I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.

NEW: Maryland Democrats just passed a constitutional amendment that would let them redraw the congressional map for 2028 in response to Republican gerrymanders elsewhere. If voters pass it in November, Democrats could enact a map like this earlier proposal to target the lone Republican, Andy Harris

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 6d ago

Maryland Democrats have unveiled their constitutional amendment that would let them redraw the congressional map for 2028 if voters approve it in November. It would insulate congressional maps from legal challenges and specify that existing restrictions on maps only apply to state Senate/House maps

Proud to stand with these three Michigan champions for a politics of solidarity that focuses relentlessly on the needs of working people. All three of them are hustling to turn out voters until the minute polls close tomorrow. (1/3)

Lena coping with the thunder

DC and Memphis are both experiencing a National Guard occupation and a Trump "task force" designed to exert dominance and control. Solidarity with Memphis communities, #FreeThe901

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

The influx of federal agents into the city last fall led to widespread immigration arrests – a majority without criminal convictions. President Trump has said he wants to replicate it elsewhere.

I have been waiting all summer for Erik to bring us his annual TOMATO SANDWICHES thread. This is nothing short of pure joy. Read and delight in it.

Erik Inglis@allthebeset.bsky.social · 2y ago

(In honor of August, bringing this 🧵 over from twitter) August makes me think of the best summer restaurant I ever ate at. It didn’t have a name, just a tidy hand-painted sign: “Tomato Sandwiches—all you can eat.” #tomatosandwiches

@dc.baddrivers.lol MD 8GY5090

Oh, done and dusted. And encourage everyone in DC and frankly anywhere to #DeleteDoordash. I don’t need a multibillion dollar company telling DC we don’t deserve home rule and stay silent about the assaults on delivery drivers by ICE.

Free DC@freedcproject.bsky.social · last wk.

DoorDash has been silent as its delivery drivers are hunted and killed by federal agents. Now, the company is backing #HR9720, a bill attacking DC Home Rule. We are calling on everyone to #DeleteDoordash. Let us know you've deleted your account and share your reasons why: deletedoordash.com

around 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak

No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.

ballsandstrikes.org

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

And it's only a matter of time until one of them hurts or kills one of our neighbors like in Memphis. This Nebraska National Guard occupier told me to get out of "our country" if I don't think armed troops illegally policing my neighbors are welcome in my city.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is fucking appalling, and Democrats and ~small-government~ Republicans should be shutting the government down over this ongoing, pointless, expensive, anti-freedom, anti-democracy move by Trump. This is not a legitimate use of the military, and everyone knows it.

This is fucking appalling, and Democrats and ~small-government~ Republicans should be shutting the government down over this ongoing, pointless, expensive, anti-freedom, anti-democracy move by Trump. This is not a legitimate use of the military, and everyone knows it.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

The National Guard Bureau will spend $292 million to provide a "long-term housing solution" for thousands of troop members deployed in DC in "apartment-style lodging units"

US out of DC, DC statehood now www.notus.org/defense/nati...

National Guard Signs $292M Housing Contract for Troops in Washington, D.C.

The deal would provide 2,000 “apartment-style lodging units” for service members deployed in the city.

notus.org

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

The horrifying video shows a straight-up execution of a Black man by police. It's a gutting demonstration of the continued, horrifying impunity with which police regularly treat Black life and none of us can accept this. wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madis...

Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses • Wisconsin Examiner

A Madison police officer shot a man several times, killing him during an arrest for allegedly casing cars in the Willy Street neighborhood.

wisconsinexaminer.com

Drivers are always in a hurry... *unless* someone makes them angry. Then they have all the time in the world to stop, harass people, and even commit murder.

Bill Lindeke@blindeke.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The driver, 31-year-old Charles Medina, sped past the couple from behind... Rapp’s boyfriend responded to the maneuver by raising his hands and yelling, at which point Medina slammed his brakes, skidded to a stop and accelerated in reverse." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Supporting legislation to gut DC’s Home Rule over a 20-cent delivery fee is appalling. No more DoorDash for us, DC.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting: DoorDash is supporting the GOP bill in Congress to limit D.C.'s ability to increase or decrease taxes and fees, largely in response to the D.C. Council's recent vote in impose a new 20-cent delivery fee to help fund food-access programs. www.notus.org/metro/uberea...

If you have time this weekend, please check out the doc (~30 min.) my team & I released this week on Musk’s push into Greater Memphis with xAI and its noisy, methane gas burning turbines, data centers, broken promises & impacts on majority Black communities next door. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...

Elon Musk's Memphis AI empire is the epicenter of the data center backlash

Data center-related policy proposals, protests and litigation are underway across the country citing Colossus and Memphis as a cautionary tale.

cnbc.com

President Trump has no legal authority over elections and is running out of plays, so he has resorted to rehashing old tropes and nothingburgers. The only way his administration's campaign to undermine our elections works is if voters stay home this fall.

This is shitty on a bunch of levels but friendly reminder we depend on Canada and vice versa to help fight fires. This kind of rhetoric isn't helping anything.

Global News@globalnews.ca · 3w ago

"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...

Today, two dozen national and local organizations wrote to Governor Green and asked him to recall the Hawai’i National Guard forces that he sent to Washington, DC, at President Trump’s request. 1/10 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Coalition Letter to Governor Green

The Brennan Center and more than twenty other organizations have sent a letter to Governor Green urging him to recall the Hawai’i National Guard members he sent to Washington, DC, at President Trump’s...

brennancenter.org

Making it super expensive to operate streateries is quite possibly one of the dumbest public space decisions we've made as a city recently. Streateries existing are a net public good. They make our neighborhoods livelier and more enjoyable to be in.

Justin Sarriot 🌌@justindavidh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey, @aparnafordc.bsky.social , the Wonderland streetery is officially gone, which was the last on 11th St. A lively urban corridor, and incredible neighborhood amenity removed… for three parking spaces. Please fight for space for people, not cars.

DC Metro Police continue to collaborate with ICE during their lawless ethnic cleansing campaign and multiple murders this past week. HSI pictured here leaving 3DHQ at 17th and V St. Statehood for the people of DC.

Free DC@freedcproject.bsky.social · 3w ago

ABOLISHING ICE IS NOT ENOUGH. Today ICE killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. He was 26. He was a husband and father. His daughter and wife were with him. He was not the person ICE was looking for. And yet again, ICE is trying to lie about what happened. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

“Johan Sebastián was a 25 year old young man who worked tirelessly to provide for his family. He leaves behind his wife and their 3 year old daughter, who now face an uncertain future without him.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 3w ago

“With broken hearts, we are raising funds to help his family cover legal expenses, funeral costs, and the repatriation of his body to Colombia, where his parents are waiting to lay him to rest,” says the family of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, the Maine dad killed by ICE:

This is why I get infuriated every time media outlets use terms like "immigration crackdown" or "immigration agenda." This is ethnic cleansing. There is evidence to support that. Journalists should be using that term and placing what we're seeing in the context of other ethnic cleansing campaigns.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 3w ago

wrote about why ICE keeps killing people. it's because they're part of a pretty explicitly genocidal project. trump wants them to kill people, and so they do. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ices-missi...

something important imo that isn't mentioned in the Reuters piece is the fact that, in response to the NAACP suing xAI, Trump's DOJ is trying to *take over the lawsuit as plaintiff* and "voluntarily dismiss" the case ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Trump DOJ Is Trying to Do Elon Musk a Big Favor

The government claims that it has the power to dismiss the NAACP’s lawsuit against one of the president’s political allies.

ballsandstrikes.org

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

Many candidates are seeking the nomination in Maine, but the most viable are the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-place finishers in last month's gubernatorial primary. @gurleygg.bsky.social is an experienced Maine watcher and interviewed Troy Jackson as far back as 2016. She looks at the candidates:

Maine’s Three Likely Replacements for Graham Platner - The American Prospect

Troy Jackson, Shenna Bellows, and Nirav Shah all bring different qualities to a showdown with Susan Collins.

prospect.org

"“A masked agent in an unmarked car killed Lorenzo in his own neighborhood where he lived for 35 years working and raising a family...This is what unaccountable, unrepentant, unconstitutional enforcement looks like.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 4w ago

They canned Kristi Noem as part of a public relations stunt following Minnesota. But now another one of our neighbors is dead, another family is grieving, and another agent with a body count continues stalking our streets endangering us all: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/ice-has-ag...

Lena requesting thunder off

Traffic stops or slows for a massive car crash, that's human nature. But we have a chance to amplify and have as Senator an actual GOOD DUDE. Let's look here.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 4w ago

Charismatic? Young? For Medicare for All? Running against a ghoul who would let Trump devour the country whole?

"You don’t pressure witnesses to a shooting to self-deport if your goal is to get to the bottom of what happened." In the same way that the government did not investigate the Minnesota shootings, they will not investigate these shootings.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...