Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters who packed the meeting room — and two overflow rooms — to demand that their voting locations remain open. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage

The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters

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NEW: DHS wants to hire bounty hunters to find immigrants who already left the US in an ostensible attempt to make them pay fines DHS imposed on people in the US without documentation. @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...

DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad

Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.

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This was such a fun day for our members. @waltermasterson.bsky.social, thanks for hanging out with us. Let's do it again sometime soon (hopefully when we're finally paying our fair share in taxes!).

⚡️It’s Got Electrolytes⚡️@themarchingmorons.bsky.social · 18h ago

Millionaires Explain How They Hide Money. Explaining the Patriotric Millionaires platform. They want to be taxed more.🥴🤣✊ @waltermasterson.bsky.social @patrioticmillionaires.org

Millionaires Explain How They Hide Money. Explaining the Patriotric Millionaires platform. They want to be taxed more.🥴🤣✊ @waltermasterson.bsky.social @patrioticmillionaires.org

Millionaires Explain How They Hide Money

YouTube video by Walter Masterson

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@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

open.substack.com

Donald Trump told reporters he feels "badly" for Max Miller, a Republican congressman accused of abusing his wife, and hopes Miller can "work it out." The only thing less surprising than a Republican politician abusing his wife is Donald Trump empathizing with the abuser.

The Bottom Line: democrats are split about how to achieve our common goals of providing the protections, services, and opportunities that Americans need; Republicans are united in doing everything and anything they can to stop us.

#ScrapTheCap

Social Security Works@socialsecurityworks.org · 2h ago

The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500. If you're a nurse or construction worker, you're paying Social Security on 100% of your income. But if you're a corporate lawyer, raking in millions, you're only paying Social Security on a tiny fraction of your income. - @warren.senate.gov

The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500. If you're a nurse or construction worker, you're paying Social Security on 100% of your income. But if you're a corporate lawyer, raking in millions, you're only paying Social Security on a tiny fraction of your income. - @warren.senate.gov

Raise👏the👏FICA👏cap.

Social Security Works@socialsecurityworks.org · 2h ago

The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500. If you're a nurse or construction worker, you're paying Social Security on 100% of your income. But if you're a corporate lawyer, raking in millions, you're only paying Social Security on a tiny fraction of your income. - @warren.senate.gov

Cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan climb to over 12,000, state health officials say reut.rs/4fRXS9E

Cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan climb to over 12,000, state health officials say

Michigan health officials reported 12,218 cases linked to an outbreak of cyclosporiasis on Wednesday, an increase of 710 cases since ​its last update a day earlier.

reut.rs

El-Sayed on Islamophobia: "That's the only play they got. They're gonna point at me, they're gonna point at my name, like, 'Wow, he's different.' That's the best you got? You can't actually talk about what you want to do? My name is not raising your gas prices. My name is now taking us to war."

blessed be the poop lab techs

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4h ago

Samples—and a certain stink—are accumulating at Quest Diagnostics thanks to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. “You get used to it.” on.wsj.com/4fAqfu0

Greed unconstrained by basic human decency is a choice. Having too much money, unfairly gained, to spend in a lifetime and not helping those who deserve it is also a choice and same betrays ones' chilling malevolence ....

Miaganga@miaganga.bsky.social · 3h ago

Yeah I saw a huge “Conservatives Against Data Centers” sign in rural Indiana and it shocked me. Nobody likes these things

Has real legs in mainstream Democratic local politics too. (Here in NoVa lots of ordinary folks are focusing on electric utility rate regulation and corporate tax policy with unprecedented focus and fervor.)

You're absolutely right. Data centers are one of the few issues that unite liberals & conservatives, too. Been tracking data center demobilization strategies in the Repair Roadmap Tab - rows 34, 164, 168-169, 173-175, 224-225, 227, 258. Figuring out what's working locally & sharing the playbook:

Authoritarian Tactics Documentation

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Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds.

Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Abdul El-Sayed: -Spent: $15.5M - Votes: 740,950 votes - Cost per vote: $21 Haley Stevens: - Spent: $72M - Votes: 726,057 - Cost per vote: $99 Organized people > organized money

a feminist issue; a social justice issue; an environmental issue; an artists' issue; a human issue. there is not a single way that this fascist tool of artificial thievery does not damage.

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

katemanne.substack.com

(I have also added @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social, who won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Kansas last night).

Update: @haleyformi.bsky.social has formally conceded to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and has pledged her full support to help him defeat Mike Rogers in November. (not posted here yet)

notoai.org Info on how to disable shitty AI across apps, platforms, and devices. Created by a librarian so you know it's good! Share far and wide!

The Supreme Court’s destruction of the Voting Rights Act shows how the Court has aggrandized its role in our system of self-government — and why it must be reformed. bit.ly/458NyoF

What the Voting Rights Act Can Teach About Supreme Court Reform

No institution should be beyond meaningful democratic accountability.

brennancenter.org

All the people trump kills everyday are not ever coming back. When does it end?? Why did Republicans vote for him after he killed a million with covid. Now here we go again. Why do Republicans kill so many people?

These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/