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* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SUES TO BLOCK ALASKA SENATE RACE CERTIFICATION IF REPUBLICAN LOSES, CITING CANDIDATE NAME CONFUSION -- AP REPORTER ON X @reuters.com #AKsen

America is *now* an ally of Russia? I'd argue it started in 2016 when the Trump campaign and the RNC softened the language on providing lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine as part of the Manafort/Kremlin/Yanukovich "peace plan" to cede Ukrainian territory to Putin. But okay. We can go with "now".

When Trump and Musk decided to throttle back Starshield (the military counterpart to Musk's Starlink), they did not warn anyone -- including American diplomats, military service members and others in Ukraine who were therefore caught off-guard by Russian missile attacks and unable to reach shelter.

“They’re kids! They’re kids!” Monstrous. Abolish ICE.

When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deports-children

Former DOGE employees, including the one called "Big Balls," are working on an AI takeover of federal government services for the Trump regime. The staffers are seeking to have a chatbot be the main way people interact. But most consumers hate such bots & prefer human beings.

Of all people flagged as illegal aliens by the "American citizen database" that DHS uses, 14% are US citizens. That means that if Trump gets his way by using the DHS database to "verify" state voter rolls, 24,500,000 US citizen registered voters will be denied the right to vote. 1/2

As a result of Trump’s tariffs and war, American families are spending $3,500 more per year on the cost of food, gas and medicine. Meanwhile... Trump and his family have made more than $4 BILLION off the presidency. That's the cost of corruption.

Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...

Imagine no Constitution, no First Amendment, no vast network of civil society–oriented nonprofits, no 250-year history of democratic habit; without those guardrails, Trump would *be* Putin. trib.al/NpPXOLt

The Constitution gives no role whatsoever to the president in the running of federal elections. This amounts to an unprecedented attempt to bring American elections (at least partly) directly under his control. trib.al/xzAivwa

It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE

A masked, armed man steps on someone’s head and bounces. MAGA: “How do you know it was ICE?” PAXIS.app notes: That’s the point. ICE now looks and acts like militia cosplay fascists. If we can’t tell law enforcement from a gang, that’s state violence. Keep PAXIS free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS

🧵NEW: $120 million payment made by ICE to GEO Group subsidiary B.I. Inc. on August 6 for ankle monitor program for immigrants. ICE is a for-profit scheme, paid for by taxpayers. Immigrants are commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...

This is what America has become. A disease invested shit hole. Thanks Donny & RFK. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump signed a new order targeting birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court blocked his earlier effort.

In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.

Trump is forever telling us that Americans are the enemies. 😡

The two worst people on the planet working together would make a great horror movie, but also a greatly horrible reality.

CHARLOTTE: “I don’t see how it was a suicide… somebody did that to her… Black girl, 16, hanging from a tree, on the grounds of a Black church, in a historically Black area. I don’t know any other way to put it.” The man who found #JulianaNzita isn’t buying what the police say.

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Yes Evangelicals, this proves the theory!

In a free country, failing to comply with law enforcement does not give the state license to murder you

The man asking to be America's top intelligence officer can't solve a mystery which has 81 million witnesses.

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Thanks to Trump's tax cuts, 88 corporations — including Coinbase, CVS, and Disney — paid ZERO federal income tax last year. They also spent $852M on political donations and lobbying. Their combined tax savings: over $26 BILLION (a 3,000% ROI!) We must break this corrupt cycle.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot tells us they filed FAA and NASA safety reports after lighting from Trump’s UFC event at the White House allegedly flooded their cockpit on approach to Reagan National. They called it “10 times worse than any laser illumination event” they’d ever experienced.

(cartoon Steve Sack) #politics

Springsteen. Moments ago. Washington DC #nokings

Who knew it was still even possible to stand out for vulgarity in America?

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

The Trump super PAC was handed $5 million days before the FDA opened the vape market to Big Tobacco.

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

The open, shameless grift. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

And then there's this: The settlement gets sweeter for Team Trump In a newly-posted, one-page document, the Justice Dept details that it is now prohibited from pursuing tax claims against Trump or his family in the future Signed by Todd Blanche

🚨BREAKING: Todd Blanche confirmed at a Senate panel Tuesday that top Department of Justice officials are working with other Trump administration agencies to implement President Donald Trump’s dangerous and restrictive executive order on mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

AS PUTIN ANNOUNCES VISIT TO CHINA ON 18-19 MAY: This is the latest published Chinese political cartoon, which tells you how they really see DJT

This is an excellent profile of a Christian nationalist sociopath.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...