ELEPHANT NEWS ~ OCTOBER 2021

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• Rep. Nunes’ family ordered by a federal judge to show who’s really bankrolling $20 million lawsuit
  
• Fox News host who told audience to get COVID vaccine reads hate mail on air
  
• Texas man arrested 11 days after committing murder
  
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• Rittenhouse judge has a history of jackassery that goes back over 30 years
  
• Cartoon: 1619
  
• Biden blows cover off Youngkin’s private Trump pandering
  
• When governor turns away dollars to expand Medicaid, woman who should’ve been governor steps up
  
• Virginia goes to the polls next week. We’re asking you for $6 to support these six Daily Kos-endorsed candidates. That’s just $1 each.
  
• Charlottesville jury selection shows how deeply the right-wing smear of antifa has penetrated
  
• TPUSA audience member at Idaho event wants to know how long ‘before we kill these people’
  
• Texas National Guard sent to border for Abbott’s stunt as state slashes their tuition assistance
  
• In Montana, conservative propaganda shows how close the nation has teetered toward fascism
  
• Sign and send the petition: We can’t wait! Pass the historic Build Back Better Act now.
  
• The case for rooting out alleged conspirators of Jan. 6 in Congress has legs
  
• Florida surgeon general, Harvard Med School grad, says he can’t ‘communicate clearly’ with mask on
  
• Coup planner John Eastman blames ‘establishment guy’ Mike Pence for failing to overturn election
  
• During a meeting on racial inequity, a GOP lawmaker referred to Asian Americans as ‘yellow’
  
• Add your name to the petition demanding that Congress include a billionaire wealth tax in the Build Back Better Act!
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID is socialism! But is that redemption in the end?
  
• Scientist Yaneer Bar-Yam explains why COVID-19 cases must come down to zero, and how to get there
  
• Wisconsin Senate GOP hastens to audit just completed audit after it found no 2020 fraud
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The Senate bottleneck and the state of redistricting
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• The states where the most people are quitting their jobs seem to have 2 things in common
  
• The rotten apple spawn of Trump Sr. doesn’t fall far from the tree. NY Daily News nails him on cover
  
• ‘THIS IS RAPE!’ woman screams while allegedly forcibly catheterized in front of male cop

• The rotten apple spawn of Trump Sr. doesn’t fall far from the tree. NY Daily News nails him on cover
  
• Conservative caller thought she had a ‘gotcha’ question on abortion for Elie Mystal. She was wrong
  
• Rep. Mo Brooks walks back claims that his staff were not involved in planning Jan. 6
  
• Daily Kos is $114,362 away from our monthly goal. Can you chip in $5 now to help us close the books on October?
  
• Manchin moves goalposts on Biden’s big agenda, again
  
• Johnson & Johnson hides its 120-year-old baby powder business behind one-week-old company
  
• Republican operative sat down for interview with Jan. 6 committee
  
• Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse case gives the go-ahead for defense to put victims on trial
  
• Virginia goes to the polls next week. We’re asking you for $6 to support these six Daily Kos-endorsed candidates. That’s just $1 each.
  
• ‘How fitting is this rebuke to GOP racism?’ It’s like Toni Morrison was speaking directly to GOP mom
  
• Cartoon: Power corrupts… and corruption empowers?
  
• Veteran prop master who turned down gig on ‘Rust’ says he saw ‘massive red flags’ from production
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: No schadenfreude here, as well-meaning woman almost dies from misinformation
  
• Sign the petition: Support striking John Deere workers
  
• In congressional testimony, Dr. Birx says Trump’s negligence likely led to 130,000 COVID-19 deaths
  
• Kansas GOP senator’s two day DUI jail sentence highlights issues of serious inequities
  
• Just two border agents were fired for their participation in racist Facebook group, House probe says
  
• Biden needs to get rid of the Trumpers embedded in government, ASAP
  
• Sign the petition: Become a grassroots co-sponsor of the Social Security 2100 Act!
  
• ‘So many lies told’: Judicial inquiry begins seven years after Eric Garner killed selling cigarettes
  
• Don’t look now, but we’re being ‘Facebooked’ into fascism
  
• ‘Every hate crime is an attack on the community’: Hate crimes against Asians rose 76% in 2020
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The Senate bottleneck and the state of redistricting
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• The states where the most people are quitting their jobs seem to have 2 things in common
  
• ‘THIS IS RAPE!’ woman screams while allegedly forcibly catheterized in front of male cop
  
• Honolulu police handcuffed and arrested a 10-year-old Black girl for drawing picture of peer

• Students were suspended from Texas schools because of a dress code violation. Guess what it was?
  
