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Bulwark: Paying Too Much for Energy? Dems Say Blame the GOP
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But the party increasingly sees political opportunity in centering its message on rising energy prices. As electricity bills are spiking around the country—rising twice as fast as the rate of inflation—Democrats have started to weave the issue into more of their ads and talking points, believing it’s an effective way to tar a president who reneged on his commitment to lower prices.
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AXIOS: Trump’s counter-“Revolution” on wind offers multiple takeaways
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Robert Reich: Life in the Shadow of the American Dream
From time to time I come across a personal story about life in Trump’s America that’s so powerful that I want to share it with you. Here’s one, from Andrew Tait. It was originally published in the Daily Yonder on August 1, 2025
…I’m writing to ask one simple thing: Who is this country really for?
Because if it’s not for parents doing their best to raise good kids in a broken system; if it’s not for factory workers and farmers who show up every day, no matter how little is left in the tank; if it’s not for families trying to make a life from the land and a paycheck. . . then maybe the flag doesn’t wave for all of us after all.
I don’t want handouts; I want fairness. I don’t want politics; I want policy that works.
I don’t want a revolution of violence. I want a revolution of responsibility—one where we take care of each other, where people can raise a family without choosing between groceries and medicine, and where love doesn’t have to take a back seat to red tape.
So, if you’re in power, hear me: We are not okay. We are drowning quietly.
And if you’re not in power, but you’re reading this and nodding along, then know this: You’re not alone either.
We’re not enemies. We’re neighbors. We’re parents, workers, and caretakers. And it’s time we start acting like it.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – August 24, 2025
As the administration of President Donald Trump is using loopholes in the nation’s laws to claim the right to use the military against American citizens, Democratic governors are pushing back.
…Newsom has been calling attention to Trump’s erratic behavior and mental incapacity by imitating the president’s disjointed all-caps social media posts and mimicking the president’s merchandise. He recently replaced Trump’s name with his own on ball caps, for example, to say “Newsom was right about everything” after Trump appeared Friday with a cap saying “Trump was right about everything,” and has offered flags that say “Make America GAVIN Again” to troll Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Right-wing media complaints about Newsom’s unprofessional behavior highlight Trump’s instability, for Newsom is simply imitating Trump.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Jay Kuo: Not So Fast, Donald
Trump’s plan to “deploy troops” into blue cities is a paper tiger. We can’t let its roar provoke us into escalation.
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Intercept: Egyptian Officials in New York Beat Two Gaza Protesters on Video. The NYPD Arrested the Protesters.
The protesters’ parents said the officials beat their sons with chains at Egypt’s U.N. mission. The NYPD arrested the brothers for assault.
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NY Times: Russia’s Top Diplomat Says There Is No Plan for Putin-Zelensky Meeting
The statement by Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov deals a blow to President Trump’s efforts to mediate an end to the war in Ukraine.
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NewsNation: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, again in ICE custody, files new lawsuit
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Attorney Simon-Sandoval Moshenberg said the suit will challenge “his current confinement and challenging deportation to Uganda or to any other country unless and until he’s had a fair trial.”Bulwark: The Churches Fighting Back Against ICE
A network of 5,000 churches is launching a rapid-response action plan to protect worshipers during ICE raids.
I HEAR IT ALL THE TIME: What Donald Trump is doing goes against Christian teachings, the Bible, what people of faith are taught, and yet they still back him. But The Bulwark has learned exclusively that a network of five thousand faith communities is now disseminating a blueprint for clergy and lay leaders who want to push back against what Trump and the agents of his newly emboldened ICE are doing to immigrants across the country.
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James Eagle: The Fed is about to make a historic mistake
Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech on Friday delivered exactly what Wall Street wanted to hear: the door to another rate cut is now ajar. Stocks rose and bonds rallied in response.Yet something unprecedented is happening that should terrify everyone.
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WSJ: Uncle Sam Shouldn’t Own Intel Stock
The Chips Act wasn’t about raising revenue, and an equity share wouldn’t enhance national security.
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Nate Silver: Democrats can win the redistricting war
Aggressive partisan gerrymandering is bad for democracy. But the new equilibrium is not necessarily bad for Democrats — if they play hardball.
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Billy Oppenheimer: One Day, You Will Have Followed Up For Forty Years
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD: COVID & Health News, 8/24/25
Your Local Epidemiologist: Covid-19 summer wave, flying flesh-eating maggots, radioactive shrimp, DEI research cuts, publication fraud, and science fighting back in the best way
Daily Beast: Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
WAR ON SCIENCE
A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.Nature: RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no
In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.
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NY Times: Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge
In its campaign of “uprooting the foot soldiers,” the Trump Justice Department has fired or demoted more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors, even as those they sent to prison walk free.
Michael Fanone: Michael Gordon Did His Job. That’s Why He’s Gone.
I didn’t walk out of the Capitol tunnel on January 6th. I was dragged out by fellow officers after suffering a heart attack and collapsing from the beatings, the stun guns, the chemical spray. I woke up in a hospital bed because I did my job — defending democracy against a mob sent by a president who refused to accept the results of an election.
Since then, I’ve been called a traitor, threatened, harassed, and cast aside. That’s the cost of doing the right thing in America right now. And it’s exactly what’s happening to former January 6th prosecutor Michael Gordon.
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Borowitz: Ghislaine Maxwell Becomes Only Person in America Who Has Not Seen Trump Act Inappropriately
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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