So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 we are aware of….
The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed. n.pr/4sIYv9O
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
“Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter.
And I think today was an important turning point
The latest iteration of the Save America act could disenfranchise millions of voters.
Guardian democracy reporters @neonflag.bsky.social and @samrlevine.bsky.social will be answering readers’ questions at 12pm ET (4pm GMT) today about its implications.
The Trump administration is moving to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of extremists involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, who earlier received commutations instead of full pardons. n.pr/3OEEHGE
Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records.
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...
BREAKING: A jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues.
Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell:
Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad.
The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.
Looks like Epstein trafficking victim Amanda Ungaro may be why FLOTUS is panicking.
Ungaro needs to be protected. All sorts of nasty people will be trying to silence her.
And she has since been deported.
Link here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The 14th Amendment says “all persons born in the United States,” not “only if Donald Trump likes their parents.” Trump calls it a scam, but that’s the Constitution!
Trump attends Supreme Court as legal losses mount
youtu.be/UkG_HkOmusI?...
BREAKING: Massive crowds already in Philadelphia for the No Kings Protest this morning.
Philly really hates Trump.
#nokings
President Donald Trump lavished praise on himself for building a $400 million ballroom while speaking to farmers who have faced devastation because of his tariff policies.
House Republicans are why TSA agents are going without pay.
In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.
The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people.
cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...
The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.
The hacks working furiously to rationalize Trump’s desire to end birthright citizenship serve very much the same function in law that the Discovery Institute does in biology: To create the illusion of a scholarly debate that in fact does not exist.
justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome"
sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted
Trump has claimed Dems are responsible for the long lines at airports, but the president rejected Senate Majority Leader John Thune's plan for Republicans to agree to fund all agencies under the banner of the DHS, with the exception of ICE. trib.al/DKRNeX8
The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.
You want to know what insults Jesus?
Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.
NEWS: Republicans are rewriting the super urgent bill about preventing noncitizens from voting to include Trump’s demands for attacks on transgender Americans’ sports and medical access.
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
Q: Can you give one example of fraud in a previous election that the SAVE America Act would stop?
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, we're not gonna litigate all that