Judge rules Utah’s congressional map must be redrawn for the 2026 elections https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/utah-congressional-map-2026-elections #HouseofRepresentatives #Republicans #USpolitics #Democrats #USnews #Utah
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#Senate Judiciary Committee Has Yet to Subpoena Harlan Crow or Leonard Leo
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More than two months after authorizing subpoenas for two key figures in the Supreme Court’s ethics crisis, Senate #Democrats have yet to issue them.
What happened to Harris County’s plans for criminal justice reforms? The Democratic district attorney in #Texas’ biggest county has made enemies—even among her former friends.
From the March/April 2023 issue of our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/kim-ogg-harris-county-democratic-revolt?utm_campaign=mastodon
#politics #USpol #CriminalJustice #prison #Houston #Democrats #election2024 #GulfCoast #news
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Political systems should be judged not by their intentions or rhetoric, but by their outcomes.
The Democratic Party and the Logic of Controlled Opposition: A Systems Analysis
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kWqjbRm7rRwkVMnQmGzzJ_u2BqbGbfCa/view?usp=sharing
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“#Democrats in #NewYork adopted a new congressional map on Wednesday, using their supermajorities in the State Legislature to draw district lines that would improve their chances of winning the House majority in November, but not drastically.”
#RFKJr grilled on #AntiVax policy in
combative #Senate hearing
In a contentious hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his tenure as *#health* secretary, as #Republicans joined #Democrats in questioning his moves to discredit & limit access to #vaccines.
#Trump #PublicHealth #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #BrainWorm
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-9-4-2025?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-04-Live+updates
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Via Kyle Griffin:
BREAKING:
#Democrats just won two special state House elections in #Michigan — Democrat Mai Xiong in the 13th District and Democrat Peter Herzberg in the 25th District — regaining their majority in the chamber with a 56-54 advantage and their trifecta across state government.
Raw Story:
Internet melts down as Trump identified as 'unindicted co-conspirator' in Arizona filing
Trump's own niece, Mary Trump, had this to say about the news from Arizona:
"Good. Now indict the unindicted."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-unindicted-arizona/
Any Texan, in particular, can cast propaganda aside and simply look around to see that our state is built, maintained, and improved every day by unauthorized workers.
In our magazine, Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova asks why #Democrats keep flip-flopping on an issue at the heart of the American experiment. https://www.texasobserver.org/border-immigration-cowardice-democrats-biden-allred/
#immigration #border #MayDay #Texas #WorkersRights #democracy #Biden
Uniparty? Hardly.
Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues
Here's how the candidates stand on 10 key issues: abortion, climate / energy, democracy, federal government, immigration, Israel / Gaza, LGBTQ issues, NATO / Ukraine, trade, taxes
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-rematch-policies-abortion-immigration-gaza-1a904cd70f14581f264b851a5cb2f9e4?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share #USpolitics #Politics #USnews #JoeBiden #Democrats #BidenHarris #Elections #WomensRights #WomensHealth
#GOP #Republicans #DonaldTrump #trumpism #fascism #fascist #SCOTUS
Max Bergmann, a former State Department official and now program director with the Center for Strategic International Studies, predicts Russian-fueled turbulence at the Democratic national convention in August. He foresees attempts of Russian operatives to infiltrate groups of protestors and attempt to turn protests violent.
He also notes that social media has “become way more of a cesspool than it was in 2016.”
The push back against the corporate media narrative is us, slapping back against their toadying up to #Trump and #Republican fascism.
No pessimistic rhetoric.
No whining.
Get organized, get out the vote and leave everything on the road.
💯 percent voter turnout for #Democrats must be the goal.
If you can, #volunteer.
If you can, #donate.
Just as #Ukraine is struggling against #Russia, #America is now in an #existential struggle against #fascism
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I have said from the beginning that #Hamas #Oct7 attacks were timed for #ElectionInterference in #US #Election2024.
Never has this been more obvious than now.
Members of BOTH #Arab and #Jewish diaspora in #US have ratcheted up their attacks on #Democrats since #KamalaHarris became the presumptive nominee.
I have noted at length Rashida #Tlaib's role under that hashtag. Below, I note some from the #Israeli side.
BOTH groups are holding #Harris hostage to extract concessions for their side.
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#Democrats flip #SocialMedia *#censorship* complaints on #Musk, #GOP
#ElonMusk’s #X is facing #impartiality questions after he endorsed #Trump & the *platform* restricted pro-#Harris account.
#Republicans have spent the better part of a decade accusing #SocialMedia companies of “censoring” *#conservative* viewpoints & skewing their platforms to benefit Democrats.
#VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/democrats-flip-social-media-censorship-complaints-musk-gop/
Raw Story:
'You're gonna lose this!' Trump fans rebel against him over 'A.I.' Harris rally claim
Donald Trump is getting pushback on Sunday on his latest conspiracy theory from an unlikely source: his own MAGA supporters.
@Deplorable59 ... told Trump to "STFU about the crowd size."
"She's getting bigger crowds now face that fact. You're gonna lose this!" the user wrote on Sunday. "Stop with this bulls--- - ..."
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-fans-rebel-against-him-over-fake-rally-claim/
RS:
Conservative mom of 6 says Dems better on family policy
Even a former Heritage Foundation writer is now saying that Democrats are the better party when concerning policies that are most beneficial to parents.
In a recent op-ed for Newsweek, conservative activist Bethany Mandel... admitted that the Democratic Party has consistently been a better ally of working-class Americans... better for families...
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-family-values/
I’ve heard it said that if you don’t vote with whichever party then you are a coward. I think that’s exactly backwards, and even reflects poorly all the person making that argument. It doesn’t take much courage to go with the group.
Instead I go the other way: no matter which party you might prefer in general, it takes courage to say they nominated a moron, and fortunately the other party also nominated a loser, so no matter what the US is going to slog through these next few years.
In my opinion the courageous position is to say no, you nominated a moron, and I’m not going to give you my vote. We’re going to be okay I guess, whether you win or not, but I’m not going to let you assume that you have my vote if you insist on nominating a moron. You should have nominated someone better. You should have nominated someone worthy of my vote. Do better next time.
That’s the state of #USPolitics . As South Park said, big douche versus turd sandwich. So screw both #Democrats and #Republicans. Neither of you managed to nominate someone worth voting for, so I’m voting for my dog.
To give either party our votes is to sign on to their nomination of garbage people. Let’s not. Let’s say that they need to actually nominate worthwhile administrators.
But more practically, let’s focus on #Congress. No matter who wins this election, they’re going to suck, but we can still express ourselves through our representation in Congress, and that’s honestly how it should be anyway.
Check out your representatives. See how they have actually been voting, and vote them out if they have been letting you down. That’s really where our focus should be anyway.
Not on which jerk ends up in the Oval Office.
(But thank God #Biden is on his way out, as he has been terrible for #science in the US, which has not gotten nearly enough attention from the press.)
Trump Agenda: Himself and His Rich Friends
Harris Agenda: Working Americans and Middle Class Families
Vote accordingly
#Election2024 #Economy #Freedom #USPol #USPolitics #Harris #KamalaHarris #Democrats #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Abortion #RoeVWade
The fight for the #House & #Senate: Where things stand
Will both chambers flip? #Congress may once again have to work under the strain of divided government.
With <4 weeks to go, #Republicans appear poised to win the Senate, which is currently controlled by the Democrats. The #Democrats, meanwhile, seem to have a slight edge in the race for the Republican-controlled House.
#Election2024 #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/09/senate-house-race-who-wins/
#LGBTQ+ #voters in these 4 #states could swing the 2024 #presidential #election.
LGBTQ+ voters strongly #vote for #democrats
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Election #Representation #Culture #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #Megathread
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bear with me for a second:
a million reasons, but a big reason the #democrats lost is because the center of gravity for #media has moved to #socialmedia
where the #trolls and #disinfo play. enough dum dums bought the lies
the democrats didn't play that game. because what game can they play in that shit?
it's literally owned by #plutocrats and #fascists
so... how do we fight?
we need our own
and what do we have
#mastodon and the #fediverse
we need to grow like a fucking weed
am i wrong?
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No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, drugged-up, unelected fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.
The US Democratic party needs to be dismantled and rebuilt. It has failed, continues to fail, and its core ideology has been a failed one for approximately half a century. The leadership needs to go, the constellation of consultants needs to go, the court jesters need to go.
#USPol #Democrats
#USPol #Democrats
#AOC: "No #Democrat should be voting to advance [President Donald] Trump's nominees while all of this stuff is going on," said the New York Democrat in a 90-minute Instagram Live video Monday evening. "There has to be a political price to pay and we have a responsibility as a party to block everything that is happening while they're setting a literal match to the federal government." YES! [note: I corrected a typo in the original] https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-aoc
#TrumpDictatorship #Democrats
#Senate #Democrats tried to advance a resolution that condemned “any acceptance of a Presidential aircraft, or any other substantial gift, from a foreign government as a grave #NationalSecurity threat to the Office of the President” & demanded that such a gift could only be accepted with the approval of Congress.
#Republican Sen #TommyTuberville of #Alabama blocked the measure.
#Trump #Qatar #AirForceOne #law #emoluments
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-trumps-free-luxury-jet-qatar-s-not-actually-free-rcna206706