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Election officials in Alaska are asking a federal judge to "immediately" dismiss the Trump DOJ's lawsuit seeking to block the Senate results, claiming it has "no legal basis." "[T]he United States lacks authority to intervene in state elections at all, much less in support of a favored candidate."

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

There is much to admire in Abdul El-Sayed's response to the GOP plant in his audience. But one of the most deft things he did was to point out (twice) that our Constitution protects our right to follow *no* religion, thereby casting Christian nationalist Tommy as the actual religious extremist.

Friends — It's time to defund Elon Musk. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

If Joe Biden is still responsible for everything, then what exactly has Donald Trump been doing for the last year and a half?

Boykin: The Republicans control the entire government. They control the white house. They control the house. They control the senate. They control six of the nine seats on the supreme court. If you're not happy with the way the country is running America, blame the Republicans.

Pete Hegseth is the most incompetent person in the Trump regime — with the exception of Trump himself — and a clear and present danger to the entire world If Trump won’t fire him, Democrats should impeach him when (hopefully) they take over the House and Senate next January.

Brian Poindexter: "Max Miller voted for the biggest cut to healthcare funding in American history. Why? In order to pay for a massive tax cut for billionaires and big corporations. Families like his get a tax cut. Families like ours get higher healthcare prices."

A dire warning, billionaire criminal Musk has set up a scheme in the form of a website votesafe.org in order to steal voter information. Never click on the link and please share this everywhere so others won’t fall prey to it like so many others.

Republicans have always told us that cutting regulations for corporations would make products better and cheaper. Turns out, without regulations, corporations will just wash our food with literal shit and charge us even more for food we can’t eat…

REPUBLICANS: “We need to stop regulating corporations growing food so they can make even *more* money!” [grocery shopping becomes Russia roulette with death] REPUBLICANS: “Thank you, Big Ag for your checks! Screw American shoppers!”

Exactly 🎯

This needs way more attention! Hegseth is very unqualified for this job. He's only in his element at a bar.

Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.

Word.

I prefer presidents who don’t have their accounts closed over money laundering concerns.

Anne Frank was arrested on this day in 1944. History rarely returns wearing the same uniform, it returns asking the same thing of ordinary people: Will you sit down and look away? Or will you stand up and fight? #Resist

No one can ever believe anything Trump pledges, says or puts in writing. With Trump, a deal is never a deal and nobody can count on the US for anything while he’s president. His word is garbage, agreements mean nothing, and he lies about everything.

Months of bombing and a blockade just to get Iran to do what Obama got with a pen.

Any "journalist" who goes to the White House Correspondents Dinner after Trump subpoenaed three New York Times reporters—simply for doing their jobs—should be ashamed. If, indeed, they have any shame.

Mornings with Goose the golden retriever ☕️ TT: @gooseretriever

Yep

Fun fact, a new element has been discovered!!!!!!! Its periodic table id/number is 8647. It is an exceptionally dense and useless metal, called “Moronium”.

Funny how transparency became optional.

THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......

The question is no longer whether Trump will contest defeat this fall. It's whether America's institutions—and its citizens—are prepared to stop him when he does… hartmannreport.com/p/now-we-kno...

Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.

No one in history has had more attorneys disbarred on their behalf than this psychopath. And you can’t pardon a disbarment.

ICE lied. Shocking. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Platner playing games and waiting until the Monday deadline to file the paperwork to withdraw is totally unacceptable. No reason he couldn’t file it today or tomorrow. He has shown in every conceivable way what a piece of garbage he is. Can’t even get out with any decency.

The orange felon corruptly interfered in the World Cup in order to pretend to help the USA team and Belgium savagely defeated them 4 to 1. His shitty streak continues, everything he touches dies.

The orange felon blames mail-in voting, immigrants and felons for destroying America, yet he marries immigrants, he votes by mail and he’s a convicted felon. Funny how that bullshit hypocrisy works.

Very proud of my Governor speaking truth!

The Postal Service is not an elections administrator. And yet President Trump is once again orchestrating an illegal scheme to control them and deny people their right to vote. I’m urging the Postmaster General to uphold free and fair elections.

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

Welcome to capitalism, motherfuckers. Make shit that people want, not a job-stealing plagiarism machine.

Donald was short-circuiting all over the place during his Freedom250 rally last night.

Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

So nothing happens to the Trump donor who got $15 million in tax dollars to wreck the reflecting pond, but if a taxpayer touches a piece of the floating debris from the disaster scene they get 10 years in prison. Trump’s dystopian America.

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

Oh, honey. . . I think we *all* know who vandalized the Reflecting Pool. We saw you circling around in the Beast to approve of what they were doing. And then we saw the next vandals on TV making the prior vandalization worse by pouring in big bottles of hydrogen peroxide. They too were sent by you.

Many of us have been saying this for years.

Worthy of a Pulitzer 👇🏼

For billions of dollar, we *might* have gotten things back to the way they were before Donald started his stupid war for yet more billions of dollars. The Art of the Deal, y'all!

Vote for anyone who promises to take on the broligarchs and tax the rich. Those are your fighters. Keep an eye on the Democrats who take money from AI, Crypto, and AIPAC. Even if elected, they won't serve you. They'll keep the system running exactly as it has.