The resistance is active in DC—you’re just not looking closely enough It's not massive protests on Pennsylvania Avenue, but happenstance hecklers and Nextdoor posts.

The DC resistance isn’t manifesting this week as recognizable members of Congress marching up and down Pennsylvania Avenue with CNN cameras in tow, but as an array of ordinary DC residents documenting what’s happening in their neighborhoods and mobilizing pop-up actions.

Anti-vaxxers are making excuses for the CDC shooter RFK Jr. isn't helping.

One anti-vaccine activist added, helpfully, "He didn’t kill any kids. The CDC can’t say the same.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How Ambitious Democratic Governors Are Navigating Trump’s Redistricting War Some have emerged as a front line against Trump’s push to grab more seats in Congress, putting the issue at the center of their party’s politics. Others are ceding the spotlight.

The Democratic Party has grappled with how to respond to President Trump’s aggressive push for new voting maps in Texas and other Republican-controlled states. But with Democrats locked out of power in Washington, their party’s governors have emerged as a front line of opposition. nyti.ms/3HwU0xB

Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally stumble into an insurrection?

A headline reads: "Violent Crime in Washington, D.C., Is Lowest in Years. President Trump has cited false and misleading claims about violent crime in Washington. Homicide and carjackings fell in 2024, and D.C. police say the city is on track to record even fewer violent crimes this year." A chart shows that there were 1,584 violent crimes in 2025 so far. Note: Includes homicides, assaults with a weapon, sexual abuse and robberies. Source: Metropolitan Police Department

President Trump made false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., during a news conference on Monday as he announced that the administration would take federal control of the police. Here’s a fact-check. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

The Uvalde school massacre could have been prevented The disastrous police response demands further scrutiny—and so does another side of the horrific tragedy.

With the release of new harrowing footage of the tragedy, this statement bears repeating: The Uvalde massacre could have been prevented.

While the disastrous police response deserves scrutiny, so does another side of the horrific tragedy: how the shooter was able to obtain an AR-15.

Noticing a pattern here.

What would the vice president need to strategize about? This is a crime, with lots of evidence, there’s no reason for the administration to weigh in on any of this, except if they are deeply and inextricably involved.

If you don’t use your voices

You will be forced to use your hands in the future…

Watch the video 🇺🇸

#SheShed

YouTube video by Aaron Parnas Jeffrey Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels Speaks Out. Share Her Story.

Watch the full video here:

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Jess Michaels: There’s a House committee, I guess—that are deciding to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell. Congratulations. The fact that she has presented demands—they are falling for the exact same manipulation and coercion tactics that teenage girls did.

Wolff: We can chart a continued friendship between these two men through flight manifests, photographs, phone calls

This relationship that Trump claims ended in 2000 actually demonstrably continued until at least 2005.

It’s that period in which most of the allegations against Epstein took place.

In a previously unreported comment, a person with a username associated with Darryl Cooper/Martyr Made wrote on a white nationalist website:

"Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process..."

" Two months after the comment appeared, Greg Johnson, the founder of Counter-Currents, posted an interview in which he argued for a white America and aligned himself with the “judeo-critical” wing of the far right on the “Jewish Question.” “Wow, really great,” Juggernaut Nihilism wrote in response. Nine days later, Johnson shared a new interview. It was a podcast with Darryl Cooper. "

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Opinion | ‘The High Road’s Not Available to Us’: Texas Democrats Have Had Enough The Republican redistricting effort in Texas has emerged as a clear opportunity for Democrats to prove they have the stomach for a fight.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Democrats nationwide are pledging to support their Texas colleagues who are protesting Republican legislators’ move to redraw the state’s congressional map. Michelle Cottle asks: “Could the Texas mess be the thing that finally drives Democrats off the high road?”

Jeffries: We can no longer unilaterally disarm. We’re going to take a close look at how states like California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and others can respond in ways that create the greatest opportunity to ensure the nationwide congressional map is as fair as possible.

Virginia Giuffre’s Family Responds to Trump’s Claim That Epstein ‘Stole’ Her President Trump’s remarks raised questions about his knowledge of the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, the family said in a statement.

President Trump's remarks about Virginia Giuffre — who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing her as a teenager — raised questions about Trump's knowledge of the crimes committed by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Giuffre's family said in a statement.

From Epstein to Obama, Trump’s Washington Is Consumed by Competing Conspiracies President Trump is trying to divert attention from the Epstein conspiracy theory with a new-and-improved one about Barack Obama and treason.

News Analysis: President Trump is trying to divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory with one about Barack Obama and treason. No commander in chief in his lifetime has been as consumed by conspiracy theories as Trump and now they seem to be consuming him.

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Trump’s name is on the Epstein Files multiple times!

In flight logs,contact books, testimonies and survivors named names

The DOJ sealed truths. Congress stalled

Justice isn’t done until every enabler is held accountable!

#LetLooseTheEpsteinFiles
#DefendersOfDemocracy

Bypassing Habba, Judges in New Jersey Name New Top Federal Prosecutor

A panel of federal judges in New Jersey on Tuesday blocked Alina Habba from staying in the job as the state’s interim U.S. attorney and instead invoked a rarely used power to select a candidate of their own to take over as the state’s top federal prosecutor.

Alina Habba's Nomination Rejected by New Jersey Judges This is a blow to Trump's efforts to install Habba

BREAKING: Alina Habba's nomination REJECTED by federal judges in New Jersey

On today’s Democratic Daily Download, @susielee.house.gov discusses how Trump and Republicans’ Big Ugly Law is blatantly unfair for working families.

Phang: Don’t get distracted by the idea that this grand jury motion is going to have a lot of value.

The likelihood of a judge issuing a ruling anytime soon? Slim to none.

Even if it’s granted, it’ll be so heavily redacted that we probably won’t see a lot.

Video Taken by Migrant Shows Overcrowded ICE Holding Cell in Manhattan Immigrants have complained about unsanitary conditions in the facility at 26 Federal Plaza, including paltry meals and a lack of showers.

New video footage showed a look inside 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE has held hundreds of migrants for days, with more than a dozen men on the floor atop thin thermal blankets or sitting on benches. It has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers and denials from the Trump administration.

Casar: Trump has pushed through a bill to knock 17 million Americans off their healthcare.. and he doesn’t want to be held accountable for it.

So he’s ordered Texas Republicans to target at least five districts held by Democrats.

The current map already violates the Voting Rights Act.

Scams and a Rent Spike Follow New York City’s New Broker Fee Law The law mostly shifts fees from tenants to landlords. But since it took effect, some landlords have raised rents, and tenants say some brokers still try to make them pay fees.

In New York City, the FARE Act mostly shifts fees from tenants to landlords. But since it took effect, some landlords have raised rents, and tenants say some brokers still try to make them pay fees.

Epstein victim Maria Farmer: “Ivana was [Ghislaine’s] best friend… She’d drive by schools… get [girls’] phone numbers… Everybody knew what they were doing.” To shut her up, “they gave me one of those cheap bracelets Ivana was selling on QVC.”

Meiselas: Here's audio of Maria Farmer, one of Epstein's victims, who came forward early on...She speaks about an incident where she was going to Epstein's office building. Trump was in the office building, she says, and Epstein tells Trump, “That one's not for you. Yours is in the other room.”

The Colorado Secretary of State opens an investigation into an apparent attempt by the White House to access CO’s voting machines. This is in addition to the WashPost reporting that the DOJ has requested non-public private voting information from 9 states. @meidastouch.com @legalafmtn.bsky.social