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In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

"One year after NYC launched its congestion pricing policy, fine particulate pollution inside Manhattan’s congestion relief zone was 13 percent lower." news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/10/07/s...

🚨BREAKING: More than 1,000 North Carolina voters will begin receiving letters this week from the state election board requesting they verify their citizenship status — although the board claims compliance is voluntary. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

City workers usually move fast to dismantle a guerrilla crosswalk or bench, often arriving in a matter of hours. IMO that's part of the activists' power: They show that government *can* quickly change streets—even if it seldom does.

See, click, fix. Or something.

I mean, this guy actually *has* been successfully biking to the town dump for years and they suddenly decided it's "illegal" because it "poses a threat" because drivers would "have to be aware" of bikers & pedestrians 🙄

🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

2d Circuit holds that no warrant and no suspicion is needed to search a citizen's cell phone at the border. According to the court, per Judge Menashi, the border search exception authorizes searches to find criminals crossing the border, and Riley does not apply. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OP...

“I do not support these companies that are employing people on Sunday to make another dollar. I like how Chick-fil-A has done it, and I wish more companies would do that,” one GOP North Carolina county board member said to argue against…wait for it…weekend voting. Shockingly, that argument worked.

Just left the great American state fair where I watched Michael Knowles debate a ten year old girl about the Salem witch trials in front of DOZENS of people

The most important democracy story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🗺️ 2026 MIDTERMS REDISTRICTING UPDATE 🗺️ 🔴 Republican gains (+16 R): 📍TX: +5 📍NC: +1 📍MO: +1 📍FL: +4 📍OH: +2 📍TN: +1 📍LA: +1 📍AL: +1 🔵 Democratic gains (+6 D): 📍CA: +5 📍UT: +1 ❌ Failed 2026 gerrymanders: 📍VA: +4 D 📍SC: +1 R 📍MS: +1 R 📍GA: +1 R ✅ Possible 2028 gerrymanders: 📍MD: +1 D 📍SC: +1 R

No competitive bidding. No independent review of the evidence. No teachers consulted during drafting. Just a contract written into statute for a single named vendor. #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/06/15/n...

I fear we have a cruel month ahead of us: the future of campaign finance law, the definition of Election Day, the fate of birthright citizenship. While I remain hopeful, I am prepared for democracy to leave this month weaker than it entered. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/for-...

From car wasteland to one of the best examples of urbanism in the world. 20 years.

DOJ is arguing that Georgia could remove voters from the rolls during a key federal protection period meant to prevent last-minute disenfranchisement — as long as the removals are done individually and based on information the federal government provides. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: CBS News has terminated 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley's contract following his vocal disagreements with the new leadership under Bari Weiss.

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. Emily Waldorf’s case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. Last year, it finally succeeded. (Published Dec. 2025)

This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Anti-voting group released a sweeping new “model laws” handbook that urges lawmakers and election officials to restrict mail-in voting, eliminate same-day voter registration, conduct mass voter challenges and empower officials to deny/delay certification. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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In 23 states, including five presidential swing states, candidates who have denied election results are running for offices that have a direct role in certifying future elections, a new report finds.

How the fuck does the GOP explain this? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

Having used the shadow docket to halt maps favorable to minority voters because elections were approaching, it would be indefensible for the Court to refuse to apply the same standard now—when voting has already begun in Louisiana and is days away in Alabama. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

NEW: Alabama lawmakers begin a last-minute special session to prepare to use a GOP gerrymandered map that dilutes the power of Black voters. The process will likely create confusion for many voters, and comes as Trump urges GOP officials to delay elections to redistrict mid-cycle.

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EXCLUSIVE: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Your moment of zen, riding along with a whole bunch of freshly rescued food making its way to SODO on beautiful bike infrastructure in Seattle (thanks @spottnik.bsky.social, @cascade.org, @seattledot.bsky.social, and others).

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.

A little more than a year ago, @paperwords.bsky.social received a letter from the US Forest Service detailing plans for a new wildfire recovery project. But a single word caught his eye—and alerted him to a secret, Big Tobacco-style campaign with ramifications for our forests.

Not going to a dumb party is just about the easiest moral stand you could possibly make.

A website with anonymous employee letters accuses the Trump administration of undermining work on housing discrimination. HUD says it's restoring "sanity" to fair housing enforcement. n.pr/4ccVSIq

🚨BREAKING: The North Carolina State Board of Elections’s Republican majority voted to move forward with using a federal immigration database to check the state’s voter rolls — an escalation in the board’s ongoing effort to scrutinize voter rolls that could put eligible voters at risk.

NEW: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would overhaul a preventive medicine team that risks making screenings more difficult.

BREAKING: In a 3-2 party-line vote, North Carolina’s election board approved new rules to identify suspected noncitizens using a DHS database that has been criticized for inaccuracies. Voters flagged could be required to prove their eligibility to remain on the rolls.

GenX, pour one out for one of the architects of our childhood www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

The real problem with data centers: they inherently create a serious pollution problem. There is no "closed-loop system" cooling those centers. They consume large amounts of water and produce toxic byproducts. Studies are compromised to hide these problems. REJECT! /P.1 #datacenters #pollution

Pamela Dorn sued Prospect Medical in 2024 after her husband died while under its care. But because the now-bankrupt hospital chain never set aside money to self-insure malpractice claims, she may never have a chance to hold Prospect accountable. By @peterelkind.bsky.social

When the Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele reached an agreement to imprison U.S. deportees at CECOT, what did Bukele stand to gain? A new documentary from FRONTLINE and El Faro investigates. Watch the opening scene now. https://to.pbs.org/4bXrcux