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August 10, 2025 On Friday, Democracy Forward Foundation sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to make it respond to its request for the release of the Epstein files, as we...

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They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped. Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fail...

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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

FAFO
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How closely do congressional delegations reflect how people vote? Not very At the core of the fight in Texas over redrawing the state’s congressional districts is a debate over a time-honored right spelled out in the Constitution: Every two years, “the People” get to pick so...

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Hmmm

Well, this is terrifying. Effing Tech Bros. Via @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social
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Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.

And then that guy was "silenced" forever.

And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

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YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen New Epstein update sends Trump, Vance into TAILSPIN

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usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Rachel is Right ! Chump is At War
With Democracy, and Our American Values and Institutions...

Everything AOC ❤️ says,Is Worth
Repeating.......

Alt text: A three-panel meme. Left column: Top image shows Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street; middle image shows Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th; bottom image shows Ronald Reagan smiling. Right column features a character from X-Men: First Class (Michael Fassbender as Magneto) saying: “Show me the real villain of the 80s.” Next to Freddy. Second frame, next to Jason, says: “I said the real villain.” Third frame, next to Reagan, says: “Perfection.” Commentary: For an undiagnosed AuDHD gestalt processor child, Reagan’s America was horror far beyond the movie monsters—though those were everywhere, too, plastered across VHS covers in every video shop. Reagan was the pitchman for a whole ideology, selling the Cold War like a Saturday morning cartoon, only the stakes were annihilation. The Russians were always “just around the corner,” the missiles already on their way. Nuclear war drills in classrooms felt less like safety and more like rehearsals for our own endings. And then there was the slow violence—his neoliberal austerity carving up the social safety net, dismantling what fragile supports existed, making poverty and precarity permanent fixtures. Even as a child, you could feel it: the quiet hollowing-out of care, the hardening of public life into profit. Reagan grinned for the cameras whilst an entire generation learned to live under a sky that might, at any moment, fall. For a wee autistic mind attuned to every unspoken threat, it was a decade of dread—layered, chronic, and inescapable.

Is Russia planning to annex Alaska?

Don’t let this fade away.

Has Trump answered for this? Has @MarshaBlackburn ?

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August 9, 2025 Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video in which Christian nationalist pastors express their opposition to the idea of women voting.

The United States of America is based not on religion but on the law.
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Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride Researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a sunlight-activated material that can degrade per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water, breaking down the pollutant into harmless c...

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They were warned...
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Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies

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Social Security announces a phone service fix after denying there was an issue The Social Security Administration has conceded an issue with phone service, after denying it to NPR, and has announced a fix.

It's lie and deny 24/7 with this mucked up admin
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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency. Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.

By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

There have been five different heads of the IRS this year alone:

Doug O'Donnell (Jan. 20th thru Feb. 28th)
Melanie Krause (Feb. 28th thru April 16th)
Gary Shapley (April 16th thru April 18th)
Michael Faulkender (April 18th thru June 16th)
Billy Long (June 16th thru today)

About to be a sixth.

Social media post: Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio You do *NOT* need an undergraduate degree to join ICE. JOIN.ICE.GOV THE RESISTANCE Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett Or a conscience. Or a basic understanding of the constitution. Or confidence in your own manhood.

Living dead wanted.
Inhumanity a plus.

Social media post: Library of Congress @librarycongress UPDATE: Missing sections of the Constitution Annotated website have been restored. Upkeep of Constitution Annotated and other digital resources is a critical part of the Library's mission, and we appreciate the feedback that alerted us to the error and allowed us to fix it. constitution.congress.gov Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington Translation: They got caught.

It's always something - and every, single piece of BS just serves to remind us they still haven’t released the Epstein Files. What are they trying to hide? (as if we didn't know)