Missing $4 million? State investigations? SC Election Commission awash in drama South Carolina Election Commission chair Dennis Shedd disclosed details related to former Executive Director Howard Knapp’s firing in an unusually open public meeting.

Missing $4 million? State investigations? SC Election Commission awash in drama
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TODAY is the first day of open enrollment in Idaho. That means people need to start choosing their health care plans RIGHT NOW.

One Idahoan who's paying $367/month will be paying a WHOPPING $2,232/month without the ACA tax credits.

We have to save the ACA tax credits.

Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

Americans have gotten more than $21 billion back in their bank accounts after being cheated and scammed by big corporations, thanks to the CFPB.

But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers.

So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.

If you live in California & you intend to go to a No Kings protest on Saturday, you need to read this:

Blue and white graphic with red text reading “DHS lied about” in blue, followed by a list of names and phrases in red: Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Kilmar Abrego García, Andry Hernández Romero, Neri Alvarado Borges, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Los Angeles, Jaime Alanís, Sen. Alex Padilla, Portland, Brad Lander, George Retes, Francisco Longoria, Chicago, Silverio Villegas González, Miramar Martinez, taking the “worst of the worst,” and everything.

A very incomplete list of DHS's lies:

ICE GOONS were caught lying once again.
Footage Shows Agents Caused Crash

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

Screen capture of White House website

Day 15 of a government shutdown.
👀 What is our President doing?
❌ Negotiating a budget for government? NO
✅ Hosting a ballroom dinner at the White House? Yes
👑 Is this our “let them eat cake” moment?

www.whitehouse.gov/live/

Listen to this nurse: when families can’t afford food or rent, doubling their health premiums will push them off insurance. Communities will suffer. People will die.

And what did Republicans do?
They shut down the government and took a vacation. #TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

Was it America First or Argentina First? Somehow there’s $40 billion for Argentina.

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

What the fuck are we doing?

Check it out!

From the vault: Mike Johnson said he’d take a blowtorch to the ACA.

Here’s the thing… 45% of marketplace enrollees are Republicans. Cool! So he’s threatening to burn the GOP’s own base. 🔥
#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

About 13 officers in a crowd of community members and protesters were exposed to the tear gas. This is the second time CPD officers have been gassed by ICE while trying to work with them.

The move violates a judge’s order telling federal agents to rein in excessive force. trib.al/hmhsWkI

"Tu sei Bella " " Fregarti"
"Vaffanculo" (Italian take a guess)

She is 85 years fierce
This is how it's done
I love you Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi

This woman reporter
Seriously "stogots` "

She wasn't authorized to call up the guard

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

(AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.

@apnews.com
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Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Boyle: Mike Johnson and House Republicans have decided to do their own version of quiet quitting — they canceled session three weeks ago, they canceled session two weeks ago, and they’ve now canceled it last week and this week.

There is clearly no strategy there other than pure, sheer laziness

“.. Pentagon reporters in Arlington, Virginia walk out of the building carrying their belongings after turning in their press badges. Reporters from nearly every major news organization would not sign new rules viewed as an infringement on First Amendment rights ..”

@gettyimages.com

Missouri Republicans Sue to Block ‘People’s Veto’ of GOP Gerrymander Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Missouri state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at blocking voters’ efforts to invoke their constitutional right to veto the state legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

“.. POLITICO obtained an image taken during a virtual meeting that shows the flag pinned to what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staffers.”

@politico.com #OH02
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