David A. Weinberg
@davidaweinberg.bsky.social
Policy Strategist for @protectdemocracy.org Punster, parent, patriot. Former staffer for @January6thCmte, et al. All views are my own, and retweets mean nothing.
"Colorado was one of 30 states the administration sued for a refusal to supply unredacted voter information. So far, the U.S. Department of Justice has lost 20 of those cases." coloradonewsline.com/briefs/trump...
Trump administration's attempt to obtain Colorado voter data shut down by federal judge | Colorado Newsline
Colorado will not need to hand over sensitive voter registration information to the federal government, a judge ruled.
coloradonewsline.com
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
"They’re simply statements issued on the attorney general’s letterhead. They aren’t signed agreements with the Trumps,... And there’s nothing preventing Blanche from changing his mind... This deal is, quite literally, not worth the paper it’s printed on." joycevance.substack.com/p/the-1776b-...
The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn't As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe
MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell reported Monday morning that “Overnight: A spokesperson for Sen.
joycevance.substack.com
Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"
If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.
"Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes": www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
theguardian.com
Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
The issue here isn't the Reflecting Pool (which seems trivial). The issue is the President ordering his subordinates to arrest and prosecute an innocent man on completely fabricated pretences in order to cover for his own corrupt contracting deal.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 5d agoThe US Justice Department dropped its case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the hurried renovations ordered by President Donald Trump had been botched. ➡️ u.afp.com/SrvP
The Trump admin is currently sitting on $7 BILLION of funds for transit projects. New railroad tracks, train stations, bus lanes…all stuck in political limbo. It seems like Trump is more focused on slapping his name on Penn Station than building infrastructure that would help people.
Technology that generates nude images of people, oftentimes without their consent, is disturbing. Minnesota passed a bipartisan law to ban nudification technology. Now Elon Musk’s company is suing to block that law from taking effect.
Israeli DM openly brags at campaign event about leveling entire population centers in southern Lebanon and in Gaza. “Today, there is no Shejaiya. There is no Jabalia. All those terrible places… no longer exist” www.timesofisrael.com/katz-boasts-...
Katz boasts of ending administrative detention for Jews, increasing its use against Arabs
Speaking at right-wing conference, defense minister also touts IDF demolition of 24 historic villages in southern Lebanon, which included '15,000 to 20,000 homes'
timesofisrael.com
"There's no credible way to do this without creating an ungodly number of false positives," observed expert @beckerdavidj.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...
Trump's claims of 250,000 non-U.S. citizens on voter rolls leave some states baffled
Trump officials say they found 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in just four states. Those states don't know where the numbers came from, and some worry what the claims may portend for the midterms.
npr.org
"Almost every night... President Trump calls his fundraiser.... Trump asks O’Rourke which companies and donors have cut checks and which haven’t" and "gives her names to call, often including people who have recently met with him." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
wsj.com
Plenty of people waned this would happen. Texas did it anyway.
Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 6d agoThe state has found some registered Texas voters were wrongly flagged as potential noncitizens. The secretary of state told counties to immediately reinstate any Texans who were removed from the voter roll despite showing DPS proof of citizenship. bit.ly/4yOsWzH
Elon Musk's "virulent racism and vicious, disturbing views are no secret. He does not hide them. They sit in plain view.…Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project…?"
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
nytimes.com
Disney has come out swinging in its defense of 6abc and seven other owned-and-operated ABC TV stations the Trump administration is threatening to take off the air. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...
Alaska removed 3,000 voters from its rolls for potentially being noncitizens—but then some were found to be citizens, and legislators want them reinstated. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/07/30/l...
Lawmakers say elections division ‘illegally’ deactivated registration of thousands of voters, urges director to reverse decision
Calls for reversal comes after consistently refusing to give answers to Alaska’s News Source.
alaskasnewssource.com
Noncitizen registration and voting are hot topics in the news, but the data shows that the scale of this problem remains minimal. CEIR has launched a comprehensive state-by-state tracker that documents the public allegations and investigations. Read more: https://loom.ly/FKLpoXc
writing these words in this order made me feel like i was having a stroke, i am pleased to share it with all of you
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 6d agowww.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
A timely reminder: "You are not required to know how to speak, read, or write English to vote." www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Vote Safely in 2026
Sending troops or ICE officers to the polls is illegal. Here’s how you can protect your vote and your community’s voice, even if federal agents unlawfully show up.
brennancenter.org
Stupidity Always Brings LOSING & DEATH will actually be a great title for a ~ 2040 serious first cut at a history of the Trump years.
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · last wk.President Trump demands that the Senate cancel its recess and approve the SAVE America Act
"Paxton has repeatedly declined to answer the newsrooms’ questions about his voter registration and residency." www.texastribune.org/2026/07/24/t...
James Talarico accuses Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud - The Texas Tribune
James Talarico’s comments come after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
texastribune.org
Over 500 scholars, including the country’s leading redistricting and voting rights experts, are calling on Congress to end gerrymandering through proportional representation. Read their letter here:
Letter to Congress: End the Redistricting Wars by Adopting Proportional Representation
Gerrymandering persists because single-member districts allow it.
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NEW REPORT: There is a way to end gerrymandering for good. Learn more about how proportional representation would finally put a stop to the redistricting wars. protectdemocracy.org/maps
Could this administration please hire just one normal person who operates with a core of good faith and basic decency?
(Peaceful people power) > (dictators)
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2w agoSerbian President Vucic announced he’ll resign after 18 months of student protests. That’s Bangladesh, Nepal, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Hungary, and now Serbia, all in the past two years. Anti-corruption is the most potent force for positive political change right now. The US remains ripe.
I’m not saying no one has read Clausewitz but this has very much become the kind of thing people pretend to have read in order to sound smart even though they never read anything longer than Playbook
Can Trump explain how all this supposed illegal voting resulted in Republicans winning the Presidency, Senate, and House?
