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Comey Pleads Not Guilty To Charges Brought by Trump’s Former Personal Attorney Read more here.

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to two felony charges. The charges stem from a politically fraught indictment brought by one of Trump’s former personal attorneys amid public pressure from the president on the DOJ.

Solar power named the world’s cheapest energy source Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

At Oversight Hearing, AG Bondi Responds to Questions With Attacks Instead of Answers At Oversight Hearing, AG Bondi Responds to Questions With Attacks Instead of Answers

Attorney General Pam Bondi hurled insults at Democrats when testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing Sen. Whitehouse of “taking money from one of Epstein’s confidants” and Sen. Hirono of being a member of antifa.

Newly elected Congressmember Adelita Grijalva says she will provide the final vote needed for a petition that could force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Is that why Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in for the last two weeks?

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells. The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

Oil companies in Texas requested permission to burn off or release more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year — enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions in tax revenue had the gas been captured.

W/ @insideclimatenews.org & @texastribune.org

Democrats take legal aim at 'the Radical Left' language during shutdown Democrats and a federal union argue that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.

Democrats and a federal union argue that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I will be the first to admit: I am scared. I am scared of what Trump is doing to our country, our communities, and our neighbors. But just because I am scared does not mean I am helpless. Instead, I will stand up and speak out, Marc Elias writes.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

California is the 4th largest economy in the world. It’s time it and other blue states used their economic clout to fight Trump’s agenda.

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RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander, Sparks Debate Read more here.

SCOOP: Top GOP mapmaker Adam Kincaid testified for the first time about his role in Texas' gerrymandered congressional map, revealing that the RNC hired him to draw it. During his testimony, the state repeatedly shielded him from disclosing details about how the map was created.

A very informative in-depth description of what's at stake. It's also quite depressing.
We got to hang together people. We are all we have

I sure wish we had a genuine, real supreme Court right now. What we got ain't cutting it

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Punishing Abrego Garcia for Challenging Removal to El Salvador Read more here.

A federal judge ruled that senior DOJ officials' comments created a "realistic likelihood" of vindictiveness in its criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abregio Garcia is now entitled to a hearing to argue for tossing his case on these grounds. https://bit.ly/48jnA4D

RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander, Sparks Debate Read more here.

BREAKING: The GOP operative who drew Texas’ gerrymandered map testified that, at a White House meeting, he saw a draft of a letter written by DOJ officials urging the state to redistrict.

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown The air traffic tower at Burbank Airport is unmanned on Monday evening as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.

Yikes

Amid GOP’s National Gerrymander, Democrats Push to Require Fair Maps Amid GOP’s National Gerrymander, Democrats Push to Require Fair Maps

77% of Americans support independent redistricting commissions, a nonpartisan group responsible for drawing states’ congressional maps.

Congressional Democrats introduced a bill to make it happen.

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Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICE tracking app It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated.

It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

In the Third Reich, Hitler’s will replaced German law. Whatever he wanted, he did.

Life in the early months of Trump’s second presidency hews to this framework in important respects.

McGrath announces second bid for McConnell’s Senate seat The retired fighter pilot said she is “battle-tested and ready to fight.”

Amy McGrath has announced a second bid for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat.

Utah GOP Passes Gerrymandered Map, While Handcuffing Courts Read more here.

UPDATE: Shortly after Utah GOP lawmakers passed another congressional gerrymander, pro-voting plaintiffs challenging the current map submitted fair map proposals to the court, arguing the legislature’s plan still violates Prop 4. A judge will decide which map complies by November.

It's time to stop the Nazi thugs terrorizing the country

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen who was briefly detained, said agents broke through his door and placed him in zip ties.

“I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” the 67-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They never brought one.” https://to.pbs.org/4pWhXzN

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, a former girlfriend and associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison term.

A jury in Manhattan federal court convicted Maxwell in 2021 on charges that included sex trafficking a teenage girl.

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship In a lifetime studying the behavior of chimpanzees, Jane Goodall became something of an authority on the aggressiveness of alpha male adults. Now, in an interview released just days after her death, the famed primatologist reveals what she would do with Donald Trump, Elon Musk and other human beings she saw as showing similar traits: launch them on a one-way trip into space. The insight into Goodall’s thinking comes in the Netflix documentary Famous Last Words, recorded in March and kept under wraps until her death last week at the age of 91. Continue reading...

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context."

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

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Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

It's too bad we don't have a supreme Court. Who would rein in these fucking Nazis roaming the streets. It really is a tragedy what this country has become