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When I learned what Samuel Alito and the other Republican appointees to the Supreme Court did to the Voting Rights Act, I thought of my friend Mickey Schwerner. He and countless others sacrificed their lives fighting for the VRA. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sam-alito-and-my-friend-mickey

Not only was the Supreme Court's Callais decision cynical and wrong, it has now resulted in the Republican governor of Louisiana declaring state of emergency to cancel the ongoing congressional election. If you think this ends in Louisiana or with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

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/...

Just a reminder...

$400M for Trump's ballroom? On top of: -$1.5T for the Pentagon -$170B for ICE and Border Patrol -$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet -$496M to send National Guard into cities -$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" -$100M for Trump's golf outings But nothing for working people.

Shots fired, the Secret Service rushes in, and they let Trump continue to sit there? And now they’re going to resume the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Trump still plans to deliver a speech? I’m not saying this was staged to boost Trump’s tanking approval numbers, but it looks odd.

By going after the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Trump administration has dramatically escalated its attack on civil rights organizations and its defense of white supremacists. These intimidation tactics won't succeed.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime

It's really something to be living through the worst President, the worst Supreme Court, and the worst Congress all at once

FUN FACT: Trump has gained $3 billion from crypto bribery, foreign real estate deals, and other rank corruption since his term began last January. bsky.app/profile/maxb...

we should treat these pardons as null and void as far as i am concerned www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The fact that republicans are getting away with everything and we don’t have much power to stop them is why we kept saying 2024 was an incredibly important election.

My friend @rokhanna.bsky.social is absolutely right. When the President of the United States threatens genocide against millions of innocent people, Democratic leadership should stand in clear moral opposition — not hide behind procedure.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23. 20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t. They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

The President is threatening to destroy an entire civilization. Congress must finally reclaim its war power from this increasingly dangerous president. Before he creates more chaos and destruction. Before more servicemembers get killed.

Crazy af behavior yet again from the religious extremists

Yep. And women. And that’s the exact people now populating the Republican Party, especially in the House, Senate & White House. Bringing nothing but shame to our country. It’s clearer than it’s been in decades that it’s really Civil Rights loving America vs klan loving America. Sickening!

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None of this had to happen. Republicans can stop it all right now, but they won’t.

yep, this is a case of hegseth wanting a whites-only military bsky.app/profile/nanc...

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

This motherfucker never met a stupid idea he didn't love:

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov please tell me California plans on doing this too!!! We need to do everything possible to neuter Citizens United if we plan on saving this country from rule by the billionaire class!!!!

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. This is no joke. Here's how it works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fP...

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

"A man in custody at Adelanto died in his bunk after experiencing difficulty breathing and overheating according to detainees. Officials told his family he died at a nearby hospital." lataco.com/14th-ice-cus...

2026 is on track to be one of the deadliest years in ICE custody in decades as I discussed with my dear friend @velshi.com. 14 deaths so far this year alone. @austinkocher.com and @lataco.bsky.social have done extraordinarily work documenting this. follow them.

So inspiring

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE: "When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Trump’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is using his bogus January 2025 declaration of national energy emergency to limit enviro review & public comment on new fracking off CA’s coast.   We’re opposing.   We won’t let the Trump Admin hastily frack at the expense of CA’s ocean & communities.

✅ Trump's Stupid Ballroom Put On Hold ✅ Trump's PBS/NPR Ban Shot Down 🚨 CO Ban on "Conversion Therapy" Struck Down 🚨 Trump Given Green Light to Add Jews To Database Don't get me wrong, the first two are good things but the second two are a MUCH bigger problem.

They still haven’t released all the Epstein files. Nearly 3 million have been withheld

How about the chaos of harassing the families of our military recruits and their families? Abolish ICE - while we still can.

I'm launching an inquiry with @padilla.senate.gov on the alarming actions by ICE at SFO. We must know what immigration data TSA is sharing with ICE & why. The last thing we need are more scenes like the one we witnessed last week. ICE agents shouldn't be at our airports.

The call is coming from inside the house.

Thank god!!

Trump’s General Services Administration is attempting to condition federal funding grants by requiring recipients to adhere to vague anti-DEI requirements. We’re opposing. We’ll continue to fight to protect policies that help foster prosperous communities for all Americans.

The GOP made nearly a trillion dollars in cuts to health care last year to give tax breaks to the rich. Now they want to cut more funding and further increase health insurance costs to fund Trump's war with Iran. These people couldn't be more out of touch.