• Dan Patrick’s voter fraud bounty blows up in his face
  
• Book-banning Karen and Virginia school board member sets her sights on Toni Morrison’s ‘Bluest Eye’
  
• Youngkin ad silent on what book includes ‘the most explicit material you can imagine’
  
• Rep. Gohmert asks why Rep. John Lewis wasn’t treated the same as Jan. 6 insurrectionists
  
• ‘Immigrants have waited long enough’: House Democrats urge Senate to disregard parliamentarian
  
• Republicans finally got their victory: Discrimination against trans youth in Texas
  
• Kansas GOP senator’s two day DUI jail sentence highlights issues of serious inequities
  
• Domestic Violence: The dirty little secret of conservative Christian evangelicals
  
• Wealthy teen’s case in fatal crash shows failures in county’s juvenile halls, sentencing injustices
  
• ‘THIS IS RAPE!’ woman screams while allegedly forcibly catheterized in front of male cop
  
• ‘Repeated violations’: California lawmakers call on DHS to end three ICE contracts in state
  
• Long-haul COVID realities may improve one-stop medical care for everyone
  
• Rolling Stone: Members of Congress helped plan Jan. 6 rallies
  
• White sheriff facing criminal charges over confrontation with Black man delivering newspapers
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Sign the petition: Cancel student debt and close the racial wealth gap

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• ‘THIS IS RAPE!’ woman screams while allegedly forcibly catheterized in front of male cop
  
• NJ student left in ‘shock’ after teacher responds to his question with remark about ‘terrorists’
  
• New York Times gets humiliatingly played by an anti-vaxx activist
  
• Daily Kos is $126,478 away from our monthly goal. Can you chip in $5 now to help us close the books on October?
  
• Watch what happens when student asks Madison Cawthorn to admit simple truth
  
• Gun fired on the set of Alec Baldwin film was used by crew members for target practice, TMZ reports
  
• Two Jan. 6 rally organizers are talking, and congressional Republicans should be nervous
  
• Anti-Vaxxers jump barricade, forcibly storm Brooklyn Nets home arena in support of Kyrie Irving
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic-vote.
  
• Trump might be losing the QAnon crowd, as one of his ‘Cowboys’ declares him kind of impotent
  
• Cartoon: Fox News house of horror
  
• Wealthy teen’s case in fatal crash shows failures in county’s juvenile halls, sentencing injustices
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: TikToker falls for Facebook propaganda, chronicles her last days
  
• Sign the petition: Demand colleges and universities stop double-charging students for credits accrued through internships
  
• Biden once again tells Trump to pound sand on his executive privilege claim
  
• Senate Republicans bow to Trump, embracing violence-prone abuser Herschel Walker for Georgia Senate
  
• Bundy’s ‘People’s Rights’ network keeps expanding reach, drawing recruits into extremist web
  
• Add your name to the petition demanding that Congress include a billionaire wealth tax in the Build Back Better Act!
  
• Whistleblower documents show Facebook never cared about its users
  
• Biden admin announces program allowing private individuals to sponsor Afghan refugees
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: High stakes in Pennsylvania, and keeping the bellwether state blue
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• The states where the most people are quitting their jobs seem to have 2 things in common
  
• Honolulu police handcuffed and arrested a 10-year-old Black girl for drawing picture of peer
  
• ‘Brother, come on!’: Obama’s not buying Jack’s claim he didn’t know he was at ‘Stop the Steal’ rally

• Honolulu police handcuffed and arrested a 10-year-old Black girl for drawing picture of peer
  
• Judge asks McMichaels’ defense to walk him through the ‘rights you seek to infringe upon’
  
• ‘Makes me want to throw up’: Investor bails after learning funds would go to Trump social network
  
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• Cartoon: Kyrsten Sinema’s dream jobs
  
• Biden breaks Democratic stalemate as new hope emerges for transformational agenda
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: ‘Jews’
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Money, money, money: Lawmakers probing Jan. 6 are putting the pieces together
  
• Cartoon: Virtual reality for virtual Democrats
  
• ‘Meet the Press,’ like the other Sunday shows, is a relic of a lazy, low-stakes era
  
• Add your name to the petition demanding that Congress include a billionaire wealth tax in the Build Back Better Act!
  
• With only each other for company, insurrectionists’ extremism deepens in ‘Patriot Wing’ of D.C. jail
  
• Parler Chronicles: Mixing it up with some disgusting right-wing insurrection fantasies
  
• Virginia Democrats far more likely to expand majority than lose it, despite ‘horse race journalism’
  
• Sign the petition to President Biden: Don’t nominate Trump-appointed Powell to a 2nd term running the Federal Reserve
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Students were suspended from Texas schools because of a dress code violation. Guess what it was?
  
• Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz walk into a committee hearing to defend Steve Bannon, it does not go well
  
• Props union reports the gun Alec Baldwin fired, killing one, injuring another, held a ‘live round’

• The states where the most people are quitting their jobs seem to have 2 things in common
  
• Right wing streamer confirmed as Capitol rioter after deleted footage surfaces
  
• ‘Brother, come on!’: Obama’s not buying Jack’s claim he didn’t know he was at ‘Stop the Steal’ rally
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Trump had a ‘command center’ to plot his coup and insurrection
  
• Trump’s new social media platform gets called out for using stolen code
  
• California synagogue shooter gets life sentence; you might be surprised by why he hates Jews
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• At last! Pelosi confronts Tapper on blaming progressives for delayed Build Back Better vote
  
• Yale professor and expert on authoritarianism says 2024 Trump coup is ‘underway’
  
• Oh, look. Here’s another scandal from Postmaster DeJoy
  
• Add your name to the petition demanding that Congress include a billionaire wealth tax in the Build Back Better Act!
  
• White sheriff facing criminal charges over confrontation with Black man delivering newspapers
  
• Facing some epic backlash, Sinema finally meets with a key Democrat in the House
  
• What do Tucker Carlson’s fans sound like? Rep. Swalwell releases voicemail threats to show us
  
• Sign the petition to President Biden: Don’t nominate Trump-appointed Powell to a 2nd term running the Federal Reserve
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Students were suspended from Texas schools because of a dress code violation. Guess what it was?
  
• Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz walk into a committee hearing to defend Steve Bannon, it does not go well
  
• Props union reports the gun Alec Baldwin fired, killing one, injuring another, held a ‘live round’

• Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz walk into a committee hearing to defend Steve Bannon, it does not go well
  
• Lake Tahoe is now terminal thanks to climate change and drought
  
• Jen Psaki renders Peter Doocy momentarily speechless with a simple question
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Trump is being investigated for yet another criminal charge—this guy hates paying his taxes
  
• Fox News host has COVID-19, tells America to ‘get vaccinated, for yourself and everyone around you’
  
• Rep. Gohmert asks why Rep. John Lewis wasn’t treated the same as Jan. 6 insurrectionists
  
• Students were suspended from Texas schools because of a dress code violation. Guess what it was?
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Former Domino’s employee who stormed the Capitol provides FBI with 8 video clips of Jan. 6 violence
  
• Psaki sets the record straight after McCarthy tries to mislead and confuse on supply chain problems
  
• Pastor in deep-red KY county says God told him to protect his flock by getting them vaccinated
  
• Washington state trooper shares dramatic parting video after termination for refusing vaccine
  
• Sign the petition: Tell Congress to take on dark money
  
• Biden’s Supreme Court commission proves to be the farce we all expected
  
• WI brewery sues school boards for indulging ‘Tucker Carlson-watching zombies,’ ignoring science
  
• Donald Trump tried to destroy Andrew McCabe. A new settlement undoes some of the damage
  
• Moroccan man gets lost, parks his car, white Texan shoots him dead and walks free
  
• Sign the petition: Demand fair pay and benefits for striking John Deere workers
  
• Ted Cruz mocked Australia’s vaccine mandate, so a local politician responded with fire
  
• CNN: Manchin & Sinema say what they want cut. And it’s bad. Very bad.
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: She wanted others to ‘choke’ rather than listen to reason. Fate stepped in
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: High stakes in Pennsylvania, and keeping the bellwether state blue

• Props union reports the gun Alec Baldwin fired, killing one, injuring another, held a ‘live round’
  
• Cartoon: Kyrsten Sinema
  
• Breakthrough? Sen. Sinema reportedly has agreed to plan to fund Biden’s Build Back Better agenda
  
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• Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues to cost Arizona taxpayers millions as new settlement reached in lawsuit
  
• Seditionist GOP Congressman Banks pretends he’s on Jan. 6 Committee, demands docs from fed agencies
  
• Antisemitic dog whistle, big ad campaign pile on to school board attacks in Virginia governor’s race
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Biden steps up on filibuster reform and is frank about problems with Manchin, Sinema
  
• Oath Keepers’ insurrectionist extremism spreads among elected officials, hacked data reveals
  
• Gov. Ron DeSantis calls for a special session to combat Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates
  
• Sign the petition: Tell Congress to take on dark money
  
• Democrats sounding bullish on getting something done soon on Biden’s economic plan
  
• Republican tells Tennessee legislature that ‘war between the states’ isn’t over—and South is winning
  
• House GOP to spend day trying to shield Bannon and yelling at AG Garland for investigating violence
  
• Sign and send a petition to Congress: Say NO to Big Pharma. Medicare must negotiate prescription drug prices!
  
• Don’t bring back ‘horrific, racist, and unlawful’ Remain in Mexico policy, groups tell Biden admin
  
• Cartoon: More and more Super-Fun-Pak Comix!
  
• It’s the filibuster or democracy. We can’t have both
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: High stakes in Pennsylvania, and keeping the bellwether state blue
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Fox News host catches COVID-19, puts out statement telling people to get vaccinated
  
• Ted Cruz mocked Australia’s vaccine mandate, so a local politician responded with fire
  
• Moroccan man gets lost, parks his car, white Texan shoots him dead and walks free

• Students were suspended from Texas schools because of a dress code violation. Guess what it was?
  
• Rep. Gohmert asks why Rep. John Lewis wasn’t treated the same as Jan. 6 insurrectionists
  
• Psaki sets the record straight after McCarthy tries to mislead and confuse on supply chain problems
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Jan. 6 probe getting very, very uncomfortable for Republicans
  
• Donald Trump’s new ‘social media platform’ isn’t a Twitter rival. It’s an investment scam
  
• The U.K. may be seeing a new variant that is more contagious than delta
  
• ‘We’re appalled by your failure’: 5 vets resign from Arizona Sen. Sinema’s advisory council
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• ‘Mom, I love you, and I wish that I’d got the shot,’ said dying Virginia man who leaves behind 4 orphans
  
• California high school teacher filmed mocking Native Americans while teaching trigonometry lesson
  
• Cartoon: Primate-deniers
  
• Sinema sticks it to Biden again, insists Trump tax giveaway to corporate America has to stand
  
• Sign and send a petition to Congress: Say NO to Big Pharma. Medicare must negotiate prescription drug prices!
  
