"More than 50 parents & spouses of active duty US troops have been detained, & at least 6 have been deported. At least 8 immediate family members of service members are currently in ICE custody." Daily Beast share.google/LkUb2GnqhP1v...

ICE Rounds Up Dozens of Relatives of U.S. Troops

The change reflects the ruthlessness of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda in his second term.

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"Law allows anyone to challenge the appropriateness of materials, yet fails to define what constitutes obscene or inappropriate. “Anyone” here not limited to Arkansas, anyone living anywhere can lodge complaint & those materials would face public hearing" Book Riot share.google/97x0EB871s4a...

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

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"trump has refunded about $100B from tariffs collected before SCOTUS ruled them illegal. The $100B represents 60% of the total $165B collected from his liberation day tariffs, was reported by customs officials to the US court of international trade (CIT) on Tuesday" share.google/mtKJwmFJQN0z...

US refunds $100bn of Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs

More than half of tariff income refunded after supreme court ruled Trump’s levies were illegal

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Why is it not front page news on every major media outlet that the United States commander in chief had hundreds of his bank accounts frozen for money laundering??????

A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

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"Represent major break with past & raised concerns within counterintelligence community about the risks posed by sharing sensitive domestic security information with authoritarian regimes working to undermine the US economically & militarily around the world" HuffPo share.google/IAkl0ZxKNFqr...

Under Patel, FBI Forges Unprecedented Law Enforcement Ties With China, Russia

The partnerships represent a major break with the past and have raised concerns within the broader counterintelligence community.

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"The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean. trump is rolling back their protections" Republicans will not be happy until they monetize & destroy every square inch of the planet NPR share.google/DYLLC0liOsZ9...

These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections

The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, spar...

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📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.

8 of biggest oil co. amassed profits of more than $90 Billion in 3 months as Iran war sent energy prices soaring & emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heat." They're killing us,our only home🌎 & GOP is helping them with their "climate change is a hoax" BS share.google/kptMmXOWIsMQ...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Republicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy. Feel like we've been here before? Here's why it keeps happening.

Happy Birthday to my favorite President #BarackObama 65 Years Young Today (8/4) Artist: Edwin van den Dikkenberg

The Trump admin has been trying to get its hands on everyone's data to help them go after immigrant communities, opponents, and dissenters. Now, the Senate might give them more power to spy on us, under the guise of stopping shoplifters. Congress must block CORCA.

Opinion | A new shoplifting bill obscures a dangerous loophole for ICE

CORCA empowers DHS to collect sensitive personal information from retail shoppers and share that information with agencies including ICE.

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Weekend Update: Jeanine Pirro on the Mexico–United States Border - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

"We didn’t have the authority to sort that out. All we had the authority to do what we did, & I think did the best we could,” Cornyn told HuffPost." GOP is a lost cause. They will take us all down with them, take the the country down, if we allow it. HuffPo share.google/srLVs9izrF5S...

John Cornyn On Not Ending Trump Tax Deal, Slush Fund: We Did Our Best

The Texas Republican explained why he switched to “yes” on Todd Blanche even as the Justice Department continues to defend the president’s tax immunity deal.

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Yup. You did. And cancer research for children was first to go.

We allow Republicans to dictate our country's climate change policies at our own peril. By allowing them to label climate change a hoax we're signing our own death warrant. We can't give an inch🌎 #Democrats

Rachel Maddow: "Staffing your administration with people from TV turns out to be a bad idea." MSNOW YouTube share.google/radD3LYczjYd...

"Phoenix Species Project to pump $200M to pull these animals & plants back from brink of extinction & even restore them in the wild. Among largest philanthropic funds focused entirely on species recovery stands out for both scope & specificity of wildlife included" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/c...

Phoenix Species Project Announces Funds for Imperiled Wildlife (Gift Article)

A new fund called the Phoenix Species Project will provide $200 million to help pull imperiled species back from the brink of extinction.

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You misspelled "wine box".

"Mr. Buttigieg is trying to convince voters that neither he nor his party can afford to look backward." #TeamPete #Buttigieg #Democrats 💙Pete Buttigieg💙 Pete Buttigieg's Case Against ‘Return to Normal’ - POLITICO share.google/jaqrX14VNqX4...

Pete Buttigieg's Case Against ‘Return to Normal’

He's trying to convince voters that neither he nor his party can afford to look backward.

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We allow Republicans to dictate our country's climate change policies at our own peril. By allowing them to label climate change a hoax we're signing our own death warrant. We can't give an inch🌎 #Democrats Spokane wildfires warning to rest of world - Salon.com share.google/14rnQlrE1R8S...

I STAND WITH DR FAUCI Thank You, Sir! #Blues

Todd Blanche's last-minute promise won over Senators Cornyn & Tillis, but shouldn't have. The "deal" leaves Trump's tax immunity intact. It confirms what the Senators should have already known about Blanche's lack of fitness to be AG. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn't As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe

MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell reported Monday morning that “Overnight: A spokesperson for Sen.

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"No longer has to worry about IRS coming after him for the many aggressive tax positions he's taken over the years. Just 1 dispute he had with IRS could've cost him more than $100 million. Any other ongoing audits could have cost him even more" Such a lucky guy🍀 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity

The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.

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"I find it quite rich for the establishment of the party to be blaming progressives after they lost for a second time to Donald Trump," he said. NPR share.google/3P3ivwy5cOwk...

Progressive youth leader David Hogg calls for change in 'geriatric' Democratic Party

David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland High School shooting who co-founded the progressive youth group Leaders We Deserve, is calling for radical change in the "geriatric" Democratic Party.

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