Dave Huntsman

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Inside the “Mass Firings” of Immigration Judges Across the Nation

Just a very short part of a larger clip: I had no idea that this was going on: youtube.com/shorts/HWejt...

YouTube video by NowThis Impact Texas Democrats' Cancun Trip Backlash

Very short clip: Not a democrat (or republican, for that matter); but this perfect response to ‘they are abandoning their jobs’ accusation; example of REALLY abandoning their jobs are House Reps closing down Congress till Sept just to avoid voting on the Epstein files.
youtube.com/shorts/BCl85...

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Rep. Talarico slams Texas AG & Gov: “All they can do is bend over”

Very short clip- but gets to the heart of what’s happening in Texas: youtube.com/shorts/p8G3v...

In Ohio, the lawbreaking legislators violated the Ohio Constitution, their oaths, and court orders seven times in order to illegally draw gerrymandered maps.

Faced zero accountability.

And then sat in their illegal seats.

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At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:

Removed COVID vaccine recommendations

Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee

Replaced scientists with antivaxxers

Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research

Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

There is simply not enough to say about how bad this is. Not only will we miss out on cures for infections & things like pancreatic cancer, the US will fall behind in science, tech, economy, and while other countries will take this over it will still be slowed/delayed. It’s a national security risk!

YouTube video by PointOrView BREAKING: China races for rocket reusability as iSpace debuts first Hyperbola-3 recovery drone ship

Once again, when the US’s/Earth’s leading space company, SpaceX, does something worth emulating, it’s not another American company that gets its a** in gear; it’s…a Chinese company. Typical….. youtube.com/watch?v=ubxl...

A friend of mine who lives in Austin saw this at a bar and said she had never been so offended by something she 100% agreed with.

New analysis: CBO says the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will create $718 billion in additional debt-service costs, which brings the law's overall red-ink projection up to $4.1 trillion. www.cbo.gov/system/files...

I want every TX story on redisctricting to point out that what's different here is that it's a mid-cycle gerrymander by the same party that did the original gerrymander.

Why didn't Todd Blanche talk to the victims to get the names of the perpetrators?

Decisions to spend federal funds are up to Congress, not based on OMB Director Vought’s policy reviews or whims. Former OMB General Counsel, Prof. @sbagen.bsky.social, explains this and more in an amicus brief filed in July: www.brennancenter.org/media/14192/...

YouTube video by The Tony Michaels Podcast Are we not a nation of immigrants? 🗽

Short clip: youtube.com/shorts/Na927...

YouTube video by CNN Fareed's Take: Trump's tariffs have caused a seismic shift in world affairs

Short clip: Good, in-perspective Take by Zakaria on effects of Trump/Republican tariffs. youtube.com/watch?v=-4wi...

Normally not in favor of political stunts-but in this case, R-Party in Texas- mindlessly, like robotic wimps- doing this under direct orders from the anti-American authoritarian in WH (by his own admission). If anti-democracy forces succeed in Texas they’ll move on to other states; must be stopped.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

@ourshallowstate.bsky.social: you have persuaded Grok

Er, what’s an air fryer?

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse More suspicious happenings.

Short clip: Looks like there was , well, f*ckery afoot that even allowed Bove to just be shoved onto a lifetime Federal judicial appointment. /More suspicious happenings. youtube.com/shorts/ywzqk... via @YouTube

- As a student of decaying institutions i.e. rise/fall of great powers,
She sees parallels between the US and fallen empires. E.g., “Trump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union,”

Key out-takes from NYT interview Fiona Hill, Trump’s lead 1st term Russia advisor:
- Inability to act is real challenge for all democratic systems
- Putin not really concerned if Trump’s angry; He’s pretty confident right now particularly given chaos in US & its undermining its own security.
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Epstein's sweetheart deal? Cut by a Republican administration.

The guy who cut it? Trump put him in his first Cabinet.

Epstein's mysterious death? During Trump's first term.

Trump promised to release the files. Now he's not.

This is a Republican scandal. What is Trump hiding?

It’s worse than that, Steve; the entire Republican Party has collapsed under him nation-wide. There is no independent Congressional check, nor really independent Supreme Court check, as founders intended/assumed. Our system has been short-circuited; it has, in essence, failed.

So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated?

We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.

Where are the ethical, loyal (to country) Republicans? Oh, right; there are none left. Total silence.

Question: Where’s the relevant Inspector General- clearly an independent investigation is needed, immediately, for public health’s sake.

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse $535 billion in cuts to Medicare. And Republicans’ fingerprints are all over it

Short clip: Sen Whitehouse shows how the latest bill passed requires over $500b cuts to Medicare- a program I’m in, paid for for decades, still pay for- even tho the word ‘Medicare’ is nowhere in the bill…. youtube.com/shorts/_WBoT...

BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell has quietly been moved from a federal prison in Florida to one in Texas, according to a Bureau of Prisons official.

What is happening?

YouTube video by The Bulwark "It is not just a legal problem, but it is a it is a deep moral failing"

Very short but important clip by probably the leading defender of our democratic form of government in the US today: youtube.com/shorts/jooX_...

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff Donald Trump placed major tariffs on Brazil. Now he's sanctioning a judge. But … why?

Short Clip: Trump places tariffs on country we have positive trade with because.. the legally prosecute insurrectionists. /Donald Trump placed major tariffs on Brazil. Now he's sanctioning a judg... youtube.com/shorts/5zhAS... via @YouTube