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Trump’s Big Ugly Bill allocates $170.7 billion to target immigrants

With nearly $30 billion for ICE and $45 billion more to build concentration camps

Meanwhile Republicans are dismantling Medicaid and SNAP-to give billionaires a tax break

Maybe THAT’S why the crowd chanted to vote out Mike Flood

'Why is he not out there?' Trump shamed for throwing rank-and-file Republicans to wolves Republican Rep. Mike Flood returned to his home district in Nebraska to face a hostile crowd at a town hall Monday — and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said the reception was an ominous sign for the GOP's ch...

Rep. Mike Flood faced backlash at a Nebraska town hall over his support for Trump’s tax and Medicaid cuts. Scarborough likened it to 2009’s Obamacare protests, hinting at 2026 trouble. Jonathan Martin questioned Flood defending a bill Trump won’t back.
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“How do you expect to pay back all this debt?”

Nebraska Republican Rep. Mike Flood: *Drowned out by “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” chants*

Trolling Nebraska MAGA congressman Mike Flood down the halls of the people's house! 💯💙👍👏🏼👏🏼👊🏻💙🇺🇸

California Democrats Look to Redraw House Map Amid Texas Redistricting War It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas asked the FBI to arrest Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block the Legislature from voting on a Republican redistricting plan. The new map would give the GOP a significant advantage in five districts now held by Democrats.

Trump redoubles attack on federal jobs data, calls numbers political Trump defended his decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the official overseeing jobs statistics, telling CNBC that data showing a hiring slowdown was political.

President Trump is casting the Bureau of Labor Statistics as broken and corrupt.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized his decision to fire the head of the agency following a bleak jobs report it published last week.

Drones delivering coffee? Trump administration wants more companies using UAVs The Trump administration wants to make it easier for companies to use drones for business — from delivering coffee to inspecting power lines to working on farms.

The Trump administration wants to make it easier for companies to use drones for business — from delivering coffee to inspecting power lines to working on farms.

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney for Sean "Diddy" Combs confirms they've approached the Trump administration about a pardon. cnn.it/4lbewkX

Opinion | This Isn’t Governing. It’s a Tantrum. The Trump administration is engaged in an increasingly wide-ranging campaign against data that contradicts its political agenda.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The Trump administration “is engaged in an increasingly wide-ranging effort to erase data or to prevent the collection of new data that contradicts its political agenda,” the editorial board writes.

ProPublica Event - The Trump Administration’s Apparent Conflicts of Interest A look at the ethical and legal questions facing top Trump officials amid Musk-linked roles, stock sales and dark money deals.

From Musk-linked deals to Cabinet stock trades, we’re digging into the ethics questions dogging Trump’s second term.

Join our virtual discussion on Wednesday, Aug. 13, at 4 p.m. ET and submit a question 👇

Analysis: What is gerrymandering? Why is it legal? | CNN Politics Halfway between the 2020 and 2030 census is not the normal time to be talking about redistricting, or gerrymandering, but the issue has nonetheless taken over the political conversation.

Halfway between the 2020 and 2030 census is not the normal time to be talking about redistricting, or gerrymandering, but the issue has nonetheless taken over the political conversation. | Analysis

‘Mom is home again with you’: Marine veteran’s wife reunites with children after months in ICE detention | CNN Paola Clouatre, wife of a Marine veteran, has been reunited with her family two months after being detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement while breastfeeding one of her kids.

Paola Clouatre, wife of a Marine veteran, has been reunited with her family two months after being detained by ICE while breastfeeding one of her kids.

NY high school grad detained by ICE released Editor’s note: The video aired before it was announced that Yeonsoo Go would be released. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Yeonsoo Go, the Scarsdale High School honors graduate who was detained by IC…

YEONSOO GO HAS BEEN RELEASED.

This doesn’t change the monstrous injustice of her detention.

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Yeonsoo Go is a 20-year-old pastor’s daughter and Purdue student. Tae Heung Kim is a Ph.D. student and medical researcher at Texas A&M.

Both have been taken and detained indefinitely in miserable conditions, and cut off from communication with family.

If you voted for Trump, you voted for this.

If Sean Duffy builds a nuclear reactor on the moon and no one is around to see it, will it still distract everyone from the Epstein files? 🤔

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s threat to quickly replace Democratic state lawmakers who left the Lone Star State in a bid to frustrate the GOP-led redistricting effort would require judges and voters alike to side with him. Dat aint gonna happen captain 😜

BREAKING: Democrats have just broken the quorum in Texas. Governor Greg Abbott won't be gerrymandering today.

I officially declare Greg Abbott a non-American terrorist with no official title in the United States of America ♥️🤍💙

Texas Governor Greg Abbott “even openly acknowledged it as ‘gerrymandering’ before correcting himself to say Texas is ‘drawing lines.’”

Greg Abbott is gerrymandering away his own constituents’ voting power just to brown-nose Trump and his billionaire donors. Meanwhile, he’s fining Democrats $500 a day while pocketing a salary 21 times theirs.

A pathetic excuse for a leader. #MessWithTexas

🚨Texas has officially issued arrest warrants for the Democrats who fled to Illinois. The catch is… they have no jurisdiction in Illinois. Essentially, Greg Abbott is posturing.

Rick Perry

Greg Abbott has accomplished what no one in Texas ever thought possible: he's made Rick Perry look smart.

The redistricting battle in Texas is intensifying, as Republican Governor Greg Abbott targets Democratic lawmakers who have left the state in protest. Their absence is preventing the Republican-controlled House from reaching a quorum to pass new redistricting legislation.

BREAKING: Greg Abbott Orders Arrest of Texas Democratic Lawmakers Greg Abbott orders arrest of Texas Democrats, New York Governor vows to redistrict state, Trump to require $15,000 bonds for visa applications, and Israel plans to occupy Gaza, and much more

BREAKING: Greg Abbott orders the arrest of Texas Democrats, New York Governor vows to redistrict state, Trump to require $15,000 bonds for visa applications, and Israel plans to occupy Gaza, and much more.

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Texas governor Greg Abbott orders the arrest of Democrats who left the state.

This guy is a thug.

At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting. But his parents have created an AI version of their son for a powerful message on gun violence. Plus TX Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.

How Texas’ redistricting effort is having major implications across the US | CNN Politics The outcome of the political battle over Texas’ redistricting effort is already having major implications across the country.

The outcome of the political battle over Texas’ redistricting effort is already having major implications across the country.

Trump’s Tariffs Are Kleptocracy in Action Very little of what you’ve heard about presidential ‘deals’ is true. It’s really a shakedown on behalf of Trump’s desires and corporate whims.

Trump’s tariffs are kleptocracy in action rather than a real economic policy. Manufacturing is struggling, real wages are stagnant, inflation is increasing—but Trump’s corporate buddies are getting exactly what they want. From @ddayen.bsky.social:
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Israel’s Last Chance Flooding Gaza with food is the only way out of a crisis largely created by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.

"Every image of a child with protruding ribs is both a human tragedy and a propaganda victory for Hamas—and proof of how a just war badly lost the plot," Franklin Foer argues.

greg abbott is having a bad day therefore it is a good day