I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency. Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals. 🧵

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

Trump Judge Ryan Nelson wants to end all judicial review over the president’s deployment of the National Guard into Democratic cities to suppress dissent. Why that’s (a) howlingly wrong on the law and (b) astoundingly dangerous on the ground: slate.com/news-and-pol...

There are so many things to be upset about, but this visual is absolutely galling.

The Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, & Scarecrow met the PDX Frog at No Kings today!! 🎖️❤️🌾🐸

RIP chuck. If masked thugs can’t have compassion for humans, why would they have compassion for pets.

Long before becoming the District of Columbia, these lands were home to indigenous peoples. Native American artifacts have been found all over DC, including Rock Creek Park, Anacostia, the Arboretum, Van Ness, the Palisades, Capitol Hill, and even the White House.

In past shutdowns, Congress has been in session and voting. This time, Speaker Johnson has closed the House floor and stopped all negotiations. We should be negotiating right now.

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with @texastribune.org)

Not that anything matters anymore but for the record this is more radically anti-Christian than any amount of gay marriages or trans kids playing volleyball. I don't think you can make a more direct assault on the ethos of Christ in two sentences than this.

What happens when we give kids a smartphone — we ask the impossible. A wonderful PSA by Smartphone-Free Childhood US.

Invasive vines can be deadly for forests. But this past year, scrappy groups of @chesapeakeclimate.bsky.social volunteers have helped save nearly 1,000 trees across green spaces in Southeast and Northeast D.C. alone, @samdelgado.bsky.social reports:

Here are my top 10 fall dogs!

“In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

Tune in as we introduce the No Political Enemies Act. We aren't going to lie down as Trump tries to destroy free speech in this country.

Charlie Kirk was like no one else in Trump world. Now comes the aftermath. slate.trib.al/EIB8ODM

Guy whose literal job is to tour the country convincing young men to adhere to fascistic, aggressively patriarchical societal ideals and who flaunted school shootings as a necessary evil gets shot Antifascists: lol Morons, seeing that "lol": WOW, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

Ohhh this is awesome thank you! @washingtonian.com

Do you work at the Office of Management and Budget? Do you know someone who does? Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought? If the answer to any of these is "yes," please contact @andykroll.bsky.social www.propublica.org/tips/

Headline: Trump mobilizing National Guard in 19 states My mood: They didn’t start off wearing red robes…

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

According to a post on Reddit, a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle t-boned a car in Capitol Hill this morning. Firefighters reportedly used the jaws of life to free the driver, who DC Fire & EMS said sustained only minor injuries.

Senate Democrats who are angry about Trump's dictatorial takeover of D.C. law enforcement can flex their opposition by voting AGAINST three pending Senate bills that would repeal laws enacted by D.C.'s elected representatives.

#Texas #StandUpFightBack! #Pinks

🚨ALERT🚨 A group of about 10 Secret Service, ICE HSI, and DHS police have been spotted across various locations around Adams Morgan, the Columbia Heights metro, the triangle park at Harvard and 16th St NW in Mount Pleasant, and at the Ft. Totten metro between 8 and 9 PM today (8/8). 1/

Guy Confronts ICE ✊🏽

Jessica: I also heard no complaints when Mike Johnson decided to abdicate his job to say actually congress isn't in session anymore because I don't want to have to vote on turning over the Epstein files…. so be equal opportunity in your complaints about fleeing your job

With IRS commissioner Billy Long saying the Direct File program is "gone," revisit our 2019 story about how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on 20+ years of NASA satellite data. Here are the report’s key findings and what they portend for humankind.

@dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social do you all recommend patrons focusing on physical copies?

There have been a lot of terrible days in the last year, but August 1 stands out for how clarifying it was in its shitiness.

Emil Bove misled lawmakers in his confirmation hearings for a federal judgeship when he denied targeting prosecutors who refused to go along with his dismissal of corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

This is wrong. It seems like the whole BLM movement did nothing.

While Oklahoma just ranked 50th in education… 🚨 An executive session of the Oklahoma State Board of Education was interrupted when images of naked women popped up on a TV in the office of Superintendent Ryan “anti-porn” Walters—yes, that guy—during the meeting he was hosting.

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Rubio: yes bring back that guy who murdered three people from Venezuela and let him go but def do not let a group of kids playing baseball come

When you strip away humanity

NEW: Consul Warns Mexicans Must Take ‘Extreme Precautions’ in Florida as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Leads to Diplomatic Tensions talkingpointsmemo.com/news/consul-...

Pam Bondi wants to seize powers that the Constitution grants to Congress and the judiciary, constructing an authoritarian presidency that respects no limits on Trump’s rule. This administration simply does not believe the other branches have a legitimate claim to power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

what a guy ugh

This fucking fraud just voted to move Bove's nomination forward. Cause she does the Senate Majority leader wants (Trump might as well be Majority Leader these days) bsky.app/profile/coll...

“We were kidnapped”: On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans who disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador started their journey home. The horror stories are already emerging. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @nlanard.bsky.social spoke with some of their families and here's what they said happened👇

If you refuse to see what is happening, the cancellation of the Colbert show should open your eyes. I want to explain to you what a censorship state looks like - where a corrupt government gives favors to media that suppresses criticism of the regime.

Nearly 150 years ago, Chief Standing Bear’s fight to bury his son showed the power of the human stories that the legal system often obscures