NEW: Common Cause, ACLU, CREW and other pro-voting groups sued the DOJ to stop it from building a national voter database using private voter data from every state.
They called the effort a bid "to take over elections from states and subvert the...midterms" and a threat to Americans' voting rights.
(🚨) OK, the time has come.
Everyone needs to read the 2020 bestseller Proof of Corruption, in which the man pictured below is a key antagonist trying to steal the 2020 election for Trump.
Don't care about the money here, just borrow it from the library.
“Failure to hold accountable the grotesque abusers of our public resources for their personal gain would make a mockery of every taxpayer…We should expect nothing less than responsible, ethical government, not piggish thieves feeding at the trough.”
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They sent thousands of agents to terrorize Minnesota, but they didn’t expect the community to hit back. This is how the resistance is winning on the ground. ✊ Read the full report: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-resist...
⚡️ Russian economy faces 'financial disaster,' Sweden's spy chief warns as Moscow hides true deficit.
Stockholm believes that Moscow is "living on borrowed time," Sweden's military intelligence chief Thomas Nilsson said.
If this is true, this represents a serious problem.
One, it means military leaders don’t trust their boss to exercise proper operational security.
Two, it means military leaders are excluding the elected President from relevant information to which he is entitled.
This way madness lies.
On just one night this week, Russia sent nearly 700 drones & dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the 5th year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense & more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help save lives.
LIKING MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG
A week after Kremlin ally Viktor Orban lost his reelection campaign in Hungary, Bulgaria's former President Rumen Radev is poised to win the April 19 snap parliamentary election.
NEW. Our excellent former ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, on lessons to be learned from Orban's defeat--including the centrality of the anti-corruption/anti-kleptocracy message, and the importance of Peter Magyar's personal courage and boldness.
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This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win
“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.”
@heathmayo.bsky.social
ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY 💯% True !
HOW 3 TRUMP-APPOINTED JUDGES HAVE STOPPED JUDGE BOASBERG FROM PROBING POSSIBLE CRIMINAL CONTEMPT FOR 363 DAYS Apr 16 Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to believe criminal contempt was committed, but gives govt a chance to “purge” the contempt Apr 17 Govt petitions for stay and mandamus (a type of emergency appeal) Apr 18 Trump-appointed Judges Katsas & Rao impose an “administrative” stay. Judge Pillard dissents. Such stays, which provide no reasoning & are unappealable, are only supposed to last a week or so, if that. But this one lasts 112 days. Jun 24 Former DOJ atty Erez Reuveni unveils whistleblower letter alleging that on 3/14/25 then Principal Asst DAG Emil Bove told DOJ attys they might have to say “fuck you” to judges—the day before DOJ & DHS failed to follow Boasberg’s order to turn CECOT-bound planes around. Aug 8 Katsas & Rao each grant mandamus, though neither joins the other’s theory. Pillard dissents. Aug 29 Same panel stays its own ruling and reinstates the administrative stay pending resolution of petition for rehearing en banc.
Nov 14 Petition for rehearing en banc is denied, but administrative stay is dissolved. Six of 11 judges explain, in statements, that Boasberg can resume fact-finding for possible contempt because changes on the ground have rendered Rao’s theory of mandamus inoperative. Dec 8 Judge Boasberg sets evidentiary hearing on contempt for Dec. 15 Dec 12 Govt petitions for second mandamus Dec 12 New administrative stay entered by Trump-appointed Judges Rao & Walker. Judge Childs dissents. 2026 Apr 14 Judge Rao and Walker grant mandamus; Judge Childs dissents. Second administrative stay lasted 123 days. Total delay since Judge Boasberg’s order so far: 363 days.
How 3 Trump-appointed judges have prevented Judge Boasberg from probing top DHS & DOJ officials (including a now fourth Trump-appointed judge, Emil Bove) for possible criminal contempt for 363 days.
Donald Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So
As Trump reveals his unfitness in stark new ways, a political theorist argues that our election of this man to the presidency twice should prompt deep introspection about what we’ve become.
Like a lot of Americans, @amandalitman.bsky.social thinks the aging Democratic Party is out of touch. That’s why she started an organization dedicated to electing young progressives
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
✅ADELITA GRIJALVA
AZ-07 [D]
This representative rejects AIPAC and champions a foreign policy based on human rights and international law.
Last month, inflation rose again — the most in four years.
Americans are feeling the costly impacts of Trump’s war in Iran.
He’s broken his promise to lower costs for people again and again.
Two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.
In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%.
This is bad. Trump isn't doing anything for American people. This will make us unhealthy.
Removed Subsidies for ACA, removed collective bargaining rights for fed workers, added medical debt to credit reports, now trying to destroy our voting rights, tariffs are paid by people, and more.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
Trump quote for the ages: “you don’t need a backup plan.”
I know it'd seem petty, but the next administration really needs to wipe all these architectural projects from the face of the planet on Day One.
FYI --
"Triumphal" is an an anagram of "Hail Trump"
Happy to help. Thanks for all you’re doing in this fight for democracy.
Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation
We just got the first hard economic data showing the effects of the war, and it shows inflation surging. Lemme take two minutes to explain what it all means while talking into a baby koala's butt.
Great article on the chaos and confusion surrounding where U.S. vaccine policy goes from here.
I can’t decide which might be worse: RFK Jr.’s handpicked ACIP making decisions or the fact that we currently have no ACIP at all.
But do I know that RFK Jr. is succeeding at undermining vaccines.
