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Oregon Republicans flee, facing fines, state police chasing — Democrats demand they return The GOP lawmakers bolted the state Capitol to prevent a vote on a climate change bill, infuriating the governor.

Republicans thought it was the right thing to do in Oregon in 2019 but today? Nah.

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🚨 Ken Paxton wants Dems arrested for refusing to help rig an election.

That’s rich coming from a guy indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud, accused by his top deputies of bribery, abuse of office, while allegedly using burner phones, secret emails & fake names to dodge accountability.

Sabiha Kasimati posing for the photographer Kristaq Sotiri in 1942. A black and white photo of a young woman wearing a nice outfit with delicate floral embroidery.

Sabiha Kasimati (1912-1951) was a professor of biology and ichthyologist, one of the earliest known women scientists in Albania.
She was arrested by the communist regime in 1951, and a few days later was executed without trial along with 21 other intellectuals.
#WomenInSTEM

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YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen LIVE: Governor Pritzker issues ANNOUNCEMENT amid Texas walkout

"America we have a problem. The largest democracy in the world and yet a Texas governor would bend a knee to Donald Trump because he's afraid to lose an election fair and square."

A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.

Nothing to see here folks..

Vaccination with mRNA-encoded nanoparticles drives early maturation of HIV bnAb precursors in humans A leading HIV vaccine strategy requires a priming immunogen to induce broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) precursors, followed by a series of heterologous boosters to elicit somatic hypermutation (SH...

💉 A step closer to an HIV vaccine

New trials show that mRNA vaccines can kick-start rare antibody responses needed to block many HIV strains, with early success seen in both the US and Africa.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#HIV #mRNA #Vaccines #SciComm 🧪

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

So the White House leaked this maybe misinformation to pressure other universities? And it maybe worked on Cornell and Brown? Cool system of mafia government we've got going here.

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting In an extraordinary move brokered with Illinois Gov. Pritzker, dozens of Texas House Democrats move to deny quorum as the GOP is set to draw new maps.

BREAKING: Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting

a crowd of people holding signs including one that says save the kids ALT: a crowd of people holding signs including one that says save the kids

Yesterday we marched, honked, got creative, yelled & sang. Yesterday we were smaller than normal.

Do not bcome discouraged by the smaller size of protests 4 “Rage Against the Regime,” the fact that we had 1,000’s across the country mid summer, & on Vance’s B-Day is still a slap in on M’s face.

This is Trump’s f*cked-up economy, but don’t miss this point in the jobs report—if it hadn’t been for healthcare, we would’ve actually lost jobs every single month.

Reminder.

Trump’s war on Big Law leads firms to retreat from ’pro bono’ work for underdogs Major law firms are scaling back the free work they do for advocacy groups fighting the government in the wake of Donald Trump’s attacks on the profession. Interviews with over 60 lawyers and 30 nonprofits show legal aid groups now have fewer resources to defend the vulnerable.

A shameful display of cowardice by the nation's largest law firms. This article should be required reading in every law school ethics class in the country.

If you are a partner at one of these firms, know that the money will never be enough to wash away the stain. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Adopting an obviously illegal, gerrymandered map in order to illegitimately maintain power.*

Helped you there

I am sure what @nytimes means by “aggressively redrawn@ is “unconstitutional and illegal gerrymandering under trumps orders”

Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

“The Chief Justice made a point of saying that Section 2 continues to apply nationwide, and he and the other justices are going to be held to keep that promise,” Marc Elias explained. “So don’t count out the courts, don’t count out the lawyers arguing in the courts, and don’t count out the voters.”

BREAKING: Texas House Democrats have fled to Chicago to block a vote on new gerrymandered Congressional maps that would give the GOP five additional seats.

Instead of changing their policies to get more votes Republicans have to cheat.

How can anyone be for what they are doing?

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting In an extraordinary move brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, dozens of Texas House Democrats aim to deny a quorum as the GOP is set to draw new maps.

“Democrats have got to stand up at this point and tell every individual in this nation, this is not normal. This is not democracy,” Democratic state Rep. Ann Johnson.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

If you don’t get why “both sides” is bad and how it got us here, read this and share it. And then, don’t just know, ask anyone you know in media to read it and talk about it and share it. #BoiingWater

Boiling Water The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.

I wrote about the debate with the Jubilee fascists, the overall idea of the utility of debate and the alleged need for it in order to arrive at truth, and the malicious and corrosive effect this false idea actually has upon the discourse and society.

www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

The most corrupt White House in 🇺🇸 history. Pay for play. Selling the country for parts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

White House doubles down on baseless "rigged" claims about poor jobs data "The president wants his own people there," economic adviser Kevin Hassett said about the firing of the BLS commissioner.

Critics blast Trump for firing the BLS commissioner over poor jobs data: "way beyond anything that Richard Nixon ever did.”

"There’s no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What do you know about Earth Day? CLEAN AIR ACT 42 USC 1857 CLEAN WATER ACT 33 USC 466 SUPER FUND 42 USC 9601 The first event led to the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water & Endangered Species Act.

Images of the first earth day from the New York Times

Images of the United States pollution before the EPA

#HistoryMatters #ScienceMatters our shared understanding matters.

The list of how filthy and dangerous this country was before institutions like the EPA, USDA and FDA is too numerous to fit here. The GOP has done all it can cut back and destroy all these service that actually made America better. Don't even get me started on Flint, Mi.