ICYMI: ICE added an estimated 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI's criminal database in a single year. Most of the people swabbed have no criminal conviction. CBP records show 492 children under 14 sent to the FBI. 21 of them were five-year-olds. One was 4. By @dmehro.bsky.social

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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Big money spent $70 million to try and defeat Abdul El-Sayed and it didn't work! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Missouri voters defeated Amendment 4 which would have almost made their citizen-led constitutional amendment process impossible. Missouri Republicans much prefer placing measures on the ballot via the state legislature process. www.kmbc.com/article/miss...

Missouri voters reject proposals to tighten initiative petitions and phase out income tax

Missouri voters rejected Amendments 4 and 5 Tuesday, defeating proposals to overhaul the initiative petition process and phase out the state income tax.

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My advice to ANY Democrat who thinks it’s a good idea to go on Fox News would be - DON’T GO ON FOX. You are entering the lion’s den of propaganda and spin. A few folks have navigated a Fox appearance successfully but it’s very tricky.

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

While no new cases of New World screwworm have been detected in New Mexico for more than a month, the parasitic fly “definitely is headed this way,” and a widespread infection would quickly exhaust the state’s resources, the state’s top veterinarian told state lawmakers Tuesday. buff.ly/nssgoOd

New Mexico state veterinarian says more screwworm cases ‘headed this way’ • Source New Mexico

The parasitic fly “definitely is headed this way,” the state's top vet said, and a widespread infection would exhaust the state’s resources.

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Max Miller Thinks Dinner Proves He Didn't Do It

🇺🇦🐶 🍦 Hah, what a lovely video. Let’s eat some ice cream together, buddy, and then we’ll get back to kicking the Russians out of Ukraine.

The same old Susan Collins charade. As soon as a controversial nominee or a bill has enough votes to pass, she announces she will vote no when it doesn’t matter. She never casts a deciding vote against Trump. Now she will claim this shows how she is so “independent.”

Trump profits from the torture. He invested in these corporations.

Tapper: "Did you hold this doll hostage? Because that is emotionally abusive behavior." Rep. Max Miller: "Mr. Tapper, no."

Frances Perkins was the patron saint of American workers and an inspiration for me during my time as labor secretary. She was the guiding light behind the creation of Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the National Labor Relations Act, and much more.

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Today's Prospect Patriot is Frances Perkins. She saw the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory go ablaze in 1911 and her life changed. "The New Deal was born that day," she said. 22 years later she'd be America's first female cabinet member. prospect.org/2026/08/04/a...

4 August 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Marguerite Sznajderman, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 12 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 1,229 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection. She was 6 months old.

A second man, Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, has died at Delaney Hall, the inhumane ICE detention center run by private prison contractor GEO Group. GEO Group’s profits have soared by over 700% since Trump has been back in office. Imagine profiting from death and suffering. Deplorable.

Trump Says Max Miller Is a Good Person

Jon is joined by U.S. Senator John Fetterman @fetterman.senate.gov for discussion on the Democratic Party, Israel, and the issues that continue to shape his politics. New podcast out tomorrow!

They opted to play political theatre with these survivors, unable to even offer them the basic decency of coming to a meeting they said they’d be at. trib.al/8JlOgu5

Republican Senators are voting to confirm Trump’s lawyer to be AG when it just came out that Capital One shut down Trump’s accounts under suspicion of money laundering and Trump wants exemption from being investigated for tax fraud. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS.

🗳️ Michigan's primaries are today — but things might look a bit different for some voters. Though not unusual for the DOJ to send election monitors to observe primary voting, targeting blue cities in a key battleground is. And it raises concerns that Trump will attempt to interfere in the midterms.

Michigan election officials prepare for Trump DOJ to monitor primary elections

Local election chiefs say the Trump administration is trying to undermine trust in the election by targeting the Great Lakes State with debunked claims of voter fraud.

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The House may be in recess, but we need to keep sounding the alarm on the "Taking Benefits from America's Veterans Act". As @deluzio.house.gov points out, troops downrange right now will have fewer benefits than other veterans if this bill becomes law.

I say this in the context of trying to get people to rally around El-Sayed since he’s almost certainly winning tonight. But I was reminded of something this morning when an ES supporter said ‘well we’re tired of nominating centrists again and again and having them keep losing.’ And it occurred to …

The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead. Read more 🔗 buff.ly/OdKGtdX