• Dan Patrick’s voter fraud bounty blows up in his face
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Meet the Qanon poet
  
• In fighting to cut the reconciliation bill, Joe Manchin is signing West Virginia’s death certificate
  
• Claremont Institute’s descent into Trumpian extremism illustrated in law enforcement strategy
  
• Sign the petition: Demand colleges and universities stop double-charging students for credits accrued through internships
  
• Steve Bannon, crony extraordinaire to twice-impeached Trump, found in contempt of Congress
  
• AT&T has yet to answer for its support of OAN, and customers have had it
  
• Previous admin floated sending huge number of troops to border, and even into Mexico, report says
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: High stakes in Pennsylvania, and keeping the bellwether state blue
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Fox News host catches COVID-19, puts out statement telling people to get vaccinated
  
• Ted Cruz mocked Australia’s vaccine mandate, so a local politician responded with fire
  
• Moroccan man gets lost, parks his car, white Texan shoots him dead and walks free

• Fox News host has COVID-19, tells America to ‘get vaccinated, for yourself and everyone around you’
  
• Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz walk into a committee hearing to defend Steve Bannon, it does not go well
  
• Trump is being investigated for yet another criminal charge—this guy hates paying his taxes
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• ‘Avowed white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer’ discharged from U.S. Army after Jan. 6 insurrection
  
• Kennedy Jr. whines about ‘free speech’ as he sues Daily Kos for exercising free speech
  
• OSHA warns three states their COVID-19 failures may force it to take over workplace safety authority
  
• ‘Angry and disgusted’: Train riders recorded but didn’t call 911 as a woman was raped on the train
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• We don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this Nevada candidate for governor’s campaign launch video
  
• ‘I’m grateful you are all vaccinated’: CNN anchor shares multiple sclerosis diagnosis
  
• Netflix staff to walk out in protest amid entitled CEO’s tone-deaf comments over Chappelle special
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: ‘This horrible weapon from Satan’
  
• Sign the petition: Demand colleges and universities stop double-charging students for credits accrued through internships
  
• House GOP leaders push to shield Bannon from contempt charge for ignoring congressional subpoena
  
• Sorry, Columbus. You didn’t discover anything. The Caribbean was already occupied
  
• Cartoon: PFAS are forever
  
• ‘Nightmare scenario’: Substantial majority of Americans don’t trust Supreme Court, want reforms
  
• Sign the petition: Demand fair pay and benefits for striking John Deere workers
  
• Republicans filibuster bill to save democracy. Democrats keep filibuster in place
  
• Civil rights group files complaint on behalf of nearly 50 Haitian families abused in U.S. custody
  
• Serving the Native people
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: High stakes in Pennsylvania, and keeping the bellwether state blue
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Ted Cruz mocked Australia’s vaccine mandate, so a local politician responded with fire
  
• Moroccan man gets lost, parks his car, white Texan shoots him dead and walks free
  
• Former Domino’s employee who stormed the Capitol provides FBI with 8 video clips of Jan. 6 violence

• Christina Nance, reported missing two weeks ago, found dead inside a police van in Huntsville, Alabama
  
• Sign the petition: The filibuster now threatens the global economy — eliminate it immediately
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic-vote.
  
• Violent seditionists are being arrested by SWAT teams and it’s making them very upset
  
• Trump’s latest statement blows up GOP’s 2022 messaging and strategy alike
  
• Gov. Abbott stung by activist, caught on camera bragging about outlawing abortion in Texas
  
• Cartoon: Abbott about-face
  
• Unvaccinated insurrectionist asks for probation instead of jail time—for some wild reasons
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• We could have had this woman for President. How different our world would be right now.
  
• Herschel Walker fumbles, cancels fundraiser after pressure over host’s swastika profile pic
  
• Black ‘American’ flags at right-wing protests, on front porches vow ‘no quarter’ against liberals
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: His son tried to save dad’s life, Facebook got in the way
  
• Abbott reverses course on whether Texas businesses can make their own COVID-19 vaccine decisions
  
• Sign and Send the petition: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act!
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Building political engagement year-round in North Carolina
  
• Black man has a stroke, Boston police arrest him instead of calling an ambulance
  
• Anti-vaxxers yelling at school kids get a response they weren’t expecting
  
• The first major city in the United States passes a dark-sky ordinance
  
• Texas teacher pulls down mask, corners frightened masked student and menacingly breathes on her

• Black ‘American’ flags at right-wing protests, on front porches vow ‘no quarter’ against liberals
  
• Violent seditionists are being arrested by SWAT teams and it’s making them very upset
  
• Herschel Walker fumbles, cancels fundraiser after pressure over host’s swastika profile pic
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: He thought a gun was all the protection he needed
  
• This is the worst outbreak of rabid racism and bigotry in generations
  
• Police are howling about vaccine mandates … as they die of COVID-19 by the hundreds
  
• Gym Jordan yaps about vaccine mandates, gets shut down by Rep. Eric Swalwell
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic-vote.
  
• Trump warns Republicans ‘will not be voting’ in 2022 or 2024 unless his big lie is proven
  
• Pro-Trump Republican escorted from school board meeting after pulling anti-trans, anti-mask stunt
  
• Conservative lawyers who once defended Trump now won’t touch him with a ‘1,000-foot pole’
  
• Anti-maskers threaten Florida school board member, tell her to ‘beg for mercy’ for supporting masks
  
• Demand accountability for the January 6 insurrection!
  
• With no explanation, circuit judge hires clerk accused of texting she hates Black people
  
• Jan. 6 committee is ‘completely of one mind’ about criminal referrals if Team Trump won’t cooperate
  
• Alaska GOP lawmakers demand pharmacists fill ivermectin scripts for COVID-19 ‘no questions asked’
  
• Tennessee juvenile court judge loses adjunct job following damning reports of abuse
  
• Sign and Send the petition: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act!
  
