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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholarsā association says
In Bolsonaro trial, Brazil confronts Trump ā and its authoritarian past
Trump is cutting climate satellites. That could affect weather prediction.
Horrific, the hatred running thru the veins of this country. The cruelty is rampant. Is this really who we are?
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
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Trump cuts to climate satellites will make weather prediction harder, scientists say
China tries to use Trump turmoil to unite leaders against U.S.-led order
Capitulation, walking out, abandoning their jobs is the problem. Refuse to leave and fight.
"The anxiety arises, the retired officer contends, because 'nobody knows whatās coming next. In the military, we donāt like not knowing whatās coming next. Now itās from within.'ā Marc Wortman reports on fears of what Trump could order the military to do: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
He wonāt let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
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Rather than addressing rent prices or increasing rates of homelessness, Trump is threatening public housing. Make no mistake, demanding that housing authorities comply with his persecution of immigrants is just another way to advance his fascist agenda. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...
@ramirez.house.gov your essay I read on msnbc encapsulates exactly what we are faced with. Thank you for your courage.
Let's be clear: when you care more about punishing dissent than the safety of our families and communities, you are unfit to lead. It's time for Noem to resign.
I represent part of Chicago in Congress. Trump wants us scared and silent.
On MSNBC at 6:50 pm to discuss the horrifying mass shooting in Minnesota on Wednesday Fletcher Merkel, an 8 year-old child, and Harper Moyksi, a 10 year-old child, were murdered 18 others, including 15 other children, were injured Countless children left traumatized for life.
āWhen I call Kennedy a ādangerous crank,ā I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,ā says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Trumpās Border Patrol raided a Washington wildfire camp, forcing firefighters to pause their work for hours. "Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if thatās what it takes, so they can rule over the ashes," says Chris Hayes.
BREAKING: Epstein estate agrees to hand over documents to Congress, including the "birthday book," according to ranking member @robertgarcia.bsky.social.
WATCH: "In a huge blow to the White House, and a big win for everyone else, a federal appeals court has just ruled that Trump's sprawling tariffs are unlawful and invalid," says Chris Hayes.
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this āMake America Healthy Againā?
Tariffs are illegal. His whole economic policy is illegal.
Exactly!!!!!!!! Say NO
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. Itāll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: āNo one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topicsā¦Heās getting his information from somewhereā
Join some Nobel Laureates and sign this petition to remove RFK Jr. from office. He is a danger to the people of the United States and a national security threat. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesāassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceāthey can be prosecuted.
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Trump calls for racketeering charges against top Democratic donor, son
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The saddest thing is the nation is allowing a cult to destroy every aspect of our democracy.
Social Security official says DOGE compromised Americansā data
FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing Trump administration in open letter
I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
āThis is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.ā ā Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
šØBREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislatureās gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump moves to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
How Zohran Mamdani is teaching Democrats to lose
Harvardās research is shrinking amid the Trump administrationās freeze
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, heād likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
When a mystery fire hit a beloved tree, there was one thing to do: Scale it
When the rule of law becomes rule of lawfare
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and thatās not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
Great but itās not enough
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Heās wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how heād do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. Heās using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
Way to go, San Francisco!! šš
Warren: But right now, given what Texas has done, I say to California and Gavin Newsom, well played
I promised Texas would be sued. And I don't bluff. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
šØBREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
I expect major movement in Texas tomorrow. No one is covering the GOP's redistricting scheme with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you pro-democracy news and information. Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
1/8 "Less than 2% of white people owned slaves." You've heard this "fact," often used to minimize slavery's role. But as Nicole Hannah Jones explains, numbers, though technically true, can also be lies. This framing is disinfo designed to erase history. Let's break down why. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
š©š©š©š©š©š©š© "I grew up here and ā¦. I donāt want to have 1,000 more people in town" Gatekeeping from a position of power to deny families the same opportunity yours was afforded is pretty fucked up Reader context: Ridgefield CT is a town of 25k that is 89% white and has a $140k median family income
Be kind
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White washing slavery is abhorrent.
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Heartbreaking For the crime of working
Theyāve tried to erase us for centuries. Didnāt work then, wonāt work now. Black history IS American history.
Rep Collier is a national hero. Sheās showing Dems how to do it. Just say NO w courage and conviction.
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Texas Dem Rep. Nicole Collier held hostage at Texas capitol by GOP
Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats
James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
All of the legacy media outlets that told us last year that Trump and the GOP really loved voting by mail and criticized me for saying it wasn't true were wrong. Now Trump is trying to ban VBM and he also wants to take over vote counting and certification. I hope they listen to me this time.
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Covid is rising. New vaccines may not be ready until mid-September.
Episode 6 of our podcast, Power Lines, is now available. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/9ywjRNCh9kE?... Or listen wherever you get your podcasts: link.chtbl.com/PowerLines_S...
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. āWhat you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,ā says Jason Stanley, an author whoās leaving the US because of āconcerns over fascism.ā
So Putin gets a red carpet welcome, a ride in the presidential limo, speaks first at the presser, frames the meeting as a successful talk among equals, while making absolutely no concession on the conduct or outcome of the war.
Trump claims credit for fixing Social Security as it barrels to insolvency
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
OMG BAAAAHAHA
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The Texas GOPās latest congressional gerrymander, passed by the Texas Senate, explicitly targets key districts represented by Latino-elected Democrats, underscoring a strategy to court Latino voters symbolically while cutting off their actual electoral power. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tex...
NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved. Itās now being used to stall developments in wind and solar ā with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge. With @opb.org
Yes!
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
LIVE SOON: Governor Newsom, state leaders make major announcement countering Donald Trump's gerrymandering scheme. Watch live at 11:30am PT. YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/io2Hutl... Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/11442... Instagram: @CAgovernor X: @CAgovernor
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Spread kindness wherever you go.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Itās amazing that a weenie fraction of Americans have peacefully protested as our democracy is disappeared.