We have no Speaker of the House. We have no confirmed ambassador to Israel. We have no confirmed heads for multiple US military command positions.

All of this is due to Republicans.

I just looked up the poverty guidelines for the US in 2023 and I am HORRIFIED.

The average rent in the US for a one-bedroom apartment is $1,702 per month. That’s $16,825 per year. The poverty guideline for one person doesn’t even cover rent.

Don’t come at me with “get a

True. A little known fact is that vouchers will make your community’s recapture/Robinhood payment increase.

For the record, every Republican member of the Texas Senate voting to acquit Ken Paxton today is doing so because they've always known the guy was a crook and they've been okay with it, because it gives them power. That's really all they care about. #txlege

What does this say about ashton kutcher’s work with Thorn? I’m so over this shit. You either advocate against sexual harm/exploitation or you are complicit in it. There is no middle ground. Standing up for a rapist because he was good to you is the definition of preserving rape culture.

✨personal news✨

Every day these people make it clearer and clearer that protecting self determination and true liberty for individual Americans has never been their goal.

Yesterday, I was laid off by Texas Tribune after nearly 9 years.

New leadership got rid of its longest-tenured reporters and said they’ll no longer cover the criminal justice beat.

No one on police, prisons, courts, the death penalty. In Texas.

Here’s some of what we’ll lose:

The conservative and fascist political strategy of contrived and imagined victimhood is nothing new. It’s essential to the construction of an equally contrived and imagined threat that can only ever be dealt with on the most violent and abusive terms.
damemagazine.com/2023/08/16/wea…

Tell me you know the facts aren’t on your side without telling me.

I don’t know this guy and I’ve been told he’s an attorney, but for what it’s worth this is almost the textbook example I use when I’m teaching folks who *don’t* understand how the First Amendment actually works. (1/6)

A lot of people are bracing themselves for the rise in teen pregnancies post-Roe, but I can’t stop thinking the big news is going to be the increase in teen suicide rates.

Worth resharing today.

What happens when medicine is regulated by politicians instead of medical experts? Just ask the plaintiffs in our Zurawski v. state of Texas case, who nearly died because their doctors were prevented from intervening to save their lives. kut.org/health/2023-07…

This is horrifying.

Its legal underpinning is a maximalist version of the so-called unitary executive theory.
The legal theory rejects the idea that the government is composed of three separate branches with overlapping powers to check and balance each other. Instead, the theory’s adherents argue

Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.

If reelected in 2025, Donald J. Trump and his allies plan to significantly expand presidential power by reshaping the structure of the executive branch. Their aim is to concentrate greater authority directly in