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He needs to face far more than impeachment.

Finally NYT, that took a long time.

Two headlines in the last 24 hours: New York Times: "The New Worst-Case Scenario for Election Officials: Federal Interference" Me: "Republicans have cheated in elections for a long time"

BREAKING: Another immigrant has died in ICE custody, the 28th death in ICE detention in 2026.

Donald Trump’s personal holdings in the oil and gas industry have ballooned in value. trib.al/CHsjeic

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Our taxpayer dollars have funded this white supremacist trillionaire who is using his winnings—some half a billion dollars—to try and shove Republican candidates down our throats and avoid investigation and prosecution. www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Worth a watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_4Z...

Republicans have long made a major issue that George Soros has been a donor to Democrats, spinning insane lies about him to make that a bad thing Elon Musk is a *much* bigger donor to Republicans and there's no need to invent lies about him. Just tell the truth about the evil shit he says and does

At this point, I do not think there is anything Trump can ask for that Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas wouldn't give him. If Trump's actual lawyers were on the Supreme Court, they would not be doing anything differently

You may have heard reports that some voters aren't seeing the right candidates on their printouts after they vote. ALWAYS check your printout and make sure your candidate choices are right. If you have any issues, notify your poll site manager and call 866-OUR-VOTE before you leave the poll site.

Hegseth can’t run a Signal chat or get a globe moved into his office. He sure as hell can’t run a war.

Dolly Parton's sister claims voting machines in Tennessee changed her vote to the Republican candidate.

If it looks like a fascist party, and it acts like a fascist party, and is led by a fascist, then regardless of what it calls itself, it is a fascist party. Let's stop pretending.

Democrats have always been better on debt and deficits than GOP admins but the perception that they’re better with money persists because they’re wealth hoarders who valorize accumulating money for its own sake

Rubio, today: "I’m not aware that we knew about this decision beforehand. I certainly – but it’s irrelevant. The bottom line is that .. is governed by a private commercial contract as to the – how their stuff can be used and what speeds they allow it to be used at." www.state.gov/releases/off...

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This is a must read from @davidakaye.bsky.social @slate.com, thinking about what accountability will look like in a post-Trump era. This is something I'll be thinking a lot about in the coming two years.....

Why was Trump waving at empty space? trib.al/EQbBHml

Nationalize Starlink

No, JD, the Titanic doesn’t turn around. The Titanic hits the iceberg. The Titanic sinks. Just like your career. Just like this corrupt regime. (Metaphors matter!)

The sad reality is that most of the Republicans who end up voting against Vivek will do so because he’s Indian and Hindu, not because he’s a serial liar who weaponized child sexual abuse to try and win an election.

This is what happens when young men do not have the moral and spiritual courage to just admit that they're dumb.

Laugh or cry- your choice

This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.

This is a major, major talking point on the right. Elon Musk rails against "suicidal empathy" and the term has caught on among millions. They believe that society is collapsing because we are tolerating too much and not punishing enough.

You know, Elon, if you just paid your taxes, we could give those kids food and healthcare, things far more valuable than stock in a government-welfare-dependent company that is bound to go bankrupt eventually.

The Trump admin is moving forward on plans to impose financial penalties on Americans in default on their federal student loans and hire private debt collectors to go after them. The plans are unlikely to be announced until after the midterms.

The US economy is about 12 times larger than the Russian economy and per capita output is six times larger. CA, NY and TX surpass Russian output. It's a minor economic country. But Trump only wants to match the scale of theft and dictatorial, oligarchic rule of Putin, the people be damned.

Really makes you think about the rightwingers the times chose not to solicit comment from

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

The United States continues to help Putin murder civilians in Ukraine

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A third of Americans approve of Trump’s performance, according to this poll. Which means they’re either A) brain-damaged; B) lack self-respect and enjoy being victims, or C) think high prices are worth it as long as members of minority groups are treated like scum. Let me know if you have a D).

X is owned by Musk. TikTok is blocking the Musk movie account. Meta blocked the No Kings account. This is why Democracy Docket is not built on SubStack or any third-party platform that could one day turn against it. It costs more to operate but is worth it. Subscribe now. demdock.com/4w6emld

Don't know if Trump or associates asked Zuckerberg to disrupt No Kings; or if Zuckerberg saw it as a chance to curry favor with Trump; or if Zuckerberg so believes in Trumpist authoritarianism that he decided to help out. But it's urgent to stop this from happening again--e.g., on election day.

HOW NICE FOR PETE: Seven months into the pointless Iran war that’s driving up fuel prices and draining our wallets and Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth still finds time to take a taxpayer-funded trip to Knoxville to watch the UT-Alabama game! And of course he’s with Marsha 🙄

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

Arrest Musk. Nationalize StarLink. Dismantle and totally reform this corrupt system so this can never happen again.

what a coward

Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions REMAIN in Ukraine, crippling interceptor drones and military operations. He says Ukraine has evidence the restrictions are DELIBERATE after testing Starlink systems in the EU, where they worked perfectly at speeds that cause connections to fail inside Ukraine.