but IT’S STILL STEALING ELECTIONS. Compare the 2020 MAGA “Stop the Steal” movement, which had almost no legal cover — which lost most of its court cases. Which one is the real steal?
aug 4, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe the #US should reconsider it‘s ridiculous election system and install a working one based on democracy.
aug 5, 2025, 5:58 am • 0 0 • view
The Republicklans in the Texass House should be arrested.
aug 4, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
God Abbott needs to find a steep hill.
aug 4, 2025, 8:59 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s DEI so take away all the modifications that help him to!
aug 4, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Because only Republicans are allowed to break the law and get away with it - Especially in Texas.
aug 4, 2025, 8:48 pm • 14 1 • view
Pirro's clutched wine glass is trembling with excitement....
aug 4, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder if the gestapo will be called on to do their dirty work?
aug 4, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
its funny how the gop can break laws but if the dems do it, they issue warrants. duplicitous bastards
aug 5, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
the dems need to fight back and issue warrants for the laws that the gop are breaking by redrawing maps midterm. I vote they get fined $10,000 a day until they come to their senses and stop doing trumps bidding!
aug 5, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
Dear #CancunCruz: We have an warrant for your arrest...Same goes for #MikeJohnson for shutting down House business to avoid vote on releasing #Epstein files. Okay for me, but not for Thee. #turmpism101
aug 4, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
FUCK Abbott
aug 4, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Where are the arrest warrants for the House members getting paid the big bucks to sit at home while Mike Johnson hides the Epstein files?
aug 4, 2025, 8:43 pm • 65 2 • view
Well said
aug 4, 2025, 8:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Texas is the new Haiti
aug 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I thought they didn't have a quorum...
aug 4, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Texas ordering arrests in Illinois? Sounds like the US of A is unravelling
aug 4, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
They know what they did was symbolic and only applies to any legislators in Texas and if they are found and hoping for media to bite and spread misinformation by using headlines to imply something without saying it www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Arrest them for ??? @democrats.org you awake?
aug 4, 2025, 8:41 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 4, 2025, 8:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Texas: once a Lone Star, now a lapdog. Every Trump whistle, they bark louder. Democracy? Just a chew toy now.
aug 5, 2025, 7:36 am • 0 0 • view
Fuck fascists
aug 4, 2025, 8:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Banana republic stuff.
aug 4, 2025, 8:42 pm • 23 1 • view
Texas isn't really a part of America. The Texas Gas and Oil Party funded by fossil fuel billionaires and millionaires really have limited loyalty to the United States. Turn them into Puerto Rico, Guam, America Samoa as a territory and not a state.
aug 4, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Can they do that without a quorum?
aug 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Geren laid the groundwork by motioning for a “call of the House,” which requires all members to stay within the chamber unless excused. Members not present can be “sent for & arrested, wherever they may be found” by the sergeant-at-arms, according to House rules www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Hmm. Thanks for sharing.
aug 4, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Kick rocks, Paxton.
aug 4, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Land of the free.
aug 4, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
The word "Civil" and Texas in one sentence?
aug 4, 2025, 8:45 pm • 8 1 • view
How can they vote on anything without a quorum? That seems pretty basic.
aug 4, 2025, 8:53 pm • 5 0 • view
Geren laid the groundwork by motioning for a “call of the House,” which requires all members to stay within the chamber unless excused. Any not present can be “sent for and arrested, wherever they may be found,” by the sergeant-at-arms, according to House rules www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
The headline is misleading. There is no vote, it’s a call that any member present can do.
aug 4, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
GOP state Rep. Brian Harrison said he wants to ensure that elected Republicans in Texas “are doing everything we can to make sure that the United States Congress in the upcoming midterm elections does not fall into the hands of the radical, extremist Democratic Party.” Every accusation a confession
aug 4, 2025, 11:24 pm • 1 1 • view
(That's from an earlier story on the same page. Scroll down a little bit.)
