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Happy Friday Friends! Here are your assignments for the next few weeks: 1. Make sure you are registered to vote 2. Get to know your ballot 3. Focus on a race/referendum & do what you can to protect/expand the right to read 4. Notice & celebrate the community this work creates! 5. Find joy in books!

Have you made a plan to vote yet? The Brennan Center’s interactive, state-by-state map can help you keep track of key voting deadlines. Check it out: bit.ly/3UjBBrc

A coalition of Dem AG's are working to make sure voters across the political spectrum have their say. These Democratic state attorneys general are prepared, and have undertaken the largest multi-state effort to protect the vote in modern American history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is your reminder to register to #vote. For #Washington state, pay attention to these dates:⁠ 10/16 - ballots are mailed out⁠ 10/26 - online deadline to register to vote⁠ 11/3 - Election Day⁠

Massively grateful to everyone who helped out and turned out for this incredible @comixaction.com / @handsoffnyc.bsky.social event! Here's a thread of the links and resources we shared for EARLY VOTING and PROTECTING THE VOTE! First, check your voter registration at vote.org! Do it today!

🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”

SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

The White House announced that Trump will attend the World Cup final which will ensure a historic double loss for both teams and all other attendees

We all know this still stinks to high heaven. Gov. Andy Beshear says he still hasn’t received an official update from Sen. Mitch McConnell. “I’ve had no official response. Nothing sent to our office, no letter, no email.”

Another "unprecedented" moment in the Trump 2.0 era A US Attorney General nominee has taken the oath for confirmation hearings at the Senate, 36 hours after a judge referred that nominee to the New York bar for disciplinary review

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

JUST POSTED: Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose

The two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous.

Our state is moving forward as a national leader on climate, despite a federal government that seems hellbent on rolling back every ounce of progress. I appreciate Mayor Wilson and the attendees at the launch of PNW Climate Week today. What's happening in DC isn't stopping us.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

We should have learned that you can’t manage a public health crisis by ignoring it. Politicizing science and weakening disease surveillance doesn’t make threats disappear, it only makes us less prepared to respond.

After this morning’s fatal ICE shooting, the community has come together to demand justice-NOT only for this latest loss of life, but for the broader pattern of deadly incidents reported nationwide🇺🇸 Hart28.com

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

Some good people made this handy, easy guide for drafting a comment: ombcomment.netlify.app

"Police said there was no threat to the public." - This seems like an inaccurate representation.

Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...

Nothing better than hitting peak too hot to turn the stove on weather and now salads might kill you.

Montgomery County MD has a portal for reporting violations of restrictions on ICE activities. www.montgomerycountymd.gov/protecting

Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey and Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi are facing criminal trials for rape while playing at the 2026 World Cup, two of at least nine tournament figures facing rape and sexual assault allegations spanning five confederations. #OpDeathEaters www.yacnews.com/at-least-nin...

Crazy how People is the remaining publication that just goes for the jugular.

NEWS: Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa Ashley Hinson says her family can barely afford groceries. Her disclosures say she’s worth up to $7M richer since taking office. And the “all my stocks are sold” claim? Also false. The receipts 👇

Mail order mayhem. Trump Jr invested heavily in GrabaGun, a business ventures designed to sell guns by mail. His father then instantly took a series of regulatory steps designed to enable the GrabaGun business venture, making the investment hugely profitable overnight.

Don’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...

BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Trump reigniting his illegal Iran War without any Constitutionally mandatory Congressional deliberation and authorization... or have you not heard about it yet?"

Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...

Failed Again. His business strategy has always been... 1.fuck it up 2.cash out 3.bankruptcy 4.blame 5.run away He is at "cash out" with The United States right now, and sooner or later he will start blaming JoeBama. Failed Feckin Eejit 🕗🕕🕓🕖

💔 www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

This is bigger than one incident. At events across Texas today, Indivisible groups are standing with immigrant communities and demanding accountability from DHS and ICE.

Conflicts and disasters are causing unprecedented levels of humanitarian need around the world. Women & girls are uniquely impacted – on top of enduring violence & displacement they often also face disruptions in access to essential sexual & reproductive health services & ⬆️ gender-based violence.

We just hit a harrowing milestone. There are now 1,000 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics that have closed or are on the verge of closing since Republicans gutted Medicaid and the ACA to fund tax cuts the wealthy. Billionaires over patients. With deadly consequences.

ICE has not quieted down. It’s even worse. It’s just become less visible and less covered by the media. Here's what you should know. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ice-is-even-worse

What does a wealth tax actually look like? We sent Brighty Buoy and his tiny balls to Wimbledon to chat to fans 🎾