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“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.”

Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday.

Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN

All right, scientists. This is Stephen Miller saying that RFK Jr is vulnerable.
The co-president doesn’t need to say things like this unless he feels like our hits have scored.

Now is the time to turn up the pressure! Get RFK Jr OUT.🧪

Let's show up. Let's organize. Let's win.

The GOP budget framework is more incendiary than a cybertruck & will soon be even more reviled.
The backlash to Felon Trump's presidency has begun, but this unimaginably cruel budget is how we're going to kick it into overdrive.
Protest! Fight back!

The plot against vaccines Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have hit on a way to undermine immunization.

Another great piece by @kieraevebutler.bsky.social & @annamerlan.bsky.social

Kennedy must be removed from office NOW before we completely lose public health, healthcare, and medical science. His destructive actions will not be easy to recover from.

Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.

Dem govs must step up and fill the void.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...

Judge blocks Trump’s broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants A federal judge ruled the Trump administration cannot fast-track the deportations of undocumented migrants inside the country without offering them due process.

Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.

Kathy (@kathy622729) I DON'T THINK PISSED REALLY COVERS IT ! ! ! Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teat...

Brilliant.

substack.com/@kathy622729...

YouTube video by MSNBC Lawrence: Gov. Newsom is showing Americans how to fight Donald Trump

Lawrence O’Donnell details how California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in countering Texas’ redistricting scheme to gain more Republican seats, is fighting Donald Trump's attacks on democracy “by using democracy against Donald Trump.”

“.. Sure, we’ve seen an explosion in AI capital spending in recent years. But this increasingly looks like the only game in town for growth. Housing, consumption and government spending — nearly 90% of the economy — are now stagnant at best.”

@conorsen.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Abbott is a corrupt asshat.

171. Partisan Gerrymandering After Rucho The Supreme Court isn't responsible for partisan gerrymandering. But current events in Texas underscore how much its 2019 ruling in Rucho has left (some) states free to radically abuse the practice.

Vowed to finish my piece this morning on Rucho and what’s happening in Texas today, but now see that @stevevladeck.bsky.social is on the case! I’ll still finish mine (which takes a different view) but I encourage you to read this. It’s excellent.

www.stevevladeck.com/p/171-partis...

Senate Republicans just sold out the sick and the hungry to cut taxes for the rich and the powerful.

What would Jesus do about this “Big Beautiful Bill”?

I think he would flip over the tables of injustice and call on us to do the same.

Tonight @jamestalarico.bsky.social packed a Houston event with hundreds of voters 16 months before Election Day.

This is the energy we need to take back Texas.

The biggest divide in our politics is not left vs right — it's top vs bottom.

Billionaires are dividing us because our unity is a threat to their wealth and power.

I went on Joe Rogan’s show to bridge the divide and build a coalition big enough to take power back.

“There is no religion that says, ‘when someone gets sick, see how much money you can make off them.’” — @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social on Morning Joe:

“Before I went on Joe Rogan, I went on Fox News and the Christian Broadcasting Network.

We Democrats can’t be afraid of uncomfortable conversations with folks who may not agree with us yet.”

A conservative columnist just named @jamestalarico.bsky.social his “MVP of the week.”

Host Stephanie Ruhle agrees: “He did more than hold his own… he was pretty impressive.”

Donald Trump is trying to rig the next election.

He told Republicans to redraw the political maps in Texas to give himself 5 more seats and protect his majority in Congress.

This is the rot at the core of our broken political system.

Texas Democrats are breaking quorum

We’re not fighting for the Democratic Party — we’re fighting for the democratic process.

For the American experiment. For the people.

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We may not be in Texas, but we’re fighting for our constituents.

We’re not just fighting for Democrats — we’re fighting for Independents and Republicans too.

Because in a democracy, voters are supposed to choose their politicians — not the other way around.

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

www.thedailypoliticususa.com Cory Booker Wakes Democrats Up And Tells Them To Gerrymander To Stop Trump

Cory Booker Wakes Democrats Up And Tells Them To Gerrymander To Stop Trump https://twp.ai/4ioy73

www.theguardian.com US Boeing defense workers slated to strike after rejecting latest offer

US Boeing defense workers slated to strike after rejecting latest offer https://twp.ai/4ioy72

This is a meaningless trick. A court cannot violate rule 6(e), which prohibits public disclosure.

Another really long day. Just finished my piece for tomorrow about the GOP's plan to re-gerrymander their gerrymanders.

On Saturday, my take on the news you missed this week.

On Sunday, a look at the 2026 implications of Trump/Epstein.

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Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social in the last 24-36 hours the president said that President Obama wrote the Epstein Files, that his uncle taught the unibomber, and that Biden, not him, appointed Powell. Are you going to make issue of his cognitive state now or you holding out for another book deal?

She's never read it.

Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you.

The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit.

They just lie.