aug 4, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol performative BS for the maga moron base. They have NOTHING and they know it.
aug 4, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
GOPs having a temper tantrum
aug 4, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
How could they pass this if they did not have a quorum?
aug 4, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Geren laid the groundwork by motioning for a “call of the House,” which requires all members to stay within the chamber unless excused. Members not present can be “sent for & arrested, wherever they may be found” by the sergeant-at-arms, according to House rules www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
aug 4, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck Abbott, Patrick and Paxton! They’ve destroyed Texas and their legacy will forever be that of corruption
aug 4, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
The Republican party in TX voluntarily supplicated to White Christian Nationalist billionaires because their theocratic White Supremacist vision is the same as the GOP’s. Well worth the 44 minutes to watch⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B3P...
aug 4, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Meanwhile, POTUS evades seemingly every crime known to man. Democracy is dead. “We the people” choose our representatives, not the other way around.
aug 4, 2025, 8:59 pm • 4 0 • view
All this is so fucking dangerous.
aug 4, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems need to fight fire with fire!! Every blue state needs to redistrict now!!
aug 5, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
More proof that the Republicans are more than happy to cheat in order to stay in power. They point their fingers at Democrats never finding or providing evidence/proof. Trump has been one of the worst things to happen to this country! His corruption and crimes spread like a cancer!
aug 4, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Aww... Governor Hot Wheels is upset. Are you butt hurt, Greg? You sound butt hurt.
aug 4, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
During the special session called for flooding action. “Every opportunity to cheat is precious” is the real gop motto.
aug 4, 2025, 8:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Only way they can win. The election was rigged There are several videos of Trump and Elon saying so.
aug 4, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
No. Nope. Dont sell crazy here. Focus.
aug 4, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Everything's bigger in Texas, except the collective brainpower in the governors mansion.
aug 4, 2025, 8:50 pm • 4 0 • view
What the fuck are we doing?
aug 4, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 1 • view
This seems to be Donald Trump’s second attempt to enact a coup d’etat.
aug 4, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
What about arrests for the republicans who deliberately shut down because of Epste1n files ? Oh, and Ted Cruz for going on holiday. Trump for constantly playing golf instead of focusing on his role of President. AND vance how many holidays has he had lately
aug 5, 2025, 11:30 am • 0 0 • view
As a Canadian I have no desire to visit the United States. I’d rather go somewhere that has a functioning democracy.
aug 5, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
Your people will never again be viewed as civilised by the rest of the world. You do understand that, don't you?
aug 4, 2025, 8:43 pm • 26 1 • view
All too well
aug 4, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re especially proud of that.
aug 4, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
are you saying no americans will ever again be viewed as civilized because 22% of them voted for trump?
aug 4, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
You seem to forget that what got him elected was a lot of people who didn’t vote at all because they didn’t like Kamala so they would rather you know who win. It’s not just the people who voted for him that are the problem in that fascist country.
aug 4, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view
You seem to forget that the equivalent of about 2x the entire population of Canada voted FOR Kamala in the United States.
aug 4, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Nope not at all. That didn’t matter did it?
aug 4, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Alright, good to know that Canadians don't understand nuance, only generalizations.
aug 4, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Good to know one American thinks that one Canadian’s comment to some random on Bluesky is speaking for all Canadians. Seriously 🤦🏼♀️
aug 5, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Or welcomed in civilized countries
aug 4, 2025, 8:45 pm • 10 0 • view
Guess Civllized is open for discussion now....
aug 4, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Not in my book.
aug 4, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
how did they pass anything without a quorum??? can your reporters ask them to compare it to Johnson shutting down his House to avoid a vote??
aug 4, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Russia 2.0 🤦
aug 4, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 1 • view
aug 5, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
Just another little step towards dictatorship.....
aug 4, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
F_Texas!!!
aug 4, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems remember why you have a second amendment.
aug 4, 2025, 8:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 4, 2025, 8:41 pm • 8 1 • view