YouTube video by MeidasTouch Trump PLAN BLOWS UP as He GIVES the GAME AWAY

Gov. JB Pritzker is fighting fire with fire, supporting the Texas Democratic lawmakers after they left the state for Illinois to prevent a quorum — derailing the Republicans' plans to rig the midterm elections. Now, he's speaking out in a new interview with MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas.

You are the party. Let’s build it together.

Democracy Builders are everyday folks who step up to organize where they live. It’s about engaging your community, sharing info, registering voters, and spreading the word

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NEWS: JD Vance had the Army Corps of Engineers raise the water level of an Ohio river so he could improve the kayaking conditions for his birthday outing (The Guardian)

Nothing to see here, just putting registered offenders in charge of youth fitness

Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover The pager attack across Lebanon killed 12 people, including two children, and wounded more than 3,000.

Thousands of pagers exploded in an Israeli attack against Hezbollah last year. Now some of the survivors, including children, are speaking about their recovery.

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

Along with our partners, we'll see the Trump administration in court.

RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted.

I am hosting an IN-PERSON TOWN HALL on AUGUST 19 to speak with St. Louisans directly on issues that matter. To RSVP, visit bell.house.gov/townhall

Openings BAF is hiring! Passionate about removing financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reprod...

we’re seeking a program eval consultant for a project with our besties at Baltimore Abortion Fund to assess our current funding models. sound like you or someone you know? bit.ly/bafjobs 🩷

💧 Lake Okeechobee Alert: Algae blooms 6× EPA hazard limit threaten #TreasureCoast waters. FL‑21 deserves zero toxic discharges. Solutions exist, fund clean water projects NOW. #FL21 #LakeOkeechobee #CleanWater

Looks like a WILD Democratic overperformance in a Rhode Island special election. Per our calculations, #SD04 went for Harris by 11, but Dem Stefano Famiglietti looks to have won by 66 points—a 56-point overperformance. electionresults.ri.gov/results/publ...

DAILY MEMO: ICE Raids Are Back Despite the Temporary Restraining Order Upheld by a Federal Court on Friday

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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With IRS commissioner Billy Long saying the Direct File program is "gone," revisit our 2019 story about how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

We stand with the TX Democrats! Every voter in TX deserves to have their vote count. We in FL are familiar with MAGA shenanigans for voter suppression. Stop the steal NOW. #MessWithTexas

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that an Arkansas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom and library is unconstitutional.

The law is blocked for our clients’ school districts while the case continues.

The Abbeville City Council is trying to pass a map that dilutes the people’s voting power.

Attend the Aug. 5 City Council meeting and tell your local officials that you want the passage of the Vermilion NAACP map to guarantee equal voting power. 🗳

Yosemite employees worked for weeks with no pay before the government hired them Seasonal employees counting on housing at Yosemite were asked to volunteer for the park while the government was unable

Thanks to Trump's cuts, seasonal employees at Yosemite worked for as long as six weeks without pay.

The National Park Service is one of our most popular government agencies.

It's being gutted to fund enormously unpopular tax cuts for the super-rich.

President Trump doesn't have the authority to prevent people in ICE detention from accessing legal counsel.

We're taking him to court.

A Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) drinking coconut water.

Know Your Rights: Immigrants Know your rights when interacting with police or immigration officers.

No matter your immigration status, you have rights when you interact with immigration agents or the police.

ACLU has easy-to-use resources available so you can have your rights at your fingertips.

www.aclum.org/en/know-your...

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share this far & wide. MISINFORMATION at CDC is spreading throughout our country & most people have no clue. Please stay updated & bookmark this page for your health & well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

Supremely Corrupt Court Injustice
Thomas,has Refused to recuse
Himself, from Monsanto cases......

Goodnight 🌙

Fuck Greg Abbott

Pathetic. Greg Abbott and the GOP in the TX legislature are dismantling democracy before our eyes under the guise of passing flood relief funding.

Never forget that democrats tried to pass flood relief, but the GOP insisted that they vote on the gerrymandered map if they wanted it.

Trump Administration Won’t Say Why It Transferred Ghislaine Maxwell To A Minimum-Security Prison The White House denied that Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice has received preferential treatment.

Trump administration’s given no explanation for transfer of sex offender, Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to minimum-security federal prison camp. Nobody’s explained why she was transferred. Trump himself ignored question about transfer, but said he can pardon.

www.huffpost.com/entry/ghisla...

A revolutionary way to end the incarceration of girls A new criminal justice wave has formed in Hawaii and California. Where will it go next?

Girls Court is “Flipping that script from thinking about where girls have failed to thinking about where systems have failed girls.”

Aug. 4, 1964 | Missing Civil Rights Workers Found Dead in Mississippi Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1964, the bodies of three missing civil rights workers—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner—were found in Longdale, Mississippi, shot and buried in a shallow grave.