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dan balz upon retiring his column after 47 years at the washington post:

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Office of Special Counsel Investigates Ex-Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith Read more here.

This is the weaponization of government.👇

A federal agency that oversees the conduct of federal employees is investigating former special counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw two criminal cases against President Donald Trump before he returned to the White House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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

AI chat bots cannot actually report the news. And I don’t say this on aesthetic grounds - I say this on “they do not exist in 3D space” grounds.

We will soon have no news whatsoever if this continues.

Too many people still either haven’t realized this, or don’t want to believe it, but it’s true.

The White House landscape now matches our national political one.

Democratic governors endorse mid-decade redistricting in response to GOP efforts • Wisconsin Examiner "I'm really pissed quite frankly, and we're going to do whatever we can do to stop this,” Gov. Tony Evers said about mid-decade redistricting.

ICYMI: Democratic governors endorse mid-decade redistricting in response to GOP efforts. @bspears.bsky.social has details.

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NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott's legal threat against fleeing Democrats may not have the teeth it appears — it could take months to resolve and is not certain to work even if he wins in court.

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ATTENTION📢

“For folks watching at home that believe that voters should pick their politicians instead of Donald Trump picking your member of Congress, call your governor. Call your state legislator & tell them to fight back against what’s happening in Texas.”- @repcasar.bsky.social
#MessWithTexas

Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato.

Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato. www.wired.com/story/scienc...

Texas Democrats aren’t running away from anything. They’re fighting, with every tool they have, to save our democracy.

Kudos to each and every one of them for taking this stand. We should be inspired by their courage and reminded that tyranny is only possible if we submit to it.

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

the Elizabeth Warren CNBC hit that triggered Trump: "Trump ran for office saying he'd lower costs on day 1. Cost of groceries are up, cost of housing is up, healthcare is up. And where is Trump? He's passing a signature bill to throw people off healthcare so he can do tax cuts for billionaires."

Anne Frank captured | August 4, 1944 | HISTORY 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family are captured hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. The Franks had ta...

On this day, in 1944. Eighty one years ago. And many things happening in the US feel familiar from her writings. And if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.......
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Trump hasn’t cut drug prices by even 1%, let alone “1500%”. He told drug companies on Truth Social to cut their prices. They didn’t. End of story. This was also his plan to end the war in Ukraine - by posting “Vladimir Stop!” on Truth Social. It’s also how he handles trade.

Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? The basilar ganglia does not exist.

NEW: Google dubbed an error from its healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, a typo. Experts say it demonstrates the risks of AI in medicine.
www.theverge.com/health/71804...

Governor Pritzker speaking eloquently about facts; and, drawing a line in the sand. ✊🏼

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Argentina's Milei vetoes pension boost passed by Congress Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday vetoed a pension boost and a bill strengthening protections for people with disabilities, which lawmakers had passed in July, saying that they put fiscal balance at risk.

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Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton will try to arrest us.

So we’re traveling to Illinois for safe harbor.

We’ll be in the Land of Lincoln — the state where Abraham Lincoln broke quorum as a state senator in 1840 by jumping out of the window at the Illinois State Capitol.

A TX Legislator’s annual salary is $7,200, w/ $.58 per mile -mileage or travel outlay pay & a per diem of $221 per day while in session.

The fine for breaking Quorum is $500 per day plus potential jail time.

There are big donors, but if you can Help Flip the Script in TX 👇
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YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

The Justice Department seeks voter and election information from at least 19 states, AP finds The Justice Department is ramping up an effort to get election data from the states. According to an Associated Press tally, the department's voting section has requested copies of voter registration ...

The Justice Department seeks voter and election information from at least 19 states, AP finds
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'Authoritarian Horrors' of Trump Dealt Blow by Federal Appeals Court | Common Dreams The 9th Circuit upholds lower court ruling against ICE raids denounced as 'unconstitutional' by legal plaintiffs in California.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit late Friday backed a lower court ruling which found immigration raids targeting people based on their apparent racial identity, language spoken, or vicinity of their capture are unlawful

❗️Donald Trump confirmed the deployment of US nuclear submarines in the region to deter Russia.

Taiwan cultivates young overseas chip talent with summer camps, university courses Dressed in a white protective suit and face mask, Nicolas Chueh listened intently as a guide introduced a series of silver machines used in manufacturing Taiwan's cutting-edge semiconductors.

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🚨 Ken Paxton wants Dems arrested for refusing to help rig an election.

That’s rich coming from a guy indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud, accused by his top deputies of bribery, abuse of office, while allegedly using burner phones, secret emails & fake names to dodge accountability.

Niccolò di Buonaccorso, The Coronation of the Virgin (Siena 1380) Buonaccorso was one of the most accomplished Sienese painters of the second half of the 14th century, though he is little known today. His surviving works are small in scale and rendered in a highly refined miniaturist technique.

Pritzker says Texas Democrats who fled state will be protected amid arrest threats Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said on Sunday that the state would protect Texas Democrats who fled to the Prairie State over GOP efforts to redraw the Lone Star State’s congressional maps. “T…

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The opinion by Paxton explicitly takes no position on whether breaking quorum is unconstitutional because, as Paxton said, it was tied up in litigation at the time www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

NOTABLY the Paxton opinion that Abbott cites doesn’t actually say lawmakers who break quorum are removable — in fact it says this is a fact-specific question only resolvable by a court.

The opinion also does not say it’s unconstitutional to break quorum.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...