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NEW: Blanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certification of the state's election results. The actual complaint says it does. His attempt to reframe the lawsuit is a bid to push back against how it's been correctly interpreted: a dangerous effort to subvert the midterms.

A right-wing think tank argues Congress can — and should — refuse to seat newly elected members in some cases. The rationale is bunk. But it could convince a few Republicans who are just MAGA-crazy enough to try: https://demdock.com/4ifgdPa

Bravo. 🇫🇷🇺🇦

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Private Contractors Are Set to Cash In As Millions of Americans Lose Health Care Implementing Trump’s "big, beautiful" Medicaid cuts will be a windfall for firms like Deloitte. ...

As a doctor, I know a politician should never come between a woman and her medical care.

Yikes! Look at that Community Note!

NEW: Hegseth's chaotic secret evacuation of a US base in Bahrain left military families in harm's way. “They’re not telling the truth. They’re not telling the full story. They’re not telling how much damage there really was." www.ms.now/news/militar...

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

I see CBS News' Jan Crawford has deleted her inappropriate post. To be clear, IF a reporter from NBC or ABC posted something similar but flipped the script in support of AES, Bari Weiss via her *free press* would already be on the 10th story condemning such partisan behavior by a journalist.

Agree w Tom. I’ll stress it’s utterly pathetic of Trump to think of Russia as a peer when it is vastly inferior. What’s worse is that this overestimation is music to Putin’s ears, prevents him from recognizing that russia has lost in Ukraine, and inspires him to dream about even bigger conquests.

@caolanrob.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social on Marco Rubio claiming the U.S. has nothing to do with Ukraine's Starlink issues: “Everyone has been passing this off because they know that what they are doing is morally reprehensible.”

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

But DOJ says any direct conversations with Trump would be protected by constitutional privileges, so it can’t disclose that to the court. DOJ also argues that redesigning the golf course isn’t subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act, comparing it to mowing the lawn. 3/3

An American president would tell Putin to fuck off. An American president would tell Putin to get the fuck out of Ukraine. An American president would stand with Ukraine. Trump however is not an American president. He works for Putin. So he’ll do what Putin tells him to do.👇

Charlie Angus exposes the collapse of a mining venture that recruited Trump's new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia and Kristi Noem. Its stock plunged from $2 to FIVE CENTS. It changed its name and abandoned its mining project. Now Zacharia's talents are in the White House.

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump effectively ran on both slashing and spiking inflation. He came through on one of those.

ALERT: Federal judge in New York issues order temporarily halting further taxpayer-funded Trump TV ads

A federal judge just ordered the Trump regime to STOP spending taxpayer money on the challenged TV ads—and cancel scheduled placements, including tonight’s. The administration must report back within 24 hours confirming compliance.

Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.

Manny Rutinel: "Gabe Evans will never fix it. Why? He is funded by Elon Musk. His campaign is fueled and pushed forward by hundreds of thousands of dollars from Elon Musk who understands Gabe Evans to be a loyal rubber stamp to the Republican agenda."

The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.

BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.

"Fascism is both a permanent temptation and, as history teaches and current events show, a powerful one. As history also teaches, and as current events will I believe show, it can be defeated. First, one has to recognize it for what it is."

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Why a return to a larger conflict in Iran remains likely, according to one expert. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

"Congress has already said no to taxpayer funding for the big, beautiful ballroom, and this should have been a stop order on the project." So if Congress already said no, how is this pet project getting taxpayer dollars?

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This s censorship. Spread the word…. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

The Quadrangle of Doom consists of a megalomaniacal president, powerful fanatics occupying key positions in his administration, increasingly radicalized MAGA true believers, and reliably cowardly and collaborating elites:

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky says Trump’s DOJ exposed her private information in its massive Epstein file release. Her lawyers alerted the government. The files came down. Then, she says, her information was exposed again. Now she’s speaking out.

NEW: A nonpartisan government watchdog argued USPS is violating open records laws by refusing to provide information on its plans to screen mail ballots. Despite SCOTUS blocking the plan for the midterms, the group warned the risk for future elections remains "uncertain and opaque."

In Alligator Alcatraz, detainees were forced into small outdoor cages for hours at a time. In Camp East Montana, detainees report beatings from guards and denial of medical care. In Delaney Hall, detainees report unsafe drinking water and retaliatory abuse for speaking up. Unimaginable cruelty.

Mitch McConnell nearly voted “no” with Democrats until Republicans stepped in and reminded him which way they wanted him to vote.

Just Like in the US, Fascists Are Rising in Germany & EU #ABlueView 🧵 1/3

“A novel is not just a bucket of sentences,” the historian Leah Price once said. Still, A.I. companies are using “book guillotines” to cut the spines off of novels, scan their contents, and generate endless buckets. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Here’s the best shirt for Halloween. 🎃

President Donald Trump and the U.S. Postal Service risk unleashing “massive chaos and confusion” by implementing expansive mail voting restrictions weeks before the upcoming midterms, a widely respected elections expert said in a new court filing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump's secret police moves to create an enemies list for the White House. The database would have all US voters, their party affiliations and their political preferences. Now for the question: what does any of this have to do with immigration enforcement? www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...

House Democrats have a dire message for USPS Inspector General Tammy Hull amid new whistleblower claims: “Millions of voters could depend on your ability to quickly and thoroughly investigate the Postal Service’s apparent misconduct,” the lawmakers warned 👉 https://demdock.com/3UwYOJu