If Democrats retake the House, the Judiciary Committee needs to revive the Hatch Act in a major, major way. Remove these criminals and hacks before the 2028 cycle begins.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 9h ago

There could not be a more blatant violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits any executive branch employee from "Using his or her official title while participating in political activity." Unlikely to be prosecuted, however. Will any news org even mention this? www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/7...

Very important. Would be great if every newsroom had this understanding.

Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · 13h ago

You may know that I try to show newsrooms that they have an alternative to the horse race model in election coverage: "The citizens agenda." It's the campaign season and I am starting to get examples sent to me. Roanoke: roanoke.com/news/local/g... Cascadia: www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/jul/16/...

You may know that I try to show newsrooms that they have an alternative to the horse race model in election coverage: "The citizens agenda." It's the campaign season and I am starting to get examples sent to me. Roanoke: roanoke.com/news/local/g... Cascadia: www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/jul/16/...

What are your top issues in November's elections? Inform Roanoke Times coverage

The Roanoke Times is taking a closer approach to election coverage this fall by asking our audience directly: What do you care about most?

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As a reminder, Susan Collins will still be able to act powerless and express her shock and concern at what her Republican colleagues do as a private citizen. If they elect Jackson, Mainers can keep getting these sad sound bites *and* have a fully functional representative in the Senate again

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

Q: The shock gloves that ICE is reportedly rolling out using the deescalation funding. Is that the sort of use you envisioned when you passed that bill? SUSAN COLLINS: It's not

The thing to do here is take the things these disaffected types say and just say it back to them and others like them. These people aren’t going to change parties but some can be moved to dump Trump. With repetition of ideas they are already having.

The Lincoln Project@lincolnproject.us · yesterday

Trump voter: I remember [when] we started going to war with Iran. Trump said, 'we're going to go in and out.' It's taken forever. [...] And I seriously think he doesn't know how he's going to get out of this.

And the pressure on state officials and legislators to decertify. Rudy and Jenna’s charm calls in Republican states he lost. Ron Johnson hand-carrying Wisconsin’s fraudulent ballot. “Find 11,870 votes.” Flynn and Powell in the White House pitching redo of election. Decapitations of DoJ. On and on.

J6 Plaque@thejan6plaque.bsky.social · yesterday

Yeah. The tunnels stuff. The maps of which buildings to take over. The fundraising to get angry people there. The angry people kitting out. And all that’s just the mob, doesn’t even get at the pressure campaign to count the fake electors (or simply throw out Biden states).

“Pre a lot of things” but Jan 6 wasn’t one of them

Home of the Brave@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · yesterday

Mark Normand: "You took a photo with Trump a couple years back." Shane Gillis: "That was pre a lot of things…  Back then, when I was taking that picture, I was like, 'this guy's gonna release the Epstein files, and no more wars.'"

Crazy that the incitement frame prevailed (among the nominally sane segment of the population) despite Jack Smith bringing a case on the defrauding scheme including fake electors. Can’t do better next time if you learned the wrong lesson from the last one.

capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · yesterday

Reporters and even the Jan 6 Committee tried to flatten Jan 6 into an easy story: Trump "instigated" a mob with his speech. It was too uncomfortable to deal with the truth: that large numbers of our elected lawmakers openly plotted to overturn democracy through political violence. 2/

Because we pretended that rot didn't exist, we never cleaned it out. It's still festering in Congress. That's why GOP lawmakers confirm all Trump's nominees, why no one stands to object. Because we taught them that complying was painless, and that we'd look away from treason. That needs to stop. 3/

Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵

Abusers never take “no” for an answer

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · yesterday

NYT - Kennedy Center board votes to inscribe President Trump's name on the performing arts building beneath the main signage, aggressively testing a federal judge's order to remove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/ar...

The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.

That’s right. It’s the Constitution and it’s ironclad. The question is what will happen when he tries anyway

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump says “everybody” wants him to run for a third term, but “the law is very strong.”

