Trump has said "gas is coming way down" weekly for 5 months straight now. The national average holds at $4.08 per gallon.
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Senate Rs are wary of confirming an Army CoS due to lack of experience, but it didn't stop them from confirming the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who needed a waiver. Didn't stop the judicial committee from pushing through Todd Blanche for AG. From @aaronparnas.bsky.social #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 16h agoOnly a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
Our Head Start programs are impactful & life-changing for our babies. But Trump wants to eliminate this essential program, lower its quality standards, & deny our most vulnerable children a first-rate early education. Trump should keep his grubby little hands off Head Start.
Donald Trump is wrecking American science, and there's data to back it up. Trump's first year back in office saw the biggest increase in physics PhDs leaving the U.S. after graduation in the past 30 years.
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Puerto Rico begins water rationing in San Juan and other major cities as crisis deepens
Puerto Rico begins water rationing in San Juan and other major cities
Residents will lose running water for up to 48 hours at a time under a rotating rationing schedule
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1/ 🧵 It costs 8 cents to make you skip an election. Not a typo. A peer reviewed PNAS study found the right ad, aimed at the right voter, erased 1 in 6 votes of color in swing counties. The billionaires who lost Michigan can buy a lot of 8 cent nudges. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Abdul El-Sayed is inviting everyone into the same fight: getting corporate money out of politics & deliver a healthcare system that actually covers everyone! That’s a movement worth showing up for. #BlueWaveIn90Days
"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Something real is happening in rural Iowa. Voters who backed Ernst, Grassley, & Trump are turning out for Josh Turek because they’ve finally had enough. That’s not a fluke, that’s a movement building right in front of us, and we’ve got 90 days to keep it growing. #BlueWaveIn90Days
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What a surprise, the alleged abuser was jacking himself up on testosterone.
A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada.
Wildfire destroys about 230 homes in western Canadian Indigenous community, officials say
A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada. The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says the Bradley Creek wildfire devastated much of the reserve near Vernon, about 440 kilometers northeast of Vancouver.
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Ongoing crisis in Northwest Arctic Borough. Outstanding reporting from Desiree Hagen at KOTZ, Kotzebue: "Ambler, a Northwest Arctic community of about 270 people, has been without water or sewer for more than five months." #Alaska #AlaskaSky @napaaqtuk.bsky.social www.kotz.org/kotz-local-n...
Ambler has gone 5 months without water and sewer. Fixes could take months.
According to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, about 85 percent of Ambler's main water lines are cracked, unable to hold pressure, and require replacement.
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The election EO appeal is about whether the fedl gov’t can change the rules of voting shortly before the midterms & whether SCOTUS will apply its own precedent consistently. Understanding the arguments is essential to understanding the outcome, so I parse them here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Trump's Executive Order on Voting: Blue State Attorneys General, and Some Retired Judges, Weigh In
Sunday night in The Week Ahead post, we discussed the Trump administration’s effort to push ahead with implementation of an executive order that would give the federal government greater control over ...
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Quite an upset in the #KSGov Dem primary. State Sen. Cindy Holscher, who came out against data centers and the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal, has defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson, who had a big financial edge and an endorsement from term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly.
Trump: "Everybody saw the vandalism. All you have to do is look at the tape." (There is no tape. Trump is nuts.)
updating my prior here: i think this back and forth will continue not just until the midterms, but until trump is gone entirely. iran would rather deal with someone rational and trump is cornered
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 2mo agowhere things are at: “The president’s conduct of the war has constrained his choices to escalation or humiliation,” said Kori Schake, a former US official now with the American Enterprise Institute. “So I think to avoid both, he’s likely to drag out negotiations.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
1/ 🧵 The Trump administration has spent over a year blaming immigrants for healthcare fraud. Well, blaming immigrants for everything. The government's own inspector general report tells a very different story, and immigrants are not mentioned in it once. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Legal scholar/former US Atty Barbara McQuade: Todd Blanche’s recent assurances to the Senate regarding an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” & Trump’s IRS immunity are merely "hollow gestures" that fail to meaningfully check executive power. See CALL-TO-ACTION 👇🏼 1/5 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Trump Still Has That IRS Immunity. Don’t Be Fooled
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s assurance to senators about the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and President Trump’s immunity with the Internal Revenue Service is nothing more than a ho...
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Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d agoSo Tillis and Cornyn thought the 1.8. Billion dollar slush fun was so bad, that they will be willing to confirm the guy who came up with it. Huh
The FBI is saying it was “likely Iran” Over 30 water facilities breached in Minnesota. Full transparency — I don’t believe anything coming from this administration at this point. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
Hackers targeted municipal water systems in 7 states this week, FBI says
The federal warning comes after more than 30 water facilities in Minnesota were breached.
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Is this the same type of "invitation" that Dr Fauci received? #USDemocracy Jack Smith invited to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept 22 share.google/7l1RxYajuDkt...
Jack Smith invited to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee next month
Former special counsel Jack Smith has been invited to testify in late September in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Monday. “Im inviting Jack Smith 2 testi…
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Every year, whooping crane parents guide their offspring on an incredible migration journey, teaching them the routes they’ll follow for life. Learn how we are working alongside partners to protect this iconic species: https://nature.ly/4xvRjRp 🎨 Mikhaila Markham/TNC
