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Missouri House Sends GOP Gerrymander to the Senate Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Missouri House in a 90-65 vote approved a Republican congressional gerrymander, advancing the map to the Senate as part of a national plan to try to rig the 2026 election by eliminating Democratic seats in Congress. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.

As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has never before waived a sex offense public safety factor (their own policy) for a transfer to a minimum-security camp, where inmates can have access to the outside community

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

Missouri House Gives Preliminary Approval to GOP Gerrymander, Ballot Initiative Attack Read more here.

The Missouri House gave preliminary approval to the GOP’s mid-decade congressional gerrymander Monday, taking another step toward passing a map designed to rig the 2026 election at the expense of Black voters in Kansas City. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is so insane and horrible…

NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.

It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates

This is your daily reminder that Trump is Putin’s little bitch.

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Gavin Newsom is holding a press conference today on redistricting and DHS agents have arrived masked up and in full gear. Many are armed with guns.

Hey, guys. Guess what we’re not talking about any more.

How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon Irene Gilbert is a 76-year-old retired state employee on a mission, fighting energy projects like large wind farms in Oregon’s rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat activis...

NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved.

It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge.

With @opb.org

this is such a depressing misread of why Trumpism wins

American voters aren't drawn to parables

They want an enemy and they want to see that enemy hurt

Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

“This is just the beginning” — US Attorney Pirro

ICE mistakenly detains disabled 15-year-old California teen outside school Another California school district is expanding 'safe zones' after a disabled student was mistakenly detained, at gunpoint, by immigration agents near a high school.

Not just disabled, SEVERELY disabled. Then the agents left bullets on the sidewalk.

A Clown Show has been empowered to violate basic human decency and human rights.

How shameful and embarrassing.

#MomSky

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EXCLUSIVE: I Have Ghislaine Maxwell's Security Score, Custody Level, Transfer Code, and Sex Offender Waiver I have reviewed an electronic file that includes some of the information Senator Whitehouse is demanding from the Bureau of Prisons.

NEW: In addition to her sex offender waiver, Ghislaine Maxwell has an “out” designation that would allow her to leave the facility for work assignments. Some work assignments for FPC Bryan inmates are at Texas A&M University which is just 6 miles away. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by federal authorities at Courthouse Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

BREAKING: The FBI has arrested a judge who helped migrants avoid ICE. This judge is a hero. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

A screengrab from Twitter. HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks: “Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism” David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply: “Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

Last night we shared a “never give up” moment. Sen. Chris Van Hollen was absolutely determined to visit with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and he succeeded in making it happen. Immense thanks to @vanhollen.senate.gov

Dictator Bukele must not prevail in his scheme of greed, corruption, and abuse. Aspiring…

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

Glad House Dems are demanding a full briefing—because immigration agents showed up at L.A. elementary schools, and DHS lied about it.

Watch the video. Hear the truth from L.A.’s superintendent. Then ask why the hell Homeland Security is targeting kids.

Don’t let this go!!!

A Fork in the Road: Is Federal Employee Privacy Compromised? In this interview, I speak to a systems security specialist who found privacy problems surrounding the HR@opm.gov email servers

Back in January, I reported on DOGE entering an agency system, exporting the data, OPM server info left open to the public, and someone signing in from a foreign country using a DOGE account. Almost identical to what the Whistleblower reported to NPR this week www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...

A preliminary budget draft leaked to the Washington Post outlines plans by the Trump administration to cut:

- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%

This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

In #Okinawa, coastal fishermen now farm #coral, restoring #reefs like planting trees in a forest. With #ocean temperatures rising, half the world’s coral reefs have already vanished. These farmers are fighting back, one fragment at a time.

[Heppoko Taylor]