Our military on their hands and knees wiping off the red carpet for the Chinese. A perfect metaphor for where we are with Trump. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3h ago

Chinese officials look on as some final adjustments to the red carpet are made for President Xi.

NEWS @status.news: The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance. The full story: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

The Source Behind The Ban

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.

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Arizona Sheriff who ended the Flock camera contract in his county: If we rely on private cameras to continuously log the habits of innocent Americans without a warrant, we are paving the way to an AI-driven surveillance state. We cannot wait for a future Supreme Court ruling to correct AI overreach

BREAKING: An Iowa state court dismisses President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer (represented by @thefireorg.bsky.social) and the Des Moines Register newspaper, a victory for First Amendment rights. Opinion here: www.fire.org/research-lea...

“It is clear Wilber needs to be in a hospital.” They gave him a pain injection for the first time 1 hour before Rep Casar was scheduled to visit. No matter if you’re native born or immigrant, you deserve appropriate medical care. www.kxan.com/news/texas/c...

Congressmen Casar says bullet still inside Garcés Pérez, man shot by ICE

Texas Democratic U.S. Representatives Greg Casar and Joaquin Castro on Wednesday met with a man shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Sept. 20.

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Paxton has been in office for 23 years in TX, and is saying he’s for affordable housing for all. Really? 23 years ago, Texans could afford homes. Criminal Paxton is why we can’t anymore. Want better? Vote better! Vote Talarico! #Voices4Victory #DV1 #Talarico

Being the undisputed worst POTUS in history is pretty cool, but I think we can do better on this approval rating

BREAKING: Judge Kelly just concluded there's no "national security" argument in this case (CNN/MSNOW/Politico)

Zelenskyy’s UN speech hit the nail on the head: "Something always seems to stop Putin from simply saying that’s it, enough, peace. He is always looking for someone who can help take another country instead of stopping and running his own country." Dictators don't want peace; they want empire. 🇺🇦

Rep Casar (D) has arrived at the concentration camp where Wilber Rafael Garcés is being held after being shot in the back by ICE in Texas. #AbolishICE

Abbott has been governor since 2015! He’s the reason the state is failing in education, maternal mortality and resources. The 2021 grid failure and resulting 246 deaths are on him! ✅Vote for Gina Hinojosa

Gina Hinojosa@ginafortexas.bsky.social · 8h ago

NEW: Greg Abbott lies. This is the truth.

Embarrassing doesn't quite capture the fact that we're seeing Kavanaugh stops turn into Kavanaugh beatings, Kavanaugh arrests, Kavanaugh imprisonments, and then Kavanaugh deportations.

TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com · 8h ago

The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.

The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration will start using passport records as it hunts for noncitizens on the voter registration rolls, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a filing Tuesday evening. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump administration will use passport data for voter citizenship checks, court filing reveals

The State Department records the administration intends to share include the private identifiable data of everyone who has ever applied for a U.S. passport.

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This is bigger than partisan politics. This is about people. Our neighbors are being shot, our children are being kidnapped, and our communities are living in fear. Enough. We deserve better.

Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.

Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks

Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.

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Paxton won’t agree to debate Talarico, and we all know why. He doesn’t want to answer these questions: “Why did you give an Epstein-style sweetheart deal to an admitted child predator? Why were you impeached… by your own party? Why do you own 15 homes on a government salary?” James Talarico

On Morning Joe, @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social revisits the killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero at the hands of federal agents.

“The whole point of America or any democratic country is that we all answer to the law. I want to emphasize the people who are in detention centers are in concentration camps. A concentration camp is where people are confined in detention & don’t have access to the legal system.” ~Heather CR

"We're coming for you in November". LULAC State Director Gabriel Rosales speaks out against civil rights violations and federal enforcement abuses after a man was shot in his back by ICE in Austin, Texas. Video by Phillip Hawkins

TALARICO: “The richest 1% now owns more wealth than the entire middle class. 3 dudes (Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos) now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined… they aren’t just buying yachts and jets anymore. They’re now buying power.” 🇺🇸 (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

USPS in Utah dumped 300 mail-in ballots into a parking lot garbage bin. USPS’s current defense? “Laziness.”

Utah postal worker accused of throwing away 300 mail-in ballots in church parking lot

Over 95% of Utah voters rely on mail-in ballots, making destroyed ballots critical loss.

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“His wife got a call from a detainee saying he’s really worried about him because he looks very bad.” ICE retaliated for the press coverage of his phone call, removed any form of communication & put him in isolation. He’s only getting Tylenol/Advil. ~Attorney Goldfinch #AbolishICE #HandsOffTexas

“Operation Starve the Attention Whore” is one reason I will continue my monthly donation to PBS!

Xela Hart@xelahart.bsky.social · yesterday

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The way ICE has treated Wilbur Garcés Pérez amounts to torture. All of this with a bullet lodged in his back and unable to move the left side of his body. Tomorrow I will visit Wilber with Congressman Greg Casar and report back on his condition.

The things squeezing Florida families don’t check your party first. Billionaires don’t care if we can afford to get by. I’m running for Senate to fight for a Florida that works for all of us. #Angie4FL

All Texas Republicans are cowards! ❌Abbott won’t debate Gina. ❌Paxton won’t debate Talarico. ❌Patrick won’t debate Vikki Goodwin. #VoteBlueDownBallot #GOTV #TX

Gina Hinojosa@ginafortexas.bsky.social · yesterday

Greg Abbott can’t defend the fact that property taxes have gone up 85%. That's why he has to lie about my record and why he refuses to debate me. He knows he’ll finally have to answer for selling out Texas to billionaires and big corporations and sticking us with the bill.

The video here certainly offers strong reason to suspect this should be charged as Attempted Murder What will happen instead is that this man, possibly paralyzed, will be sent to an African country for torture while the shooter gets promoted