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California Democrats Look to Redraw House Map Amid Texas Redistricting War It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas asked the FBI to arrest Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block the Legislature from voting on a Republican redistricting plan. The new map would give the GOP a significant advantage in five districts now held by Democrats.

I guess it will at least be amusing to watch the Roberts Court twist itself into knots to declare the new Texas map legal, moral, and virtuous, and the new California map a brazen perversion of democracy.

Rep. Massie says he's confident he can get 218 members to sign onto a discharge petition that would force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

Trump's Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client - emptywheel Todd Blanche has now made clear how he intends to help Donald Trump out of his pedophile problem. Having fired the prosecutor competent to discuss cooperation with Ghislaine Maxwell, Blanche has annou...

Folks are missing the likely goal of Defense Attorney Todd Blanche's meeting with sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

She will be released from prison as part of a cooperation agreement by implicating someone else, maybe someone like Bill Clinton.

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So many people need to go to jail over this, from the guards at these concentration camps to the leaders in the White House making this all happen.

Yeah I really dislike the genre of post which is like "trump has done something very bad, therefore we live under a totalitarian regime" like the very fact that you're posting that without fear of consequences is proof that we are not (yet). Engage with the harms as they actually exist

An actual monster.

Donald Trump issued pardons to Joe Arpaio, Steve Bannon, six convicted war criminals, and over 1500 January 6th rioters, prompting serious questions about Biden's use of the autopen.

The woke left at it again with the censorship

CBS will be ending Stephen Colbert's run as host of The Late Show, days after he criticized parent company Paramount's $16 million payment to Trump. Here's why the Left has a censorship problem.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Donald Trump bragged of grabbing women by the pussy, walked in on undressed Miss Teen USA contestants, was found liable for sexual assaulting E. Jean Carroll, and was convicted of hiding payoffs to a porn star. Here's why the Epstein allegations are fake.

by Hugh Hewitt

To repeat: They're doing EVERYthing they can to pre-determine the outcome of elections.

This + leglislation + stacking election boards + gerrymandering + + +...

The Florida Supreme Court concluded that a racial gerrymander designed to DILUTE the voting power of Black Floridians is perfectly legal, while a new map drawn to PROTECT the voting power of Black Floridians would be unconstitutionally racist.

We are fully through the looking glass here.

The Trump admin sent an Irish tourist in ICE custody to a federal prison that was leasing beds to ICE, where he says "we were treated less than human."

Staff at the prison would throw his medicine on the ground rather than deliver it to him in person.

The Enshittification of American Power First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

Ever since Trump retook office in January, rapid enshittification has become the organizing principle of US statecraft. This time, Trumpworld understands that—in controlling the infrastructure layer of global finance, technology, and security—it has vast machineries of coercion at its disposal.

Stop using AI.
Yes, even those ChatGPT powered chat buddies/mascots I see some of you streamers with. I don't know how y'all think that those theft bots are any better.

The people who are supposedly guarding this system from misuse are in some cases “former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work.”

yikes

A sticker fundraiser showing the sticker sheet available. It includes 5 anthropomorphic PPE stickers, including a mask, saline rinse, rapid test, uvc light, and air purifier.

We're sending this cute sticker sheet to anyone who sends us $15 or more!

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia

"It’s time to just accept that some people like having sex with kids and focus on the fantastic things we’re doing to win back the respect of the world." — Donald Trump theonion.com/trump-urges-...

How fucked up is it to be comforted getting a notice from my son's school that they are going to do their best to resist our federal government?

Yet... that's where we live right now.

Technically speaking, a 1-in-1000 year rainfall event happened yesterday in Florida as well.

So, maybe he should also just bring charges in his own state against DeSantis.

The tariff-driven inflation that economists feared begins to emerge Inflation rose last month to its highest level in four months as the cost of gas, food, and groceries rose, reversing several months of cooling price pressures.

Trumpflation has arrived.

Soaring electric truck sales deal new blow to diesel use in China Electric-powered heavy trucks are rapidly gaining market share in China, driven by subsidies and the quick rollout of chargers, further curbing diesel usage and denting oil demand from the world's biggest crude importer.

China’s commercial transport shift is smashing expectations. Electric truck sales up 175% YoY, diesel demand already dropping. This is the start of a massive structural decline—well on track with my projections. Freight electrification is no longer niche. It’s the main act.⚡🚛 #EV #RIPDiesel #China

Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire Emil Bove declined to rule out the possibility of a third Trump term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel.

Trump's ex-lawyer, seeking confirmation as an appeals judge, declines to rule out a 3rd term for Trump, denounce the Jan. 6 attack or declare that Biden won the 2020 election legitimately, calling it improper for a would-be judge to say. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social
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I think the “Dems should do X” construction is usually pretty useless but I do think Dems should more often describe the Trump tariffs as the biggest tax hike in American history

1/I’ve obtained a farewell note a person in the human rights bureau sent out to his colleagues after being fired from the State Department today. A few tidbits from it:

On what grounds would they file, and what kind of lawyerly expertise would be helpful for that case? What if the provider isn't transparent about having been served and the details of the subpoena?

These are administrative subpoenas under their civil investigative powers. The recipients can go to court to try and quash them though.