It's always easiest to remember that Republicans lie.
They lie as an organization, they lie as individuals, they've been lying for decades.
Lies are their primary source of power over the intellectually vulnerable people from which they derive power.
And we've got the burning planet to prove it.
🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES
Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone.
Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters
The richest man owns X.
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.
Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.
Let's prioritize installing solar panels on structures like car parks and building rooftops instead of agricultural land, as this approach embodies sustainable development.
@nashishereforit.bsky.social is spot-on! THIS is precisely how to speak to EVERY ONE of these spineless, cowardly, greedy sycophantic, evil monsters. Throw them ALL out. And release the #EpsteinFilesNOW.
Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave.
The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!
Let’s send Stephen out with the best ratings of his career, and leave CBS/Paramount high and dry. Watch the Late Show finale tomorrow. Spread the word!
mdavis19881.substack.com/p/a-fond-far...
🔍 Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today:
Active Voting Rights Cases: 159
Active Redistricting Cases: 49
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 79
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 77
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29
Find real-time updates here:
"Incrementalism assumes a system that operates in good faith. We do not have one. [...] we are building for a hundred years, not for one election or news cycle.”
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
We need all of this “proportional representation, multimember districts, ranked choice voting, election of the president by popular vote (Nat'l Popular Vote Compact), same day registration, a federal dept dedicated to democracy protection, and Supreme Court reform."
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We need all of this “proportional representation, multimember districts, ranked choice voting, election of the president by popular vote (Nat'l Popular Vote Compact), same day registration, a federal dept dedicated to democracy protection, and Supreme Court reform."
🗺️ A.M. REDISTRICTING UPDATE 🗺️
📍SC: Lawmakers to convene at 11 AM to eliminate the state's only majority-Black district.
📍LA: Senate passed GOP map. House to vote next week.
📍GA: Lawmakers will convene in June to redistrict for 2028.
📍MS: Will not redistrict for 2026.
📍FL, AL, TN: GOP map in effect.
I’ve owned this documentary in various formats since I graduated from college, and it was one of the first films I re-watched after resigning from the government last year.
“The Sorrow and the Pity,” a four-hour documentary from 1969 about Nazi-occupied France, chronicles the way that many ordinary citizens simply lived their lives as if nothing had changed—and the film is more relevant than ever, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.
1. This is what America looks like with a President who is both a sociopath AND losing his mind.
2. It’s a good time to remind every member of the U.S. military they swore an oath to the Constitution, not an individual, and they have a duty/they are legally obligated to disobey illegal orders.
If childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies, as Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote in her poem of the same name, then dementia is the kingdom where you are always fading but never fully gone.
My essay on losing my dad to dementia: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
NEW: We sued the DOJ for failing to produce records about Federal Tort Claim Act claims filed by President Trump, including his $230 million claim over investigations into his potential criminal conduct.
The American public deserves transparency.
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.
Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.
ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.
The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.
Budgets are moral documents.
We are deeply concerned by reports that military commanders are framing the Iran war as “God’s plan” and invoking Armageddon in official briefings.
Service members swear an oath to the Constitution — not to any religion.
We are reviewing these reports and will demand accountability.
When one lies with dogs, one tends to get fleas. 🤷
They are who they told us they were. Believe them, ESPECIALLY when they say the quiet part out loud.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
Thank you, Sen Murphy for speaking truth to one of the the Faux "News" state TV propaganda machines. Keep speaking out & pls remember to include notes on the private, for-profit, billionaire owned detention ctrs across the US who control 10's of thousands of beds... Beds they get paid to keep full.
I went on Fox News yesterday morning to explain that while the focus is on Minneapolis, Trump is trampling rights everywhere. All over the country, thousands of LEGAL immigrants, including little kids, are being disappeared.
That's what happens in Putin's Russia, not America.