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“It’s a reminder of how truly utterly deranged the current president sounds… and how accustomed we’ve all become to it.”

@chrislhayes.bsky.social on the A+ Trump trolling from @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s team. (Fox bobbleheads not getting it just shows they should never stop)

This entire fascist story remains completely absent from the home pages and front pages of our major media outlets 🤷‍♂️

its impossible to describe the level of freak out we’d be in right now if a democratic president had troops on their hands and knees rolling out a red carpet for putin, this entire country would be going nuclear right now all driven by conservative media

A week and a half ago, a shooter emptied hundreds of bullets into a federal building

Don’t people just walk around it? Isn’t it like 5 miles long?

Ha! It’s so true: these kinds of things typically don’t end well. Probably the best outcome for them would be for it to just fizzle out due to lack of interest.

The Confederacy is tightening its grip on the nation's Capital.

If you want to know, take a look at American Slavery, As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, published in 1839.

It just boggles my mind that the folks who voted for him & are now disapproving couldn’t have foreseen what he would do if elected. It’s not like he was some unknown! How do these people survive in the world every day??

Sullivan: Trump goes out and says, “We have to deal with Japan. Japan’s going to pay this amount of money, and I get to decide what happens with the money,” etc., etc. And then within hours the Japanese come out and say, “Uh, no, that’s not our understanding of the deal.”

While on my morning walk in the Mueller neighborhood, my DPS escort, who was forced upon me to track my every movement, threatened to arrest me. He lost me on the trail, got angry about it, and made a scene in front of my constituents on the trail. #txlege 1/3

While a little shaken up from the incident, I remain undeterred by this intimidation tactic by House Republicans to have a 24/7 state police presence to intimidate me and my colleagues. 2/3

This is also why I stand with my colleague @NicoleCollier95, who has refused to go along with this charade and is still on the House floor 24 hours later. We will not be intimidated by this, and history will remember this. 3/3

Sheryl Cole, one of the Texas Democrats who broke quorum:

The American dream is to pay more for our power bills so that a South African Nazi can train his chatbot to call itself MechaHitler and make revenge porn AI videos of Taylor Swift #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

August 19, 2025 PA-2025-16 Policy Alert SUBJECT: Clarifying Discretionary Factors in Certain Immigration Benefit Requests Purpose U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding the factors that officers may consider in certain benefit requests where an exercise of discretion is required, including factors relating to aliens’ past requests for parole and any involvement in anti-American or terrorist organizations. Background For certain immigration benefit requests, such as adjustment of status, the alien bears the burden of proof to demonstrate that a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted.1 For these benefit requests, the discretionary analysis is a separate component of adjudicating the benefit request which occurs after an officer determines whether all threshold eligibility requirements have been met. The act of exercising discretion involves weighing positive and negative factors and considering the totality of the circumstances in each case. There are various factors officers may consider when conducting a discretionary analysis, including facts relating to an alien’s conduct, character, family ties, immigration history, and any humanitarian concerns. USCIS guidance provides that an alien’s compliance with immigration laws is a relevant factor when determining if a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted. USCIS is updating the Policy Manual to provide additional guidance for officers on the significant negative discretionary weight USCIS assigns in circumstances where an alien has endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused the views of a terrorist organization or group, including those who support or promote anti-American ideologies or activities, antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations, and antisemitic ideologies, in any case involving an exercise of discretion.2 In cases where the alien has engaged in such activities, USCIS will enforce all relevant …

NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.

Opinion | The Ukraine peace talks aren’t ending the war. They’re perpetuating it. Trump’s meeting with Zelensky and European leaders is just the latest fruitless effort on Ukraine.

By removing, at least for the time being, the threat of greater U.S. sanctions, Putin’s diplomatic offensive is merely creating breathing space for his troops to continue their war of aggression. Thus, the latest peace talks, far from ending the killing, are perpetuating it. wapo.st/4oIv9HH

TX Department of "Public Safety" officer threatens to arrest Black State Rep. during a morning walk in her own residential neighborhood.

Sorry, I’m confused. Why do we care what some random person on twitter has to say about Manchin/Sinema? Doesn’t everyone hate both of them?

Texas Rep held HOSTAGE on the House Floor! YouTube video by Native Land Pod

Worth listening to Angela Rye’s important interview witb Rep. Collier last night. @nativelandpod.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/hFrDwkB...

The wholesale price of vegetables skyrocketed by a whopping 40 PERCENT in July.

You can thank Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policies.

apparently it’s “come out swinging” week for midterm hopefuls, excellent

Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

NEW: A Senate investigation led by Sen. Jon Ossoff found more than 500 credible reports of abuses in ICE custody, including alleged mistreatment of pregnant women and children. @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/senate...

The real lesson to be learned from Trump/GOP's corrupt Texas gerrymander is that Dems have to get a lot more willing to use power when they have it. Next Dem trifecta will be a time of reckoning.

Check out this exchange with @davedaley.bsky.social on these points:

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I'd be happy if the press would just stop treating his demented gibberish as if it were serious policy discussion, or if they'd finally learn that everything out of his mouth must be treated as a lie until proven otherwise.

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....

13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

Nine years later, I still don't understand how anyone could have listened to him speak for more than 5 minutes in the 2016 campaign, and not come to the immediate conclusion that he was an ignorant bullshitter who hadn't the slightest idea what he was doing or talking about. An eternal mystery.

The political juggernaut that elected Ds and institutions alike cower in front of

Casually describing in a phoner to Fox and Friends a break with century-old US foreign policy that would subordinate the territorial integrity of sovereign nations—US allies!—to the troop movements of the Russian army.

Holy shit, I had to read that quote twice before I realized it was Putin he was worried about disrespecting, not the EU leaders. My adult, patriotic brain just assumed it was the other way around. And he just says it out loud, totally unashamed!

Looks like yesterday’s display of distrust of Trump by our European allies was well warranted.

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.

The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.

Something has gone terribly wrong.

Red states don’t need his permission to change their own voting laws/procedures. Each state manages its own voting according to its own laws & state constitution.