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Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

An important (global) public service announcement from Ed Miliband on the day that renewables have over taken coal as the largest source of electricity.

"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The people who elected her deserve representation. Not seating her is an undemocratic move by the unlawful republicans

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

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“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

This strikes me as pretty bad

End the shutdown? Unpaid Civil Servant? (specifically AirTraffic Controllers & military gate keepers)?
Don't go to work until you are paid. 3M people work in govt. not paid?
If you stay home, so will I... with 30M other people. The rich will stop the shutdown.
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Rise up and stop this.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Screenshot of the “People Over Papers” website (iceout.org), which tracks and reports ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) activity across the United States. The screen is divided into two main sections: a report list panel on the left and an interactive map on the right. Left Panel (Report List): Titled “47 Reports,” the panel displays user-submitted ICE sightings, each with a risk level, location, date, and time of submission and occurrence. Risk levels are color-coded: Critical Risk (red) High Risk (orange) Low Risk (green) The top report is a Critical Risk, unconfirmed sighting at "800 East Devon Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL," submitted at 2:29 PM. Below it is a Low Risk report at "Devon Avenue & Lively Boulevard, Elk Grove Village, IL," submitted at the same time. Other reports shown include: A Critical Risk at Brandywine Town Homes Association, Villa Park, IL (submitted at 2:24 PM) A Critical Risk at Missouri Avenue NW & 14th St NW, Washington, DC (submitted at 2:23 PM) Right Panel (Map): A U.S. map shows pins indicating the locations of ICE activity reports. Pin colors match the risk levels (Green for Low, Yellow for High, Red for Critical). Clusters of reports are visible in the Northeast (New York City area), Midwest (Chicago area), and Washington, DC. Other isolated reports appear in Texas, Nebraska, and California. A map key in the top-right corner explains the pin colors. The map also includes standard navigation tools (zoom in/out buttons and a location marker). The header includes a banner that says: “Fuel the Mission — Support Us Now” and the site logo “People Over Papers.”

Find the People over Papers map here: iceout.org/en/

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

It’s been one week since Republicans shut down the government.

And they won’t even show up to work.

Democrats are in D.C., ready to negotiate on a budget that protects your health care and lowers your costs.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Ordering state police to have a confrontation with federal agents or the military — while it might “feel” satisfying to some — is a recipe for disaster, one in which someone will get hurt, and provide the exact pretext they are looking for to…do something worse. Pritzker is right here, sorry

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm' Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

“We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it,” according to an open letter signed by 282 former officials.

It will take years to rebuild our Justice Dept.

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THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

Psssst….. There is NO EMERGENCY! This administration is lying to further their fascist ideology.

👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.

More mining in wilderness areas! Trump’s now targeting Minnesota’s Land of 1,000 Lakes, the glorious Boundary Waters, where activists have held off a giant copper mine for decades. AZ and AK also in his sites for mine pollution near/in wilderness.

House Republicans have worked a total of 14 days since July 25th.

You can’t blame a shutdown on Democrats when the entire Republican Party hasn’t even bothered to show up for work.

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

I do want to politely remind people that there have been National Guard troops from states with Republican governors in a city with a Democratic mayor for months now.

It just happens that city isn’t in a state and so it doesn’t have a governor who can say no.

After shutting down the federal government and voting to do nothing about an imminent health insurance premium spike, House Republicans have now gone on a multi-week vacation.

Donald Trump and the GOP just aren't for the American people.