All the things like, "no felons" should be addressed either by sound legislation or, preferable, by Constitution amendments. We have to not only clean house, we need to fix our defenses.#ProudBlue
MAJOR NEWS: Federal judges, including a Trump appointee, just BLOCKED Texas Republicans from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 2026, ruling it was likely an illegal racial gerrymander. TX must revert to its 2021 map as Trump’s redistricting power grab collapses.
Today we won a big victory in Texas but the fight for democracy is not over. We all need to steel ourselves for the battles ahead. We won't win them all, but we can never lose sight of what we need to do to prepare fee and fair elections.
If ICE agents believe they have blanket immunity or that citizens have no right to record them, it’s up to the rest of us to disabuse them of that error.A free society depends on public oversight of government force, and on courts that uphold that freedom. @walterolson.bsky.social
NEW: A federal appeals court panel has blessed Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Portland, while a dissenting judge pleads with her colleagues to reverse the ruling.w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10…
If there's one thing we know about people who use and sell opium, it's that they always keep their opium in bottles clearly labeled "OPIUM."Also, opium? Do they think he emigrated from the 19th century?
