On this day in COVID history, July 23, 2021:

Opinion: Eight months of long Covid brought me to the brink | CNN

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NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez on SCOTUS ruling giving ICE green light to sweeps based on race, language.
@morganstephens.bsky.social from KOB

Learn more about what this means for New Mexicans and beyond:
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It’s hard to believe this was four years ago. I am immensely grateful for the healing my body has done and surrender to the rest it has to go.

My LATEST:

Some personal news: I’m *so* excited to announce I’ve joined KOB 4 as a reporter covering New Mexico! Grateful for such a warm welcome from the team as well as the state of enchantment.

Statement from @newyorkstateag.bsky.social who led the lawsuit: “The Trump administration’s illegal mass firings of federal workers are causing destruction and confusion throughout the country, and they must stop. I applaud this ruling that restores thousands of federal workers’ jobs.”

NEWS: Attorneys General multi-state lawsuit to reinstate thousands of probationary workers fired by DOGE succeeds in court. The ruling ordered employees to be reinstated by March 17th, and alleged the White House violated federal law by illegally firing thousands of workers without advanced notice.

Trump 2028? Americans think he'll try it—and don't think he should President Donald Trump keeps “joking” about running for a third term, and his allies are floating ways to make it happen—but Americans aren’t on board. New polling finds that not only do ...

POTUS continues "joking" about staying in office past 2028. The majority of Americans believe he'll attempt it. Meanwhile, MAGA is already splintering on the issue, with recent activist factions popping up at CPAC. Latest: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Democrats rip 'un-American' Trump after Zelenskyy clusterf-ck Democrats were left aghast at President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s disgraceful meltdown toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. In the meeting, Trump defended…

“Absolute admiration for President Zelenskyy. The guy has balls. He went into the Oval Office and stood up to Russia’s best negotiators,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell of California.

Here's why the Democratic Party just sued Trump The Democratic Party is taking President Donald Trump to court , accusing him of overstepping his authority and illegally trying to tighten his grip on federal agencies—particularly those meant to ...

ICYMI: The DNC filed its first lawsuit on Friday against Trump in what calls a “blatant power grab by a corrupt Republican administration” over campaign finance law. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Democrats rip 'un-American' Trump after Zelenskyy clusterf-ck Democrats were left aghast at President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s disgraceful meltdown toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. In the meeting, Trump defended Russi...

NEW: After Trump and Vance threw Zelenskyy’s White House meeting off the rails, the public consensus among Democrats was swift and unified: “embarrassing,” “dangerous,” “un-American,” “an ambush.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

JUST NOW: "You see the hatred he's got for Putin, it's really tough to make a deal with that kind of hatred," Trump said to Zelenskyy and reporters in Oval Office during devolving WH meeting.

Musk is now begging air traffic controllers to come back to work Donald Trump gave his co-President Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency carte blanche to go on a federal employee firing spree—and now Musk is lamely begging for workers to come…

Trump and Musk are right about one thing: All of this is a disaster—their disaster.

Megyn Kelly unleashes sexist attack against Musk's alleged baby mama Former Fox News host-turned-podcaster Megyn Kelly went on a condescending, sexist tirade Wednesday, blasting conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair for announcing on X that her baby is the 13th ...

You nailed it, @morganstephens.bsky.social.

She’s desperate to stay relevant and the maga broligarchs are her last refuge.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

After 3 surgeries, a blood clot, infection & being hospitalized for over a week, the moment I was discharged I rushed to the airport so I could get on a plane to DC & vote NO on Republicans’ disastrous budget plan.
Rep. Pettersen traveled from Colorado with her newborn son so she could vote NO. 🧵

Another judge puts Trump's disastrous funding freeze on ice A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday on Donald Trump’s push for a federal funding freeze ,

A federal judge just smacked down Trump’s reckless funding freeze, calling it “ill-conceived” and “unfathomable.” Turns out, trying to block trillions in federal aid practically overnight is completely unhinged.

Team assigned to help DOGE gives middle finger instead Nearly two dozen federal technology workers just walked out the door rather than bow to billionaire Elon Musk, who they say is set on running the government into the ground with chaos and cronyism.�

USDS staffers resign en masse in response to Musk’s latest antics.

3 years after Ukraine invasion, Trump is still simping for Putin When White House reporters asked President Donald Trump on Monday if Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “dictator,” the usually bombastic Trump was suddenly demure. “I don’t use those ...

Shocker.

Musk faces major backlash after obnoxious productivity email On Saturday, at the behest of unelected billionaire Elon Musk, the Office of Personnel Management emailed over 2 ...

Spoiler: the FBI, Pentagon, and unions aren’t impressed.

As if gutting the entire federal government wasn't enough, Trump and RFK Jr. are now abandoning 9/11 first responders.

Protests ramp up across the country as rage builds against Trump and Musk Protests are set to take place on Monday across the country to make it known that this President’s Day, Americans are pissed at President Donald Trump and unelected co-president Elon Musk’s ...

No Kings on Presidents Day. The American people are fighting back against Trump and Musk.

Democrats have a chance to stand up to Trump—if they don't blow it Congress has one month to pass its spending bill or risk a government shutdown, and Democrats are hinting that they might take this opportunity to finally challenge President Donald Trump and ...

New from me: Congressional Democrats of all factions are hinting at a government shutdown in one month as a bargaining chip to combat the Trump and Musk administration. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

First congressional DOGE hearing is just as bonkers as you can imagine Fireworks erupted Wednesday on Capitol Hill at the first Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee hearing when Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia of California and Jasmine Crockett of Texas each ....

Marjorie Taylor Greene is out here silencing Democrats to protect Elon Musk’s fragile ego. Government efficiency, indeed.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Trump gleefully announces he’s back to being Putin’s lapdog President Donald Trump announced Wednesday on Truth Social that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since being sworn into office. During the 90-minute call and on ...

Trump is back on Putin’s leash.

Democrats get two Senate opportunities to freshen up the party Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota announced on Thursday that she won’t seek reelection in 2026. “This decision is not political, it is entirely personal,” she said in a statement, citing that…

Want Medicare for All? Climate action? Wealth tax? Then we need progressives winning these Senate races.

"The President cannot create a new department to restructure the federal government and certainly cannot give unchecked power to a billionaire friend without Congressional action,” said Campbell.

According to a press release from Mass. AG Andrea Campbell, the lawsuit argues that Trump violated the Constitution by creating the federal Department without Congressional approval and granting Musk "sweeping powers over the entire federal government" without advice and consent of the Senate.

NEW: 13 attorneys general file a lawsuit against DOGE, challenging Elon Musk's "exercise of executive power." 1/3

Filing here: www.mass.gov/doc/nm-v-mus...

What do they say about sunlight and disinfectant?

Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

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