Ahead of the ADA’s 35th anniversary tomorrow, I led @democrats.senate.gov in introducing a resolution to send a loud and clear message: Disability rights are human rights. As Republicans kick millions off Medicaid, we’ll never stop fighting to protect the disability community.

Two hats with the same massage

NEW: Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. With @texastribune.org

I don’t want to hear a god damn word against this EO from the Democratic politicians in California and elsewhere who’ve been demonizing homeless people, just like they turned against immigrants - treating vulnerable human beings’ very existence in their communities as a crime. Dems own this too.

This is a crisis. While I have very little confidence in this administration, I'm calling on POTUS to intervene. No one should starve or die from disease when aid is sitting across the border. Let all humanitarian actors get aid into Gaza. Make sure it can be delivered safely.

Trump and Republicans’ Big Bad Betrayal will impact every single corner of this country — including right here in WA. This is bad for our environment and will kill green jobs. It’s a lose-lose. www.kuow.org/stories/mega...

Make sure everyone knows: Whether you are on private insurance or get coverage from the marketplace, understand that your premiums will go UP because of Trump's Big Ugly bill. And with 17 million Americans losing health care, there will be reduced services & longer wait times just about everywhere.

Please, this isn’t about saving money. Republicans just exploded the debt by at least 4 trillion dollars!!! To fund tax cuts for billionaires. Defunding Big Bird and Elmo isn’t going to fix that mess. Neither is defunding programs to help starving children.

You can read more about Christie's fight for legal recognition at elan-cane.com

Every year for the past 19 years, the school district for Sleetmute, Alaska, has asked the state for money to help repair a leaky roof. Again and again, the state said no. Now the school is crumbling. By @emilyschwing.bsky.social, w/ KYUK & @npr.org

Just two weeks ago Republicans added trillions to the deficit. Now they're pretending they're SO concerned about the debt that they have to cut lifesaving aid, PBS, and rural radio. That doesn't add up. So I tried to help my Republican colleagues with some basic counting on the Senate floor.

Exactly: THe stories on what didn't get done bc Noem required her personal signature (in additional to call centers, the rescue teams) aren't stating clearly that one reason Noem is doing this is bc she's $1B over budget bc she has blown it all on kidnapping grannies.

Do not grade this administration on a curve. Their thoughtless cuts and dangerous policies are putting lives in danger. Make sure everyone knows about these failures. All of us should be outraged, and no one should let them off the hook. Fire Kristi Noem.

Dear MAGA, If you don't object to a POTUS claiming that he has the power to take away, on a personal whim, the citizenship of a person born in the United States to US citizens, then I assume you WANT a king.

Utah senator Mike Lee says selling off public lands will solve the West’s housing crisis. Past public land sales show otherwise. By @abestreep.bsky.social

Hmmm. Red. ____. and blue. Wonder what goes in that blank. There must be a natural seeming option. One of those things that just flows as if in had been hammered in your brain forever. What could it be...? The (what is that damned word?) party seemed wrong or something. Weird.

Prediction: First big move the White Party makes is to amend the Constitution so f'Elon can run for POTUS.

New data: US counties that border Canada account for only 1.2% of the fentanyl powder and just 0.5% of the fentanyl pills obtained in large seizures. Bottom line: fentanyl isn't coming in from Canada, despite Trump's lies. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Brazil has long been an unsung pioneer in social uses of the internet. This could mean the end to all that. Brazil’s Supreme Court clears way to hold social media companies liable for user content apnews.com/article/braz...

While she was governor of South Dakota, corrupt Kristi Noem took $80,000 from a dark money group. Her apparent abuse of our broken campaign finance system to pad her pockets raises major ethical concerns.

A punitive and nonsensical measure against our allies & key trading partners. Trump seems determined to inject as much chaos & uncertainty into our economic outlook as possible for next to nothing in return. A real chump of a dealmaker if you ask me. Congress needs to step in.

What is extra disgusting about this is how much his dad, Mario Cuomo, venerated the American immigrant experience. He's an absolute disgrace to his dad's legacy.

Riker had started purring and trilling during meals. I think she's finally moving from "Spicy" to "mild" 😇 Only took 5 years. 😁 #Vaticats

The Trump admin is moving to end TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua. It’s another attack on our legal immigration system that will impact countless lives and force those who have been here for decades to return to dangerous conditions in their home countries. My full statement:

There are real-world consequences to appointing an anti-vax conspiracy theorist as our nation's top health official. Worse public health outcomes aren't an accident—they are inevitable when Republicans dismantle our public health infrastructure. We need to keep pushing back.

This is Trump's America.
 
Where even a Purple Heart Army Veteran is self-deporting because of his cruel, inhumane anti-immigrant agenda.
 
These are not the values Sae Joon Park sacrificed to defend.
 
Yet another hero left behind.

It's not just that the NY Times has happily carried water for white supremecists, but it's also shown itself to be completely incapable of understanding information.

That's a hell of a decision while litigation challenging it is pending.

More than ever, Americans must remain grounded in the founding principles of our republic. I'm proud to be among those from across the political spectrum supporting the @weholdtruths.bsky.social to remind us of the values we hold in common, and to help make the Constitution accessible to everyone.

Given the evidence my investigators have seen, this reeks of a coverup.

Defunding Planned Parenthood is a backdoor nationwide abortion ban that will also deprive women of basic health care for things like cancer screenings and birth control. Fighting every way possible and fighting like hell to protect women's health care.

I think they will be too afraid to be the first to shoot. But if one finally does, and there's no consequence, then they all will. We should plan our response now to the inevitable first tragedy so it's the last.

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Data from the Texas Ethics Commission shows Musk’s lobbyists spent tens of thousands of dollars on gifts, meals, entertainment and other freebies for state elected officials and their staff, family members and guests from January to May this year. With @kutnews.bsky.social & @texastribune.org

Yes, there was apparently much that was farcical about the Battle of MacArthur Park, and I’m all for ridiculing it. Still, it’s an awful precedent, and an alarming one.

No. More to the point, I don't think the Democrats would even try.

Who could have foreseen this except all the people trained to foresee it if we'd not cut them off from all the relevant data and fired them from their jobs?

Over several days in May, the Tennessee Highway Patrol sent a surge of cruisers along the streets of south Nashville, pulling over drivers as ICE agents in unmarked vehicles with flashing lights waited next to them. With @azluminaria.org

The additional $80,000 that Noem received from the dark money group in 2023 represented a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 salary as South Dakota governor. By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Exactly

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

“An executive order can do a lot, but it does not absolve agencies of their obligations to follow the law.”

Judge Bates says the rushed removal by HHS of 100s of websites containing gender-related data was an example of officials “acting first and thinking later.” It also violates the law, he ruled, ordering the sites restored. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.

One part of Republicans' Big Ugly Bill that hasn't gotten enough attention? It DEFUNDS Planned Parenthood—a big step toward the GOP's plan for a Backdoor Nationwide Abortion Ban where women won't be able to get care anywhere. NOW is the time to speak up against this heinous bill.

Imagine

Maybe the #Vaticats can help to cleanse your timeline. 😇

Republicans' Big Ugly Bill is about one thing: taking away programs that give American families a HAND UP in hard times, to pay for a HAND OUT for the richest people on the planet. It's immoral and wrong. House Members must vote NO.