NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

Yup.

Happy National Dog Day to Trump’s most loyal bitches: Texas Republicans

Don't let these Republicans fool you guys.

My rep’s a total badass and advocate for her constituents. And I don’t have an HOA, so. Thank you, @plesafortexas.bsky.social !!

Here, fixed it.

A Texas judge eliminates Biden-era rule on medical debt in credit reports, impacting Americans' credit scores and leaving Texas with some of the lowest scores.

Gov Abbott to announce flood relief funding in Kerrville tomorrow. He’s able to do this despite no flood legislation passing the lege because it’s always been something he could do by exec order. We didn’t need a special session, Republicans used flood victims to force their redistricting scam

Families who lost everything in the floods are still waiting for help. Yet the first bill Republicans rushed out of committee today wasn’t about flood relief—it was about racial redistricting for political power grabs. 6 hours after quorum, they chose Trump over Texans. #txlege #HD70

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If only.

Last night, chants of “FREE DC” echoed loud and clear through the Washington Spirit broadcast, absolutely incredible. Huge shoutout to everyone who made noise. Free DC is doing amazing work! ✊💚

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I hope that everyone who has said in the past seven months (omg it’s only been seven months 😩) “I wish someone would stand up to this fascist Cheeto”…is putting their energy, likes, follows, and dollars behind these #txdems right now. LFG. www.texasdemocrats.org/wehaveyourba...

Wanna help our TX House Dems hold the line? Many members, like @plesafortexas.bsky.social, districts are being bombarded by oppo texts. They need $ to counter that & make sure their constituents know the truth about what & why they’re fighting. They’ve got our backs, time to have theirs!Donate here:

This really feels like a defining post of our time

Proposed redistricting would put a Fort Worth community in a rural GOP district nearly 150 miles away — part of a redistricting push critics call a power grab. On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, leaders warned that this is "ground zero."

Morning, America. This is what it looks like to have a President spend millions of taxpayer dollars to play golf in Scotland while his party guts healthcare and food programs. (And on a point of golf etiquette, only a galactic piece of shit walks off & refuses to get his own ball from the hole)

Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just relaxed export restrictions on AI chip manufacturers AMD and Nvidia. Lutnick's family business empire holds a combined $1.1B stake in both companies. "Conflict of interest" is an understatement.

📣 Redistricting hearing in Arlington this Monday! 🗓️ July 28 🕔 5 PM 📍 UT-Arlington, Hereford University Center If you’re in North Texas, this is your opportunity to demand fair maps and make your voice heard. 📝 Can’t attend? Submit your public comment here: TXHDC.co/redistricting #TXLege #FairMaps

Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.

Trump is demanding five new congressional seats in Texas through an illegal mid-decade redistricting. Republicans are hoping you “don’t show up, don’t come out” to stop them from rigging the maps, but we won’t be silent! Here’s the calls you can make to Stop the Texas Steal 🧵

The biggest divide in our politics is not left vs right — it's top vs bottom. Billionaires are dividing us because our unity is a threat to their wealth and power. I went on Joe Rogan’s show to bridge the divide and build a coalition big enough to take power back.

Messy, messy, messy, these people. 🍿 🍿 🍿

Internal agency documents and a source briefed on the issue, reported that FEMA’s call answer rate dropped from 99.7% on July 5 to 15.9% by July 7, shortly after four call-center contracts were not renewed. According to the documents, FEMA received 16,419 calls on July 7 and answered 2,613.

As we all should be. #txlege

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

Greg Abbott called a special session—at Trump’s request—to rig Texas’s congressional map before 2026. TX-09, TX-18, TX-29 & TX-33 are all safe Democratic seats, now under attack. Texas Democrats won’t back down. Help us fight: txdem.co/redistricting-defense

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'

We’re #1!!!

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son. Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice. From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

I love this affirmative, unambiguous statement of inclusion and welcome at Switchback Coffee in Colorado Springs. 😍💗

No matter where you’re from, call it pop when you drink a pop. So wholesome. Drink a “soda”? What am I, a chemist?

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

And tonight, the original. I can’t *not* be totally captivated by this performance. youtu.be/wiDIObd8YaI?...

I've got a campaign strategy for Vikki Goodwin as she seeks to oust Dan Patrick as Lt. Governor in Texas. THC. That's it. (Texas just voted to essentially ban our legal hemp industry, rather than have a legal, regulated, and taxed industry.) Texas Hates Chillaxin' I'm 100% serious. #txlege

👏🏻👏🏻B/c the #txgop missed the boat and don’t have a way to grift off of it. So it’s gotta go. #txlege

Gonna start journaling here with one live music performance I ❤️ as often as possible. Just want to remind myself of all the beautiful, creative acts that humans have done, and continue to do. Up first! youtu.be/ixy6myCycp8?...

May we all achieve this level of relaxation today. Or at least in our lifetimes. #dogsofbluesky

Yeah, Boss. ✊🇺🇸💙🤍❤️ Also, yes: go read some James Baldwin.

Y’all. Check on your friends who are into Pedro Pascal, @pearljam.com , and non-toxic masculinity. We are not okay. 😭😭❤️ #thelastofus

Back the blue? Your followers BEAT the blue on Jan. 6 and then you pardoned them. Shameful.

“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social