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Trump Calls for New Census, Sans Noncitizens, Based On ‘Presidential Election of 2024’ Trump Calls for New Census, Sans Noncitizens, Based On ‘Presidential Election of 2024’

Trump called for a new census that incorporates 2024 election data and excludes noncitizens, marking another unconstitutional move from the President, as Congress — not the executive — is granted apportionment powers.

@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."

As Democrats noted in their court filings, Abbott is also fundraising off his official actions — which, they say, is plainly not “bribery” because there’s no quid pro quo. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Congress is pushing a key reform to make manufactured starter homes cheaper The Senate is poised to pass a major set of policy reforms aiming to boost the supply of housing, including of manufactured homes.

This will not end well... 50% of tornado deaths occur in these homes despite them only making up 7% of the U.S. housing stock... Why?... Poor build quality and lack of anchoring to ground. Another decision that will kill people... #wx #tornado #disaster

www.businessinsider.com/cheap-starte...

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

In a delicious irony, Lebanese Trump devotee Roland Beainy, whose burger empire reveres the deportations czar, now faces ICE's boot for overstaying his visa—proving even sycophants aren't spared the regime's capricious grinder. #MAGA

Is today Ghislaine Maxwell’s spa day or yoga class?

The amount of Ai slop that is showing up as learning content for toddlers on YouTube kids is disturbing.

I just turned on a baby’s first 100 words video that I had assumed would just be a person reading the book. But it was an Ai genersted child’s voice miss pronouncing words like pear.

It’s so out in the open that nobody knows what to do about it.

Education Department has a backlog of 27,000 complaints about student loans The department disclosed the pileup of complaints — an increase of about 11,000 since March — in a recent letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

This is unacceptable. The Trump administration is abandoning working people and student loan borrowers. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

Jorge Elorza’s big bet on school vouchers - The Boston Globe The former mayor of Providence is now urging Democratic governors to opt-in to the Trump administration’s voucher program beginning in 2027.

Vouchers are a vehicle to abandon public education. We need to strengthen them with resources and support so every child has access to safe, welcoming, engaging, and relevant schools. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/m...

Going NUTs: How One District Supports Its ‘New and Untenured’ Teachers Facing a flood of retirements in coming years, one district pushes to build connections among new, untenured teachers.

👏👏👏👏Building a thriving profession means supporting educators from day one. This district in NY is showing what’s possible when we invest in connection, mentorship, and ongoing support so teachers can focus on being future-makers for their students. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Mike Johnson hit with new accusation showing ‘clear-cut violation’ of federal law House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign ...

Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no.

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

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Blame John Roberts for enabling Trump’s massive power grab in Texas The Supreme Court's conservative majority laid the groundwork for extreme partisan gerrymandering.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority laid the groundwork for extreme partisan gerrymandering.

No pretense of maintaining the integrity and independence of DOJ & FBI. That’s all gone now. Trump has his private police force.

Galveston business owners feel squeeze from busy cruise industry The rising tide may not lift all boats after all.

The rising tide may not lift all boats after all.

The Confederates always used "state's rights" when it was convenient and the feds to control the states when it wasn't.

We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.

Really frustrating seeing journalists continue using “peace deal.” This is such an insult to Ukrainians. What “peace deal” implies is rewarding a terrorist state committing genocide and an illegal invasion by an aggressor.

Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

“The people who came before me were burdened with the knowledge that this never lasts.” - Wow as a queer historian and teacher who mostly works with queer and trans young people this line hit hard ❤️❤️‍🩹

Seizing the property of private organizations to punish dissent is totalitarianism.

It is illegal, anti-Conservative, Soviet, and sickening.

Yet people who drool ‘freedom’ whisper not a word to object. Lift not a finger.

My God, people, protect your children from this trash propaganda, and fight your school districts if they try to force it on you.

Raise one holy hell of a ruckus and demand your child be protected from this.

The Texas Medical Center

The Texas Medical Center

San Francisco had a similar law (1867) that existed alongside bans on cross-dressing, indecency, and carrying baskets on poles through the streets - a common practice among many Chinese workers. then, as now, the policing of poverty, disability, gender, sexuality, and immigration went hand-in-hand

If we’re trying to keep dangerous foreign criminals out of the United States

Why is Trump meeting with Putin in Alaska

Here’s @ashleyallison.bsky.social demonstrating the only appropriate way to look at Scott Jennings