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Former Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch The Rule of Law Project ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

BREAKING: Preliminary injunction granted in the golf course case by Judge Reyes! The threat to close & destroy this historic property is the latest act of Trump corruption that the courts have responded to Kudos to our wonderful clients & cocounsel @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates

As an added bonus, all of the worst people lost money when Lula won. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Donald Trump’s closing message for the midterms

Donald Trump has sent his DOJ cronies to file a bullshit lawsuit to try to steal a Senate election in Alaska. They will fail. When we fight, we win.🗳️⚖️💪

Oh, this is excellent. Well done Team @jamestalarico.bsky.social !!

Watch your back, @devincow.bsky.social !! UFO folklore is full of reports about aliens messing with cows.

It's time to defund Elon. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

Lots happening in the fight over East Potomac, the public golf course Trump wants to remake it in his image & @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are in court to keep it a park for the people Tune in to @npr.org's Here & Now on wamu885 at noon ET for the latest 👇 -TN

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

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The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

Donald Trump wants to sabotage the midterms. Today, millions of Americans will make it clear that’s not happening. Find your local No Kings event and join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

this video is incredible

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

I appreciate you all at @thebulwark.com but I have really hard time squaring your message and commentary with your choice to remain on X. Stop supporting this lunatic.

And yet, every single Democratic member of Congress and every progressive organization (except @indivisible.org) still uses X as their primary method of breaking news. The pro-democracy movement really needs to boycott X.

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

In 2025, the Trump administration prevented the EPA and HHS from distributing more than $1 billion appropriated by Congress, in prohibitions known as impoundments, according to decisions the Government Accountability Office sent to Congress on Wednesday.

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

This was a choice. Remember this.

Here is your good news post of the morning.

For months Gabriela Soto has relentlessly advocated for her husband Martin, unlawfully detained by ICE while buying diapers for their baby. Martin played a key role in the Delaney Hall hunger strike this summer. Last night we was RELEASED from ICE custody. ALWAYS FIGHT BACK.

Setting up a challenge for Trump. If Putin/Russia keeps lying about the plague incident, what is Trump going to say about the guy he has a man-crush on? HowRussiaWon.com

Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.

Oh my . . .

Putin-Trump was the most successful covert operation in modern history. David Corn on today's "To the Contrary" Podcast.

In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?

Good use for your Trump bribery check! If it ever materializes.

NEW: "Of all the states that could give us an indication of how big the blue wave will be this cycle, Iowa is one of the most intriguing…The state is a petri dish for Trump’s toxicity." My latest @thebulwark.com: thebulwark.com/p/a-focus-group-of-iowa-trump-voters

This is EXACTLY where I am these days. Furious, incredulous and yet terrified.

Big Tech companies like Flock Safety have built a mass surveillance system to harvest Americans’ private and personal data without their consent. I’m proud to introduce the Ban Flock Act with @sanders.senate.gov to enforce our constitutional right to privacy.

CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld

Support this amazing candidate - @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social - in one of the most important races in the country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @iowademocrats.bsky.social

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

Since I recorded this interview about the Kennedy Center with Susan Davis, we've learned that the Trump Administration refused to do repairs on the roof, then cited the hazard they created as a reason to justify its closure.

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...

There is no low too low for this partisan, lawless Supreme Court majority. Using the underhanded emergency docket to give Trump a power the Constitution does not allow, a fat thumb on the scale of elections. Disgraceful, six people who would be better on the Russian Supreme Court than in a democracy

After hearing from constituents who saw construction equipment at the site of Trump’s proposed arch, I drove down to Columbia Island to see for myself. I found workers operating heavy equipment who told me they were conducting archaeological work. My full statement:

Trumps insisted that the sacred precincts of the Oval Office “should be treated with Decorum, Respect, and Dignity, not defiled by Third Rate Clowns.” Proving once again that Irony has been beaten to death by hammers and buried under 20 leagues of guano. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Big victory against the administration’s unlawful attacks on our national solar program, which saves Americans money on skyrocketing electricity bills. We passed this program to help families get low-cost clean energy—EPA can't just kill it on Trump's whim.

Defund ICE. Take its entire budget and devote it to a Manhattan Project that can devise and implement sound guardrails for AI, and figure out how to stop what can and should be stopped in the way of superintelligence and recursive self-improvement. AI is far, far more dangerous than immigrants.

It MUST be a rout. We must vote in numbers too big to question the result. And then we must be prepared to march.