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🚨 Ken Paxton wants Dems arrested for refusing to help rig an election.

That’s rich coming from a guy indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud, accused by his top deputies of bribery, abuse of office, while allegedly using burner phones, secret emails & fake names to dodge accountability.

This is what is happening right now.

Texas Republicans being more committed to cheating voters with a frankenstein map than to doing emergency legislation to fix the state's flood warning systems is pretty much all you need to know about them.

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

This shouldn’t be surprising. The only way to fight back is to… actually fight back.

If Democrats want to improve their approval rating (or far more importantly, make actual change), we need real leadership to put up real resistance to authoritarianism.
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Nothing will change until we see more of this! Hold your Reps accountable. We are under-reacting!

Since this is blowing up - this is my band Brass Queens playing at C’mon Everybody in BK last night (sharing a bill with fab Selena tribute band Cinco12)! We’re local to NYC but play all over the US/Canada and I can’t promise DB will be there but I CAN promise you’ll have a blast tr.ee/YwV9F6yjcl

Join our 31 Days of Action for science now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Help add to the pressure on Congress to ensure ZERO CUTS TO SCIENCE in the 2026 Budget Battle this fall.

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Day 3! We are easing in—I told ya it would be easy, sustainable, & have a big impact!

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Accurate times a million

graph showing how a Dem House vote margin translates into Dem House seats using current 2024 map and new TX map. New TX map increases the Dem vote margin minimum to win the House from 1.5 to 2.5 points.

Average Democratic and Republican vote share in generic congressional ballot polls from January to July 2025. Currently Dem at 45.3 and Rep at 43.

@gelliottmorris.com: If TX Reps can swing 5 seats away from Dems, as their current plan likely does, Dems will need to win House popular vote by roughly 2.5-3 points to win the majority of seats.

Dems right now at 2.3 point lead.

Twiglet the Robin on my balcony rail yesterday afternoon. He came to see me several times, having a couple of mealworms each time 🪶 #birds #DDOR

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

"But nine scientists across several different disciplines told WIRED that the report mishandled citations of their work by cherry-picking data, misrepresenting findings, drawing erroneous conclusions, or leaving out relevant context."
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On the Tracks, Grand Canyon
#grandcanyon #tracks, #railroad #photos #photography

the main thing you need to know about all these tariffs is that Donny's name is on every page of the Epstein Files

You literally can’t make this sh*t up

Donald Trump launched a youth sports initiative at the White House today, appearing alongside Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct involving a trafficked 16-year-old girl

A new low.

Let me get this straight.
 
Trump knew that Epstein liked women "on the younger side," but after Epstein poached an underage spa worker from Trump, Trump did nothing? What else did he know? 🤔
 
We need transparency. Release the files.

This Tuckahoe home won a $1.26 billion contract for an ICE detention center. The owner isn't talking. The company’s website is dated and largely accessible only via login.

On July 18, the Acquisition Logistics Company received a contract worth a reported $1.26 billion for the construction and operation of an immigrant detention center in El Paso County, Texas.

Acquisition Logistics Company doesn’t even have an office: its listed headquarters is a residential house.

Some good news. The senate committee rejected the 40% budget cut for NIH and instead endorsed a $400 million budget increase. Science for the win.

@catgyoung.bsky.social

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Nora S. Newcombe and Robert Glushko stand together smiling on stage at CogSci 2025. Nora wears the Rumelhart Prize medal around her neck

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would strengthen voting rights by expanding and strengthening the government's ability to respond to voting…

🚨BREAKING: The John Lewis Voting Rights Act (killed by Sinema & Manchin in 2021) was reintroduced yesterday by Sen. Warnock (HR114)! Almost no media coverage. Let’s change that.

Call your reps. Make noise. Pass the damn bill.🗳️

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Susan Carey speaks at a lectern with the Marriott Marquis San Francisco logo during her keynote at CogSci 2025. Behind her, a presentation slide shows an image of two dogs in a grassy field.

On stage: Susan Carey on how representational formats shape cognition, from implicit vehicles to symbolic reasoning #CogSci2025

After I was denied entry to an ICE facility in my district, many of you said social media posts weren’t enough. You’re right.

Here’s what’s next.

Like a skipper but smaller

#InsectThursday!

Orange skipperling #butterfly
on purple #flowers

#macro #macrophotography
#insect

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

It's nasty work to put all these incredible staff out of work only to then take that money over to these bullies, just so we can beg them to please stop taking our lunch money...

'I don't know what I would do': Ohioans worry about what comes next with Medicaid Ohioans continue to raise concerns that they will lose their health care access or food assistance benefits now that Congress's massive spending bill is signed into law.

NEW: Ohioans continue to raise concerns that they will lose health care access or food assistance now that GOP's spending bill has been signed.

For one woman, Medicaid is the reason she says she is alive.

@news5cleveland.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com
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CNBC: The EPA is moving to rescind this endangerment finding on carbon dioxide and greenhouses gases. Is that a danger to public health?

MAKARY: To be honest, I don't know enough about that issue

CNBC: You're in charge of our public health! Can you look into it for us?

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Cover of THE GRATEFUL DEAD BY JIM MARSHALL showing the band in an outdoor setting circa 1969.

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Shipping August 5

What I cannot fathom is why any court is allowing Alligator Auscwirz to exist.

Inhumane detention facilities violate the 8th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.