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Are you saying we should just give up and accept fascism? Sure sounds like it.

Texas House issues arrest warrants for Democrats who left state to block congressional redistricting The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.

Following up on our last post, things are getting more crazy by the day. Using federal law enforcement to go after your political opponents isn’t democracy. It’s authoritarianism. Call it what it is fascism.

Purple graphic with text "Instead of prioritizing helping our communities recover from disastrous flooding, Texas politicians are trying to weaken the electoral power of Black, Brown, and Asian American voters." Above the text is a photo of a street flooded, with cars floating in the water.

People in Texas face real issues like disaster recovery and prevention, water shortages, and an unreliable energy grid. But certain state politicians are wasting time and resources trying to redraw our electoral maps to further disenfranchise communities of color.

We deserve better.

Trump's radical economy wrecking tariffs take effect. They are all about Trump and nothing to do with our best interests. For example:

t took six months for a Trump official to be politely forced by a journalist to admit live on air what everyone - including every economist - knows to be true (but which Trump keeps lying about): tariffs are paid in the US by US importers.

What an indictment of our media.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "I led the effort to build the IL Holocaust Museum. What I know is that in 53 days, Nazis tore down the constitutional republic in Germany in the 1930s. It doesn't take much. We're seeing pieces of that sort of authoritarian activity happening right now in this country."

NYT: “.. Trump treats facts in the same way that he treats people: He expects them to line up in support of his goals, and if they don’t, he seeks to get rid of them.

“.. in doing so, he is leaving Americans ever more reliant on whatever he declares to be the truth.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

This is F—king real.

They are throwing kids off of school meals and Medicaid and putting real gold all over the White House as if Saddam Hussein was president.

Trump Calls for New Census, Sans Noncitizens, Based On ‘Presidential Election of 2024’ Trump Calls for New Census, Sans Noncitizens, Based On ‘Presidential Election of 2024’

NEW: Trump calls for a new census that excludes noncitizens and uses information from the 2024 election. The proposal represents yet another illegal move from the executive, as federal law prohibits using mid-decade census data for apportionment counts.

From: @jimsaksa.com

VA offers yearlong community care authorizations for 30 services - VA News VA extends community care authorizations for eligible standardized types of care for a year.

NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding it's privatized health care. This is my area of expertise, so allow me to explain what this means. 1/ news.va.gov/press-room/v...

Shhhh, Mike. That’s the quiet part…

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Justice Department.

Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating officers on Jan. 6 and yelling "kill 'em." www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Senior advisor to the "Justice dept" caught in 4K saying kill the police. Sick of this ....

Lol

Hunting Down Landscapers: The New Adventures of Superman

To further my previous post. When Trump says Obama committed treason, the Dems should pick an arbitrary GOP supporter and claim something equally outlandish. Don’t defend Obama. Ignore is and smear one of the GOP. Period.

Just Sent! My latest about how Trump takes notes from Putin and Kim Jong Un and what it means for free and fair elections. Here is how it begins.

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Texas Republicans’ Redistricting Power Grab: An Attack on Democracy This isn’t some far-off banana republic. It’s happening here. And every American must rise up against this.

In the sweltering heat of late summer politics, something chilling is unfolding in Texas — and if left unchecked, will poison the very heart of American democracy.
Every American must rise up.
New article by @joetrippi.bsky.social for Lincoln Square:
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/texas-repu...

Defunding Terrance Tao is like defunding Einstein and bragging that you cut fraud and waste.

He is a visionary, and now he will be a visionary somewhere else.

I hear they cancelled the meeting last night to discuss Donnie Dumbass and his Pedo problem. Too bad, they had an agenda and everything…

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The remodeling of the White House’s rose garden makes it look like a cafeteria terrace.

Stewart offers a nice demonstration of the ways current GOP talking points about the need to “liberate” Los Angeles align with post 9/11 justifications for the war with Iraq.

"I remember a time when a Texas governor would never allow the president of the United States to mess with Texas. Those days are gone. We now have a governor who is bending the knee to Donald Trump."

ICYMI, @jamestalarico.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:

Press Release | State Democracy Defenders Fund

Just days after meeting w/ Deputy AG Blanche, Maxwell was moved to a minimum security camp—an extraordinary transfer for a convicted sex offender

Why, and why now?

The American public deserves to know. That's why we are asking for the files👇
www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/8.7.25-pr-

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe · 22h I’m a climate scientist, four-time author of the US National Climate Assessment, and that is not true. Here’s a short and easy explainer of how climate change is indeed loading the extreme weather dice against us: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LT4aZzjbl3w Quote Secretary Chris Wright @SecretaryWright · Aug 4 The ceaseless repeating from the media, politicians and activists claiming that climate change is making weather more dangerous and severe is just nonsense. That is just NOT true.

Secretary of Energy outright lying about the reality of climate change on Elon Musk's hellsite, where for some reason good people, including climate scientists and journalists, still linger, so they told him off. But. Trump has taught the right that you can bully the truth and sometimes win.

A musical tribute to Melissa and Mark Hortman At 8 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 6, the Hortmans’ children, Colin and Sophie, joined The Current’s Morning Show to share songs and stories that embody their parents’ spirit and memory.

If you have a moment today, check out Colin and Sophie Hortman’s tribute to their parents on @thecurrent. It’s moving, powerful, and full of great music!

How Chuck Grassley's Politicized Redactions Gave Putin Leverage over Trump - emptywheel Days before Trump sent his golfing buddy Steve Witkoff to pretend he's going to get stern with Vladimir Putin, all Trump's top spies renewed a secret they share with Putin's own spies. And that likely...

Given news that Trump is effectively capitulating to Putin, reupping: the Durham annex made it clear ALL Trump's spies have embraced SVR's campaign to frame Hillary ... and Russian spies have proof Trump is trying to cover that up.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/06/h...

Forbes: Almost 90% of Americans are Worried about the Cost of Groceries PBS News: White House says it will begin construction on $200 million ballroom in September

Most Americans are worried about the cost of groceries.

Meanwhile, Trump is spending $200 million of taxpayers' money to build a golden ballroom.