Author of Texas Abortion Ban Denies He Paid for Abortions Amid Bombshell Allegations from Former Exotic Dancer Capriglione authored Texas’ “trigger ban,” which banned abortion when Roe v. Wade was overturned. He announced he wouldn’t seek reelection.

NEW bombshell allegations from the Texas Legislature today. The author of Texas’ abortion “trigger ban” has been accused by a former exotic dancer of paying for abortions. He has denied the claims and threatened to sue the outlet that ran them. More:

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Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.

The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.

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A US farmer stands in a field while wearing a chambray shirt.

A old ad from the clothing brand Big Yank. There are drawings of three men wearing chambray shirts.

... onto fields and into the factories of a booming postwar America. When Upton Sinclair helped popularize "white collar" and "blue collar" as shorthands for socio-economic class, he was talking about the chambray shirts covering the necks of laborers.

Sen. Gallego: "[They're] trying to hunt down [and deport] a woman in AZ that's been here for 21 years—who has a U.S. citizen child and a U.S. citizen husband. But they're not willing to look into Epstein...because these are people that are dear and close friends to Trump."

‘South Park’ Season 27 Premiere Puts Donald Trump in Bed With Satan The "South Park" Season 27 premiere literally put Donald Trump in the White House and in bed with the Devil.

Matt and Trey have balls of steel, man.

It’s an ODE to the Rapist in Chief’s “Art of Deflection” -from the Epstein list 🤣😂🤣

Trump was told his name was in Jeffrey Epstein files before DOJ withheld documents: WSJ President Donald Trump was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years before the two men had a falling out.

If the DOJ had evidence linking Donald Trump to Epstein’s illegal network—& withheld it—that would raise serious questions about accountability at the highest levels

And was Bove involved?

DOJ must release the files—or we'll see them in court

Pentagon Whistleblowers to Call for ‘Unfit’ Pete Hegseth’s Removal Since at least May, top-ranking and mid-level military officials have circulated drafts of a letter slamming the defense secretary for having “no clue what he’s doing.”

Top-ranking and mid-level military officials have circulated drafts of a letter slamming Hegseth for having “no clue what he’s doing.”

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Miami archbishop joins Knights on Bikes to pray for clergy access to Alligator Alcatraz Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened, said Archbishop ...

"Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said."

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Fresh off of Joe Rogan, @jamestalarico.bsky.social made a stop in…Collin County 👀

He’s not afraid to go where others won’t—Fox News, Joe Rogan, even the 700 Club. We can’t win TX by staying in a bubble. We have to show up everywhere.

Texas is changing. We’re here for it! Happy to welcome him!

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out

Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut

Kicks 10 million off health insurance

Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut

Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

The emerging coup Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.

"Unlike January 2021 — when the Big Lie scheme failed — by 2029 Trump and his cohorts will have new tools to carry out a coup, including a massive federal police force with a proven willingness to engage in systemic illegality at Trump's behest."

America in a nutshell.

Constitutional crisis is here

They just passed a bill that raised the debt ceiling an additional $5 trillion to $41.1 trillion. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

I read it last year and wished I'd read it sooner.

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Steve Jobs reimagined the future. Tim Cook has to reimagine supply chains based on presidential whims. This isn't the story of Apple, but rather a metaphor for the ways crony capitalism is distorting the priorities of American business.

My 43 year old son is on Medicaid. He thinks electric fans, a tv that’s turned off, & the people in the walls are all talking to him. He thinks people he sees are talking about him. He needs someone to talk him thru about everything & remind him to do normal things. Tell me who’s going to hire him?

Immigration arrest outside Oregon preschool rattles parents Parents at a preschool in Oregon are reeling after immigration officers arrested a father in front of the school.

This is not the point, but this guy brutalized in front of his small child by ICE did not “overstay his visa.” He had gone in for a green card interview & was awaiting a final decision. US govt punishing legal immigrants for their own fucked up processing times.

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Amazing AP image from Ariana Cubillos of Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan musician sent to CECOT, walking off the plane. (Identified to me by a relative.)

“We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez told teleSUR today. “We were kidnapped.”

With Colton's conviction, that makes FOUR pardoned January 6th insurrectionists who have faced charges for solicitation of a minor or child sex abuse of some kind.

YouTube video by Associated Press Justin Jones removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Nashville

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones was removed from the news conference of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Thursday before the secretary arrived. Jones said he had come to ask Noem what happened to his constituents who were arrested by Immigration and customs.
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The emerging coup Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.

$30B in new funds to hire 10,000 new ICE agents, $45B to expand detention centers, and no one stopping them from denying due process, trafficking and detaining people indefinitely…

Trump built a domestic army to keep himself in power indefinitely.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-coup...

The increase is driven in part by the looming expiration of Biden-era enhanced premium subsidies as well as by the Trump administration’s tariffs, a new KFF analysis has found.
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The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

This SHOULD be part of every Dem's platform.