For the second frigid Friday in a row, thousands of demonstrators marched through Minneapolis to protest President Trump’s immigration crackdown. Others across the country also answered the call to protest, from New York to Texas. https://wapo.st/4boUUsz

The killing happened about 15 hours ago. Since then: - MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (FBI equivalent) got a warrant for the evidence on the scene - Tried to execute it - Were forcibly turned away by feds - Filed for a temporary restraining order - TRO granted by the federal district court

This aged well…

“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024. It’s almost as if there were signs! bsky.app/profile/anna...

A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.” It’s almost as if there were signs!

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!

Hahahahah Gotta say, I’ve heard some incredible “off the record” jokes over the past 24 hours

Where we're at Helps GOP —TX: 5 seats toward GOP —OH:2 seats toward GOP, but also 1 toward Dems —NC: 1 Dem seat to likely GOP Helps Dems —CA: 5 seats toward Dems —UT: 1 seat flips Dem ? —MO: 1 seat to GOP... but veto referendum? —VA: Dems trying —FL: GOP maybe GOP push stalls: —KS —IN VRA —...

Now a story: www.abc4.com/news/politic...

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing 1/2

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

tbf Texans were convinced Obama would invade Texas and send people to camps during the Jade Helm military exercises. Weird how they're no longer concerned when their fever-dream fantasy is actually happening

Wednesday, I'll be joining @johncarey.bsky.social @mcpli.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social & Maria Perez for the launch of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences working group report on proportional representation. It's been a great project and discussions. Can sign up here, including Q&A:

Microsoft Azure, 365 down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows reut.rs/4oczIcC

NOW: U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino agrees to meet with a federal judge every evening until a preliminary injunction hearing, which is set for 11/5.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Judge Young is a Reagan appointee, by the way.

BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hey, BlueSky. When they say "Free Speech" - they don't mean YOU. This here is pretty fresh off the wires..

BREAKING: Legal Advocates Announce New Grounds of Impeachment in Response to Trump’s Federal Takeover of the DC Police, Unlawful Gerrymandering, Silencing Speech, and Privacy Violations. freespeechforpeople.org/in-response-...

#Democracy #SocialJustice #QuoteOfTheDay

The new redistricting wars triggered by Trump & the GOP have unleashed a torrent of news. To help keep track of it all, we've published a guide to the latest developments in every state—28 in all—and we'll update it every time there’s something new to report. You'll want to bookmark this one —>

Minnesota Dems have selected a candidate to replace Melissa Hortman, the former Speaker who was assassinated: It’ll be Xp Lee, a former council member from Brooklyn Park.

WaPo just published an oped by Jeanine Piro demanding that DC repeal the “Second Look Act”. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... This is the law about which I posted this piece yesterday:

Very, very bad: A hack of the federal judiciary's case filing system may have "compromised the identities of confidential informants involved in criminal cases at multiple federal district courts." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Stay strong TX Dems! We see you and we got you! All Texans deserve to have our voices heard for the good of our beloved state. @indivisible.org

with minimal access. So while I don't find the theories offered by This Will Hold very persuasive, that does not equate to suggesting that we have evidence that the election was secure - to the contrary - we have evidence that the software and systems were compromised before the election. And 16/

And possibly most important, before the '24 election, voting systems and proprietary software were improperly accessed by Trump allies, enabling potential bad actors to develop stealth, sophisticated attacks that could evade pre-election testing and be launched...15/ www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

We know that insider threat - the possibility that a corrupted vendor employee or election official could allow physical assess to machines - is the number one risk, and yet it's hand-waved away and deftly ignored. 14/ www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

We know that some of them STILL are using wireless modems that connect them to the internet. 13/ www.politico.com/news/2022/10...

There is a new substack circulating from This Will Hold alleging that an NSA whistleblower has claimed the NSA audited the 2024 election and found Trump did not win. I've received several inquiries on my thoughts on this (and I'm cited) so I wanted to offer this 🧵 for those that are interested. 1/

NEW: George Santos has reported to prison — beginning a more than seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to federal charges that included wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering.

JUST IN: Judge Breyer sets trial for Aug. 11-13 on whether Trump's deployment of military to Los Angeles violated Posse Comitatus. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The fundamental choice has not been as stark since World War II: democracy and freedom, or dictatorship and tyranny. Trump and his sycophants are siding with the latter. The rest of us must loudly, proudly, and boldly proclaim our allegiance to the former.

Camp Mystic, the Christian summer camp for girls on the Guadalupe River in Texas where at least 20 children were missing after major flooding on Friday, is nearly a century old. In an email to parents, Camp Mystic said it had sustained “catastrophic level floods.”

A tropical depression and the heavy rains accompanying it could lead to flash flooding across South Carolina and other parts of the coastal Southeast this weekend, forecasters warned.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Happy Friday & Happy 4th! The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has named an area of low pressure off the northeast Florida coast a tropical depression. An uptick in showers & storms is possible across east-central Georgia over the weekend due to ... https://x.com/NWSAtlanta/status/1941255195570413584

“Unrestrained, the president is functionally equivalent to a dictator in the realm of national security—one who can translate any impulse into policy on a whim,” writes @profsaunders.bsky.social.

How will the ‘big, beautiful bill’ impact Georgia?

Texas parents are frantically posting photos of their daughters and pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp remain missing after floods tore through the state's south-central region.

spending the 4th trolling the president of el salvador on the internet, as the founders intended

NEWS: In Newsom v. Trump, Judge Breyer finds that he has jurisdiction to consider a preliminary injunction based on Posse Comitatus Act grounds — and grants California’s request for discovery on that issue.

This seems bad

At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:

Breaking News: President Trump said that the U.S. had bombed Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility, as well as two other sites.