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.
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(he/him) Pollster based in Berkeley, California. Empiricist, urbanist, egalitarian, cartophile. Fan of democracy, habitable planets, public transit, association football.
Your regular reminder that normal pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform, & the fact that we tolerate this authoritarian behavior as a permanent feature of 🇺🇸 politics is a sign of just how deeply broken our democracy is.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24h agoTexas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.
Once again, this is not an accident. Creating horrific, life-threatening conditions in the camps is Stephen Miller's strategy.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
United Democracy Project, an AIPAC-affiliated super PAC, is running YouTube ads featuring an AI-generated Trump assisting Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan campaign. “Don’t Help Trump’s Candidate,” the ad warns. Meanwhile, United Democracy Project’s largest donor is Paul Singer, a major Trump fundraiser.
Is Moreno calling on Miller to resign? To be expelled? Is he endorsing the Democrat running against him? He’s doing none of these things.
CNN@cnn.com · 3d agoGOP Sen. Bernie Moreno said his former son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller, "should not serve" in Congress because of abuse allegations levied by Moreno's daughter. It came shortly after Miller appeared on a livestream and denied allegations of abuse, saying he's staying in his race: https://cnn.it/4blXf6S
Guess who's winning the war. (Hint: guess who won the Iraq war?)
Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov · 3d agoDonald Trump’s war with Iran is costing Americans every time they fill up their tank. Meanwhile: Exxon’s quarterly profits doubled to $14.5 billion. Chevron’s nearly quadrupled to $12.1 billion.
Trump is now all but the most unpopular second-term president at this stage of their tenure in the history of polling. The only exception: Nixon had even less public support at this stage but at that point he was just days away from resigning. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Trump’s Polling Numbers Hit a New Low. Don’t Expect Him to Change Course.
Barely a third of Americans approve of Mr. Trump’s handling of the job, putting him at historic depths for a second-term president at this stage of his tenure.
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Blanche should be blocked for IRS/slush fund AND - targeting Comey, James, Hearn, Powell, Walz, Frey, MOCs - Epstein - payouts to Flynn, Page, Babbitt, Vaughn - rejecting ethics advice to recuse from Trump cases - “war” on judiciary - “cleaning house” of DOJ personnel who worked on Trump cases
This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Sending ICE agents to polling places would be flatly illegal — and it has been for well over 100 years. bit.ly/3S1fyYn
Americans Can Vote Without Fear
We have the tools we need to protect the vote.
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Join us Thursday for the Hands Off Our Vote kickoff call: www.mobilize.us/indi...
ICE is murdering people because the Trump regime wants ICE to murder people. If the regime didn't want ICE to murder people, it would publicly crack down on ICE agents who murder people. But the regime doesn't. Because it wants ICE to murder people.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.BASH: Do you know specifically what happened to officers involved in the Texas and Maine shootings? Are they on administrative leave? HOMAN: I don't know specifically. The policy would be to put them on administrative leave B: But as border czar, you don't know for sure if they have been? H: No
It’s as if Timothy McVeigh, instead of being a working class veteran, was instead the world’s richest man with close ties to world leaders, and also the owner/operator of an enormous, global media outlet.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Both the Supreme Court and Congress have repeatedly said that Congress can set term limits for the justices. bit.ly/4wkTlDK
Want Supreme Court Term Limits? Here’s How to Do It
The Brennan Center has laid out a compelling roadmap for Congress to follow.
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🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Serbian 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.
Serbian President Vucic says he will resign within weeks
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he would resign within weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, following 18 months of anti-government prote...
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As a Canadian-American, I am granting @jamellebouie.net honorary Canadian status for this video
It is time to stop treating Donald Trump's anti-Canada rhetoric like a joke
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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add it to the list of commandeering Ls the DOJ keeps suing 'sanctuary cities' and losing bc it is not actually illegal for local governments to simply not do the Trump administration's dirty work ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
The Trump White House Is Very Upset About States That Won’t Do Its Dirty Work
Citing a long line of Supreme Court precedent, federal judges have been reluctant to force state law enforcement officials to help enforce immigration law.
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Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2w agoJUST IN: A federal judge in Minnesota — Trump appointed chief judge Eric Tostrud — has rejected the administation's effort to force Minnesota to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In addition to being morally abhorrent, this is both factually wrong as to the people who ICE has killed and legally wrong as to when lethal force can be used.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHoman on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
ICYMI this is bad: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened election officials in all 50 states + D.C. with CRIMINAL CHARGES if they don't comply with the Trump administration’s demands to feed voter rolls through a flawed federal database www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands
His speech marked a major escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to assert federal control over state election procedures.
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The Trump-Vance admin's goal is to confuse you, to cast doubt in our election processes, and to make you believe it’s not even worth showing up to the polls in November. Make no mistake: your vote is one of the most powerful tools you have. Learn how to protect it:
The People's Guide to Voting Rights
While some powerful institutions have yielded to intimidation, the people have risen to meet this moment. This People's Guide to Voting Rights is part of Democracy Forward's effort not only to defend people in court, but to help communities understand, ...
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One reason to care about state supreme courts: They are only defender of abortion rights in some places. In Kansas, Wyoming, Missouri, New Mexico, justices who ruled in favor of abortion access are on ballot this year. And Right is going after them. Time to learn more—I covered all states:
Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.
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The Trump administration’s effort to create a new bogeyman of left-wing terrorism has now resulted in a major policy change unveiled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio Thursday in a speech to officials from more than 60 countries whom he gathered in DC. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
In Major Shift, Trump Admin Prioritizes Fight Against ‘Left-Wing Terror’ Over Islamic Extremism
Inside Rubio’s Confab on Lefty Terrorism The Trump administration’s effort to create...
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TOMORROW: Join a Good Trouble Lives On event near you to honor the legacy of John Lewis and take action to protect voting rights. Facing the most dangerous rollback of civil rights in decades, we must take up the mantle of “Good Trouble” and organize in our communities to engage and educate voters.
Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · John Lewis Actions on Mobilize
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He’s going for it. And we know ahead of time. So….there’s time to prepare. It probably won’t work. But that doesn’t meant we shouldn’t prepare in advance.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMy takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.
“However, even I could no longer doubt that these were not Germans with an odd religion, but a separate race. Now wherever I went I saw Jews, and soon I could easily tell them from other people.” - Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” chapter 2
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
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