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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected — for now — the Trump administration’s efforts to limit mail-in voting ahead of the Nov. 3 election through new rules issued by the U.S. Postal Service. cal.news/4xqCjDE 📸 Julia Demaree Nikhinson, AP

Trump’s DOJ demanded Arizona’s full voter rolls with Social Security numbers included—Adrian Fontes said 💯 NO! His replp—he’d go to jail first to protect our rights, then told them to pound sand, publicly. ARIZONANS WON—the judge threw the case out. Re-elect Adrian Fontes! #BlueWaveIn70Days

Dolly Parton was an icon. She was a brilliant songwriter and performer. She was an incredible activist and advocate, helping to donate over 200 million free books to children. She was one of my personal heroes. This is a terrible loss. She will be greatly missed.

My heart is breaking. In addition to her musical talents, she was an exemplary human being. R I P Dolly Parton www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...

Fuck. No. The greatest human being to ever live. Was thinking about Steel Magnolias when the director shouted at her in front of everyone and told her she couldn’t act and had no idea why they’d hired her she said “Because I’m Dolly Parton, and they hired you to make me look like I can act.”

"We watched it on TV. And it's like, 'That's our son. That's Alex. And they killed him' ... trying to help someone" -- Alex Pretti's dad

Jenifer Lewis is spot on: 89 million STAYED HOME in 2024. We have 70 DAYS to change everything. We need to Speak up, knock louder, and make your voice heard. It’s time to FIGHT FOR OUR DEMOCRACY! Let’s show the WORLD OUR POWER—we won't be ignored! VOTE #BlueWaveln90Days 💙🌊

"This study demonstrates that obstetric risk associated with COVID-19 was not static but evolved across variant periods, highlighting the need for ongoing maternal health surveillance and adaptive healthcare policies as infectious disease patterns change."

If you’re tired of this smug little demon out here eating lobster while the rest of us peasants are told to eat liver then get yourself and some friends to the polls and let’s get a #BlueWaveIn70Days These enabling Republicans are laughing in our faces, it’s time to fire them!!

“Stop Insider Trading Act” doesn’t stop insider trading. It’s a trick bill that bundled in new voter ID barriers. Sykes read it, called it out, and voted no. That’s the kind of representative Ohio needs more of, not less. Vote Emilia Sykes. #BlueWaveIn70Days

625,000 Americans filed comments telling them not to open 45 million acres to logging. 99% said no. They filed the paperwork to do it anyway on Tuesday. They're not counting on winning the argument. They're counting on you not saying it twice. 👇 Say it twice: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Stephen Miller said a Chicago apartment building raided by immigration agents was “filled with terrorists.” So why is it that not a single person arrested that night was charged with a crime? 🎧 This is the real story behind the midnight raid. Listen on “Paper Trail”:

⚠️ Trump’s DOJ quietly announced this week that it will deploy 1,000 election monitors for the midterms. “...we should assume they will assert powers they do not have in order to achieve Trump’s political goals,” Marc Elias writes. 🔗: demdock.com/4hSCkwh

In Opinion To win the Michigan Senate race, Abdul El-Sayed should continue stressing that he believes in equal rights to peace and self-determination for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians, @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social says. “And then go back to talking about the Midwest and leave the Mideast alone.”

An appeals court denied Joe Biden’s attempt to block release of his interviews with his ghostwriter. This is a victory for transparency. If Biden’s records must be public, the same standard should apply to Jack Smith’s report on Trump. Watch @laurenleharper.bsky.social explain.

The Constitution gives the states the authority to set the time, place and manner of federal elections. “It does not give the president of the United States any authority,” @marcelias.bsky.social says. https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg

More than 200 American mayors are calling on the federal government to reverse changes that will cost states billions and push millions of people off the food stamp program ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/24/r...

Don’t let Republicans fool you: what happened with noncitizens being improperly registered to vote in New Jersey was not voter fraud. “Nothing in the proof of citizenship requirement would have prevented the error that we saw here,” Marc Elias says. https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg

(8/9) Trump and Republicans’ goal is not just to keep non-citizens from voting. It’s to keep Democrats, lawful U.S. citizens and eligible voters from casting a ballot. The fact that it’s confusing is the point. The fact that it requires voters to jump through multiple hoops is part of the strategy.

The majority of Americans view President Trump as a "dangerous dictator" according to a recent poll.

