Back in 2022, I got a tip that some people associated with a sovereign citizen group called New California were trying to get Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco to investigate voter fraud. Bianco's office told me there was *no* investigation. But these emails said otherwise.

As a lifelong horror nerd whose day job has been covering far-right extremism for the past decade, it felt like this novel was plucked straight from my brain at times.

wonderfully deranged book, highly recommend.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

hell yeah, i can’t wait to see Lee Cronin’s The Cronin

The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story.

If you didn't read it already, read it.

Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.

max on corporate thrillers for Criterion is a mad libs of everything I love. great essay herein 👇

Trump admin officials promised to address state election leaders. They bailed. “Noem, Bondi, and Gabbard are cowards for not showing up today and answering the questions from election officials from across the country about this administration's abuses of power,” Maine Secretary...

Of course, the Trump admin justified Honey's cancellation by offering up an appearance by Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, and Tulsi Gabbard, who all bailed at the last minute, too. (And now Bondi and Noem are out of jobs 🤷)

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fascinating. This is, at least, the second gathering of state election officials this year that Heather Honey was scheduled to address but bailed. She was supposed to address secretaries of state back in January: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Everyone's discoursing about whether the fandom around Geese is a psyop, but absolutely NO discourse about whether the LP reissue I just bought of field recordings from the early 1960s of actual exorcisms is also a psyop, smdh.

absolutely wild things going on over at the other site lol

Lmao, Unite4Freedom is absolutely crashing out over on the hell site over this article I wrote about them yesterday: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

👇

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell just announced he's resigning from Congress.

very honored to make a small cameo in Harmeet Dhillon's trailer for, uh, pitching herself as the next AG, or something?

though not sure this article is one to highlight for the W column, Harmeet.

I'm doing a follow-up piece just on AGs.... otherwise this article would be, like, 10,000 words.

NEW, from me:

Y'all: the Mannequin Pussy Tiny Desk will heal your soul, at least for a day.

holy shit, let's gooooooooo

casual reminder that sunnO))) is the greatest band in the world

never ceases to amaze how the current Democratic leadership cannot fathom the idea of tackling multiple issues at once.

And then ask yourselves why, despite all the rabble rousing, the Senate can't pass the bill. It's because the GOP knows how much the policies in the SAVE America Act will disenfranchise rural voters — many of whom reside in red states.

But most Republicans will never admit that.

If you read one thing today, please make it this deeply reported piece from @jimsaksa.com about how the SAVE America Act will disenfranchise voters in "the most difficult place in the United States to conduct elections."

US still wants to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, despite new agreement with Costa Rica The Department of Homeland Security intends to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia despite a new agreement with Costa Rica to accept deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries...

*two guys apnews.com/article/abre...

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Search warrants show California ballot seizure echoed Fulton County election raid The newly unsealed warrants also raise questions about why law enforcement officers were able to seize ballots unchecked by either the courts or the officials responsible for protecting them.

🔍 NEW: Unsealed warrants show a California sheriff seized 650,000 ballots based on unproven fraud claims from right-wing activists — mirroring the playbook used in the FBI's Fulton County election raid.

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getting my tickets for the feel-good cinematic event of the summer:

Currently watching the latest livestream of the election conspiracy group True the Vote, where they're touting their latest project, a tool for tracking every state's voting and election bills... only probably is @votingrightslab.bsky.social built that tool years ago: tracker.votingrightslab.org