This is good. AZ AG Mayes asked the judge to dismiss the indictment. The bad guys wanted it dismissed with prejudice. Mayes wanted it dismissed without prejudice so she can re-file the charges. The original case was found to be defective. Now she can re-file, and she intends to.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d ago

A judge in Arizona — who already dismissed charges against Trump allies for their role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election results — has rejected their effort to block the state from trying to re-indict them Indictment dismissed without prejudice s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Sarah Matthews: "What's most depressing about Jan. 6 to me is I thought election denialism would be over be over after Jan. 6, that people would stop with the lies and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. And five years later, here we are."

We are living in the post-January 6th world. All of Trump’s threats - direct or indirect - against America’s elections should be taken seriously. www.cnn.com/2026/08/11/p...

Trump declines to rule out declaring a national security emergency to control the 2026 election | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump in a new interview declined to rule out declaring a national security emergency as a means to try to assert more control over the 2026 midterm elections.

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Their failures are wins for the rest of us

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Everything they're trying is failing" Trump's flailing attempts to interfere in midterm elections are being struck down Election security expert David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research ====>

Probably the first thing a new administration should do is just turn back on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Enough by itself to send a ton of people to jail.

Max Miller was a key Trump aide in 2020 who helped plan the Jan 6 rally. He was deep in that business, he heard all the plans. And then he disappeared mid-rally, when the violence started to unfold over at the Capitol, and never plausibly explained what he was doing. See 🧵 x.com/capitolhunte...

The dismissal of the Oath Keepers' convictions is an attempt to rewrite history. I was there. I won't let it be erased and neither should you. www.youtube.com/shorts/hKRMV... Full conversation: www.standingourground.us/p/the-searin...

Sorry, history has already recorded what your years in the Senate amount to. Utter failure in the things that mattered.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

LMAO -- Cassidy wants credit for "almost" voting no on Blanche

Here’s a hint, Ross: the ones who are trying to pay tax dollars to the Capitol mob attackers are the bad guys

Credit where it’s due. This was important, and they found it in themselves to not cave to the President’s repeated demand.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 7d ago

🚨BREAKING: Senate Republicans failed to pass a truncated version of the SAVE America Act before going into recess early Saturday morning. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The best “wait for it” of maybe all time 😂 😂

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7d ago

You’ll never guess who was in the chair when it happened👇👇

Assume a coup attempt in 2028-29. Not a guarantee, but it’d be naively complacent not to take it as a very serious possibility, and prepare in advance. Because we already saw them try a coup when they were in a weaker position. Armed takeover of DC might not only be coup prep, but it’s coup prep.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 7d ago

So Trump is now saying the "ballroom" is actually "the desperately needed Military Center, required for the National Security of Washington, D.C., and our Country, itself" He's also extended soldiers in D.C. until Jan. 20, 2029, his last day It's impossible to not to imagine the very worst

People didn't react enough in 2020. "Who cares about a few nutcases waiting for the next Q drop?" "Who cares that my dad watches Fox all the time and rants about the deep state?" "who cares that my son listens to Nick Fuentes and is reading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?" It mattered.

The complaint also directly challenges the government's account of officer injuries, the filing says. "The most serious injury to any officer was a broken finger. The most common injury was 'pain.' No officers died as a result of injuries from J6," it says.

LiberalBatch@liberallady.bsky.social · last wk.

J6ers demand $1 million each over government 'trap' to create 'appearance of a riot' www.rawstory.com/j6er-psy-op-... What a crock of💩I want to file a civil suit against the J6ers for the Trauma and anxiety they caused me that day watching them beat our officers with our American Flag!

How stupid do you have to be to not know the limits of air power

NEW EPISODE: Trump nominees live and breathe by one rule: Don't say Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Instead, the word of the day is "certified." Now, Trump judicial nominees are taking the evasion of facts to the next level: They won't even say Trump won the 2016 election. youtu.be/S5kEYxWqxWc?...

The Big Lie Has Infected Every Trump Nominee

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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People are criticizing me unfairly, such as for my actions and their inevitable consequences

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Cassidy: "I will vote for Mr Blanche. I will be criticized for this vote. What's new?"