Debbie Brockman, the former WGN-TV producer whose aggressive detainment in October during Operation Midway Blitz went viral on social media, filed a $10 million personal injury claim against the U.S. government Tuesday for alleged harm suffered at the hands of federal immigration agents.

In a post on X, journalist Andrew Solender noted that when someone subscribes to Real Change PAC’s email list, the confirmation comes from a cavalryllc email address. Cavalry LLC is one of DC’s premier Republican communications shops, founded by Josh Holmes, Mitch McConnell’s former Chief of Staff.

Hearing backlash from residents, cities and counties across the country in recent weeks have blocked planned data centers amid concerns over rising electricity prices and environmental harms. From @stateline.org

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)

On Monday, former MSNBC host Katie Phang filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asking the court to compel acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to release the entire Jeffrey Epstein files.

Hearing Highlights Opposition to Trump Publishing Fee Plans The Trump administration’s latest budget request proposes canceling federal subscriptions to academic journals and banning the use of federal funds to cover publishing costs. 🧪 www.aip.org/fyi/hearing-...

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Ben Riley was already writing about the risks of chatbots when his dad started trusting A.I. over his doctor.

New Movie Coming In The FALL, With 2nd Feature Movie,Dumb And Dumber To Follow........

Tomorrow’s the day that changes everything. 🗳️ Every congressional race over the next decade comes down to April 21st, 6am–7pm. Your VOICE, Our FUTURE—it takes 10 minutes to vote. Same-day registration is available at all polling places. Vote YES—let’s lock in fair elections! #VoteYesVirginia

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK "Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.” ~ Jeff Zentner

Leaders of many of the biggest unions in the U.S. joined Sen. Bernie Sanders today to blast "AI oligarchs" and call for an equitable rollout that puts workers in the driver's seat.

The contradiction between a DOJ lawyer's assurances in court and Trump's subsequent executive order is now central to Michigan's appeal brief

404 Media has repeatedly revealed links between CLEAR and specific ICE tools, including references to CLEAR in documentation for the Palantir tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid called ELITE, and a license plate reader app called Mobile Companion.

Wendy Sherman helped Obama reach a deal with Iran. Here’s what she thinks Trump is doing wrong. www.vox.com/podcasts/485...

Is Paramount trying to make the case against its own merger? If the Ellisons are already punishing news outlets, imagine if they own CNN and their buddy Trump calls in a favor. This doesn't sound like a company that deserves even more power over the press.

Commentary: The Supreme Court ruling on conversion therapy in a Colorado case is an important decision at intersecting free speech and health care: If talk therapy can't be banned in conversion therapy, it can't be banned in gender-affirming care either ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/13/s...

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Democratic candidate in U.S. Senate race opens arms to Kansas Republicans lost ‘in the wilderness’ | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg

Bernie Sanders “Interviewed” A Chatbot To Expose AI’s Secrets. It Has No Secrets. It Just Agrees With You. Senator Bernie Sanders has a viral video making the rounds in which he "interviews" Anthropic's Claude chatbot about the dangers of AI and privacy. It has over two million views. Plenty of…

A new documentary focused on billionaire news mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family has also revealed the stunning mental and physical decline of President Donald Trump as questions over his health escalate, according to a report from The i Paper on Friday.

In 2007, Ex-Trump official Alexander Acosta, then the top federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida, was pressed by his subordinate to pursue a 60-count indictment she had prepared against Jeffrey Epstein.

Letter: Utah's senators and representatives must make a choice — Donald Trump or the American people?

Your friendly reminder from Kevin Walling that every Democrat in the House voted for National Voter ID included in the Freedom to Vote Act. Not one Republican voted for it. The SAVE Act isn’t about Voter ID, it’s a voter suppression bill to help rig the midterms for Republicans.

Khanna on Fox News: "There was no imminent threat. Now there's a threat to the United States. We've created a threat."

Brandon Johnson's new measure would establish what he calls “democracy zones” extending 100 feet beyond the perimeter that already prohibits electioneering around polling places. Federal immigration agents would be barred from entering those zones.

“I guess,” Trump said when asked about a direct Iranian attack on the US. “We expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.” therealnews.com/deranged-and...

Caitlin Kalinowski says she is quitting OpenAI over concerns that the technology could be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

"I think what we’re seeing is 11-year-olds with the most powerful military in the entire world, which is a pretty scary thing to see in action. And also, doesn’t it really look, from the New York Times reporting at least, like Netanyahu just bulldozed Trump into this?" trib.al/mFVyK5H