Texas Dems Offer Fiery Response After Abbott Threatens To Arrest And Expel Them For Leaving The State That is how you do it 👏🏼

And this is how it's done.

Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., faced a combative audience at a town hall last night, greeted with boos as he stepped on stage and chants of “vote him out” by the end. Throughout the evening, he endured persistent heckling while responding to questions about demands for the release

A better journey - Georgetown Today Photo: Lisa Helfert Cancer survivorship research initiative studies life after diagnosis and treatment When Georgetown family medicine physician Sarah Kureshi felt a strange mass in her toddler daught...

Our daughter Nusayba has officially graduated to long-term follow-up care, marking 5.5 years cancer-free.

Georgetown Health Magazine recently featured her story, which captures some of the challenges and hope that defined these years for us.

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Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos | CNN The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts...

Is it efficient to fire hundreds of people in critical positions and then frantically try to hire them back once you figured out how important their work is?

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‘Talk about affordability’: Warren boosts Mamdani as model for Democratic victory The progressive Massachusetts senator appeared with the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City.

‘Talk about affordability’: Warren boosts Mamdani as model for Democratic victory.

Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW! Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...

🚨CALL TO ACTION:🚨
TELL CA LEGISLATORS YOU CARE ABOUT AI TRANSPARENCY FOR RIGHTS HOLDERS - WEIGH IN TO SUPPORT AB412 - RIGHT NOW!

You may have seen this link going around... What you might not realize is, this ISN'T just another petition that does nothing.

SIGN IT/SHARE IT RIGHT NOW bit.ly/46hu5E4

i have been thinking a lot about how the entire concept of “the deal” is antithetical to transparency, fair play and rule of law, as larry notes. the deal is necessarily nonstandard, ad hoc and dependent on the whims of the dealmaker

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory When Susana Pacheco accepted a housekeeping job at a casino on the Las Vegas Strip 16 years ago, she believed it was a step toward stability for her and her 2-year-old daughter. But the single ...

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Top medical organizations kicked out of CDC vaccine recommendations process call decision "dangerous" The nation's top medical organizations are speaking out after U.S. health officials told them they will no longer help establish vaccination recommendations.

For decades, trusted experts from organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have played a vital role in helping the CDC set vaccine recommendations.
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White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.

Did someone you know vote for Trump because of his promises of free IVF?

They were lied to.

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Texas governor threatens Democrats who left state to prevent congressional map vote – US politics live Greg Abbott says he will try to remove Democrats unless they return to allow vote to take place on redrawing the US House map to favour Republicans

Do you know which state has the largest number of Black residents?

TEXAS (nearly 4 million)

Trump’s demand that TX redistrict & the Republican legislature’s acquiescence is an attack on Black representation. Stand with Texas Dems.

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ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

Texas Republicans push ahead with redistricting after Democrats flee state | CNN Politics Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday in a bid to block a partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional map orchestrated by Republicans, with the support of President Donald Trump. Follow for ...

So they’re trying to issue civil arrest warrants for the Dems who left the state now, which I believe someone opined was not permitted under Texas law.

Hot mess. And also a clear indicator that Texas could flip blue save gerrymandering.

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This is nuts. The GOP is trying to rig voting and is now out to arrest those who object.

A new low.

Important thread.

If they can deny due process to some people, they can deny it to us all.

Which means we will have no way to prove our innocence or take legal action if captured.

Law firms, universities, media companies, and now banks. If people don’t understand what’s happening to our country, it’s because they don’t want to.

“Groceries.”

More of this please.

This is in Nebraska, people. NEBRASKA.

Endorse.

Scorched earth until the fascists are GONE from elected office for good.

This thread is basically the highest praise I could ask for.

I’ll trade keeping people sane and engaged in doing good over the vanity metrics of x million subscribers any day.

An easy thing to do from home is to send a note of appreciation when an organization or institution refuses to comply.

Good on them.

My best friend who watches Maddow just called to tell me that she landed the plane and plainly stated that the US is currently being ruled by a consolidating authoritarian regime. Not that it is 'descending into' etc etc but that it is here. Maybe this will move more liberals to say the same.

This will not only be the end of tourism, it will also be the end of international business with the US.

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
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I know this will get me in trouble. I usually try not to curse but my military is showing…

These stupid motherfuckers want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Boondoggle and a straight money enema to our oligarchs.

Epstein files must be very, very bad.