Texas GOP chairman Kelly Giles faces felony election fraud charges for falsifying ballot paperwork, another potential failure for a party that has long claimed the mantle of election integrity.
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Wonder if 🧊 gets paid during the shutdown

Our Block Party is on Oct. 4 and we partnered with Half Acre to brew our own special beer.

Block Club's Extra! Extra! Pale Ale will be available at the Block Party and our newsroom will receive $1 from every pint sold. 🍻

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Breaking: We’ve won our lawsuit on behalf of wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species A...

This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act.

www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...

CDC Staffers Walk Out: Ex-Agency Leader Says ‘Let’s Get The Politics Out Of Public Heath’ Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.

Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.

Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country

I get the feeling we are about to see the strictest gun reform against the lgbt community 😔

Trump prepares to wipe out years of progress on gun violence An executive order threatens “ghost gun” regulations, red flag laws, and more.

Reminder: Since being elected, Trump has moved quickly to undo progress made with gun safety policies.

Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods,

Jokes on them, I already don’t shop with them

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

What the actual hell?! A close Trump advisor and MAGA figure just posted, “Alligator lives matter. The good news is alligators are guaranteed 65 million meals if we get started now.” This is disgusting, it’s genocidal language. Dehumanizing, dangerous, and unacceptable. How is this even real life?

How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Common and more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias

This essay by @juliaserano.bsky.social — on the parallels between the Covid “lab leak” theory & conspiracy theories about the origins of transness — is so, so, so smart & succinct & necessary. juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...

Pete Hegseth is threatening to send active-duty Marines into California. Pure madness. Pure authoritarianism.

Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants

The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.

This Tekken 8 update is so good. No longer in rank purgatory
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#Tekken #PS5 #gaming #Bryan

Uruguay's ex-President José Mujica, nicknamed 'world's poorest president,' dies at 89 José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.

José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.

Pritzker Scores Quantum Win as Australian Firm Picks Chicago Hub Illinois’s quantum campus, championed by Governor JB Pritzker, is adding an Australian tech firm to its list of future tenants on Chicago’s South Side, advancing his push to make the state a hub for t...

Last year, I announced the creation of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park — with DARPA, PsiQuantum, and IBM already driving research and development there.

I'm excited to report Diraq, an Australian quantum leader, will be joining them today.

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

UPDATE: The DOGE aide was told by ethics attorneys that he held stock in companies that agency employees are barred from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally.

Days later, he helped fire 90% of CFPB staff anyway.

When Trump...

-Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers 
-Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him
-Uses state visits to advance his hotel business

It's corruption, plain and simple.

PBS had to go. You can’t push fascism while Big Bird’s out here counting diverse friends and teaching kids not to be assholes.

Good he’s anti vax.