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Republicans Aim To Enshrine Rental Price-Fixing After a lobbying surge, rent-tech giant RealPage is set to score a nationwide reprieve from crackdowns on how it’s price-gouging renters and fueling the housing crisis.

RealPage faces lawsuits, and state and federal investigations into their AI software that price gouges renters.

Republicans added a 10 year ban on states regulating their technology to the budget bill.

RealPage gave Republicans $728k in 2024.

👆 Bribes.
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He has no one else

A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms Donald Trump has proposed launching a "gold card" program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it.

Donald Trump has proposed launching a "gold card" program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.

Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.

“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races.

And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.

I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.

Trump's State Dept collects data on alleged critics, with the intention of smearing them

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Federal election panel chair opposes counting ballots that arrive after Election Day Read more here.

The chair of the Election Assistance Commission says states should stop counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, echoing Trump’s anti-voting order to withhold funds from states that don’t comply.
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Why the UK’s Autism “Tests” for Trans Youth Should Raise Alarms Neurodivergence has been weaponized by bad faith, anti-LGBTQ forces in order to invalidate the existence of transgender people.

1. The UK has announced autism tests for all transgender youth. In the United States, RFK Jr. is pushing autism registries. Fearmongering is spreading about autistic trans people.

S. Baum in their latest breaks down the autism-trans scare.

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My generation continues to be a major disappointment. That includes women.

American Panopticon The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures: They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written.

@ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon:

Texas GOP Introduces Bill to Test Waste Water For Abortion Pill Byproducts The bill also requires testing water for the pregnancy hormone

Ya’ll no longer means “All” in TX!

Not only will this affect abortion rights & trans rights, it will impact hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause.

# MomSky

He’s definitely the most deranged and that’s saying a lot

Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So. Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.

Lots of good stuff here, especially the point that although we need a popular front, people who were sneeringly wrong about the threat should not lead it. Trumpism was fascist from the start, and those who stated this plainly were often derided.

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It’s out of control

This story hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention. It is openly fraudulent what they’re doing.

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Pundits hate simplicity. If something is simple you don’t have to have pundit expertise to explain it.

Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history.

This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.

THE POPULIST PARTY OF OREGON THE POLITICAL PARTY WITH A PLAN TO RESTORE AMERICA P.O. BOX 1965 BEAVERTON, OREGON 97075 503-646-2641 FAX 503-682-8561 THE PLAN Place the interests of AMERICA AND AMERICANS FIRST in all matters. Restore jobs to American workers by re-industrializing America. Restore honest money system by nationalizing the Federal Reserve System and repealing the National Banking Act. Abolish all present income, payroll, sales, and inheritance taxes. Replace with Trade Charge and/or Asset Tax, tariffs, duties and Constitutionally apportioned taxes. Provide interest-free loans and eliminate property taxes for private residences up to $125,000. Stop all foreclosures on homes, farms and businesses that are invoked by banking, financial or insurance Stop foreign buy-out of America by severely limiting foreign purchase of America's assets. Preserve and protect Second Amendment Rights. Promote more gun ownership by responsible citizens. Eliminate foreign aid. Spend it at home where we need it! Severely restrict immigration. America for Americans! Stop diluting our country! Restrict foreign pressure groups. Prohibit lobbyists from representing foreign interests. Restore and maintain a strong national defense. Defend America, not the world! Stop meddling in foreign wars. All wars are commercial wars. The "money roaches" make millions while our children are slaughtered! Establish and maintain a policy of fair balance of trade with each foreign country. Limit terms of federal judges, including Supreme Court judges. Prohibit lawyers from holding elected public office. Since they are "officers of the court", that makes them a part of the Judicial branch of government. They violate the "Doctrine of Separation of Powers" if they become a part of the Legislative or the Administrative branches of government! Inform Jurors that they ALWAYS have the right and duty to judge the LAW as well as the facts. Stop judges from tampering with the Jury. If you, THE JURY, don't agre…

In 1992 there was an "America First" party that bucked mainstream politics by calling for the reimposition of tariffs, eliminating income taxes, eliminating foreign aid, stopping immigration, restoring our balance of trade with other nations, returning education to the states, and banning abortion.

But I see the fish-lipped selfie 🤳🏻 is predominantly displayed .

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI”

Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls

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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse

Fox News today

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief.

Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.

What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?

To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:

- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats

- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations