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DEMOCRACY DIES WRAPPED IN INFOTAINMENT Justice for the Epstein Survivors! Release the Unredacted Epstein Files! Tax code and media need reform Off shore tax havens 🚫 Engagement farming "resistors"🚫

Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton

The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

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Angelina Jolie shared an Instagram post about her recent visit to Kharkiv, bringing attention to one of our city’s greatest challenges: schools enduring russian attacks and our fight to preserve a normal childhood for our kids.

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BREAKING: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says she wants Canada to become the bloc’s first associate member. She told Prime Minister Mark Carney she wants to deepen their economic and security ties as Canada faces mounting trade tensions with Trump

I don't know, maybe it's just me but I think rather than have two corrupt real estate moguls trying to negotiate whatever it is they're negotiating we should probably have the State Department involved instead? Just a rational thought in this insane world.

Glad 60 Minutes is doing a Jacob Wohl story literally nine years after I reported on that guy. One time he was pretending a scam website he was running wasn't his, so I called the number on the website and it went to his mom's voicemail. Jacob is like training wheels for investigative journalists.

A *second* federal judge has blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing Trump's executive order limiting mail balloting. "Plaintiffs have demonstrated … there is an increased risk that a significant number of otherwise appropriate absentee or mail-in ballots will ultimately not be counted."

Second federal judge freezes Trump mail ballot order with U.S. Supreme Court poised to weigh in

The nation’s highest court already is considering the administration’s appeal of an order by U.S. District Court in Boston.

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Nessel: What I think is likely to happen, more likely than not, is that we won’t go through the normal certification process that we usually go through. The president will try to throw a wrench in our ability to do that, and the certification will have to come in the courts,

Den Wert der Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte allein nach ihrer Nützlichkeit für diese Gesellschaft zu bewerten, ist übrigens keine adäquate Antwort auf die Menschenfeindlichkeit der AfD.

I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.

The oldest amber has been discovered in China, and it’s around 385 million years old! 🌳 The discovery pushes the confirmed record of amber back by around 65 million years, showing that plants were producing resin much earlier than previously demonstrated.

Photograph of amber on a green background. The amber is small, irregularly shaped with a translucent amber-yellow centre surrounded by dark, rough outer edges.

“Of course, the Democratic Party wouldn’t sit on its hands. Their ever-present legal pitbull Marc Elias would have a field day. If ICE showed up in an intimidating manner to a voting location, I’d bet that a well-drafted lawsuit would be filed within the hour.” democracyproject.org/posts/ice-at...

ICE at the Polls: Not the Hottest Election Threat

A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

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