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Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Ineligible votes are exceedingly rare, yet treated as a grave threat to our elections. But when far more ballots from eligible voters get rejected over technicalities, nobody bats an eye. And the imbalance works to Trump's advantage: https://demdock.com/4zfOYLe

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

You can subscribe for $1 for 6 months. It is worth it to read this.

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

How antivaxxers exploited and hijacked the Covid moment to advance their longstanding crankery. Brilliant from @noupside.bsky.social

The facts you need to know to explain that what Trump is doing has nothing to do with supposed noncitizen voting and everything to do with preventing eligible Americans from casting their ballots. substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The idea that this hub, built over decades, was significantly degraded in the space of a few days by a regional player is unimaginable. "That the US could not prevent and defend against a predictable attack on a Fleet Headquarters is quite startling." www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2026...

This.

We cannot accept the reckless use of deadly force by federal agents as normal. There is a pattern of this administration misleading the public and withholding key facts after these killings.

The Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to the public—and “this new reality risks clouding our understanding of the economy, public health, and the environment,” @willgottsegen.com argues:

It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.

Rachel Maddow learns about weeding at #ALAAC26.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

With Gen. Chris Donahue's early retirement from command of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, @markhertling.bsky.social in his latest looks at the general's legacy and the necessity for someone with that experience and level of trust.

I don’t know how I can still get mad about this after all this time, but it’s still mind-blowing to watch us repeatedly shoot our world-leading scientific establishment in the face

Exactly. In fact, Shapiro explicitly holds up Pennsylvania's 250 celebrations as a much better approach than Trump's. See here:

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49

Today’s moves are a dagger to the heart of what the Dept. of Education was always supposed to do: protect the most vulnerable. This reckless decision will have real-world consequences for students with disabilities and children whose civil rights are violated. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Scrapping the cap is the most common-sense solution for the Social Security solvency crisis!

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

I posted this on TikTok today in response to the Jan 6 slush fund and it was almost immediately taken down. Almost like the platform is trying to help Trump…

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

When We Ban Nonfiction, We Erase Ourselves | According to @penamerica.bsky.social’s new report “Facts & Fiction: Stories Stripped Away By Book Bans”, over 1,100 nonfiction titles were removed from public schools in the 2024-25 school year.

The president is trying to pocket billions of taxpayer dollars. When will my Republican colleagues call out the corruption?

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

This.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.

Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.

Taxpayers pay twice: Trump is giving one billion taxpayer dollars to a company so it WON'T build clean offshore wind. Fewer clean energy projects pushes up utility rates, which costs families even more.

What if the placement of ICE in the airports is really a dry run for the use of ICE on election day? I have a feeling putting them in airports is not the big story. America, pay attention to this NOW!!!

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Senate Republicans have repeatedly blocked legislation to pay TSA workers. They are using TSA workers as pawns to avoid putting a stop torump’s lawless, violent immigration agenda. It’s unconscionable.

We need to: ✅ overturn Citizens United ✅ ban Congressional stock trading ✅ get dark money out of politics To get corporate influence out of our politics and return it to the people.

Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.

We must state this clearly. Our lawless regime is building a system of "human warehouses" that will function as concentration camps. Most Americans have no idea that this could quickly exceed Japanese-American internment. No national Democrats are calling for these camps to be stopped & closed.

Oh, McSteamy. RIP.

I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to turn those nominees into life-tenured federal judges. Why? 🤔

He’s a liar. He lied under oath. He lied to get the job. Impeach him.

Saboteurs: Wrecking the US for generations by contributing to the spread of disease.