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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken “Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.” — FDR Anti-DEI=Resegregation GOP=Confederacy
The destruction of the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park has begun. #bigbend #nationalparks #publiclands #protectpubliclands #bigbendnationalpark
The Bulldozers Have Arrived in Big Bend National Park
Contractors are grading roads and surveying the Rio Grande corridor even as lawmakers, outfitters, and residents plead for basic answers about a $1.7 billion border barrier project
ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com
Trump's approval on cost of living just cratered to 23%, and the DOJ has lost 20 straight court battles over state voter rolls. The tide is turning fast. #BlueWaveIn90Days
The Trump Regime Wanted Every Colorado Voter’s File. Jena Griswold Refused.
They sued her. It went badly. Plus a $19 billion walkout and his worst poll yet.
dworkinsubstack.com
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect. www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
wired.com
The Senate race: He narrowly won the sunset coast & small UP counties. She narrowly won everywhere else except Kent/Ottawa (Grand Rapids) & the 3 big college counties: Washtenaw (U of Mich), Ingham (MSU) & Kalamazoo (Western/K College). His overall margin is 15K, but in those 3 counties it’s 45K /1
Let’s level set. MICHIGAN is a must-win if we want to flip the Senate. A word caution: This race was tighter than many predicted. El-Sayed needs Stevens supporters in the general, so it’s not smart strategy to keep them angry. Welcome them. Focus on issues. Time is short, so healing must be quick
Three years ago, the Biden White House attacked me for saying "Democrats should be fighting on every possible front — filing a flurry of lawsuits and exerting public pressure through the media." "The president's team wants to be more selective in picking legal fights." I feel sadly vindicated.
I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
www.newsbreak.com/share/480938...
FBI Analysts Fired From ’20 Election Investigation After Finding No Evidence Of Fraud & Alleging Political Motivation In Probe - NewsBreak
After reporting that the investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County, Georgia, lacked evidence and was politically motivated, two FBI ana
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If you have the opportunity to vote for James Talarico and you choose impeached, criminally indicted, pedophile-protector Ken Paxton, you're dirt.
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
"When it comes to the very obscenely rich in America, I take an aggressive zero-tolerance attitude. Break their monopolies. Seize their estates. Confiscate their wealth. They have built a system by which to steal our freedom as well as our money. They are criminals. We should treat them as such."
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 22h agoZero-tolerance for oligarchs www.editorialboard.com/zero-toleran...
Yeah, I'm totally over-reacting to think these folks would happily throw people in camps.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaySen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
If you've not read this hilarious, authoritative, longform bit about the tragicomic pandemic of AI mania in business, you've got a treat in store. H/t @rtakver.bsky.social
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
hermit-tech.com
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
(also, GOP constantly uses antisemitic and racist dogwhistles against *all* Democratic candidates, because it is a white Christian nationalist party which compulsively frames its opposition as racially other.)
Senator Ron Wyden's 67-page report says Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and Bank of America logged Epstein's suspicious transfers internally but told regulators years late. Deutsche Bank filed one report covering 1,140 wires worth $147m. Two Bank of Amer… https://newsgroup.site/wyden-report-epstein-banks-…
After working round the clock on another one of the president’s vanity projects, Trump has ordered the whole thing to be scrapped and redone.
Trump Freaks Out as Vanity Project Goes Sideways
Another botched construction job prompted the president to order workers to redo weeks of work.
thedailybeast.com
It's going to be really important in 2029 for Democrats--and the people on the ground investigating these strikes--not to get hung up on whether the victims were actually drug traffickers or not. IT DOESN'T MATTER. Even if every person killed was a trafficker, the strikes were still war crimes!
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
Who on the fucking planet is even talking about Joe Biden running for the presidency again? Who cares about *his* mental capabilities in the year 2026? Only Whiskey Tony could think this is an important question that must, must, must be asked and answered. What an unbelievable clown.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · yesterdayAre you kidding me with this? THESE are the pressing questions of the day right now for the lead anchor at CBS NEWS? Covid & Joe Biden are his top 2 before anything Trump? Come the f*ck on. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
And "how is it legal for Trump to enrich himself?" It isn't. But good job framing that in a way that makes it sound like it *is* legal.
