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A Russian energy giant secretly financed a US gas project in Alaska, while that same project was being discussed by Putin with Witkoff and Kushner as part of talks supposedly aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. The US company’s CEO resigned after discovering the Russian money.

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, in new comments Thursday, did not rule out that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could try to prevent a state from certifying its election results — a process over which the federal government has no authority. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

How I imagine the situation inside Team Vivek recently (if there’s at least one sane person there anyway)

🚨BREAKING: A top federal prosecutor in Texas began the first day of early voting with a stark message to voters: “If you violate federal election law, I will hunt you down and prosecute you. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. We’ll see you out at the polls.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

As the Trump regime sues LA officials for not disqualifying 20,000 people DHS has labeled as non-citizens based upon their screening tool, it is good to remember that DHS used to same tool to identify over 15,000 non-citizen voters in Nevada. Complete checks revealed that ALL of them are citizens.

You can vote in all the ways and days that you have in the past — and in CA, we’re ready for anything. We owe that to the American people and to the people of California. More from Pantsuit Politics:

The Supreme Court is losing respect in the eyes of the people because of its naked partisanship. We need reform - and now is the time.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

New whistleblower complaint: The Trump admin pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau's policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.

BREAKING: Through our investigation, we obtained 166 pages of documents that show ICE's attempts to silence voters ahead of the midterm elections.

I can't think of a single non-malevolent reason they would do this.

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

🚨 Turns out your vote is in fact NOT safe at votesafe.org. Operated & funded by Elon Musk’s America PAC with unlimited spending power, this website collects your personal data including IP address, voter registration status, district & ballot info, party affiliation, political interests, & more. ❌

🚨BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel suggested at a Senate hearing Tuesday that federal agents may be present at the polls in November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

And then get registered. Vote early and in person if you can.

SCOTUS needs an amicus brief on this as they consider whether to transfer control of our elections into his hands 🙄

In a story that's built on questions of Giuliiani's credibility vs. Mamdani's, the New York Times should have pointed out that Giuliani has been disbarred in both Washington, DC, and New York.

How do we build an America where all of our children, regardless of the color of their skin or where they grew up, have the basic things that they need in their lives? My life’s work has entirely been about dignifying that and answering this question.

1/2 His son is serving America aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. His father..19 years in the U.S., a work permit, no criminal record was arrested by ICE while waiting for him to come home. THIS is Trump’s America. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue apnews.com/article/uss-...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fuckers

This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”

A frankly insane story about how a Trump-linked American drilling company is setting up equipment in Greenland to make exploratory boreholes, *despite* being denied permission by the Greenlandic government. So much for sovereignty, I guess. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

El-Sayed: "Notice how they used my full name, in echoes to exactly what they did against President Obama. At the end of the day, it's not radical to believe people should be able to afford their groceries, they should have healthcare, that the president should not be able to deny elections ... "

With our continued use of fossil fuels, we are committing ecocide. We are killing our beautiful, precious, unique Earth habitat. www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

Seems bad? Sen. Boozman of Arkansas is now voting for Mitch McConnell, claiming that McConnell talked to him and gave him permission to cast his vote. The photo on the article here is old, from before McConnell's crisis. No one's seen him. No reporters talked to him. But people are using his vote.

This gaslighting from Max Miller is textbook abuser behavior. "If I'm such an abuser, why was she nice to me afterwards?" Because you are the father of her child and she is forced to see you regularly. Because she wants to try and make life seem normal for your daughter. Because you scare her.

Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

The U.S. Attorney General should be independent from the President—not his personal attorney.

Here's the way around having to pretend that Mitch McConnell is not dead, if that is indeed the case. We should all agree on this point: if Mitch McConnell can't be wheeled to a podium for a live press conference to speak, then he is not competent to serve. newrepublic.com/post/213199/...

Be alarmed. Resist fascism. Speak up. Vote.

🚨BREAKING: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened top election officials in all 50 states and D.C. with criminal charges if they do not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to feed their voter rolls through a flawed federal database. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I completely understand 1930-40s Germany now.

Sen. Ron Johnson on Mitch McConnell: "I just heard from a source that was an older photo"

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

VERY DISTURBING www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...

This should horrify all of us! Women in ICE detention underwent invasive medical procedures without informed consent. Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan investigation called the findings “nightmarish & disgraceful” Everyone deserves dignity, bodily autonomy & human rights! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.

The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus. n.pr/4faIm8p

Summer 2015. Several lifetimes ago. A different America. Lindsey Graham, running for president, says this about Joe Biden. The same summer he said Trump would “kill” the GOP with his hateful comments. Several lifetimes ago. A different America.

The Senate must not confirm Blanche, who is working hard to run out the clock— New Mexico’s AG requested the unredacted files 130 days ago. DOJ spox says “they look forward to supporting the investigation.” Endless gaslighting.