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"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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We need more General Shermans.

Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win The new chair of the Progressive Caucus wants to do for Democrats what he did for construction workers in Texas.

Greg Casar wants to do for Democrats what he did for Texas construction workers: organize, win, and put working people back at the center of politics. From @ddayen.bsky.social:
https://trib.al/CdNObM6

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

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When Getting Fired Is Only the Beginning for Federal Workers

First Trump fires you.
Then he forgets to process the paperwork.
Then the courts bounce you back and forth like a damn ping-pong ball.
Workers deserve better.
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It’s so funny that Q was right: there is an organization dedicated to defending powerful pedophiles who steal from working people on behalf of the corrupt elite.

It’s called the Republican Party.

MAGA screamed for years about the weaponization of government, only for Trump to take a whole-of-government approach to prosecuting a political opponent based on allegations that are completely absurd. I'm not sure what it will take for Dems to stop fetishizing bipartisanship and actually hit hard.

Just as Hitler did not believe that the Red Army was at the Berlin city limits. The evidence is in front of him.

Tomlinson: Texas redrawing political maps to rig 2026 elections Democracy thrives or dies on how we draw political districts, and the prognosis for Texas is not good.

"Taking away more than 40% of the population’s ability to elect a candidate and establish an unbeatable single-party regime is, by definition, totalitarianism." @cltomlinson.bsky.social (gift link) www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...

MARSHALL COUNTY, TN — more after school programs shut down because of Trump’s Trillions Transfer, which was supported by every Tennessee Republican including Marshall County’s reps: @repandyogles @senatorhagerty marshablackburn

I don’t always agree with Mehdi, but he is absolutely brilliant. If you plan to debate him, you need to be *prepared* — unlike any of these people.

BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work.

She orders the agencies to stop.

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Important story: not just because of the fact high level Republicans in government lied to the public to justify an illegal deportation, but because it shows how politicization of the civil service is making it functionally impossible for them to demand integrity and the rule of law.

HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

I know you’re new to Congress, Mr. Fine, but we don’t call our colleagues terrorists here. It just makes you look idiotic. At a time when MN Democrats have been targeted for assassination by a right-wing extremist, your rhetoric is seriously dangerous. Apologize now.

Pregnancy is a minefield when you're disabled Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.

Although people with disabilities become pregnant at similar rates as those without disabilities, they are often not offered the same reproductive care support. This newly released Mother Jones article highlights the significant gaps in reproductive care for disabled people: zurl.co/dU3G5

Breaking News: In a class-action challenge, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order ending birthright citizenship.

Stephen Miller’s latest Fox News rant cut short after camera self-deports

‘Battery level low. Exchange battery,’ read the message on the screen.

The heroes at the Yale Budget Lab are calculating tariff faster than Trump can change them.

Right now the tariff rate is up +15.6 %-pts to 18 percent, roughly ten times that of other industrialized nations, and the highest since 1934.
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Why Mississippi Courts Must Produce Public Defense Plans The state Supreme Court wants to know how local courts provide lawyers, if any, to poor people after their arrest.

For years, Mississippi’s local courts have avoided clarity about how they deliver the Constitution’s promise that poor criminal defendants will receive a defense attorney.

Now, the Mississippi Supreme Court says no more.

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—and leading to real-world consequences.

Extremists, right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers spent the days after the tragic Texas floods pushing conspiracies about "weather weapons."

On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit

with @mollytaft.com

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If Mao and Hitler had a love child it would be the agricultural policy espoused by Brooke Rollins here

OH COME ON. Fifth Circuit holds “special circumstances” allow Apple to override Republic Aviation. The special circumstances are…that Apple prefers paper not be left in store break rooms.

I grew up in Mississippi. This is fact. I would add that it’s a sickness perpetuated by the powerful to build and take advantage of fear, growing up amid bigoted propaganda and desire to not believe one is not bottom of the barrel.

Real leaders would do the opposite to teach all can rise together.

The Trump administration acknowledges in court that sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was a “one-off mistake,” which contradicts the White House’s position and also the fact that two others were erroneously sent to El Salvador and ordered back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

american law is all about "of course you can exercise your rights, but not when you do it too well, that's bad for business"

I honestly think ANDOR is more inspirational and rousing than like, the past 20 years of democratic messaging.

A spreadsheet showing the salaries and recent raises given to Philly’s mayor and members of her administration

someone who’s good at the economy please help me understand why Philly’s Dem mayor and her friends got gigantic raises when our ACTUAL essential city workers—like trash collectors, 911 operators, street pavers—struggle to survive on $46k a year?

Senate Democrats have offered amendments to stop rural hospitals from closing.

To keep labor and delivery units open.

To keep Planned Parenthood funded.

To prevent millions of Americans from losing out on health coverage.

The GOP voted against every single one of them.

DOL Plans to Rescind Biden H-2A Farmworker Organizing Rule The Department of Labor intends to rescind 2024 regulations designed to protect workplace organizing by foreign farmworkers.

The Labor Department plans to officially rescind a 2024 Biden rule adding workplace organizing protections for H-2A farmworkers.

The agency said earlier this month it will pause enforcement of the rule in response to multiple injunctions issued by federal courts.