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Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton will try to arrest us.

So we’re traveling to Illinois for safe harbor.

We’ll be in the Land of Lincoln — the state where Abraham Lincoln broke quorum as a state senator in 1840 by jumping out of the window at the Illinois State Capitol.

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Perhaps the text should be: “Thanks to the efforts of international organizations, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a country deeply divided …”

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

that’s funny because im introducing a bill that allows me to repossess the assets of companies who ghost me after two interviews

The World Games are almost here! It’s the Olympics for events that aren’t in the Olympics!

Pick your sport obsession for the next few weeks.

These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren't experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA's 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.

Highly recommend Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a genre parody of the musician biopic

Going through the comments on the ANC Chevy Chase Civic Core survey and I think this about sums up the opposition to housing on the site

"People should live in the neighborhood who can afford to"

Today is Porajmos Memorial Day, where we remember the 500,000 Roma people murdered by Nazi genocide.

Dikh He Na Bister

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

I think that this happens for the same reason that Gamergate or libs of TikTok is never seen as anti-free speech, or cancel culture, despite having the same effect.

The question to ask here is: What would a Democratic Miller even want? Stephen Miller has a crystal clear picture of the America he believes should exist in his head. It motivates him. It determines the policies he prioritizes and the strategies he chooses. What would be the Democratic equivalent?

How the information ecosystem works on X today: A random account aggregates my reporting, recounting scoops from our Media Matters story, and uses it to drive subscriptions to their Substack. Elon Musk sees it and endorses it, with apparently no idea he's reading the NYT, a publication he hates.

i know this is quaint of me but the white house renovation is crazy illegal and actually really emblematic of how trump sees the presidency as belonging to him

New Housing Slows Rent Growth Most for Older, More Affordable Units The nationwide housing shortage has driven rents up more in low-income neighborhoods than in the U.S. overall, but in areas that have recently added large amounts of housing, rents have fallen the mos...

Building *slows* gentrification; and *not* building makes it much worse: "The findings suggest that not allowing more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—pushes up all rents, making it harder for low-income tenants to remain in their neighborhoods." -- www.pew.org/en/research-...

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

The American Model required a foundation of political stability and state capacity to enable technological innovation and economic growth.

Destabilise the politics by hollowing out the state and you destroy technological advantages and economic prosperity

Ward 1 Update: No tax dollars for RFK stadium - Brianne K. Nadeau At Monday's Council vote on the First Reading of the FY 2026 budget, we restored funds to critical programs, approved funding for ranked choice voting, and postponed action on the ill-conceived repeal...

I'm a 'no' on the RFK stadium deal. Details & more in my latest newsletter

brianneknadeau.com/ward-1-updat...

Great new data from Pew showing it's low income households that are hurt the most from housing supply restrictions. Their rent goes up the most when housing isn't built and goes down the most when it is.

Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found.
gothamist.com/news/forged-...

While Giuffre's family was giving this statement, Trump was in the White House briefing room with former Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, arrested in 2010 for raping a 16-year-old

N.J. town threatened to revoke housing for non-citizens, former employee’s lawsuit says The lawsuit claims officials encouraged racial profiling, such as monitoring recycling bins for Modelo beer bottles as a way to identify undocumented residents.

According to a whistleblower, officials in Howell NJ went snooping in recycling bins for Modelo bottles, which they imagined was a good way to identify undocumented residents, who they could then try to kick out of their homes by revoking their certificates of occupancy. www.nj.com/monmouth/202...

An extraordinary intrusion. Fighting anti-semitism has nothing to do with demonizing trans people but of course it was always a means to a much bigger end.

anyway i was about to write something like, “you cannot live in a free society and also forbid people from living where they would like to live” but it occurs to me that many, many americans do not want to live in a free society

the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like

There is the actual Democratic Party, which for better or worse is a mostly ordinary liberal political party and then there is the “Democratic Party,” a synecdoche for everything that annoys you online.

It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is a Democrat, as are 11 of the 13 members of the DC Council (the two independents are ex Democrats). We can blame Republicans for a lot, but DC is a Democrat run city.