You hearing the shit Texas is trying on the returned Dems?

Be a pity if a blue state governor sent his National Guard to Texas to protect these citizens.

Voters Challenge New Hampshire Over Extreme Law Targeting Mail Voting Read more here.

NEW: Voters with disabilities file a lawsuit against New Hampshire challenging a new state law that requires voters to verify their identity each time they request a mail ballot. Pro-voting groups argue the law will “entirely prevent” some voters from casting ballots.

On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts.

By @jwhendricks.bsky.social

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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.

Trump's promise to end vote-by-mail is yet another attack on disabled voters The president credits democracy superfan Vladimir Putin with the idea. Yes, really.

The president credits democracy superfan, Vladimir Putin, with the idea. Yes, really.

Oh how great it would be if every Black player on Texas and Ohio State boycotted the game until Texas cancels the redistricting vote and Ohio pulls their National Guard from DC.
Those players have so much power and they don’t even use it.

Why, why why is Hope wearing a Costco denim jumpsuit?!!! #boldandbeautiful #soapsky

Senator Cory Booker is only a few hours away from breaking Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech on the Senate floor (24 hours and 18 minutes).

Every single Democratic Senator needs to be like Senator Michael Bennet out there helping Cory with his filibuster!

Come on, Cory!!!!!

Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

HHS federal workers found out they didn’t have jobs anymore after they showed up to work and their security badges were disabled.
 
To the public servants who have dedicated their lives to keeping our communities safe & healthy – thank you.

I’m working every day to restore your positions.

As Sen. Cory Booker continues his 22+ hour floor speech, @marcelias.bsky.social spoke with Sen. Andy @kim.senate.gov about the state of democracy, what he's hearing from voters and his own 1:00 am visit to Sen. Booker on the floor.

Full interview out later this week.

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

INTRODUCTION With no advance notice or warning, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") abruptly and arbitrarily terminated $11 billion of critical public health funding beginning on the evening of March 24, 2025. This funding provides essential support for a wide range of urgent public health needs such as identifying, tracking, and addressing infectious diseases; ensuring access to immunizations; fortifying emergency preparedness; providing mental health and substance abuse services; and modernizing critical public health infrastructure. These termination notices and substantially similar subsequent notices (collectively, "Public Health Terminations") immediately triggered chaos for State and local health jurisdictions. If the funding is not restored, key public health programs and initiatives that address ongoing and emerging public health needs of Plaintiffs (collectively, "Plaintiff States") will have to be dissolved or disbanded. Large numbers of state and local public health employees and contractors have been, or may soon be, dismissed from their roles. The result of these massive, unexpected funding terminations is serious harm to public health, leaving Plaintiff States at greater risk for future pandemics and the spread of otherwise preventable disease and cutting off vital public health services. 2. The sole stated basis for Defendants' decision is that the funding for these grants or cooperative agreements was appropriated through one or more COVID-19 related laws. According to Defendants, this vital public health funding has been terminated "for cause" because "the grants and cooperative agreements were issued for a limited purpose: to ameliorate the effects of the pandemic. Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary as their limited purpose has run out." HHS, Notice of Award (Mar. 24, 2025). In communications to grantees, that bare statement (or slight variations thereof)

Defendants' analysis and explanation as to why "the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary" and could be terminated "for cause." Pursuant to these conclusory, boilerplate statements, Defendants issued mass terminations for billions of dollars in vital public health funding with no warning and effective immediately. 3. The Public Health Terminations exceed Defendants' statutory and regulatory authority and are unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"). The foreseeable end of the COVID-19 pandemic is not a lawful basis to terminate "for cause." See, e.g., 42 U.S.C. § 300x-55(a) (allowing "for cause" terminations only based on the grant recipient's "material failure" to comply with the agreement). Defendants have never alleged, much less demonstrated, any failure by fund recipients to comply with the applicable terms and conditions of the grants and agreements. Nor did Congress limit the funding at issue here to the period of the COVID-19 emergency. During the pandemic, Congress made wide-ranging public health investments extending beyond COVID-19 and the immediate public health emergency. And after the pandemic was declared over, Congress reviewed the COVID-19 related laws, rescinded $27 billion in funds, but determined not to rescind any of the funding at issue here. See, e.g., Fiscal Responsibility of Act of 2023, Public Law 118-5, Div. B, Title I. 4. The Public Health Terminations also violate the APA because they are arbitrary and capricious, for reasons including: (1) assuming, with no legal or factual support, that all appropriations in COVID-19 related laws were only intended for use during the pandemic, when the relevant statutes indicate the opposite; (2) failing to undertake any individualized assessments of the grants or cooperative agreements, including any analysis of the benefits of this public health funding or the dire consequences of termination;

State AGs are suing HHS and Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for abruptly and unlawfully cutting $11B in critical public health grants—without warning or legal justification.

(CO, CA, MN, RI, WA, AZ, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, WI, KY, and PA.)

YouTube video by MSNBC Sen. Booker gives marathon speech to ‘disrupt’ Senate because ‘our nation is in crisis’

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Cory Booker Sen on the floor for over 20 hours straight, kicking tRumps ass telling the people what is really happening against the rule of law.

Sounds like Mr. Browne is doing good stuff.
And just by the way—Mrs. Browne has got a lovely daughter.

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Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin.

You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! 🚫 💰

#VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford 🗳️ ✅ 👍

This is super important.

We will not be distracted.
We will not be discouraged.
We’ve got our eyes on the prize.

And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve.

The time to organize is now.

OcasioCortez.com

Where are all my B&B ppl?!

Meanwhile….
#TeslaTakeDown

Looking forward to Luna tormenting Bill. Luna will be even more unhinged, now that she is a free woman. #boldandbeautiful #soapsky

Now had it been a Logan that Luna kidnapped or offed, 🔔 would’ve wrapped this story by killing her off.

House Democrat introduces measure to censure Lauren Boebert over 'pimp cane' remarks A House Democrat wants lawmakers to censure Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert for allegedly making "racist and derogatory" comments about a Texas Democrat who interrupted President Donald Trump's ad...

House Democrat introduces measure to censure Lauren Boebert over 'pimp cane' remarks
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CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre.
🤣

I knew Alan was too good to be true!!! Poor Traci; she never catches a break!! #yr #soapsky

keeping a tab open watching tesla stock and it might be the best mood enhancer i've ever experienced

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House."

Molly is OK. Going on 11 now. Had a pancake for breakfast. She is still the Thing of Evil.