• Pro-Trump Virginia candidate believes sea level rise can be fixed with bathtub physics
  
• Cartoon: The way forward
  
• ICE’s workplace raids have devastated workers for years. Biden admin says these sweeps will now end
  
• Building political engagement year-round in North Carolina
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Anti-vaxxers yelling at school kids get a response they weren’t expecting
  
• The first major city in the United States passes a dark-sky ordinance
  
• Gov. Abbott stung by activist, caught on camera bragging about outlawing abortion in Texas

• Anti-vaxxers yelling at school kids get a response they weren’t expecting
  
• Texas teacher pulls down mask, corners frightened masked student and menacingly breathes on her
  
• We could have had this woman for President. How different our world would be right now.
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: #Godhasaplan and it includes getting vaccinated. Blue didn’t listen
  
• Neo-fascist attack in Rome shows how the far-right ‘mini-insurrection’ strategy is now global
  
• Trump should be disqualified under the 14th Amendment from ever holding public office again
  
• Eric Clapton now funding anti-vaxxer musicians group in the U.K., proving once again he’s a jackass
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic-vote.
  
• Republicans made up a story about worker shortages and unemployment aid. Then reality caught up
  
• Taking a page from Hitler’s playbook, Trump praises insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt
  
• Cartoon: A warning from the candy cops
  
• ‘You can hurt me!’ Black man with paraplegia yells to try to get officers to stop dragging him
  
• Sign and Send the petition: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act!
  
• McConnell sends Biden another debt ceiling hostage note
  
• North Carolina’s lieutenant governor is adamant he won’t resign after calling LGBTQ people ‘filth’
  
• When is the House select committee going to enforce subpoenas?
  
• Tactical agents harassed dozens of U.S. citizens at border over so-called migrant ‘caravan’
  
• Sign and Send the petition: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act!
  
• Fake furs and missing bags just part of Team Trump’s foreign gift legacy
  
• Texas governor defies Biden by banning all vaccine mandates in Texas, including by private employers
  
• We budget a trillion dollars a year on nat’l defense. We should invest a trillion on climate defense
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Michigan! Fighting on the ground for ‘the soul of our country’
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• The first major city in the United States passes a dark-sky ordinance
  
• Unvaccinated insurrectionist asks for probation instead of jail time—for some wild reasons
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: His son tried to save dad’s life, Facebook got in the way

• MSNBC host slams Republican senator: I hear you acknowledge the hypocrisy of your party (The GOP)
  
• Cartoon: Facebook
  
• Raskin floats inherent contempt as former Trump aides defy Jan. 6 subpoenas
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Trump hid $70 million in losses on D.C. hotel, payments from foreign governments
  
• The newest Big Pharma scam exposed
  
• Big day in Jan. 6 probe: Biden to turn over documents, Bannon under threat of criminal referral
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic-vote.
  
• Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyers claim hunting laws allowed him to carry an AR-15 assault rifle to protest
  
• Nearly all of Greg Abbott’s border wall crowdfunding came from one billionaire donor
  
• The latest GOP Hoax: The DOJ is attacking parental free speech
  
• Add your name to the petition: Thank you, President Biden, for expanding vaccine requirements to 100+ million Americans!
  
• GOP governors ignore COVID-19 cases in their states to join Greg Abbott for yet another border stunt
  
• If this discriminatory sports bill in Texas is giving you deja vu, imagine how trans youth feel
  
• New study finds that 1 out of 5 kids in the U.S. has lost a caregiver to COVID-19
  
• Sign the petition: Stop shutoff and cancel debt for water, power, and broadband services
  
• Manchin helps Republicans shift debt ceiling narrative away from their dangerous disarray
  
• Biden calls on employers to require COVID-19 vaccination as mandates prove successful
  
• Debt limit catastrophe reprieve shows we can’t afford Manchin and Sinema and their arrogant games
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Michigan! Fighting on the ground for ‘the soul of our country’
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Anti-vaxxer asks why ‘homeless people’ aren’t ‘dead in the street’ and gets the best answer ever
  
• Oh, Pillow Man. Sad, sad Pillow Man. What fresh hell is this?
  
• Giuliani deposition: The madness continues

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  Anti-vaxxer asks why ‘homeless people’ aren’t ‘dead in the street’ and gets the best answer ever
  
• Alex Jones suffers another legal loss as his day of reckoning approaches
  
• BLM protester billed $57,000 for the legal defense of cop who wrongfully arrested her
  
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• Reuters uncovers deeper connections between deadly hoax network OAN and corporate giant AT&T
  
• Alex Jones whines that free speech has been ‘crucified’ because he’s finally being held to account
  
• Cartoon: The Goatmaster General
  
• Four Trump loyalists are on the brink of criminal referrals in Jan. 6 investigation
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic-vote.
  
• Did you know Kyrsten Sinema did a paid internship at a California winery during the pandemic?
  
• Al Franken on Republicans: We have to be as ruthless. We have to be stone-cold killers.
  
• What’s the price for spreading COVID-19 hoaxes on Facebook? For one Texan, it’s 15 months in prison
  
• Tucker Carlson, Ron Johnson promote yet another deadly pandemic hoax
  
• These companies are funding Trump’s insurrectionists—sign the petition and demand they cease immediately.
  
• Conservative judges overturn California’s ban on private prisons—with an assist from the Biden admin
  
• McConnell blinks, won’t filibuster debt ceiling hike
  
• Caribbean Matters: Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados is a force to be reckoned with
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Are gov’t shutdowns a sign of the rapture, or just trying to save his life?
  
