I blame the culture. Lack of respect for authority, pants too pulled up, getting hyped up on all that country music.
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 4d agoHeritage Foundation government relations director arrested for bringing guns and drugs into senate building share.google/VtyoauQypYAS...
The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin.
President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know: propub.li/4g078bJ
Debora Kapisha, RN, freed from ICE custody, returns home www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/debora...
Debora Kapisha, RN, freed from ICE custody, returns home
Debora Kapisha, the registered nurse detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently at Boston Logan International Airport, has been released from ICE custody and is on her way home to ...
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The Strait of Hormuz’s closure has skyrocketed global energy prices and high prices are threatening to unseat Republicans this November.
Iran Says U.S. Must Meet Demands Before Strait Of Hormuz Reopens
The Strait of Hormuz’s closure has skyrocketed global energy prices and high prices are threatening to unseat Republicans this November.
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Home-based providers are the backbone of our child care system. Universal child care would not be possible without them. They should not have to shoulder emergencies on their own.
Mamdani launches emergency grants for home-based childcare providers
The micro-grants will range from $1,000-$10,000.
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The measure of a society is how it invests in its children. For decades, I have advocated for Head Start because every child deserves a strong start in life. Today, I stand with the more than 100 civil rights and child advocacy organizations opposing efforts to dismantle the program from within.
Blanche’s confirmation underscores a simple truth: a handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to.
The belief in a non-existent "censorship industrial complex" now shapes American foreign policy. A brilliant deep dive from the MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1...
How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
Narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. What—and who—is behind them?
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Trump order opening Hawaiian national undersea monument to commercial fishing endangers world's most ecologically-distinctive marine ecosystems and one of few remaining coral reef systems. Teresa Tomassoni @insideclimatenews.org: bit.ly/4fUfvp5 @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @thirdactoh.bsky.social
Trump Promotes Commercial Fishing in Protected Pacific Marine National Monuments - Inside Climate News
Scientists and other environmental advocates warn such activity would threaten coral reefs and other marine life.
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Todd Blanche having his conformation vote at 4:00 AM tells you everything you need to know about how Republicans in Congress operate. They reserve their most toxic moves for the dead of night.
“We have somebody who is an agent of authoritarianism who just got the okay from a senator who, as you said, had nothing to lose.” @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social rejects Sen. Bill Cassidy’s rationale for confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general as Cassidy also warns of lawfare under this DOJ.
Spending hundreds of billions of our money on lots of new missiles for Trump feels like giving crack to an addict.
The Senate passed H.R. 4405, the #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct, on November 18, 2025 Trump signed this legislation into law on November 19, 2025. RELEASE THE UN-REDACTED EPSTEIN FILES UN experts demand accountability for trafficking allegations in ‘Epstein files’ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN experts demand accountability for trafficking allegations in ‘Epstein files’, warn of continuing violence of patriarchal power systems
GENEVA 16 April 2026 – UN experts* today called for justice and accountability for trafficking allegations emerging from the ‘Epstein files,’ warning that the disclosures reveal the continuing violenc...
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I'll never understand the cowardice. I mean, in normal times, if you were seeking reelection, you could rationalize a bad vote by saying you had to do it so that you could have the opportunity to vote for good things later.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 5d agoSen. Bill Cassidy: "I will vote for Mr. Blanche. I'll be criticized for this vote — what's new?"
Ken Paxton's own party impeached him for bribery and corruption. Paxton is the only Texas official to be impeached by his own party in nearly 50 years.
Trump is desperate to get out, Iran knows this, so how is it a surprise that they are only going to agree to a deal that makes Trump surrender even more than he did in the MOU? And where is that in the article? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world/middleeast/iran-us-oman-strait-of-hormuz.html
Iran Issues List of Demands, Dampening Hopes of Reopening Strait of Hormuz
The head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said that the waterway will remain closed until the United States met certain conditions.
nytimes.com
New in PN: How everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump's corruption "A Public Notice-American Doom analysis shows Trump is spending nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund his many renovation projects. Meanwhile, Trump and his family’s crypto schemes have raked in more than $2.25b."
How everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump's corruption
On top of his self-dealing, taxpayers are spending billions on his vanity projects.
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Richard Nixon was never arrested for his crimes, but his Attorney General John Mitchell was—for helping Nixon cover them up. Have fun with the next administration, Todd Blanche!
Translation: this bill is going to do away with harmful taxes on people that lose their homes in wildfires or any other natural disaster. It’s a big win, especially for Oregonians.
Senate Press Gallery@senatepress.bsky.social · 5d agoSenator Wyden received unanimous consent to pass H.R. 5366, and act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to codify and extend the rules for personal causality losses arising from major disasters and so forth.
Blumenthal: Remember that Donald Trump, under the recent Supreme Court opinion, can’t be held criminally responsible while he’s in office for anything he does while he’s in office. But Todd Blanche could be.
“..students found that United Healthcare was teaching a class as part of the medical school curriculum, and it was the only class they were going to receive in school about the US healthcare system, the students organized in protest, and the class was withdrawn.” open.substack.com/pub/medicare...
Prescription for Healthcare – Caeden Windschitl, “Medical Students triumph over United Health Group” August, 2026
Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15
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Norway's soccer federation calls on Gianni Infantino to resign over failed World Cup plan apnews.com/article/gian...
Norway's soccer federation calls on Gianni Infantino to resign over failed World Cup plan
Norway’s soccer federation wants Gianni Infantino to step down immediately, piling more pressure on FIFA’s embattled president.
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I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on - if your position is that the president of the United States and his family should be immune from IRS scrutiny, you’re unqualified to be the Attorney General. It’s an indictment on our entire system that 50 GOP Senators don’t agree.