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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

George Santos defends commutation: ‘If President Trump had pardoned Jesus Christ off the cross, he would have had critics’ | CNN Politics Former Republican Congressman George Santos joins CNN’s Dana Bash after his prison sentence was commuted by President Trump.

Bash asks Santos about his commutation, which voids his restitution sentence. "You were ordered by the court to pay $370,000 in restitution to the people you defrauded. Will you still pay that back?"

Santos: "If it's required of me by the law, yes. If it's not, then no."

It's not. And he knows it.

YouTube video by MSW Media NO KINGS! Tips for Protesting with PTS and Anxiety

NEW: No Kings is this Saturday, and here are my tips for how to mitigate anxiety in large crowds. Feel free to share! youtu.be/nxpkVk9TGgQ?...

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

Opinion | The Shadow of Jim Crow Looms Over the Supreme Court Will Black voters continue to have an opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, or will decades of hard-won progress disappear?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The Voting Rights Act is not a relic. It is a living promise to all Americans that our democracy belongs to everyone,” Representatives Troy Carter and Cleo Fields, Louisiana’s only Black members of Congress, write in a guest essay.

Youngkin administration keeps details of paused federal grants under wraps The governor's office has twice cited "working papers" in response to records requests.

Ahead of Virginia's bellwether elections, Gov. Youngkin is hiding the scale & details of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants blocked by the Trump administration -- hiding the economic pain coming to Virginians instead of focusing on how to respond to it.

#MomSky #VoteBlue

MAGA thought they elected Trump to save America, but instead he’s saving Argentina. $40 billion now going to Trump’s buddy Javier Milei, while Americans can’t afford groceries, gas, or basic healthcare.

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

NEW: if you’re planning on taking I-5 to the No Kings rally, you might wanna leave now. In order to disrupt our protests, they’re shutting parts of it down. meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

To review: an apparent right wing civil war between white Christian nationalist Groypers and white Christian nationalist college campus activists results in the murder of a leader of the latter; and that will now spark a 1930s-style putsch against liberals by the fascists who run the country.

This made my day!!! I love seeing people get creative. Who says life can’t be spontaneous like a musical?

Part 2 in comments.

Missouri House Democrats plan to continue sit-in over weekend Missouri Democrats have surpassed 24 hours of their sit-in on the House floor protesting a special session.

Don’t say “Dems aren’t doing anything.” There’s just little attention to the courage of these Missouri Dems resisting the extreme gerrymandering of Republicans desigmed to increase Republican numbers in the House.
www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tell Congress: Push back on Trump’s DC takeover Contact Congress today!

BOOM! Only 153 away from 2,000!

Send yours here--their offices are closed, but their inboxes aren't: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Ossoff: "Democrats need to strike back. We have no time or luxury for high-minded hesitation, because Trump and MAGA are going to do everything within their power to hold on and to lock in one party rule in America. That's the reality that we face."

Let's all do our civic duty and Google search Epstein daily.

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

Salt River Wild Horses Petition I Support Continued Humane Management by SRWHMG Petition to the Honorable Katie Hobbs, Governor of Arizona, and Paul E. Brierley, Director of the Arizona Department of Agriculture We, the undersigned...

Please sign this petition to protect the Salt River Wild Horses.

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Please call your Congressional representatives.

Following Trump’s boo-filled appearance at the FIFA Club World Cup Final, it’s been reported that the winning team was given a replica trophy at the event. Why? Because Trump is keeping the original trophy—which cost roughly $230,000—for himself.

More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...

A lot of us start contributing to Social Security as teenagers at our first jobs.

That money should be there for us when it’s time to collect.

A 24-year study of more than 1.2 million Danish children was just released which shows no link between aluminum in vaccines & an increased risk of 50 chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases, allergies & autism.

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.

Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.

It's fascism.

They'll release more!

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

NEW: The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

The thing about Trump calling for the prosecution of Adam Schiff is that last night, the Republicans on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files in an apparent effort to prevent Americans from getting to the truth about what happened.

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...