• Sign the petition: The filibuster now threatens the global economy — eliminate it immediately
  
• Republicans are officially in favor of threats to school board members
  
• Cynical McConnell to offer a short-term debt ceiling extension today. Why?
  
• Democrats flirt with ending the filibuster on the debt ceiling. Finally
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Michigan! Fighting on the ground for ‘the soul of our country’
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Oh, Pillow Man. Sad, sad Pillow Man. What fresh hell is this?
  
• Giuliani deposition: The madness continues
  
• Lawsuit: Newborn baby dies after mother forced to give birth in Florida jail

• Seven portraits in treachery from the Senate’s report
  
• Health care systems out of patience and firings of unvaccinated workers have begun
  
• Video shows police in unmarked van hunting people down with rubber bullets
  
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• USPS rolling out a new program that could help millions of low-wage, underserved access their money
  
• Travis McMichael is actively trying to keep his Confederate vanity plate out of his murder trial
  
• Anti-vaxx health care workers who quit their jobs hurt disadvantaged patients the most
  
• Tell-all book paints Sen. Lindsey Graham as a ‘freeloader’ who would ‘stuff his face’ with food
  
• McConnell scrapes together enough votes to avoid blowing up economy, debt ceiling filibuster stopped
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Michigan! Fighting on the ground for ‘the soul of our country’
  
• Sign the petition: Stop shutoff and cancel debt for water, power, and broadband services
  
• Manchin demands Biden, Democrats make ‘Sophie’s Choice’ among plans for helping working families
  
• New Senate report lays out Trump’s efforts to overturn the election in frightening detail
  
• Cartoon: Eff-book exposed!
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: There’s no logic in vaccinating, other than the ‘save your life’ part
  
• Add your name to the petition: Thank you, President Biden, for expanding vaccine requirements to 100+ million Americans!
  
• Documents from Dominion executive’s defamation suit suggest Giuliani is in big trouble
  
• Top allies to Trump’s violent insurrection are ignoring Congress’ subpoenas. Jail them
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic-vote.
  
• Internal review shows Trump’s DHS concocted bogus intelligence blaming antifa for violence
  
• Senate reaches debt ceiling agreement, but angry Republicans won’t make it easy for McConnell
  
• ICE had one remaining county jail contract in New Jersey. It just lost that agreement
  
• Texas senator tries to pin debt debacle on Democrats, gets Lone Star-sized helping of humble pie
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Anti-vaxxer asks why ‘homeless people’ aren’t ‘dead in the street’ and gets the best answer ever
  
• Oh, Pillow Man. Sad, sad Pillow Man. What fresh hell is this?
  
• Giuliani deposition: The madness continues

• Oh, Pillow Man. Sad, sad Pillow Man. What fresh hell is this?
  
• GA district attorney uses Trump’s own words against him after Trump calls for ‘special election’
  
• Rep. Madison Cawthorn posts clip calling for holy war, Twitter mocks him
  
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• Police union leader calls Black congressman ‘first-class whore,’ gets ‘first-class raid’ from FBI
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Trump lover thought Fauci should be imprisoned for trying to save his life
  
• Anti-maskers and racists who threaten school board members may soon get a visit from the FBI
  
• Police interest in joining Oath Keepers actually surged after Jan. 6, hacked data release exposes
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic vote.
  
• ‘Nothing prepares you for this’: Teachers across U.S. quit in record numbers during pandemic
  
• Cartoon: Over the cliff!
  
• Former senior Trump aide’s tell-all memoir is out and it is very believable
  
• ‘I see that you don’t want to respond’: Sinema mostly ignores DACA recipient pleading for relief
  
• Sign the petition: The filibuster now threatens the global economy — eliminate it immediately
  
• Trump’s knee-jerk corruption in 2016 led to his fall from Forbes 400 list
  
• ‘What makes Black bodies less valuable’: Henrietta Lacks estate sues company still using her cells
  
• Dallas Morning News rejects super PAC ad that slams AT&T over restrictive Texas abortion law
  
• The nation is headed for economic catastrophe, and it’s Mitch McConnell’s fault
  
• These companies are funding Trump’s insurrectionists — sign the petition and demand they cease immediately.
  
• McConnell’s power to blow up the economy was given to him by Manchin and Sinema
  
• State Department official calls Title 42 policy ‘illegal,’ urges end to Haitian deportations
  
• The game’s afoot: Democrats narrowing differences on Biden’s safety-net reconciliation package
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Michigan! Fighting on the ground for ‘the soul of our country’
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Giuliani deposition: The madness continues
  
• Lawsuit: Newborn baby dies after mother forced to give birth in Florida jail
  
• COVID-19 treatment being rushed to FDA after trials were ‘stopped early due to positive results’

• Lawsuit: Newborn baby dies after mother forced to give birth in Florida jail
  
• Capitol attackers ran past reinforced windows to vulnerable ones. How did they know where to go?
  
• New mother has to be taken off life support after school cop shoots her in car fleeing fight
  
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• Black homecoming king says he was called racial slur during game. He, not opponents, was suspended
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Praying for a lawyer to sue hospital is better than thanking god for vaccine?
  
