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A great thread on how oligarchs take a legal concept from "quite clear" to "clear as mud" in order to enact their agenda.

This is also where media "both-sides" stenography coverage really works in the favor of authoritarians.

"Experts divided on requirements for census taking"

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt Attorney General in Texas history.

This malignant clown was impeached by his own party.

He has ZERO credibility on issues of law and order. Pipe down.

Same.

Texas: Competitive Autocracy in Action The Orban Model: Hold Elections--But Tilt Them In Advance

The American right wing is following a specific model of governance. Political scientists call it “competitive” autocracy or authoritarianism, and it’s a system that locks a minority into power without the brute force of police states or apartheid regimes.

Reminder that Congress is out of session and it is the perfect time to look up when your members will be near you and tell them in person how you are affected by all this fuckery. Try to think of one specific ask -- stop funding genocide, stop tariffs, whatever you feel most strongly about.

YES!! WHAT A WIN!! ADMINISTRATION WITHDRAWS ITS EFFORT TO APPEAL THE RELEASE OF INDIVIDUAL FROM ICE CUSTODY!

As you know, I usually report on cases going on in the Federal courts that are national in scope. 1/4

Rarely do we get to see what's going on at the individual level, on the true front line, where countless immigration attorneys are fighting every day for their clients against the ICE/Trump juggernaut. 2/4

Colleague Magdalena Holovka is an immigration attorney in Florida, and she shared this, and I am sharing it with her permission. This is the administration backing down and withdrawing their efforts to keep one of her clients in the notorious facility known as 'Alligator Alcatraz'... 3/4

(and yes, she has confirmed to me that it is truly as awful as the reports are making it out to be).

This is what these lawyers do, day in and day out, for *individuals*, protecting their rights. I am proud to call them my sisters and brothers of the bar. 4/4

It's very funny to me that every state in New England allows recreational cannabis EXCEPT the state whose motto is "live free or die"

The political swamp is definitely flooded and politicized

Hey, FBI. How about you lock up the pedo for the rape charge he was convicted on, plus the 30+ other counts. His dick must taste good to you.

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

in a functioning political and media ecosystem, both the fbi meddling in the tx dems’ gambit and the president openly stating his intention to meddle with election results and population counts would be two independent but obviously connected five alarm fires

After covid, consumers’ uncertainty about their future earnings & inflation spiked upwards. Five years later, we’re still living in an era of heightened economic uncertainty.

Suddenly, the Trump Administration Tightens the Vise on Wind Farms

More Waste, Fraud, & Abuse brought to you by the party of chaos, corruption, & cruelty.

I'm sure climate change will capitulate like universes & law firms have. Right?

Gifted Article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/c...

#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy

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I'm proud to have been a part of this historic project. Years of research, 28 federal agencies, scientists, community input, fisheries, town government, trustee government, and environmental organizations- I cast my vote as an elected official for the project.
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For the future of our planet and the children I'll never know...for my family- @SouthForkWind is the beginning of renewable wind energy in America.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks #BlueEarth

We the People have the Collective Will as @chrismurphyct.bsky.social urges us to defend our country's democracy!

#ProudBill #DemVoice1 #Pinks

Elon Musk gave $15 million to Republican allies just before announcing his own America Party | CNN Politics Billionaire Elon Musk donated a total of $15 million in June to super PACs favoring President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans ahead of next year’s midterm elections, new campaign finance re...

Musk's plan by creating his own "America Party" is the same as the "Green Party" has been- to lure the wary Independents and disgruntled Democrats into it-

Vote Blue. We can't lose the midterms or the next POTUS election.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/p...

Another COVID Contrarian Working For the NIH Director Kevin Bardosh, who argued COVID boosters do more harm than good for young people, has been working in Jay Bhattacharya’s office for months.

Kevin Bardosh, who argued COVID boosters do more harm than good for young people, has been working in Jay Bhattacharya’s office for months. @walkerbragman.bsky.social

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks

Another COVID Contrarian Working For the NIH Director
www.importantcontext.news/p/another-co...

THIS IS SERIOUS....mRNA vaccines can be modified rapidly to help us as needed. I listened to @vinguptamd.bsky.social describe the benefits of mRNA vaccines and how RFK,Jr. is sabotaging our health and future pandemics that may come.

Please listen/watch and repost!

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks

Vance at a lectern with the caption "I wear socks while canoeing" On an article titled "JD Vance's team had water level of Ohio river raised for family's boating trip"

Poor little VP JD Vance didn't want to get his toes wet pushing his canoe like the rest of us.

He had the water level raised so his family could go canoeing...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#entitled #VP #Republicans #Democrats #Independents #Ohio #ProudBlue #DemVoice1

The Guardian: A report by Jon Ossoff's office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses in ICE detention centers since 1/20/25.

They include deaths, sexual abuse, unsanitary living conditions, inadequate food/water & exposure to extreme temperatures.
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Ken Paxton: I just launched an investigation into Beto O'Rourke's radical group for unlawfully funding runaway Democrats.

When does he plan on investigating Congressional Republicans for doing the exact same thing?
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Republicans are ignoring constitutional protections against racial gerrymandering. Their only priority seems to be doing whatever trump wants.

#ProudBlue
#DemCast
#Voices4Victory

Newly unsealed docs in POLITICO's effort to access Kash Patel's grand jury materials show that Judge Howell said his behavior "borders on the contemptuous" as he sought to repeatedly postpone his testimony to Jack Smith investigators. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Part of my would love to do an AMA just explaining how the people helping Trump to destroy the US actually don't think they're doing that. The people handing America's intel jewels to Putin do that w/o thinking twice about it.

Just bc I think I could do it and it would be a useful exercise.

TRUMP on EPSTEIN: The whole thing is a hoax. It’s just a way to divert attention to something that is total bullshit