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Harvard Will Share Employee Forms With Federal Government

Meanwhile, companies that hire undocumented workers seem to be in the clear.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

who’s he gonna fire to fix this, and/or what on earth is he actually referencing

Murphy: Kamala Harris ran a campaign asking people to defend democracy, when a lot of people looked at this version of democracy and said, if this is the version of democracy that you're defending, I don't want it. Democrats need to be for a version of democracy that’s clean and not corrupt

Good! They’ve done this twice before. Ultimately, it doesn’t work, but it calls attention to the fact that Republican policy is so bad that they have to cheat to win

This is pretty fucking insane. Abbott says he’ll remove any Democrats who don’t show up tomorrow from office.

A male indigo bunting singing on top of a sunflower.

An Indigo Bunting singing in the sunflower fields.

#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR

The Texas Governor issues a warning. The Texas Governor says that if the Texas Democratic Legislators do not return by 3pm Monday 8/4, he will declare their seats vacant, and appoint replacements.

Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

Texas has had seven major gun massacres in recent years. But now—even after the slaughter of school kids, teachers, shoppers, and churchgoers—Republican leaders have prohibited a law that keeps guns away from unhinged people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... (📸: Pete Luna, Uvalde Leader-News)

This is how you fight back: with courage, strategy, and zero patience for authoritarian bullshit. Jasmine reminding everyone that breaking quorum wasn’t cowardice: it was resistance. Let’s match that energy all the way to November this year in key elections in Virginia and beyond

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📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”

Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

US immigration authorities detain daughter of Korean Episcopal priest - The Korea Times The daughter of a Korean Episcopal priest has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities in New York, despite holding what legal advocates say is valid immigration status — drawing strong condemnat...

"She accompanied her mother, Rev. Kim, who is widely recognized as the first woman to be ordained as an Anglican priest in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea..."

www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...

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...

“Garber, in a conversation with one faculty member, said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’ and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials...”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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."

Donald Trump scores major win in Harvard fight

The university said it will comply with demands to turn over employment forms for thousands of university staff.

I know we say “Everything is bigger in Texas,” but this is, in fact, bigger than Texas. This is nothing but a power grab, and it will ultimately impact all of us.

This was a super interesting clip

My profound thanks to Rev. Stephen A. Green and the Greater Allen AME for the honor of addressing their beautiful congregation in Jamaica, Queens this morning.

The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.

More of this, please.

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

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.

Applebaum on Autocracy Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist."

More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

Brennan to Greer: "The US has a trade surplus with Brazil. So it doesn't seem to be consistent here when you have the president put 50% tariffs on Brazil, one of the highest of any country, & at the same time Trump is bringing up things that have nothing to do with trade when he's justifying them."

When people talk about having two systems of justice, this is what they mean.

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🚨 Texas Democrats just made history.

James Talarico and his colleagues walked out to block a Trump-led power grab.

They didn’t just break quorum—they shattered the authoritarian playbook.
Trump ordered 5 new GOP seats.

Talarico said: Not on our watch.
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Okay now this is so inappropriate especially in light of the Epstein debacle going on right now. Well at least it confirms how and why Barbie got her job! It wasn’t because of her brains!

#USDemocracy

liberals need to embrace destiny or get out of the way