• Democrats can take McConnell’s most powerful weapons away, and do it pretty easily
  
• Video of activists confronting Sen. Sinema in ASU bathroom viewed over 4.7 million times
  
• Virginia is still a battleground state. Help progressives defend it against a right-wing takeover by chipping in to help get-out-the-Democratic vote.
  
• Gov. Jim Justice, on the hook for almost $1B, offers up deal including half his family business
  
• GOP lies tied to rural Americans dying of COVID at double the number compared to urbanites
  
• COVID-19 deaths surge in Russia, as most Russians shun vaccines and hope for natural immunity
  
• Trump loyalists face Jan. 6 subpoena deadline, and committee is ready to make criminal referrals
  
• Sign and send the petition: We can’t wait! Pass the historic Build Back Better Act now
  
• Conservative news outlets and Fox News attack veteran Sen. Duckworth for disability tax break
  
• Biden and House progressives turn back would-be Democratic saboteurs, for now
  
• Asylum-seekers ordered released from Abbott’s Operation Lone Star scheme instead turned over to CBP
  
• Whistleblower confirms that Facebook intentionally profits from sowing social chaos, violence
  
• Sign and send the petition to your member of Congress telling them to take care of families and pass the Build Back Better Act
  
• Supreme Court gets ready to cement itself as a fully partisan Republican institution
  
• A majority of Asian Americans blame Trump, not the GOP, for rise in discrimination, survey finds
  
• It takes nearly 100 years for beachfront property stripped from Black family to be returned
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The stakes in Virginia, updates from the field, and engaging off-year voters
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Giuliani Deposition: The madness continues
  
• COVID-19 treatment being rushed to FDA after trials were ‘stopped early due to positive results’
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Billy had a weird sexual fixation on Dr. Anthony Fauci

• COVID-19 treatment being rushed to FDA after trials were ‘stopped early due to positive results’
  
• Idaho officials tell Pillow Guy to get stuffed after he claims massive vote flips in Gem State
  
• WaPo reporter compares Biden’s visit to family members in cemetery to his ‘dying’ agenda
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Texas lawmaker introduces uber-unconstitutional resolution to make the Bible the official state book
  
• Neo-Nazi ‘active clubs’ spring up around country as handiwork of notorious fascist living abroad
  
• Alex Jones tried to play obstruction games with Sandy Hook ‘hoax’ lawsuits, but judge pulls plug
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• I’m an ER nurse … and I’m tired
  
• Current and former Blue Origin employees say it’s a hellish workplace—like another Bezos company
  
• All women know they are prey
  
• Sign and send the petition to your member of Congress telling them to take care of families and pass the Build Back Better Act
  
• As Democrats pursue Biden’s legacy bill, Republicans sabotage the global economy
  
• The GOP is eager to kill their voters, democracy, and the economy—to embarrass Dems. Anything else?
  
• COVID-19 must be eliminated, not become endemic, if America is to survive
  
• Sign the petition to Congressional Democrats: We cannot allow Republicans to hold the United States economy hostage. Abolish the Debt Ceiling and bring an end to this Republican manufactured crisis
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• The most banned book in the United States is written for kids. Can you guess what it is?
  
• Alito laments being victim of self-inflicted wound
  
• Man died after a COVID denier recorded himself ‘helping’ the man leave against doctor’s pleas

• Giuliani Deposition: The madness continues
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Billy had a weird sexual fixation on Dr. Anthony Fauci
  
• Sinema baffles colleagues, angers voters, and then skips town. Primary time?
  
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• Kyrsten Sinema spent the weekend insulting young Hispanic activists right to their faces
  
• Boogaloo Boi admits to posing as Black Lives Matter protester before firing shots at police station
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID didn’t care about this guy’s muscles
  
• Republicans continue to vote against American families and workers. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now. We can flip each and every one of these seats in 2022.
  
• Let’s just take a moment to honor John Denver
  
• Exhilarating scenes from the Women’s March across the nation
  
• Vaccine mandates are working while Congress is, sort of, as well
  
• Sign and send the petition to your member of Congress telling them to take care of families and pass the Build Back Better Act
  
• Cartoon: Mint the NFTs
  
• Oh I see, it’s a liberal revolt, is it?
  
• ‘Why we need to spend $4 trillion’ by David Brooks
  
• Sign the petition to Congressional Democrats: We cannot allow Republicans to hold the United States economy hostage. Abolish the Debt Ceiling and bring an end to this Republican manufactured crisis
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The stakes in Virginia, updates from the field, and engaging off-year voters
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• The most banned book in the United States is written for kids. Can you guess what it is?
  
• Alito laments being victim of self-inflicted wound
  
• Man died after a COVID denier recorded himself ‘helping’ the man leave against doctor’s pleas

• Man dies days after a COVID denier convinced him to leave the hospital against doctor’s pleas
  
• Biden tells Trump to pound sand on his executive privilege claim in Jan. 6 probe
  
• Insurrection subpoena arrives in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s inbox–she scream tweets
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Maskless audience scolds masked dad after he’s attacked by unmasked man right in front of them
  
• Barron Trump’s new Fla. school has mask mandate; Tucker’s elite prep school requires vaccinations
  
• Cult-like church’s takeover of Idaho college town is fueled by a misogynist, rape-friendly theology
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• Emails find Trump trio planned to sell veterans’ patient data for ‘hundreds of millions of revenues’
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Damn, now they’re vaccinating our PRODUCE?
  
• Trump lawsuit admits Trump is addicted to Twitter
  
• Sign the petition: Expand Medicare in Budget Reconciliation
  
• Tucker Carlson is losing faith. I’m OK with that.
  
• ‘I will not deliver your sh*t’: FedEx delivery driver’s TikTok rant causes him to lose his job
  
• Texas male maskhole charged with biting hospital security guard’s thumb to the bone
  
• Sign the petition to President Biden: Shut Down the Line 3 Pipeline and Order the DOJ to Stop Police from using “Pain Compliance” Torture Tactics and Treating Protestors like Terrorists Now!
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Bruce is a ferocious lion, not like those vaccinated sheep
  
• Lauren Boebert really wants to impeach Biden, but she should have hired a proofreader first
  
• Matt Gaetz boosts neo-Nazi ‘Great Replacement Theory’ as Republicans turn full fascist
  
• The most banned book in the United States is written for kids. Can you guess what it is?
  
• Violent COVID-deniers force Missouri hospital staff to wear panic buttons
  
• Hacked Oath Keepers membership roster reveals NYPD and GOP officials
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The stakes in Virginia, updates from the field, and engaging off-year voters

• Alito laments being victim of self-inflicted wound
  
• Biden admin wins shameful effort to save Stephen Miller’s anti-asylum Title 42 policy
  
• ‘Learn from me’: Unvaccinated Texas man who lost both feet to COVID-19 urges people to get the shot
  
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• Both police and Trump supporters confirm Jan. 6 insurgents were armed with pistols, other weapons
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID is immune to Shooter’s big gun
  
• Every Republican voted for amendment from Sen. Tom Cotton cutting off assistance to Afghan refugees
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• Today marks DeJoy’s brilliant plan to slow down mail delivery—almost as good as removing mailboxes
  
• YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content, including things unrelated to COVID-19
  
• Cartoon: Newly-frugal guy in ‘Armageddon Ho!’
  
• Sign the petition to Congressional Democrats: We cannot allow Republicans to hold the United States economy hostage. Abolish the Debt Ceiling and bring an end to this Republican manufactured crisis
  
• The cynical reason why Ohio Republicans punted on drawing a new congressional map
  
• Texas abortion vigilante law forces women to leave the state for medical care, state AG confirms
  
• Media offers Republicans a free pass as they try to dismantle the government and tank the economy
  
• Sign and send the petition: We can’t wait! Pass the historic Build Back Better Act now
  
• ‘There is no one to fight for’ Black military family abused by racist neighbor
  
• ‘The planet is at stake,’ Sanders says, as Manchin makes a stand for fossil fuels
  
• Four U.N. agencies appeal to ‘countries in the Americas’ to uphold human rights of Haitians
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The stakes in Virginia, updates from the field, and engaging off-year voters
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Insurrection subpoena arrives in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s inbox, so she scream tweets
  
• ‘I will not deliver your sh*t’: FedEx delivery driver’s TikTok rant causes him to lose his job
  
• Texas male maskhole charged with biting hospital security guard’s thumb to the bone

• Insurrection subpoena arrives in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s inbox–she scream tweets
  
• Maskless audience scolds masked dad after he’s attacked by unmasked man right in front of them
  
• Cult-like church’s takeover of Idaho college town is fueled by a misogynist, rape-friendly theology
  
• Daily Kos is $16,230 away from our monthly goal. Can you chip in $5 now to help us close the books on September?
  
• As Alaska hospitals overflow with COVID patients, Anchorage mayor blames vaccine mandates
  
• Unanswered: Was man who refused rabies shots after a bat bite and died a Trumpian Covid anti-vaxxer?
  
• ‘He doesn’t even go here’: Matt Walsh rents $1 room to protest masks at school board meeting
  
• Hacker reveals right-wing health care network made millions off ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine
  
• Thousands of families in Louisiana and Mississippi are still without power, drinkable water, medical supplies, and other basic necessities. Chip in $3 to support Hurricane Ida relief efforts.
  
• Loud threats that people will quit jobs over vaccine mandates aren’t translating to much action
  
• Cartoon: Going to the dogs
  
• Court orders release of hundreds of migrants jailed under Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star scheme
  
• Over 30 minutes after Jan. 6 attack on Capitol began, DHS produced a memo downplaying the violence
  
• Sign the petition: Stop shutoff and cancel debt for water, power, and broadband services
  
• Neo-Nazi ‘active clubs’ spring up around country as handiwork of notorious fascist living abroad
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Proud extremist can’t quit being anti-vaxx as infection swirls around her
  
• ‘It isn’t not knowing … It’s not caring’: LAPD repeatedly sued over its use of dispersal orders
  
• Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, your privilege is showing
  
• Tell President Biden: Shut Down the Line 3 Pipeline and Order the DOJ to Stop Police from using “Pain Compliance” Torture Tactics and Treating Protestors like Terrorists Now!
  
• Wherein Kyrsten Sinema is single-handedly blowing up the entire Democratic agenda
  
• Here’s what’s going on in the congressional clusterf#!k
  
• Senate Democrats propose immigration ‘Plan B’ to parliamentarian. Or they can just act on their own
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The failed California recall and state-level attacks on reproductive freedom
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• ‘I will not deliver your sh*t’: FedEx delivery driver’s TikTok rant causes him to lose his job
  
• Texas male maskhole charged with biting hospital security guard’s thumb to the bone
  
• Emails find Trump trio planned to sell veterans’ patient data for ‘hundreds of millions of revenues’