Johnny Fester

It’s Back-to-School Month! Today's lesson: Listen to the science.

“We’re being treated like animals… I’m brown. If I go out they can stop me every day just cuz of my skin color.”

What are we doing? 🇺🇸 (from @rokhanna.bsky.social )

Texas Republicans: It’s About Power, Yes—but Also Their Radical Agenda Of course this gerrymandering plan is about keeping power. But it’s about keeping power to a specific end: to pass laws people hate and block ones they want.

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YouTube video by LRRMTG Time Vault vs Naya Equipment || North 100 Showdown

Canadian Highlander

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This is why so many in Gen Z don’t believe homeownership is part of their American Dream. They saw their parents lose homes in record numbers during the Great Recession.

RFK Jr. is targeting mRNA technology, a major scientific advancement that allowed for the rapid development of coronavirus vaccines. wapo.st/4lhtvKe

REPORTER: When can we expect the first deportees to be sent to Rwanda?

HOMAN: We're working on it

I just finished my latest update on how to make sense of what the GOP is doing in Texas and why it may backfire on them. It goes out in the morning to Democracy Dockets premium members.

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Oh great, next up, we can have teenagers in ICE-specific youth groups too. Maybe have rallies where they cheer on the president?

It’s great to be back in New York City. I spent a good deal of my childhood and teenage years in and around NYC. I’ve been back to promote my new book, “Coming Up Short.”

I’m promising myself this is my last book tour. (Of course, I made the same promise with the last book.)

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Epstein’s ring wasn’t chaos.
It was design.
Recruitment pyramids.
Modeling pipelines.
Surveillance.
Blackmail.
Elite protection.
Survivors deserve truth.
#EpsteinFiles #SurvivorJustice

Jennings: They should go to work

Roginsky: So should congress. Why did they abandon the house to not vote on the Epstein files?

Jennings: It was the August recess

Roginsky: It was not the August recess. They left early.

What $4 trillion in debt from Trump's spending measure could mean for future generations A federal agency ratcheted up its estimate of debt tied to Trump's spending law.

What $4 trillion in debt from Trump's spending measure could mean for future generations

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A BLEAK FUTURE.

Marc, we all owe you a debt of gratitude for your endless defense of our voting rights. I am so sorry that you are subjected to abuse.

I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

Each time I’m targeted, the volume of hate I receive — online and in correspondence — spikes. Some of it is deranged. Much of it is antisemitic. And it’s deeply conspiratorial. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...

Such an important point:

“Progressive policies…are very popular in this country…but you have a segment of the Democratic Party that keeps trying to convince progressives we’re losing elections because their policies need to be more moderate.” Matt Dowd

I wish more understood this.

A confession…
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They kinda started as a joke, but I'm glad you liked them <3 Here's a quick 'progress' vid of all 3 animations

Berman: Was the President right about the polling?

Enten: No. If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself.

His voice, his range ... his songs capturing that carefree era ... Superlungs indeed. He catapulted me into an intense new world he chose to decline ... I listen now to his album The River and shed a tear for my brother in arms.

RP

Terry Reid's enthusiasm and encouragement were incredible back then ... still teenagers we crashed each others' gigs and crucified Season of the Witch time and time again … So much fun. So on it. He was all of everything ... such charisma ...

Life-saving idea! Pass it on!

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.

“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia report CIA officials worried the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources. Tulsi Gabbard overrode their c...

Putin’s puppet ignoring warnings from the CIA. Seems about right. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I hope the Voting Rights Act survives another birthday...

Why The Voting Rights Act's 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last Why The Voting Rights Act's 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last

The Voting Rights Act, the watershed Civil Rights era law that has prevented attempts to dilute minority votes through racially gerrymandered electoral maps hundreds of times, turns 60 Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.