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[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Heartbreaking. A Minneapolis family driving home from their son’s basketball game in their car with six kids, including a 6-month-old, was hit by tear gas & flash-bangs from ICE agents, leaving their baby struggling to breathe and hospitalized.

This is unacceptable. ICE is making our state less safe.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Governor Gavin Newsom replaces Donald Trump on the world stage by announcing that he will attend the United Nations climate summit in Brazil that the MAGA leader refused to send a delegation to.

Big Oil owns Trump but they don't own his ascendant arch-nemesis...

COP30, the conference in question, will be held on Friday and Newsom will be the highest-profile American government official in attendance. The appearance, which will supercharge interest in his 2028 presidential run, comes in the wake of his historic redistricting victory on Tuesday.

The governor told Politico that he's making the trip “because of the complete abdication of the Trump administration that is joining the Saudis and Russia and the Gulf states.”

“It’s doubled down on hydrocarbons as the rest of the world is sprinting ahead on low-carbon green growth,” he said. “For me, it is about our economic competitiveness, period, full stop.”

Newsom's angle here is a smart one. Climate change is an existential crisis for the survival of our species, but it's also an enormous economic opportunity for those countries that are willing to adopt clean energy quickly and efficiently. Either the United States rises to meet demand or China will.

Trump has repeatedly dismissed climate change as a "hoax" and a "con job" despite the overwhelming evidence and proliferation of extreme weather events. Fossil fuel companies helped foist him into power and he's paying them back tenfold at the cost of our planet.

“I just want to make sure everyone understands we’re maybe 2,000 miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but we’re a world away in terms of our mindset on these issues,” Newsom added.

Tens of thousands of diplomats, scientists, experts, and activists are attending the conference which will unfold over two weeks in Belém, a city close to the mouth of the Amazon River. Newsom will have a strong legacy to tout during his trip since California has been leading America in renewable energy on numerous fronts.

The rest of the world is eager to speak with the United States and so Newsom will have an opportunity to boost his international standing even further—

“The U.S. will not play a major role. The world is collectively outraged, and so we will focus — as will everyone else — on engaging in talks with those who are driving the process forward," said Jochen Flasbarth, undersecretary in the German Ministry of Environmental Affairs."

Thanks to Gavin Newsom, the world doesn't have to count America out just yet. We need not surrender our global leadership. It's time to recommit to our responsibilities.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Gavin Newsom!

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@Hanari502 OUTSTANDING!
(Did not know you were a goblin fan - fwiw WoW just published a Goblin-oriented short story I wrote! Would love to hear your thoughts!)

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@ABC7 Goddamnit

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Harrison Ford: When dozens of former members of the Trump administration are sounding alarms saying ‘For God's sake, don't do this again,’ you have to pay attention. They're telling us something important. I've got one vote, same as anyone else, and I'm going to use it to move forward. I'm going to vote for Kamala Harris

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Good breakdown. The nation’s news systems being controlled by oligarchs turns out to be a bad thing. And people are responding.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

I think a lot of people are actually canceling their wapo subs. It’s not like the usual round of claims. But I think the brand damage to the Post may be greater than people realize and go beyond the near term hit on subs. A big slice of America is living in a climate of ….

[Nicholas Grossman @NGrossman81]

A billionaire blatantly breaking election laws to get his preferred candidate into power is the sort of crime that law enforcement should address immediately, rather than giving it a chance to work first and prosecuting only if it fails.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning admission, one of the most conservative Senators, Senator Mitch McConnell, admitted it was Donald Trump who sabotaged the toughest border security legislation proposed in decades. Retweet to make sure every American sees this

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This is absolutely wild.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(📢) I wonder if people realize the national crisis Elon Musk has now created. If Pennsylvania is the decisive state in November and Trump wins it by a small amount, Musk will have left a *literal paper trail* of the felony he committed to steal the election.

What do we do then?

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Sarah Matthews, Donald Trump’s former Deputy Press Secretary, just went on CNN to tell the world how clear it is that Donald Trump is in cognitive decline. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

Donald Trump says he will ban videogames

Retweet if you think he just lost the Millennial and Gen Z vote

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Gerrymandering is one of the great evils of our age.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: 60 Minutes just provided a devastating report on the shifting narratives and lies the Trump campaign has put out over the last year. Nobody has taken the Trump campaign to task like this before. Retweet so all Americans see this.

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Thread. Our nation’s future is at stake right now.

[James Connor @toJamesConnor]

🧵I also read through the second half of Jack Smith’s filing on Trump’s private criminal efforts to stay in power despite knowing he’d lost the election: the Legal Framework and Not Immune sections (pages 85-164, sec II and III).

Collectively, these sections should also be known as: Let’s Not Let Presidents Crime.

13 things jumped out to me.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning admission, one of the most conservative Senators, Senator James Lankford, admits that it was Donald Trump who sabotaged the toughest border security legislation proposed in decades. Retweet to make sure every American sees this

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

This is spectacular. Right on the money. Whoever wrote this absolutely understands our popular culture.

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@sydney_king11 Sydney, you’re amazing, and I’m grateful that I’ve gotten to know you and work alongside you for these past two years. I will be keeping g my eyes peeled for you.

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@fumanstan Sad to hear it, sir. Today was brutal.

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@EricRogersHere I drafted distracted. I feel like I’ve already failed, but the season is long and there will be many opportunities to bolster our teams.