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At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says. The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze

(Reuters) - Americans have paid more for their gasoline and diesel at the pump on average during President Donald Trump's second term than they did under his Democratic predecessor, Joe ​Biden, according to the AAA. ⛽️ @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

🚨 WILLIAMSON COUNTY: Reports of Tennessee voting machines flipping Democratic/ @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social votes to Republicans/@marshablackburn votes 🤔 (Folks in Memphis have said the same)

“We caught her red-handed taking millions in bribes… the Republican Party has completely dissolved…” Leaked audio describes Trump ambassador to Greece (former campaign fundraising chair + Don Jr. fiancé) taking bribes. A crook in Trump’s orbit?? Shocking! Full: www.instagram.com/reel/Deo1m0E...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign.

I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.

NEW: As diesel prices hit record highs, Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson admitted in court that the “America First Refining” oil refinery he co-owns with MAGA figures including Donald Trump Jr. is set to send its fuel to India, per AJC.

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

750,000 Texas Voters Disenfranchised Up to 750,000 Texans registered through the DPS online portal are missing from County Voting Rolls. Talarico “the government failed to do its job.” Registration deadline: Oct. 5. 🧵 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

CARTOON OF THE DAY…

The headlines on the SCOTUS SAVE ruling are doing Trump's PR for him. 2 things they skip No mass voter purges before the midterms. The law bars them 90 days out & we're in that window Noncitizen voting? FL, IN, IA & OH ran voters through SAVE & found almost NOTHING -TN

This trailer is about the season's most important documentary. You may think you know who Elon Musk is. You don't. But you will after seeing this. youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10?...

We are getting crushed by corporate greed. And Dan Sullivan has been part of the corporate greed agenda since the day he took office.

If true, this will be delicious. GOP hypocrisy is alive and well.

Scientists have captured the highest-resolution video of the surface of the sun ever, showing turbulent, vortex-like structures in unprecedented detail. The “surface” of the sun is really an unstable, roiling soup of plasma, heated to about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. https://wapo.st/4hbjnV8

My response to Elon Musk.

Watching Laura Ingraham make faces at Fauci's hearing while listening to Laura Ingraham complain about other people making faces

BOUIE: ".. Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading .. hateful ideology .. ".. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life." @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

This is part of a running series examining ways that the Trump family is positioned to profit from the policies Trump is pushing as president. Sector, after sector--in a way that has no precedent in American history. Here is another recent piece we did from June www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.

Who knows this killer???

My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

ICYMI: The enshittification of the White House continues apace. Historians would do worse than to open their account of American decline in 2026 with this image of profound unseriousness: “UFC octagon rises on White House lawn for championship fights in June” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

BREAKING: "I'm still innocent, I'm still not afraid and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary." Comey responds to Trump's DOJ indictment over "86" seashell post. www.ms.now/deadline-whi...

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

Social media analytics show that I lose followers every time I share my article about men needing to stop being pathetic little manbabies and instead step up and hold other men accountable to stop rape culture. Oh, whoops, sharing it again. And won't stop either www.qasimrashid.com/p/men-we-nee...

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

🚨🚨 ALERT 🚨🚨 I finally got Andy McCabe to sign up on Bluesky @therealmccabe.com ! Please follow him here, share this post widely, then check out his first ever Substack article and subscribe there as well (no paywalls!)

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high. The Art of the Deal.

Tesla reported owing $0 in US federal taxes for all but one of the past 20 years. A Reuters analysis reveals how a common corporate tactic known as profit shifting likely saved the company more than $400 million in US taxes.

Ouch. The LEGO trolls take on Erika Kirk: “Goodbye Charlie.” 🎶 🤣

"In a country without the NEA, NEH and IMLS, hundreds of small local #arts groups would likely cease to exist entirely — and with them, the community, education and enlightenment that underpin our increasingly fragile, fractured society." @jessicagelt.bsky.social in @latimes.com

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

This is less a shot across his nose, and more one up it.

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*

I had to look this up. It's TRUE. 😮 Before 1974, banks typically required a father's or husband's signature in order for a woman to open a credit card account. HOLEEEE SHIT. In my lifetime?!! The patriarchy really sucks. #ArtemisII

Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

C’mon. He’s not giving anyone that $$. Think it through. His family is making deals across the Middle East so he can flee there and escape going to prison for abusing 13yo kids. Let us know when he starts cutting checks. 🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣

The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com