Several Women’s March activists were arrested inside the U.S. Capitol after holding a vigil honoring people they say died following encounters with ICE. Their message was clear: “Abolish ICE.” #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

"When are American families going to see the $1,700 they're owed? Return the money, NOW."

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 13h ago

It’s been 166 days since SCOTUS struck down Trump’s illegal tariff taxes & big corporations are getting their refunds. $2.2 BILLION for Apple, $600 MILLION for Amazon, $300 million for Nike.   When are American families going to see the $1,700 they're owed? Return the money, NOW.

"A president who can't let a case go is a president who might try to bring it back"

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 3d ago

We're considering all options to deal w/ this miscarriage of justice, because a president who can't let a case go is a president who might try to bring it back @democracydefendersfund.org exists for exactly that Davey Hearn is cleared & we're keeping it that way -TN @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social👇

Thread ! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 3d ago

When trying to understand the Right Wing, it helps to realize they have spent their lives pretending to be someone they aren't and sublimating parts of themselves they hate and that they have to project that pain and hatred onto others because the tension is so unbearable it will destroy them.

11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3d ago

11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.

If your grandpa kept sending you these as texts, you'd have an emergency family meeting.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good to know after a tough weekend on the golf course the president is back at work laser focused on improving the lives of Americans by resuming his deranged AI marathon.

No shame, no self-reflection, That's the real sickness of this moment: people this sure of themselves, this incapable of seeing their own ignorance, convinced they alone hold the truth. How does a country come back from a divide this deep literally, figuratively, psychologically.

⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ "The real vandal is the Trump admin blaming Americans for its own failures"

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 3d ago

The evidence has ALWAYS shown Davey Hearn's innocence The real vandal is the Trump admin blaming Americans for its own failures: a botched installation that left the Reflecting Pool filled w/peeling paint & algae @cbseveningnews.bsky.social tonight @ 6, I explain why this is far from over -TN

Father-in-law and senator Bernie Moreno: "As he has admitted privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological help. He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter."

"Nothing Moves the Needle." For me, this is one of the most successful attempts to explain what's happened to the fourth estate as Trump and his movement try to wreck it. The essay is long, but worth it for the way writer Craig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social redescribes the crisis in journalism.

Craig Unger@craigunger.bsky.social · 6d ago

@noupside.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social The ground journalism was built to stand on stopped being solid under everyone at the same time. Find out why investigative reporting can't touch Trump the way Watergate touched Nixon! craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...

STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING

BREAKING: STATEMENT ON DOJ’S DISMISSAL OF CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST DAVEY HEARN

Axios is trash.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 6d ago

Can someone explain how Axios could publish this and not note that DOJ has lost 18 of these cases and not won a single one? 0-18 is smart brevity.

Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too. This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there’s no plan to win a war with Iran. www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...

Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge | CNN Politics

Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities to issue boil-water notices and switch to manual mode, taking their systems offline...

cnn.com

@repmoskowitz.bsky.social: Corruption - no other word for it.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7d ago

Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.

Stop hoping Republicans grow a spine. They cave, every single time. Not a lesson; it's a pattern. They don't learn. They don't reflect. They're hopeless, and they always were.

Jim Jordan's masterstroke: Wait until Cornyn and Tillis are out the door in January. Except by then, Democrats run the Senate. That's not a strategy; that's checkmating yourself.

They could not look guiltier if they tried. If Mitch is dead/incapacitated, These people should be in prison for fraud/racketeering. They’re defrauding the people of Kentucky for their salaries at the VERY least. @govandybeshear.bsky.social #MissingMitchMcconnell

A man already down, defenseless, beaten in the back of the head stopped only because a camera was rolling. The world is watching in horror. This isn't the America that once stood as the hero against tyranny. This is shame, full stop.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last wk.

Watch as a suspected ICE goon is seen punching on top of a man as he punches the victim in the back of the head. The incident happened in Plainfield, New Jersey The goon only stopped when he realized he was being recorded.

"Just a work colleague," she says. His diary says he calmed her panic attacks and walked her through her pandemic pregnancy fears, multiple calls a day. Now she wants him in prison for that same pandemic. Call it what it is: hypocrisy.

HuffPost@huffpost.com · 7d ago

The wife of top Trump aide has called for the infectious disease expert to be jailed.

'Keep organizing. Keep fighting.'

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 7d ago

Some really encouraging Senate polls… 📍Georgia 🔵 Jon Ossoff: 56% 🔴 Mike Collins: 43% 📍North Carolina 🔵 Roy Cooper: 53% 🔴 Michael Whatley: 44% 📍Ohio 🔵 Sherrod Brown: 53% 🔴 Jon Husted: 45% 📍Iowa 🔵 Josh Turek: 50% 🔴 Ashley Hinson: 46% Keep organizing. Keep fighting.

Morning Bluesky This is correct, by Paul Krugman: “1.2 million Americans died from Covid — a number that would have been much lower if MAGA misinformation hadn’t caused so many people to refuse vaccination” See: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 1/2 paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...

Reality is a Communist Plot

Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset

paulkrugman.substack.com

Epstein's victims have made their voices heard, loud and clear. The Senate must reject Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General.

Jim Acosta@jimacosta.bsky.social · 3w ago

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

Todd Blanche can't win this week: lose Thursday's vote and it's historic humiliation; win it and he's just signed up to be Trump's yes-man a job that could end with him in prison. As Miles Taylor put it: "Trump discards lawyers the way he discards creditors."

Miles Taylor@milestaylor.bsky.social · last wk.

Todd Blanche is about to have a bad week. If he loses Thursday’s vote, the humiliation will be historic. If he wins, it’s worse… the job he wants — “yes-man” to a law-breaking Trump — could one day land him in prison. More here: bit.ly/4yNvmOZ

A man already down, defenseless, beaten in the back of the head stopped only because a camera was rolling. The world is watching in horror. This isn't the America that once stood as the hero against tyranny. This is shame, full stop.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last wk.

Watch as a suspected ICE goon is seen punching on top of a man as he punches the victim in the back of the head. The incident happened in Plainfield, New Jersey The goon only stopped when he realized he was being recorded.

Lindsey Graham: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed...... and we will deserve it."

The silence from most of the press on this is its own scandal. THE FOURTH ESTATE IS CRUMBLING (see my profile)

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump’s extended posting spree yesterday suggests that he’s literally *psychotic.* But the press is too terrified or timid to report that.

Police pull over to interrogate man blocking a Flock camera with a sign. "I have a constitutional right to my privacy."

BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.