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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1m

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

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Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 1h

Good work, Tony

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

For the record, he has a JD, was a constitutional lawyer for the ADF (rightwing group behind 303 Creative, the Colorado gay cake case, and current conversion therapy one), and was even dean of a law school that never opened (shady).

But also? Claims to have no idea how laws or constitutions work.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 2h

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

Lol, lmao.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8h

From 2017 to 2024, the number of data centers in the U.S. increased from 318 to 5,208.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 11h

I’m not a political strategist or a social psychologist, but to me this seems true and important. Values must be activated. Surviving a real crisis takes real leadership.

Highlighted: “We've learned, hearteningly, that majorities seem to harbor a deep attachment to liberal rights and liberties, one that instinctively recoils at masked kidnappings, at hypermilitarized vehicles on urban boulevards, at the trappings of totalitarian dictatorship. But this must be activated. That takes conflict and controversy-powerful imagery and language that rivets attention.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 8h

“We’re taught to promote justice, but we lock up more of our people than any nation, disproportionately the poor and people of color and refuse to fund reentry and substance abuse programs," said Democratic candidate Cliff Johnson, who is running for Mississippi's 1st Congressional District.

Johnson Vows to Fight for Vulnerable Mississippians in Run for Congress

Civil-rights attorney Cliff Johnson is running as a Democrat against incumbent Republican U.S. House Rep. Treny Kelly in Mississippi.

buff.ly

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 8h

It's the only way to justify their extreme actions -- the suppression and violence.

"It was self-defense."

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve never seen a group of people more committed to defining themselves as perpetual victims.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 9h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 7h

Whistleblower @jennbudd.bsky.social is joining me right now talking about ICE, their culture of racism and violence, how they lie with impunity, and what we can do to stop them and Trump's Gestapo.

LIVE NOW

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 10h

The President of the United States calling for the imprisonment of elected officials with no legal basis should alarm everyone, regardless of party.

Social post by Donald J. Trump that says: 'Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!'

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 7h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

If you think today's news media picture is grim, take stock of how Chicago's local journalists are getting at the truth despite Homeland Security's campaign of lies and intimidation.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 19h

Had the same thought

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

the way he fuckin talks it sounds like he’s going to murder them

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

President Trump addressed backpay for furloughed workers, saying that some "don't deserve to be taken care of" and that he'll take care of them in a different way.

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 19h

And?

We let all other evil proceed apace because someone besides Trump is doing it?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Draw on your own experience:

Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does?

I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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