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Reminder that in 2021, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill that would have banned partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts.

Every single one of these actors is helping Rowling fund systemic transphobia

How Booker and Kim vote differently on arms sales to Israel | NJ Spotlight News Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has consistently voted to approve military and weapons packages for Israel.

Support among Americans for Israeli military action in Gaza fell to 32% in July, a new low, according to Gallup.
Just 8% of Democrats and 25% of independents approve of Israel’s war in Gaza.
Reporting by @bhulac.bsky.social @njspotlightnews.org
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/08/sena...

I ask because it’s a 2 year wait for anyone on the island…

NYT pantsed by the Crimson

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Gen X: The Only Generation of American Women to Live With Rights My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...

I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime.

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i really want everyone to read this because Dems are not going to win by default. new Republicans will run and they’ll say the right things to win. people will get fooled or maybe just agree.

Dems need real candidates up and down the ticket or we never escape this mess.

The dead have a right to remain dead. An animated skin put over a computer model and given the same name as the dead son of grieving parents is a cursed golem and a full delusion. By interviewing the computer model, Acosta has asked us to accept this as true or real. Gun control deserves better.

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.

The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy. Any notion that the economic data misrepresents the reality of how the economy is performing is way off base. There are revisions to the data, even big revisions, but they universally say the economy is doing worse. That’s because it is. BTW, the DOGE cuts are a key factor in the revisions—not because BLS has cut staff, although that can’t help, but because the government often reports payrolls to BLS late. It didn’t matter when government employment was stable, but now that it’s declining, the cuts are picked up in the revisions.

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe.
From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

Without regard to the coming CA redistricting, the “two wrongs don’t make a right” crowd is of course surfacing.

To which I say: I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN RUSSIA.

If you want to live in Russia & be “right,” I can’t help you.

REDISTRICT NOW! THEN OUTLAW GERRYMANDERING!!!

This is the key to understanding our very, very broken economy.

Everyone who thinks that voters are responding to their own lived experience needs to explain this graph.

To which I would only add: this whole discourse is the mirror image of what society tells women.

When men are involuntarily celibate: it's undeserved and a social crisis.

When women are involuntarily celibate: women are "too picky" and DESERVE to be lonely. Hence the "cat lady" discourse.

Well this is interesting...

LOL, anyone who is pretending this is about data quality is being completely disingenuous.

Clearest evidence yet that DH is making a splash 😂

Your semi-regular plug for Dr Nerdlove (www.doctornerdlove.com) who is *amazing* at offering compassionate, practical advice that is not shy about calling out toxic masculinity and implicit misogyny and working to decouple masculinity from both of them.

Me three months ago:

Republicans want to rig Congress and gerrymander their way to a permanent majority. If the GOP guts fair maps, blue states can’t just sit back. It’s time for Democrats to fight fire with fire: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...

If you're unclear why the tweet quoted by Zarah was age restricted, it was asking people to sign up to Your Party. The Online Safety Act is political censorship.

Age verification = censorship youtu.be/RFUUy0DKxvk?...

It is the moral obligation of every blue state to get the ball rolling on this, with a trigger that says if Texas goes through with it so do we.

Not only should we do this, it’s our moral obligation to do this, to protect Texas Democrats. If the GOP backs off, then so can we. But not before.

Put an economic moron in charge, get a failing economy.

They moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison camp.

In order to qualify living in such a posh prison:

Federal inmate must be within 10 yrs of release date. Federal inmate must not have a documented history of violence or sex offense over a. prescribed period of time (at least 10 yrs).

Black Sails

Ron Johnson, Worth $40M, Says Stock Trading Ban Would Make It “Unattractive” to Be in Congress Sen. Ron Johnson is one of the richest members of Congress, with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars.

During debate on a congressional stock trading ban introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Ron Johnson, one of the richest members of Congress worth an estimated $55 million, said the bill would “make it very unattractive for people to step up to the plate and run for office.”

Trump physically desecrating the White House is not going to be politically popular but Democrats will be much too busy trying to make people care about policy wonk issues to raise holy hell about it