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This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

Kansas Republicans prepare to move on redistricting Republicans in the Kansas legislature are planning to petition to call themselves into a special session on redistricting, circumventing Gov. Laura Kelly.

Next up: Kansas. Republicans now looking to gerrymander the state anew to get rid of a Democratic representative. punchbowl.news/article/camp...

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

not getting much attention, but it's a big election in 6 weeks: Mainers will decide a conservative proposal that'd add restrictions to voting, especially mail voting.

(If it's approved, it'd be in place by the 2026 midterms and the high-stakes Senate race.) boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

RESULT: Adelita Grijalva is heading to Congress.

The Democrat has won the #AZ07 special election very easily, and she will replace her father Raúl Grijalva. AP just called it.

Among other things, Grijalva is expected to be the 218th person to sign the Epstein discharge position.

Arizona Special Election 2025 Live Results View results from the 2025 Arizona House Special Election. Follow live outcomes as votes are added up on Election Day.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 23 SEPTEMBER

🚨 ARIZONA VOTES DEMOCRAT ADELITA GRIJALVA for Congressional District AZ CD07 🚨

Overwhelming
Congratulations to
ADELITA GRIJALVA

OUR FIRST LATINA CONGRESSWOMAN FROM ARIZONA
Showing 21 point D over performance from 2024

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Now that's a campaign video. 👇🏽

Pre-election even

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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

So human beings are all more closely related to each other than at any time in history. This *should* put an end (again) to the bullshit "racial purity" narratives, but it probably won't. Some people just want to be bigots.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

A record number of congressional lawmakers aren't running for reelection in 2026. Here's the list NPR is tracking the record number of lawmakers in Congress who have already announced they don't plan to run for reelection ahead of the 2026 midterms.

www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

Good time to donate to PBS.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE. An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

The silence on Epstein is exactly what he wants. We have to keep asking about it.

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MAGA’s really out in full force today, guess we struck a nerve. Lots of comments like “liberals don’t know anything about respect” and “Trump was just showing respect to Putin.” Uh huh… respect for who exactly? Putin? Russia? Yeah, no! We’re good.

Little Donny's attempts at distracting us from the Epstein files is directly proportional to his depravity documented therein.

I’m filing a formal request for information about the Trump Administration’s action and role in directing federal law enforcement and military personnel in a recent operation intended to intimidate those defending a fair electoral process.

A message for the most “transparent Administration” in history:

Release the Epstein files.

January 22.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Life comes at you fast

Oh my God

Support Scientists Who Stand Up Researchers should not have to endure death threats or public attacks when they engage publicly and try to combat misinformation.

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“Researchers should not have to endure death threats or public attacks when they engage publicly and try to combat misinformation”

@michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

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We’re not distracted and it’s not going away.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."

They play right in our faces

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her