Chad Averett

so priceless that prolific ratfucker James O'Keefe, by going undercover to prove how easy it is to commit voter fraud.... ends up proving how hard it is to commit voter fraud, and then catches charges for unlawful voting chef's kiss, stellar work all around www.startribune.com/conservative...

MAGA conservatives really love their AI. Checking in my local MAGA incel and saw he shared a video. I got curious and took a peek It was the AI slop wet dream that every GOP claim will happen if the Democrats win. All of their current boogie men and women were there with all the bad stereotypes.

House Democrats’ report revealed how much Blanche helped Maxwell during the interview. trib.al/AARQhtv

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Awesome photo and story (Gus Bennett photo for The Lens)

This is a really good discussion of the obstruction a Dem Congress will have to fight.

This is asking for a lawsuit. Wow.

Yes.

Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

When you see the pottymouth holding the sign, you should shake a bottle of mouthwash. When you see the doofus under the sign, you should put on an Iowa Hawkeye hat and yell "Go Hawks"

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

"It’s no surprise that top Republican officials have declined to denounce Max Miller. They don’t believe compelling evidence of misogyny or sexual violence is inherently disqualifying."

🔥 “But it also explains why the Fox News host turned cabinet secretary does it: to keep him from getting drunk and fucking other ladies.

Trump pardoned a guy who testified for him, pardoned another who funded him, pardoned a third who lied for him. The only requirement for a pardon now is being useful to Trump. Trump is corrupt. #HoldTheCrooksAccountable

This Propublica report shows how meager the results have been as the Trump administration pours resources into finding noncitizen voters, an exceedingly rare occurrence that the administration insists is rampant.

from Casey Michel: "Trump simply announced that there was a whole suite of legislation that folks no longer needed to worry about. He had created a new legal architecture by fiat," providing a road map for crooked regimes and corrupt oligarchs newrepublic.com/article/2139...

BREAKING: Bill Cassidy says he’s a YES on Todd Blanche, solidifying his legacy as the man who enabled RFK Jr. to wreak havoc on Americans’ health, and now the man who will let Blanche weaponize the DOJ like never before seen in history and cover up for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

NEW: Elvis Brooks was exonerated after 42 years in prison. Civil rights attorneys called his case an egregious example of a wrongful conviction. But the Louisiana Attorney General maintains he is guilty — and thus doesn’t qualify for any compensation from the state. with @veritenews.org

Sen Adam Schiff (D-CA) is final speaker before the vote Here’s Schiff’s statement about Todd Blanche: “He’s sought to compensate cop-beaters with your money”

“Their names were scratched off or taken off a list in the Pentagon. To me, it is abhorrent, it’s criminal.” Lt. Gen. @markhertling.bsky.social (Ret.) fights back tears as he describes the military’s last roll call, and what it means to erase four fallen soldiers from the Pentagon’s casualty list.

This discussion is worth listening to. Or reading as there’s a transcript.

It can be painful watching Republican officials, from nominees to candidates to cabinet secretaries, evade and dodge direct questions. Behind the embarrassing and obvious gross fealty to the president is a political calculation, but they may have figured things wrong entirely. My write-up below.

HAPPENING NOW: Trump is addressing the nation with what he's calling "really big news" on elections. The reality? He's spent nearly six years pushing false claims about 2020 that have been debunked by his own administration, election officials and courts. We're fact-checking him LIVE below👇

BOOKER: Were you involved in Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer for a minimum security orison camp? BLANCHE: We learned she was received threats BOOKER: When people are under threats in the Bureau of Prisons facility, they are not moved to a camp

Todd Blanche’s idea of independence if he is confirmed as Attorney General is…something When reporters asked him about potentially becoming AG, this was his reply: Whatever Trump asks me to do, “I will say ‘Thank you very much, I love you sir’” youtu.be/3yI1lGstce4

"Two deeper structural reforms are essential. First, strip the executive of the massive powers that have accumulated over the last century. Second, make the powers retained by the executive subject to greater oversight with real consequences for abuse."

The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

Birthright Citizenship is in. The court strikes down Trump's executive order. It's 6-3, with Roberts, the liberals, Kav and ACB. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote UPHOLDS birthright citizenship, affirming the default rule that all persons born in the United States (with narrow exceptions) are U.S. citizens at birth. A total LOSS for President Trump and the effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment.

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST TRUMP'S ORDER LIMIT BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

Louisiana’s supreme court yesterday confirmed a lower-court decision that nullified the conviction of Chris Duncan, who sat on death row for 26 years. His conviction relied on an analysis since debunked as junk science. Bolts covered the case last year:

it's the final day of SCOTUS's term, which means that they will release their last remaining opinions (including birthright citizenship) at the top of this hour... plus possible retirement announcements, with all eyes on Alito and Thomas.

Tulsi Gabbard's documents don't prove what her headlines suggest, and have little new, explains @noupside.bsky.social on @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

For Trump, the Reflecting Pool was supposed to be a totemic success story, demonstrating that his unique approach to problem-solving is fundamentally superior to his predecessors’. This one project would serve as a metaphor for how awesome his awesomeness is. Oops. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Anti-voting activists haven’t had much luck passing restrictive policies statewide or nationally. Now, they’re trying to force similar voting restrictions through at the local level – and it could be happening in your backyard.

Bill Cassidy sold his soul, ignoring what he knew of RFK Jr’s dangerous anti-vax positions that would put population health at risk, all to avoid being primaried, only to be successfully primaried as RFK Jr’s reign as HHS Secretary is defined by avoidable death and devastation with measles & beyond

Everyone knows instinctively that Mike Johnson is a corrupt puppet of the Trump administration too, so can we just get rid of him on vague vibes?

"This country will now have to rediscover the energies that animated Freedom Summer and the March on Washington. If we don’t, the Jim Crow Southernization of America will continue apace." (from April) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

NEW: The Supreme Court's Republican appointees end civil rights redistricting protections. The majority invoked “our colorblind Constitution” to expand and transform April's Callais decision. Sotomayor, in dissent, highlighted the "grave harms" the majority "inflicts." Tonight, at Law Dork:

Louisiana deflates mylar balloon releases with new ban, starting in August lailluminator.com/briefs/louis... (from @eplunk.bsky.social) #lalege

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

A timeline documenting Trump and Epstein's relationship appeared this morning in NYC, on the corner of Mulberry & Grand 👀

Every once in a while, a conservative justice casually says something that reveals just how steeped they are in right-wing media, and Clarence Thomas asserting that California's and Washington's policies for issuing commercial driver licenses are acts of war against Florida is way, way up there

CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now

Hello, my fellow apes! The look of exhaustion on his face after she is kick out of the chair says it all youtube.com/watch?v=ynoz...

"Instead of attempting to match Russian quantitative advantage, Ukraine has increasingly shifted toward attacking vulnerabilities across the broader Russian military-industrial system." And it's working:

I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns. Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.