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🚨BREAKING: In a letter sent Wednesday to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters plan to hire Peters to replace his current assistant in September. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ICE “shock gloves” have already been used to murder an inmate in a Kentucky jail “An internal investigation found two of the glove shocks lasted 45 and 99 seconds apiece — far more than the recommended 15-second limit.” Do not allow the fascists to convince you these gloves aren’t dangerous.

She's an anti-abortion extremist. Trump picks Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, to lead FDA apnews.com/article/fda-...

The Republican senator said he believed Kennedy, a known vaccine skeptic, would not touch science-backed vaccine guidance.

This is an appalling departure from the post-Watergate mission of the Department of Justice. DOJ, as we once knew it, is no more. Blanche has turned it into Trump‘s private law firm. What a complete disgrace. 

The guy who did such an incredible job with the Reflecting Pool, Ballroom, Kennedy Center, National Mall, and Great American Fair is going to redesign our warships. What could go wrong?

Raw Story: Trump family's flagship crypto venture has preliminary conditional approval to become a bank. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency bureau gave the approval on Friday. Money laundering is a lot easier when you own the bank. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

After winning Teacher of the Year award at a conference in TX, UMD Professor Kibret was detained by ICE at the airport. 3 weeks later he’s still in custody. He’s not the “worst of the worst” & detaining him isn’t making communities safer. He should be released, now. www.wbaltv.com/article/mary...

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

Be safe Springfield

Ossoff: "They see the rebuke that is coming and fear the accountability that will follow it. They recognize the president is deeply unpopular. He's reviled. The public is awake to his corruption and self-dealing…The truth will come out. Mark my words. The truth will come out.”

Ten firms are paying Trump $100,000 a month. Jamie Raskin called it "the depraved essence of insider trading." He's not exaggerating, and the reason why is worse than the price. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/this-gover...

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.

It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.

This should be much bigger news.

NEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them. So we did. Court filings let us ID 11. At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities. 1/

JUST IN: New DOJ Office of Legal Counsel opinion concludes that three STEM programs overseen by National Science Foundation to encourage more minorities/women in such fields are entirely unconstitutional. Doc: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

veteran correspondent Barbara Starr is always measured so this live-hit with @kaitlancollins.bsky.social is extremely telling: "I don't subscribe to the notion it was a decoy plane. if it was unsafe for [dumdum] how was it safe for media to be on the flight?" big 🧢 @sandibachom.bsky.social

you really need to read/know this

Greenland on high alert after Trump-aligned oil company brings unapproved drilling equipment www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

I will be direct: Here how you can help me. 1. Spread the word about the threats to democracy and free and fair elections. 2. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

Thinking about President Biden and his family today as we learn of his cancer spreading to more places in his body. Breaks my heart that this decent man was taken for granted and attacked relentlessly for trying to help. This country didn’t deserve him. Love you Joe. 💙🙏

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

Richard Nixon was never arrested for his crimes, but his Attorney General John Mitchell was—for helping Nixon cover them up. Have fun with the next administration, Todd Blanche!

THURSDAY: A federal judge is opening a public phone line. You can listen….live…as Katie Phang’s suit against Todd Blanche over the Epstein files goes before Judge Sullivan. No spin. No panel. No press release. Just YOU, a phone, and a judge who isn’t taking DOJ’s word for it. Dial in.

🚨 Overnight, Republicans confirmed Todd Blanche for AG, who will end up indicted and disbarred anyway. Just sayin’. The good news: They didn’t pass the SAVE America Act, and just broke for recess.

The Senate just confirmed that they don’t give a shit about the Epstein files, or his survivors for that matter, by confirming Todd Blanche (Trump’s personal attorney) as AG of the United States… So, are you MAD YET?! 😎✨

BREAKING: Well, the U.S. Senate just confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general at around 4:30am ET in a 50–49 vote… Fucking assholes. The GOP fails America, once again. Are you actually SURPRISED?! Well, of course you’re not. Vote. Them. Out. In. November. 😎✨

Brandon Herrera called children cum trophies. Mike Johnson is fundraising for him.

A New Mexico House committee created to probe the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s activities at Zorro Ranch has released its first report, detailing his acquisition of the ranch, time spent there, visitors, and alleged sex crimes and human trafficking. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/new-m...

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was born in Detroit, a natural-born citizen. He holds a double doctorate, is a Rhodes scholar, taught epidemiology at Columbia, and became Detroit's health director at just 30 years of age. He should sue Tuberville into poverty for libel. STFU Tommy.

If Democrats retake the majority in the Senate and I become chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of my first acts will be to subpoena the bankers that helped Epstein carry out his crimes and help deliver real accountability.

It’s all up to Cassidy. Now would be a great time to show that you actually possess a spine, Bill.

A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization

NEW: This is the first in a series of stories by Democracy Docket examining the Trump administration’s grave threats to the 2026 midterms. It offers an overview of the multiple ways Trump could interfere with the vote — and threaten U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how...

To be clear, Dr. Anthony Fauci is an American hero who spent decades serving and protecting the public whilst fascist republicans have spent decades actively trying to destroy US democracy and have spent 10 years serving an immoral evil tyrannical convicted felon.

He's 67. He stopped his bike. He reached in to feel the water. The National Guard held him five hours and a US Attorney charged him with a felony carrying ten years. Somebody should tell her what her own engineer found eight days earlier. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republican...

The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist.

Local man suggests jailing own boss.

The Senate is set to break for a five-week recess on Friday.

Todd Blanche just said that overturning Roe v. Wade was "not complete victory" and the administration will make abortion permanently illegal in every single state… Ladies, what say you?! 😎✨

There is no universe in which counting on Cassidy or Murkowski to do the right thing ends well.

“Trump files emergency motion to block BBC from getting financial details about business empire” Rule #1 of picking fights: never sue over damages you don’t want audited. He wanted $10B for a bruised brand. BBC said: show the books. Suddenly it’s an “emergency.”

We blew all our air defense in a stupid war that we lost. Meanwhile Ukraine is fighting its ass off and now empty. History will be harsh to this administration. Send the remaining Patriots to Ukraine now and ramp up production.

The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.

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Trump: "We're taking a lot of oil from Venezuela -- billions and billions of barrels of oil. To the victor belong the spoils."