John Bailin

CONFIRMED: ICE IS IN SALINAS, CALIFORNIA! Attention Monterey County! Stay alert, stay informed, and look out for one another. Please don't spread rumors or panic. Let's keep our community safe.

LinkedIn removed my post today for "hateful speech." I compared Todd Blanche to Nazi lawyer Hans Frank, quoting from book review: "Hans Frank, the Nazi lawyer who saw Hitler as a gift from God for the German people" Ruth Ben-Ghiat has compared Blanche to Frank. www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Early voting just crossed 30 million That’s 30 million Americans casting ballots before Election Day, while Trump’s DOJ unsuccesfully runs around trying to throw ballots out The courts are one line of defense -- the ballot box is the strongest one, & your vote is how we hold it -TN

VOTE

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

I urge you to support Ilhan Omar’s campaign for reelection. If Democrats regain control of the House, they must investigate this flagrant abuse of power against her by Trump, Vance, and the Department of Justice. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-and-vances-islamophobic-target

Can’t post this enough times

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Sure would be good if congressional and senate phones were lighting up today with outraged callers yelling at them about Trump helping Russia again and the whole televised firing squad thing. They're not going to do anything to cross Trump if they don't think their constituents care.

Oof

Abolish ICE.

One out of every 6 active duty Navy members and 1 our 4 active duty Marines are stationed in San Diego County. 330,000 U.S. military vets also live there.

I have a plan. I’ve sent $10.50 to each of the 10 Senate candidates who will help us take back the senate. 1. North Carolina 2. Ohio 3. Maine 4. Michigan 5. Alaska 6. Texas 7. lowa 8. New Hampshire 9. Minnesota 10. Georgia If every blueskyer donates $10 plus tip, we can flip the Senate. $105.00

#BlueWaveIn40Days

Trump's approval rating just hit an all-time low. Polling for Republicans ahead of the midterms is tanking too. Good news. But do not let the unpopularity of Trump and the GOP result in you becoming complacent. We need to show up this November in numbers so huge that victory cannot be denied.

Horrifying

Important: check your voter registration now.

It is very hard not to have contempt for John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, who have sold their souls to find some fig leaf to support the worst nominee for Attorney General ever. The signed agreement is worthless without the signatures of the parties, namely Trump. The IRS break stands. Moral cowards. 

The SAVE Act is stalled and looks dead in the Senate — but they keep trying to revive it. Stay loud and tell your Senators to kill it for good.

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

TELL THEM TO VOTE NO NOW actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

🚨BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lawyers have told a court that the agency may have thousands of documents relevant to Democrats’ demand for the Trump administration’s possible plans to deploy immigration agents at the polls this fall. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

For all of the chest-thumping about immigration agents targeting the “worst of the worst,” ICE recently hauled away a nun while she was en route to mass. Team Trump’s many clashes with the faith community tend not to generate a lot of attention, but they matter. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

NEWS: ICE has arrested three people in Manhattan immigration courts in the past week, likely in violation of two court orders from federal judges. Lawyers worry the arrests may signal an end to a monthlong period of calm and a deliberate flouting of the rules by ICE theintercept.com/2026/07/01/i...

BREAKING: Judge Sullivan just granted my Motion for Preliminary Injunction, ordering Todd Blanche to produce TO THE PUBLIC, on or before July 2nd, specific UNREDACTED Epstein Files documents or show cause as to why they should not be produced. Details to come! www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246...

Great exegesis of our hard-won treaty. Clear concise. Plus some ponies.

well it was a full scale loss

Republicans? Your move. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

Join us!

Arsonist wonders why no one is dousing the fire he set.

This is not conservatism. This is authoritarianism.

So he wrote Mein Kampf into a bill. The Nazis called this Umsiedlung.

The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box. The Senate must reject this bill.

I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written. Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do

Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month. Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030. That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail. Share:

"US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school. The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of US conflicts in the ​Middle East." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

If they manage to pass this we need to make sure they lose so badly they won't know what hit them. Please call or write your senators on a daily basis.

As the world reels from the president's rant and threats of additional tariff chaos, I'd just like to remind the UK that they recently arrested someone who could probably bring down this entire house of cards with very little incentive.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/us-military-boats-strikes

Why Democrats Should Run Against the Epstein Class... ABSOLUTELY open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

😕 www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Has America become fascist? The answer might surprise you.

When a president talks about skipping elections and floating an unconstitutional 3rd term, it’s not hard to see what this is and what it isn’t. Seizing election material in a state that already counted the 2020 results three separate times isn’t about election integrity. It’s about preparation.