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Trump’s plan for drilling off California and Florida faces bipartisan opposition [via @insideclimatenews.org]

Survivors who escaped El Fasher in Darfur tell how Rapid Support Forces (RSF) executed scores of unarmed men and raped dozens of women and girls as they captured the city. - Amnesty International www.amnesty.org.au/sudan-el-fas....

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Another shutdown casualty: Medicare telehealth coverage

It has been 39 days since House Republicans have shown up for work.

More than a month after the election, the local congressional office in Tucson is shuttered and the phones ring unanswered. https://cnn.it/4qzpUeD

"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky... $28,000 for a plan in Oregon... $44,000 for a plan in Vermont..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

North Carolina legislature gives final approval to new congressional map that could give Republicans one more seat in the US House. https://cnn.it/4qny8pZ

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

He came here 30 years ago & is a gardner in Calif suburbs. He is no criminal, pays taxes, is married to an American & raised 3 sons- all three are US Marines. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

She was a traitor then, is a traitor now and she will always be in the future.

Love Neil Young!! And he just came out with an awesome new song, “Big Crime,” : It does not mention Trump but includes lines such as, “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House.” Click on link m.neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/Viewp...

RFK Jr is not reforming the CDC, he's breaking it. “There will be outbreaks that we miss & health care that’s not done with the best information,” “It’s a dangerous time-. I’m very scared for the people of the country.” -Dr. Anne Schuchat, dir CDC until 2021. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...

Breaking News: Trump says that under his control the Metropolitan Police Department will be free to do "whatever the Hell they want" to protesters, confirming that one of the primary purposes of his taking over the capital is to prevent people protesting him

Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.

“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

The Gifford fire in California had burned 65,000 acres by Monday, scorching through part of the Los Padres National Forest and putting hundreds of people under evacuation orders. Three people had been injured and 460 structures were threatened. nyti.ms/45rrTbc

The United States must recognize the state of Palestine.

EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’

Trump’s administration to cut roughly $4 billion of federal support from California’s high-speed rail project, per Bloomberg.

The bodies of two hikers from New York State — a father and daughter — were found this week near the summit of Mount Katahdin in Maine, the state’s tallest mountain and the final stop on the storied Appalachian Trail, the authorities said.

WATCH: “It's totally unconscionable,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders on the GOP bill that would kick 11 million Americans off health care. “And to do that in order to give massive tax breaks to people today on the top—who have never ever had it so good—is beyond cruel.”

WATCH: During a hearing, GOP Sen. Josh Hawley presented a chart claiming Trump was victimized by injunctions—only to be dismantled by legal scholar (and wife of Chris Hayes) Kate Shaw.

89 Candles 🎂 today for the Oscar winning BRUCE DERN

The GOP Tax Scheme is top-down class warfare by the richest people in the world against everyone else.

If the GOP Tax Scheme is so beautiful, then why are they voting on it in the wee hours of the morning? Maybe because it’s irredeemably ugly and cruel.

The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.

Congress is trying to pass a bill they’re calling “big” and “beautiful.” It will cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits. The working class must say NO to this bill.

So traumatic brain injury research was feeling left out in the things White House wanted to cut. But fear not White House is on the case. Cancer can’t have all the fun. Name yr tragedy, Trump wants to cancel your hope. www.espn.com/espn/story/_...

Appreciate @motherjones.com covering the story on the removal of the memorial wall. Honestly, this is what I expected from Trump. I am more angry at every elected enabler. Hoping starting with the election this November that America shows how pissed we are. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I’m reeling from last night’s news. Please listen to one of Jill’s songs today.

At its 100-day mark, the Trump administration is touting its immigration onslaught as both a policy victory and a political victory. But neither is true. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:  www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-immi...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

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The Supreme Court blocked the Trump admin from deporting Venezuelans out of the Bluebonnet facility in TX — for now. The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 has NO place in modern immigration policy. This pause is a win, but the fight is far from over. And yes — Thomas & Alito dissented. Of course they did.

President Bukele allowed Kristi Noem and a Republican Congressman to visit the CECOT facility. He denied access to Senator Chris Van Hollen. If you couldn't tell this was a game, it's clear as day.

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

Democrats, there’s a demand. Where’s the supply?