Daryn Henry

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.

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Trump, Epstein and immigration raids: Mehdi Hasan and Mick Mulvaney | Head to Head

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social absolutely eviscerates Mulvaney, almost feel bad for him. Beyond that: just how utterly vacuous, bankrupt, and contemptuous MAGA apologists have become; all they have left is visceral emotions at the facts or entrenching in false equivalence: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wolq...

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

Negotiating With Terrorists, Unsuccessfully How to lose ideological battles by believing in nothing.

Brown has joined Columbia, Penn, and soon (reportedly) Cornell in debauching itself. We're discovering that our elite universities stand for nothing. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/negotiatin...

How Many Golden Calves Will We the People Tolerate? A Saturday Prompt

“How many false idols—gold, monuments and Trump himself—do Americans want to worship? Could this be the trigger for rising social unrest and mass protest? Is there a breaking point?”
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Despite federal investigations, GMU president will remain in role, receive pay boost • Virginia Mercury Board of Visitors unanimously approves 1.5% state-approved salary bonus for George Mason University President Gregory Washington

Really glad sanity won out and @georgemasonu.bsky.social kept a guy who is objectively making our #1 university for social mobility even better.

It was also inspiring to see so many people and organizations across Virginia stand up for President Washington!

We Are Not the Generation That Lets This Die After 250 years of sacrifice, we won’t let apathy be our legacy.

Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask.

I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Pope appeals to leaders with power to end wars to start peace talks He also greets young people in Rome for the Jubilee of Youth, thanked journalists and reminded people to connect with grandparents and the elderly.

The time for negotiations to start is now, and anything jeopardizing peace must be rejected, Pope Leo XIV said.

How do we lead moral lives in an age of bullies? | Robert Reich In my lifetime, I have witnessed a shift from support of decency to tolerance of cruelty. Where do we go from here?

Underneath MAGA’s atrocious policies is a putrefying moral rot of the culture. Reich begins to get to this. It will not be enough to combat and defeat the politics; we will have to find new ways to renew and rejuvenate a formation of goodness, truth, and beauty: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The question I’m asked every day.👇

A different way of practicing politics is possible - where we vigorously fight for what’s right while inviting people into our coalition, rather than pushing them away.

Leaving MAGA’s billboard now in downtown Ft. Lauderdale. Some who stopped by thanked us, and some demanded we leave town. But we’re staying all day into the evening!

The Epstein Files Have Already Exposed The American Right The Jeffrey Epstein files, if and when released, will expose Epstein, detailing his prolific atrocities once and for all.

Even before their release, the Epstein files have exposed millions of Americans who have continued to move the goalpost for what they deem morally allowable when it comes to the vile, predatory, spray-tanned object of their cultic fervor.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

A collective amnesia and abandonment to our darkest nihilistic impulses…it will be stunning to interpret on historical retrospect, and utterly tragic…

Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...

So you’re telling me @wsj.com that the placeholder president is a sexual abuser, law-breaker, narcissist, liar…exactly what any of us who did a modicum of research knew 10 years ago…Great decade, America…

www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.

“I am going to win!” - so excited for the candidacy of @mike-pruitt.bsky.social! Lets finally #Flipthe5th

Mike Pruitt can bring compassion, competence, intelligence, integrity, backbone back to the VA-5, where they’ve been brutally absent. Many fresh, impressive candidates for Congress out there trying to salvage congress and restore democracy. This is one to pay attention to @mike-pruitt.bsky.social

Hate is powerful. In fact it’s powerful enough to convince people to destroy the programs they benefit from, to give more money to the very rich, because they somehow believe it hurts the people they don’t like.

This boulder is rolling! Phenomenal reporting documenting the cravenness we all suspected was there.

This is such fresh public rhetoric and aesthetic that enticingly cuts across so much of the bogus, hackneyed political discourse out there:

That’s a predictable contortion. For the premills scheme, anything that serves such hastening can be re-integrated as necessary…

Donald is currently treating MAGA like he treats everything he can no longer use--with disdain and disrespect.

Prophecy:

Cville Good Trouble. Memory eternal John Lewis, a rare gem of an American #GoodTroubleLivesOn, #Cville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social

Commentary: If the attorney general won't defend Virginia, who will? If the state’s top law enforcement officer cannot be trusted to defend one of its flagship universities without partisan interference, then the problem isn’t just legal. It is systemic.

A damning op-ed about an AG putting MAGA before Virginia. And in the process ruining our institutions.

Vote for @jonesjay.bsky.social

😉, true story!

Letter from 12 deans to Board of Visitors goes unanswered for almost two weeks At the time of publication, the academic deans had received no response from the Board regarding their offer to meet with the Board “as soon as possible.”

Outstanding piece from Cavalier Daily about the reverberating carnage from the authoritarian take down of President Ryan: #UVA: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

“New hires are rethinking joining our ranks” at UVA (per 12 of 14 deans).

Still silence from our Board of Visitors as their top-secret “negotiations” continue.

(Again, great work from the student journalists at the Cav Daily: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...)

@sallyforsupervisor.bsky.social SHOWS UP for Cville/Albemarle at the food bank!