Good News: For decades, C-SPAN has connected Congress with the American people, providing the public with a front-row seat to see their government at work. Glad to see YouTube and Hulu listened to Chuck Grassley and me and are taking the step to carry C-SPAN’s live coverage!
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses. We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.
Today kids were being sent back from the nurse with zero help because TX laws require a new parental permission slip to be signed before any kind of care, even a bandaid, can be administered. Never in my teaching career has a ##txlege session produced so many dumb consequences in schools. #txed
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Cows don't just give milk, they give good vibes! 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals
Guess which network is ignoring the survivors? Fox isn’t news.
"For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret." “We’re not going away. We’re not staying quiet. We’re not going to give up.” Annie Farmer (Epstein survivor)
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
THE DAY AHEAD: A shot of nitroglycerin in the controversy over the “Jeffrey Epstein files” ====>
Finally, we’ve been waiting on this ruling! Yet another illegal action by Trump. Now get them out of D.C. and keep them out of Chicago! A federal judge in California found that Trump crossed the line when he sent about 5,000 Marines and National Guard troops into Los Angeles during
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If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Ashli Babbitt was an enemy of multiracial democracy. She stood on the same moral footing as the “redeemers” who sabotaged Reconstruction. And she is being celebrated by this administration for precisely that reason. That is where we are.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
Union representing CDC employees re: ousted leader Dr Susan Monarez: “We commend her, not just for doing the right thing, but for doing the hard thing by standing against disinformation. She chose science over politics. This is the leader that CDC needs & our nation deserves”
ME: "AI Chatbot, create an image of shameless, servile sycophants kissing the ass of the stupidest person in the United States to ever get famous." AI CHATBOT: "That image already exists."
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
He’s trying to get her killed…
FUCK THESE GESTAPO PRICKS! 😡 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Just in case you forgot…
CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
We are close to wiping out all professionalism from the agencies of the United States government.
INTERCEPT: “Student newspaper The Stanford Daily filed a First Amendment lawsuit suing Rubio & Noem over tactics in deportation cases… What’s at stake is if you’re free to voice an opinion critical of the government without fear of retaliation…” 🇺🇸 theintercept.com/2025/08/26/s...
Brilliant advice on #Resistance from Europe… they have centuries of experience! 🥇😂
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Is the Trump Regime Trying to Kill Us? The CDC meltdown is part of an epidemic ... assaults across the board on health and safety open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods,
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
🚨BREAKING: A leading election conspiracy theorist has been named to a new “election integrity” post at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Reuters: US JUDGE DISMISSES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAWSUIT AGAINST MARYLAND FEDERAL JUDGES OVER IMMIGRATION ORDER
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A wave of authoritarianism is reshaping the world. Donald Trump isn’t leading it—he’s learning from it. See how he’s borrowing from his peers, such as Orban, Putin, Netanyahu, and Modi, in Zeteo’s new breakdown of the Global Authoritarian Playbook. Watch the full video: zeteo.com/p/the-global...
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
Journalists writing about Trump's plans to send the National Guard to cities in blue states have to think carefully about how to frame it. The federal government (including the National Guard) call it an anti-crime narrative. But it increasingly feels like that's a pretext for military occupation.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one. If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving. Either we all get saved or none of us do.
Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We don’t want or need them here.
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “The real offender here is a President who thinks he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas... the kind of gratuitous viciousness that has increasingly defined Trump’s return… it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined.” www.wsj.com/opinion/john...
NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming
The Attorney General is supposed to uphold the law, not break it for personal gain. $70,000+ in gifts from insiders & lobbyists isn’t just a violation, it’s a betrayal of the American people. #PublicCorruption #PamBondi
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN Alabama's state Senate map for violating VRA sec 2 by diluting Black voting power in Montgomery. Alabama must now draw a new compliant map. Status conference is set for Aug. 28 to facilitate remedial proceedings. www.democracydocket.com/cases/alabam...
"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year." It's going to be used for education and transportation. See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.
Exclusive: The Churches Fighting Back Against ICE A network of 5,000 churches is launching a rapid-response action plan to protect worshipers during ICE raids.
🚨BREAKING🚨 - Moments ago, the Whitehall City Council voted unanimously to pass LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination protections and to ban conversion therapy on minors. The Columbus suburb joined a growing list of Ohio municipalities offering these protections. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/08/19/w...
Newsom: I mean, even poor Kid Rock — these guys, they’ve gotten a little precious, haven’t they? The folks at Fox are like, “Oh, this is so unbecoming of a governor. Oh, oh.” And meanwhile, they sit there reading his tweets every single day. Are they really that out of touch?
When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
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Dems are back in Texas & the new gerrymandered maps could be voted on as early as tonight. Texas Democrats deserve a huge thank you. They put this fight on the national stage and stalled long enough to give California Dems and other states time to prepare their counter. Thank you, Texas Democrats
NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.
Oh look, Rubio’s State Department is lying again. It must be a day that ends in a y.
Environmental groups sue Trump administration over "secret report" by "known climate contrarians" www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has posted statement saying: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is UnAmerican”
Federal judge has ordered Justice Dept to file its response by Sept. 30 to lawsuit by Jan 6 police officers, who are seeking court order to require Congress to hang the January 6 plaque honoring police heroes
NEW: Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) introduces legislation requiring Trump Administration to reveal cost of National Guard deployment Bill requires Administration "submit a mandated report outlining the deployment's legal basis, aim, and cost to taxpayers" liccardo.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
"There is a despicable purge underway of senior FBI officials, all of whom have risen in their careers as nonpartisan, and who have been targeted for vindictive, political purposes," said Mark Zaid, a whistleblower attorney who represents a number of federal workers www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
They're preparing a successor for Trump...3 years early. https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/elon-musk-throws-in-towel-on-launching-third-party-instead-tries-to-cozy-up-to-jd-vance-wsj/
Texas Senator Roland Gutierrez calling it like he sees it in Austin tonight. #FreeNicole
WATCH: Texas Rep. Collier says the high road has crumbled
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.
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
Mercia Maas "For Some reason this affected me so much and I’ve been crying all day, their intelligence and curiosity is something so rare and I wish I could do more to protect them and the ocean #oceanconservatio"
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
There are a lot of negative images of DC right now but I'm in a park where a band of teenagers is playing music (they're pretty good!), others are dancing. They are collecting donations for a charity that supports victims of sexual assault. This is real life in Washington, a great city.
Can’t wait for @jaketapper.bsky.social’s book about this
It’s much easier to just say you hate rural people than it is to argue with me that there are no progressives or Democrats or Independent folks who live in rural spaces. I ran for office and a ruby red district and got 25% of the vote. Just say what you’re thinking. You hate an entire region.
Seems an odd approach to getting his tiny hands on that Nobel Peace Prize Donald so desperately wants.
