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The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.

All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.

Tom Homan: “I think September is going to be the highest deportations of any month in the history of ICE. We are removing and arresting more people right now than we ever have in the history of this nation. Wait until you see what we do next year.” ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/doral-flor...

Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington: We have failed to live up to the command in Deuteronomy, “you shall not violate the rights of the alien or the orphan,” and to the words on the Statue of Liberty. And so “we are losing our soul as a nation.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-los...

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

Cardinal McElroy is ten toes down Homily for the Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees Delivered by Robert Cardinal McElroy - Archdiocese of Washington share.google/GXb1IjDi7rxU...

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Video from Home of the Brave & VoteVets. Veterans who understand the meaning of Arlington don't want Trump's vanity arch. Citizens who understand what our veterans were fighting for--freedom & democracy--don't want an imperial arch. Stop Trump's Arch. youtu.be/tkCk8MpoYyo?...

The Trump administration and Musk being in effect pro-AI child porn seems like a good thing for Democrats to point out.

we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence

This is a stain on this nation. Especially on the Trump administration of course—but also on every member of Congress who’s failing to step forward to end this. I hope they can sleep at night. Actually, I hope they can’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...

“‘Sending people who won protection in immigration court to a conflict zone is a callous and deliberate strategy by this administration to force people to abandon their claims and rights,’ said Sarah Mehta of the American Civil Liberties Union.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...

TL;DR: Missouri slashed state funding for the Imagination Library by $4 million, Indiana eliminated its $4 million matching funding, and Maine ended the program due to a lack of funding (Janet Mills, are you kidding me?) OTOH It costs Trump $13.1 million to fix the National Mall reflecting pool.

Here’s to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally

Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...

my wife gave me conditions for consent and I said nah

🗞️ Now on @washingtonpost.com: Our whistleblower, former DOJ attorney, reveals that Title VI university investigations were “predetermined without regard to the evidence” in a political effort to pull funding and grab headlines. Read the full story: whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...

ICE surge operations threaten public safety, intimidate families, and hurt our economy. That’s why I’m asking parking garage and lot owners to stand with us and reject any ICE proposal targeting our communities. Boston is strongest when everyone feels safe.

FLIP IN FLORIDA: The Democratic-backed slate has flipped the school board of Sarasota County. This is a county of 400K that went for Trump by 18%. It's also where Bridget Ziegler has been on the school board. Dem-backed candidates just flipped 2 seats, adding to the 2 they already had (out of 5).

Feels like a good time to remind folks that the text of the Constitution explicitly provides for legislative privilege. It says nothing about judicial or executive privilege. So, naturally, the courts have found that judicial privilege is the strongest, then executive, then legislative.

"Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage" is this administration's general vibe.

👀 “The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties” - @jamestalarico.bsky.social This is good stuff.

ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.

I cannot wait to see how this gambit works out for the DOJ after they've gone and ballsed up any reasonable claim to the presumption of regularity. Federal Judges Criticize Trump’s Justice Department for “Unethical” Conduct — ProPublica share.google/A5M6nNsAFbka...

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Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

"The Pentagon has tried to mask the total price tag — including from Congress — by taking the funds from a classified budget for nuclear modernization." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

“It’s gone from them not sharing information … to them actively covering it up” Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) - a U.S. Army veteran who represents West Point - about Trump Admin. handling of War in Iran

There’s few things more outrageous and unacceptable than playing games with casualty numbers. House and Senate Armed Services: calling a hearing on this and demanding an explanation from Hegseth immediately is appropriate and necessary.

Hegseth should never have made working out central to the identity of the SecDef. Physical fitness has basically nothing to do with that job. But since he has, it's particularly embarrassing that he doesn't know how pull-ups work.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

i deeply resent having to think about upstream food safety because i am supposed to be able to eat like a carefree raccoon

Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.

If the Secretary of Education wants to be serious about protecting students from adult predators, she should ask her colleague Acting AG Todd Blanche why he’s been so solicitous of Ghislaine Maxwell, who recruited and groomed girls for Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

🚨🚨 So ICE removed all Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's personal effects--wallet, phone, etc--after shooting him before they put him in an ambulance. Is that normal law enforcement practice? Or does it suggest a coverup or attempt to manage information was underway from the beginning?

This is the most hilarious little league home run I've ever seen, the Royals have outdone themselves

FIFA Shadow Docket

new metaphor just dropped

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The Epstein Files showed that without transparency, abuse can be ignored for years. That is why I voted to require disclosure of Congressional misconduct settlements, while protecting survivors. We must stop allowing ethical violations to be buried by those in power.

Fuck this

Pope Leo XIV has named Sr. Alessandra Smerilli prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican announced June 30, making her the latest woman elevated to lead a major Vatican office under the new pontificate.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant