A win! A federal court has dismissed the Department of Justice’s lawsuit seeking access to Colorado’s unredacted voter registration list.
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Iran has been playing the long game....the rope-a-dope. Knowing we'd exhaust ourselves
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday"The Army has used up 'virtually all' of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts"
NEW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's willing to "micromanage" Corpus Christi's water crisis. But he's gone quiet on the financial troubles of an agency that could help expand the region's water supply — despite Abbott having appointed its entire board. With KRIS 6 News and @texastribune.org
Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has Power Over Is Falling Apart.
The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply. But the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despit...
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Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday blocked the Trump administration’s ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized U.S. citizens register to vote — finding the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Court blocks Trump ban on voter registration help for new citizens, finding likely intentional discrimination
Senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly portrayed immigrants' political participation as an electoral threat.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Friday that she has restored voting rights for 66,085 people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to vote due to past felony convictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions
The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.
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BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit
Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...
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"Maria" is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves and sleeves to protect herself against the lemon thorns. She shares, "I will work any job to feed my children." Today Coachella temps are predicted to reach a high of 118°. #WeFeedYou
JESS FISHLOCK WITH INSTANT IMPACT 💥 Jess Fishlock subs into the match and puts the Seattle Reign up 3-2!
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
thought fishlock's injury was gonna end her season and possibly career, lmao nope she subbed in to make her return in the 84th minute and scored in the 85th
Kamala Harris: We have a president taking America into a war the people did not ask for, spending billions of dollars without paying attention to the people right here in America who are losing their health coverage because of policies they are pushing to pay for a tax cut for the rich…
I often hear that it would be "too expensive" to add bicyclist detection to new vehicles in the US - where new vehicles already average ~$50k But here's a $8,350 kei car in Japan that pulls it off because New Car Assessment has made it effectively standard www.automotiveworld.com/topics/softw...
Daihatsu Smart Assist adds cyclist detection to kei cars | Automotive World
Daihatsu Smart Assist now covers turning scenarios, on a car that costs less than a mid-range family hatchback
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VA's governor just restored voting rights for more than 60k citizens, a reversal from the previous governor and a reminder of VA's harsh lifetime voting ban for any felony conviction The move comes ahead of a November referendum to end this system and start restoring rights when people exit prison
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
MEMPHIS — state house candidate Jesse Huseth: “If we ABOLISH VOUCHERS tomorrow, we can fully fund pre-k education in the state of Tennessee.” www.jessefor97.com
UEFA nations will not participate in FIFA events until the investment deal is scrapped
Europe Announces World Cup Boycott Over FIFA Investment Deal With Kushner Family
UEFA nations will not participate in FIFA events until the investment deal is scrapped
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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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“The president’s family owns the business while the president signs the laws, appoints the regulators, controls enforcement and conducts diplomacy with the governments capable of giving that business scale.”
WLFireside@wlfireside.bsky.social · last wk.World Liberty Financial has finally broken into the mainstream. But the headlines are still telling one scandal at a time. The real story is the machine: Congress, a federal bank charter, sovereign dollars, a captured public company, tokenized assets & AI payments—all moving at once. Pay attention
World Liberty Financial has finally broken into the mainstream. But the headlines are still telling one scandal at a time. The real story is the machine: Congress, a federal bank charter, sovereign dollars, a captured public company, tokenized assets & AI payments—all moving at once. Pay attention
The State of World Liberty Financial — July 29, 2026
The scandal has reached the mainstream. The machine underneath it still hasn’t.
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“when Hawaii’s State Senate Bill 2471 goes into effect in 2027, it will be illegal for corporations to spend money to influence elections in Hawaii.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-corporat...
The Corporate Power Reset
Legislation in Hawaii and Montana shows how pro-democracy advocates can fight back against Citizens United.
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Despite all the accusations of crimes and cover-ups, the Trump admin has never actually prosecuted or jailed anyone. The supposed stolen 2020 election, Jan 6 deep state, Dr Fauci, etc. All of its is just theater for the base, revving them up. In the end, will undermine faith in gov and institutions.
Cape Verde makes their WAFCON debut 🇨🇻 The women's side played their first match in 2018. They'll take the field at WAFCON with a chance to qualify for the 2027 World Cup. They may be one of WAFCON's lowest-ranked teams—but as we all learned this summer, big things can come from this small country.
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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The DOJ was willing to charge a labor leader with a crime, hold it over him for months, & then walk away from it once the charge couldn’t survive scrutiny. That is not how a justice system is supposed to work.
US justice department dismisses charges against California union leader
David Huerta was arrested while protesting against an ICE operation during crackdown in Los Angeles
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Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell isn’t casting votes for Trump’s judges or against your rights this week.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
Trump's deputy defense secretary wants to bring "private-equity-style" dealmaking to the business of weapons acquisition. He's got a $1 trillion budget & a bunch of companies he's previously done business with ready to get involved. I for one can't think of anything that could go wrong!
Private Equity Targets America’s War Machine and Its $1 Trillion Budget
Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg wants America’s war machine to get cozier with companies. The private equity firm he co-founded is building a constellation of next-generation businesses to a...
bloomberg.com
During the first Trump admin, Border Patrol agents on Facebook were caught mocking dead migrants and calling them "tonks." Trump's CBP officials denied a broader cultural problem and said they'd crack down. During the second Trump admin, it appears they don't even care to pretend anymore.
Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes
The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum bu...
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"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU