Texas Dems Flee State to Halt Redistricting – The Monday AM Quickie 8/4/25
Last week Corey alerted us to radioactive wasps and rhinos. Today I bring you rats the size of cats. - Whitney
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THE BIG NEWS
Texas Dems Leave State to Stop Trump-Backed Redistricting
Texas House Democrats left the state yesterday to block today’s vote on a new congressional map that could give Republicans five more U.S. House seats in next year’s midterms – enough to stop Democrats from regaining the majority, according to the AP, Texas Tribune and The New York Times. Most of the 62 House Democrats fled; the 150-member chamber needs at least 100 members present to conduct business. Trump demanded the legislature redistrict the state because his policies are massively unpopular and he can’t hang on to the majority unless he cheats.
Democrats posted videos and photos on their way out the door. “We didn’t start this fight — Donald Trump started it,” said Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. in one video. “You see me? Look here. Bye.” Most who left went to Illinois, where Gov. JB Pritzker has been considering retaliating against the Texas redistrict by redrawing his own state’s map in favor of Democrats.
Meanwhile, Republicans got mad. House Speaker Dustin Burrows, who recently oversaw repeated failures to prepare for devastating floods, said “all options will be put on the table” if there aren’t enough members around today at 3 p.m. Republicans could issue civil arrest warrants against the Democrats, as they did in a previous walkout, or withhold their pay. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton went on social media yesterday to call the Democrats “cowards” for fleeing, which is rich coming from him. Anybody remember that one time when Paxton fled his house to avoid being served a subpoena? Gov. Greg Abbott threatened arrest and expulsion, to which Democrats responded: “Come and take it.”
MORE STORIES TO WATCH
Convicted Child Sex Trafficker Maxwell Moves to Fancy Low-Security Jail of the Rich and Famous
Convicted serial sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who for years lured, abused, and tormented girls and women with her now-dead ex-boyfriend, has been moved from federal prison in Florida to a fancy dormitory-style low-security jail in Texas, according to The Washington Post. Her attorney won’t say why, and Pamela Bondi’s Justice Department won’t comment at all. Maxwell is four years into a 20-year sentence and joins other well-connected liars, thieves and predators in what one former inmate said was so cushy that serving time there is “like having a sabbatical,” according to NBC News. Maxwell’s new roomies include convicted felon and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who defrauded other rich people with her fake blood-testing company, and Jen Shaw, former cast member of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, who pleaded guilty of conspiring to commit wire fraud and money laundering in a plot to steal from old people. Meanwhile, House Oversight Chair James Comer said Friday that Maxwell’s congressional deposition is “indefinitely postponed,” Politico reported, pending her Supreme Court petition. Sure feels like this lady, the true “worst of the worst,” is gonna end up back on the streets in no time. Oh, and the FBI redacted Trump’s name from Epstein documents.
Enraged by Message of Slower Growth, Trump Shoots Messenger
The Narcissist-in-Chief fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he did not personally like the jobs data she published hours earlier showing higher unemployment in May and June, The Guardian, The NYT and The Washington Post reported. Without evidence, Trump posted on social media that the poor jobs report was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad,” adding, “But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!” For more information about how great we’re doing, please view the first Mr. Clips and/or reality.
QUICKEST QUICKIES
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Close By Sept. 30 About 1,000 member stations receive a large part of their operating budget from CPB, especially in rural and poor areas. “The ripple effects of this closure will be felt across every public media organization and, more importantly, in every community across the country that relies on public broadcasting,” said NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher in a statement. via NPR.
- Federal Judge Forbids Department of Homeland Security to Use Expedited Removal to Deport Immigrants on Humanitarian Parole “The case specifically protects individuals from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba who entered the US legally through a Biden administration humanitarian parole program launched in January 2023. US Citizenship and Immigration Services data indicates over 500,000 approvals under the program by mid-2025, offering two-year stays to those with sponsors and clean background checks.” via Migrant Insider.
- GOP Immigration Terror Campaign Wrecking California’s Economy “An analysis of US census data from late May and early June by researchers with UC Merced’s Community and Labor Center found that the number of people reporting to work in the private sector in California decreased by 3.1% – a downturn so significant it is only recently matched by the period when people stayed home from work during the COVID-19 lockdown.” via LA Times.
- In Wake of $200 Million Trump Payoff, Columbia Sportswear Sees Opportunity at Columbia University “The likelihood of deception, confusion, and mistake engendered by the university’s misappropriation and misuse of the Columbia name is causing irreparable harm to the brand and goodwill symbolized by Columbia Sportswear’s registered mark Columbia and the reputation for quality it embodies,” claims the clothing company, which was founded almost 200 years after the university. via the AP.
SOME NUMBER
60,000
That’s how many metric tons of food meant for starving people are stuck in US and global warehouses after the Trump regime shut down the US Agency for International Development last month, The Washington Post reported. Some of the food is close to expiration; 15,000 pounds of US-branded aid has already been labeled “DESTROY’ because it expired before it could be sent to places like Sudan, where people are starving to death.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
8/4: Today’s guests are Daniel Hunter, author, activist, and co-founder of Choose Democracy, and Erica Chenoweth, political scientist at Harvard Kennedy School and co-author of “Why Civil Resistance Works.”
DON'T MISS MR CLIPS
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America | Brian Goldstone
The indicator of economic health we should be most concerned with is the record number of unhoused people, not whether stock of the 500 large-cap companies in the S&P 500 goes up or down.
Doctor Stuns Hosts With Brutal Story From Gaza
As Mehdi Hasan said: no one except a depraved sociopath can defend the Israeli military confiscating baby formula from a doctor so he can’t take it into Gaza.
PARTING WORDS
“They really thought they were going to come in and scare everyone into their corners, but this is LA – and LA is resisting.”
-- Chavo Romero, a member of Union del Barrio, a coalition of trained volunteers who patrol and protect Los Angeles neighborhoods against Trump’s masked Gestapo. Since June, the union members have woken up early to monitor immigration agents’ activities and alert people to their whereabouts.
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