Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

If you attend a No Kings Day event, please record the number of people in attendance in our crowdsourced crowd-counting sheet. We prefer official estimates above ad-hoc counts — if you count yourself, pls be conservative (people are bad at estimating crowd sizes). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Rep. @jasmineforus.bsky.social: The last government shutdowns were on Republicans. This one is too.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown. This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

So are we just gonna ignore that a white kid killed 2 teen girls because he was upset they insulted Charlie Kirk? Imagine. JUST IMAGINE if this was an undocumented immigrant? But meanwhile I bet you’ve barely heard about this atrocity. SMH www.instagram.com/reel/DPewI1w...

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

Illinois law authorizes @govpritzker.illinois.gov to reactivate the Illinois State Guard. Normally they’re just a kind of extra reserve, but state defense forces are outside the National Guard system, they can’t be federalized. He should do so. As he accurately put it, his state is being invaded.

this appears to be video of the incident that set everything off in Chicago yesterday. No part of this is consistent with the narrative DHS put out immediately after.

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar. Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The sort of people the administration calls 'terrorists' : "[the 84 year olds] were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground."

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-socia...

Reporter: “How important do you think Black & Hispanic voters are to you winning your campaign?” Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for Governor of one of the most diverse states in the nation: “Next question.”

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

Libertarians watching Government goons fast rope from black helicopters into a Chicago apartment complex, drag Americans from their beds, and leave them hogtied naked on the street:

Providing free Wi-Fi to rural schools is leaving those communities behind. Ending free Wi-Fi for rural schools, now that's how you show those communities you care, they matter, and haven't been forgotten.

via @lincolnsquare.media 🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence. Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.

Yesterday, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed Trump’s gerrymandered congressional maps into law. We're helping Missouri Democrats collect the signatures needed to activate a citizens’ referendum and put the congressional maps back in voters’ hands.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

A lot of people have been calling me the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

Trump said he'd make IVF free. He's broken that promise.

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.” ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social

What are they hiding? You don’t get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit. I’ve toured this facility before—so why am I suddenly a “security risk”? My team requested permission. They had no right to deny us. They’re clearly afraid of accountability.

Our tariff dollars at work

Watch this Texas man SLAM Republicans for their gerrymandering scheme

Extremely funny I could watch this conversation all day!

Jesus. He's a US citizen. With Global Entry even. Still detained. With no explanation. (They did eventually let him back into the country after holding him for hours, saying had no rights. He was threatened by five interrogators.)

Y’day @JumaaneWilliams & I demanded the Mayor send Bldg/Fire inspectors into 26 Federal Pl to address illegal & unsafe conditions. Today, he sent a weak letter to GSA—the first time I remember him even questioning Trump. Mayor, you know NYC laws are being violated. Send inspectors, not a letter.

Maybe Republicans can name a staircase at the Kennedy Center after Ivana.

When the Knights of Columbus are protesting a right wing political action in Florida, shit has hit the fan and the fallout is going to be gnarly.

Did SCOTUS just give Unitarian Universalists the power to keep the 10 Commandments out of schools & sue TX?

All of us - not just those on Medicaid or food stamps - will be directly paying for the costs of the billionaire tax breaks in the Trump budget package. Here's how.

Because @amiberger.bsky.social is professionally in the framing narrative sphere and Demi-professionally in the “Oh, I wish you would” sphere.

“…when Mr. Trump hosted a party at Mar-a-Lago for young women in a so-called calendar girl competition, Mr. Epstein was the only other guest.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

People who believe not voting 2024 makes them morally superior because they're not "murdering children" should be constantly reminded that they helped elect Trump, who destroyed USAID - an act that's now murdering children around the world. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's reconciliation bill would make over 250 million acres of pristine public land available to the highest bidder. These lands belong to the American people, not corporations. They are not for sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

The Department of Energy is trying to rush through a rules change gutting accessibility standards for new construction or alterations. Submit your comments by June 16, 2025: www.regulations.gov/commenton/DO... More information: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #accessibility #DisabilityRights #A11y

We hope... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5J...

Our basic training graduation was more in step!

If you can't even get them to march in step for you, I don't know how you think you can get them to kill the citizens of their own country for you.