The White House has become Dollar Store Caesar’s Palace. Donald Trump has always been an extraordinarily tacky man. I remember when they first showed the inside of his Trump Tower condo on “The Apprentice.” We were supposed to marvel at the luxury. I laughed at the vulgarity.

ICE agents weren't wearing body cameras when they killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. The three men who were with him are reportedly being detained separately and getting pressured to self-deport — while refuting ICE’s story. What is ICE trying to cover up?

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Ken Paxton just denied our public information request for the Hoffman Files. Adam Hoffman — an admitted child molester — should be in prison, but Ken Paxton let him off the hook. Texans deserve to know why. We don’t need any more pedophile protectors in our government.

Mamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could.

💯 There has been so much corruption and insider trading.

BREAKING: an anti-Trump march is currently underway in Washington DC — few mainstream outlets will cover it. It’s our duty to keep it going! Let’s go!

Trump could talk about the things he’s done to improve the lives of most Americans for the midterms, but he doesn’t have any of those things. So instead he is going to sell voters that Democrats are communists who are going to steal everything you have because they hate America.

Why don't our schools get the funding they need? Because there's not a lobby for public schools. Kids don't have a corporate PAC. We must be willing to take on the political system that always puts corporations over people.

Trump is not the cause of this. He’s the ugly malignancy that has grown out of a political party that lost its collective mind decades ago. Citizens who think of themselves as Christians or otherwise good people should consider who they are standing with when they vote Republican.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Gregg Abbott has been Governor of Texas since 2015 and has spearheaded abortion bans, deaths of immigrants, & locking up immigrant kids. 📌Texans need to vote Gina Hinojosa for governor in order to protect our rights, freedoms and history. #GinaHinojosa #AbbottFailsTexas @ginafortexas.bsky.social

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Every single lawmaker that’s calling for their constituents to “be responsible with electricity usage” during the extreme heat had better be supporting heavy restrictions on data centers.

If companies can't run data centres without polluting our air and water, pushing up energy bills, abusing workers' rights, harming local communities or wrecking the climate – then they shouldn't be allowed to run them A safe climate and healthy environment are necessities – tech bro profits aren't

We don’t have a government. We have a crime family posing as one.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

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KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Gina Hinojosa in a fearless speech accepting the Texas Democratic nomination for Governor. Texans are fed up with Greg Abbott pillaging the middle class to give to the mega rich and Gina will make working families her priority.

Tex Lt Gov Dan Patrick is on the ballot again this Nov. This tea party carpetbagger changed his name and moved from Baltimore to Texas to be a DJ. He took a pro-Paxton $3m ‘donation’ while running the Ken Paxton impeachment trial. www.texastribune.org/2023/09/21/d...

Q: Mr. Paxton, what do you think about Adam Hoffman? Ken Paxton: *no response* Q: Why did you give a plea deal for a child sex predator? Ken Paxton: *no response* Q: What do you have to say to the victim of Adam Hoffman? Ken Paxton: *no response*

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

Unlike Greg Abbott, who removed requirements for breaks in extreme hot weather.

Ossoff: Because in our time, what those who build ballrooms and monuments to themselves, who rake in billions through foreign princes while the people's savings vanish, along with their hospitals, what they hate the most is when the people try to hold them accountable at the polls.

Michelle Obama: "That's where the truth of this country lies. Not in grabbing as much as we can get for ourselves. Or knocking folks down to prop ourselves up. But in the overwhelming goodness, the relentless striving, the quiet dignity, that is inside all of us."

SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

A federal judge just ordered the National Park Service to put back every sign, display, and exhibit pulled under Trump’s “restore truth” order. Judge Angel Kelly just told Trump: you don’t get to rewrite American history. You have 21 days. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AQDSDrhmzTrq...

There are so many good reasons to not use Waymo. Let them go bankrupt.

Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.

Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed our campaign for the US Senate. We’re building a big tent to take on this corrupt system that Ken Paxton embodies.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Texans, vote for James Talarico for senate and Gina Hinojosa for governor!

I remember when this was supposed to be a hoax. Life was better then...

The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board just endorsed James Talarico for U.S. Senate: "We Texans need someone in the Senate who'll stand up for us, who'll fight corruption, and who'll bring us together to get our country back on track. We need James Talarico."

ICYMI — Justice Alito’s son has been working in the Trump administration 🤔🤷🏼 So much corruption

Trump is no longer even trying to hide his corruption. He awards himself $1.8 billion in taxpayer money because his Administration leaked his tax returns. He engineers a no-review $650 million deal for his son. A crook, a clown, and a national embarrassment.

I like this image for the accuracy of its message. Don't pretend it's anything else.

Trump loves when he finds other adulterers, misfits and crooks… Trump knows they have no moral compass and will bend to his will and that their desire to be in proximity to power keeps them loyal. Paxton is Trump’s ideal morally corrupt candidate.

Ken Paxton was indicted by a grand jury, investigated by the FBI, and impeached by his own party. If you look up the word swamp in the dictionary you should see a picture of his face.

Yesterday, we post about the Trump administration’s plan to require all federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements. The government is not a business. It exists to serve the public and the public has a right to know how it’s being run.

Paxton wants Texans to believe Talarico is some kind of godless liberal. Here's what he talked about with Colbert three months ago.

Wow, Paxton is a real piece of work, a sleaze-bag & criminal. Any Texans that are supporting Paxton are exactly who they vote for. You can’t separate yourself. There appears to be many Texans that are sleaze-bags & criminal minded like him. That’s really too bad. Disheartening,

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

On this day in 2007, the Fair Minimum Wage Act was signed into law, raising the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. A child born that year is now old enough to drive in 2026. The minimum wage is *still* $7.25. It's long past time to increase it.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. The Paxton Endorsement.

#FAFO Georgia and Alabama homeowners reeling after Trump administration cancels grant that would have helped with high utility bills, calling it DEI moneywise.com/news/top-sto...