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An important piece from my friend and colleague House Majority Leader David Moon. @mdhousedems.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/camp... Maryland Delegate proposes bill against redistricting abuse

Bethesda and Rockville Named Among Safest Suburbs in the U.S. - The MoCo Show According to a new analysis by SmartAsset, Bethesda and Rockville are among the safest suburbs in the United States, ranking #2 and #4 respectively. The study evaluated 360 U.S. suburbs […]

Congratulations to the City of Rockville, Md. in my legislative district for being named one of the *safest* suburbs in the United States, according to a new study by SmartAsset that evaluated data on crime, drugs, traffic deaths, and excessive drinking. Rockville was ranked 4th safest nationwide!

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National Park Service to reinstall Confederate Albert Pike statue in DC | CNN Politics The US National Park Service will restore and reinstall the statue of a Confederate military officer in Washington, DC, after protesters toppled the monument five years ago.

Traitor's statue to be reinstalled in Washington, D.C.:

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Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off

Smithers lies to Monty Burns that his boos are people chanting “Boo-urns.”

“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”

The persistent belief that people who believe abhorrent things are identifiably abhorrent 100% of the time is honestly going to kill us all.

Republican Rep. Mike Flood’s town hall was a dumpster fire: for him.

“There’s been a lot of misinformation out there about the bill,” Flood said.

Yes, there has. From you and Republicans trying to hoodwink us. The crowd yelled, “Vote him out!” as the hour-and-a-half meeting ended.

I never get tired of reminding people that famous celebrity Donald Trump's very first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Department sued him and his father for refusing to rent to black families.

DOGE and other day 1 Trump appointees head for the exits at multiple agencies The Interior Department and General Services Administration are seeing significant turnover in the leadership ranks.

More and more of the original DOGErs are leaving government.(via @almsnatalie.bsky.social).
The implication is their influence is declining with Musk gone. We should still remember the damage they have done, which they leave as they exit government.
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fighting gerrymanders can seem hopeless, but there is a solution. big moment right now for people to see districting and the two-party system as inherently linked, and a relic of our archaic electoral rules. congress has the power to ban partisan gerrymandering and establish multi-member districts.

JB Pritzker calls out Texas Republicans: "when Donald Trump calls they say yes, sir. Right away, sir. Happy to lick your boots, sir."

Glad he’s honest about this. Now everyone can act accordingly.

There are certain lines I think you can and should draw such as: Dems should not abandon due process entirely once in power just because the GOP is shredding it now.

There are other things to that aren’t nonnegotiable values.

This is so important. The focus on job numbers ignores the fact that the BLS computes inflation (the CPI) which is directly linked to many government and non-government benefits. Any attempt at politicizing inflation numbers is very, very, very bad…

"Autocracies overstate yearly GDP growth by approximately 35%."

Some of my colleagues who are currently crying online about TX Democrats leaving the state are the same ones who left D.C. early so they wouldn’t have to vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

Kind of interesting how that works, huh?

He hasn’t learned one new thing since the ‘90s. I swear, I read ALL of his current opinions in Rodale magazines-like Prevention. And even then, I knew it was BS.

RFK Jr.'s Stunning Claim About Black People And Vaccines Sparks Concern From Medical Experts Experts weigh in on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial take and what they want everyone to know.

He won’t be able to provide one, because obviously his statement is wholly false. It is perfectly reasonable to demand answers about this.

www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

I would very much like the next person who interviews RFK Jr. to ask him for evidence to support this quote, and to not nod stupidly along with his response.

“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to whites, because their immune system is better than ours.”

Senator Mike Gianaris (‪@sengianaris.bsky.social) and I worked together to deliver for our public transit system, including historic new funding for better service and a groundbreaking fare free bus pilot.

That's why I didn't mind lending him our video team to deliver this important message:

This whole thread but also like:

I'm a non-binary trans person. I am *by necessity* excluded from this whole "let's ignore politics" shit because *my very body is political*. I cannot exist in these imaginary spaces where libs and MAGA get along.

Aleta Nook @aletanook.bsky.social Bush wasn't taking rights away nor was he trying to cheat elections. The most harm caused under him was the Great Recession. August 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM 1 repost 105 quotes 1 like 198 comments

Again I have to point out that anti-vaxxers don’t generally put themselves in harm’s way.

Instead they send their unvaccinated children out to be preyed upon, undefended, by dangerous pathogens.

'Mess With Texas': Plane banner brings Texas redistricting fight to Annapolis - Maryland Matters A plane circled the State House on Monday, trailing a banner with a call to action: “MESS WITH TEXAS.” It was an apparent reference to a Texas redistricting fight, and a push for Democrats here to res...

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Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.

Definition of terms:

“these people” = Latino migrants

“Inner city people” = Black people

“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

In the 1970s my American history textbook explained that colonists began importing African slaves because Native Americans weren't up to the demands of the labor.

When I get a time machine I'm not going to see dinosaurs, I'm gonna go back to kick the ass of every fucking history teacher I ever had.

Trump says undocumented immigrants do farm work "naturally" because "they don't get a bad back."

Mississippi's Declaration of Secession similarly said slavery must be protected because "by an impervious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell not welcome in cushy Texas prison camp, says inmate Presence of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice and former girlfriend has angered fellow inmates at Texas prison camp

Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a minimum-security prison by the Trump regime “has upset her fellow inmates, who believe she shouldn’t be there given the nature of her crimes.”

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If DHS cares about keeping children safe from predators, they should be going full throttle after Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump, releasing the Epstein files, and investigating everyone covering for Trump.

But all they care about is creating propaganda to support their racist narrative.