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The political battle over redrawing congressional maps continues to escalate Dozens of Texas Democratic lawmakers remain scattered across the country. This, as U.S. Senator John Cornyn requests that the FBI steps in to help locate them.

The political battle over redrawing congressional maps continues to escalate : NPR www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...

The FBI has been asked to help locate Texas House Democrats. One state lawmaker says officials would be breaking the law | CNN Politics The chair of the Texas House Democratic caucus remained defiant Thursday in the face of one US senator’s bid to enlist the FBI’s help in returning him and his state House colleagues to the state.

The FBI has been asked to help locate Texas House Democrats. One state lawmaker says officials would be breaking the law | CNN Politics www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/p...

The term “underaged girls” is too often used to soften the blow of the deviant acts by pedophiles.

They are CHILDREN.

The vernacular we use matters!

There’s no downplaying this!!

We are supposed to protect children not enable predators who feast on them!!

FBI granted request to 'locate' fleeing Texas House Democrats, Sen. Cornyn says Sen. John Cornyn says FBI Director Kash Patel granted his request to assist with locating Texas Democrats who fled the state over GOP redistricting efforts.

FBI granted request to 'locate' fleeing Texas House Democrats, Sen. Cornyn says - ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen...

GOP senator says FBI will help track down Texas Democrats who fled state Sen. John Cornyn said FBI Director Kash Patel will have federal officers work with Texas state law enforcement to locate Democrats who fled the state.

GOP senator says FBI will help track down Texas Dems who fled state www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Epstein Victim Slams Trump’s ‘Offensive’ Hoax Claim Annie Farmer says Donald Trump’s comments were sending a “terrible message.”

Epstein Victim Slams Trump’s ‘Offensive’ Hoax Claim #EpsteinCoverup www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst... via @thedailybeast

Showdown Across State Lines: Texas Calls FBI on Fleeing Lawmakers as Illinois Refuses to Budge On Thursday, the political standoff between Texas and Illinois reached a new level of intensity, and for now, there are few signs anyone’s backing down. At the request of Senator John Cornyn and under...

Showdown Across State Lines: Texas Calls FBI on Fleeing Lawmakers as Illinois Refuses to Budge | Chicago Defender chicagodefender.com/showdown-acr...

A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.

Trump removes Billy Long as IRS commisioner less than 2 months after his confirmation President Donald Trump has removed former U.S. Rep. Billy Long as IRS commissioner less than two months after his confirmation.

Holy shit balls. More #ChaosCorruptionCruelty
Now the creep has fired the confirmed IRS head. Guess who now has a second job? Smug Scott Bessent.

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US Senator John Cornyn, FBI Team Up To Hunt Texas Democrats U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) requested assistance in finding state Democrats who left Texas Sunday to stop a Republican-led redistricting vote.

US Senator John Cornyn, FBI Team Up To Hunt Texas Democrats newsone.com/6365185/us-s...

Americans are united in wanting the Epstein files released.

Americans haven’t been this united since September 12th, 2001.

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:

💯.

Bless JB Pritzker for letting Texas Dems stay at his Hyatt Hotels for free.

Texas is a war zone. GOP’s jamming through a mid‑decade map to grab 5 more U.S. House seats. Dems fled the state, Abbott’s threatening arrests. This isn’t politics...it’s raw power. The side that blinks first loses America’s future.

Scoop @puck.news: Carol Leonnig, a 25-year veteran of The Washington Post, is leaving the paper and joining MSNBC.

The latest in the long and extensive exodus of Washington Post journalists under CEO Will Lewis.

Good for her. She’s an outstanding reporter and the Washington Post is no longer worthy of her work.

Texas Dems Offer Fiery Response After Abbott Threatens To Arrest And Expel Them For Leaving The State That is how you do it 👏🏼

And this is how it's done.

To the other countries of the world…begin lobbying your leaders…NOW….to skip the 2028 Olympics in the United States.

1/3
I.C.E. is now a recruitment center for the worst of society. It’s also a literal Army he is building to prevent his removal from office. Recruiting the National Guard to assist ICE? Don’t be fooled.

Earning More but in Worse Shape: Hardship Overwhelms Many American Families Nearly half of kids in the U.S. live in households below the middle class as inflation and the end of Covid relief hit working parents.

Powerful piece on inequalities and quasi poverty for single parent families in the @wsj.com (indeed ?!)

www.wsj.com/economy/earn...

As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy

How the hell do you write a piece about historians writing for the courts that quotes three judges and four law profs but ZERO historians?

South Park wins the internet for their profile pic of Kristi Noem on Twitter X.

As a nurse, I’m disgusted and heartbroken!
As a loving American, I’m completely done with this horrific abuse of our neighbors!
We are in a place nobody imagined! 💔

South Park nailed Kristi Noem.

It's spot on.

Join us tomorrow at the #CivilRights Memorial Center for a free day in honor of the late Congressman John Lewis ✊.

We join our allies across the U.S. who are hosting rallies, teach-ins, vigils and more to demand that Congress fight back and protect our #FreedomToVote. #GoodTroubleLivesOn

Willie Brewster was on his way home from work.

White men belonging to the National States Rights Party — a violent neo-Nazi group involved in church bombings — shot him. He died two days later, #OTD.

#TheMarchContinues

#OTD we remember Ida B. Wells. She risked everything to expose lynching in America, traveling where others wouldn’t and co-founding the NAACP.

Born into slavery, she became one of the fiercest truth-tellers in history. #TheMarchContinues

On August 6, 1965, Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act, protecting all U.S. citizens from racial discrimination while voting. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, John Lewis, and other members of the Civil Rights movement were invited guests for the signing. The law immediately decreased racial discrimination in voting. The suspension of literacy tests and the assignments of federal examiners and observers allowed for high numbers of racial minorities to register to vote. By the end of 1965, 250,000 new Black voters had been registered, one-third by federal examiners. By the end of 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote. In rulings in 2013 and 2021, the Supreme Court significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act, by allowing local and state governments to pass voting rules without federal oversight, resulting in more than 165 state bills related to election laws that limited voting access in 17 states (many of which targeted minority populations).