Bay Area friends: A friend found these small kittens behind a gas station and we've been trying to find them a home for almost two months. For now, they live in a small bathroom. Would you consider adopting? They are vaxxed, neutered, and incredibly affectionate. Please help!

Our team answers 10 of your questions about Trump’s order on mail voting—which is currently blocked by a federal judge—and new USPS policies, and how they could affect the midterms.

Mail Voting in Turmoil: Your Questions Answered - Bolts

As the Trump administration and USPS look to restrict mail voting ahead of the midterms, we asked Bolts readers to send us your questions—and our team has tackled 10 of them.

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🎶they paved Paradise, and put up a parking lot

Becket58@becket58.bsky.social · 9h ago

I’m so mad 😡 Nothing is protected from these idiots. www.nationalparks.org/explore/park... #Blues Trump officials seek to transfer Yosemite land to private developer, report says www.sacbee.com/latest-news/...

Real loser energy

Jen Mercieca@jenmercieca.bsky.social · yesterday

OMG <gasping> O.M.G. I told you so.

They've dropped the pretense of immigrants being criminals now. Quotas. Fuck ICE & the people who work for & w them. The destruction of US freedoms & democracy starts w accusations of criminality against black & brown, trans folks for simply existing. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #dv1 #v4v

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Plot Twist: There is no link between crimes and immigration. Combing through crime statistics spanning a decade from 11,500 neighborhoods, researchers at the University of California, Irvine found no evidence that an increase in unauthorized immigration drove up crime. nautil.us/theres-no-li...

1. Senate Republicans used their super PAC to create a fake news website, The North Carolinian. It is now using that site, which is promotes as “Independent Journalism,” to launder a brazenly dishonest smear against former North Carolina Governor, and current Democratic Senate Nominee Roy Cooper.

“Outbreak of ‘Lake America’ idiots” pretty well describes this entire era

David@crookedknight.bsky.social · 2d ago

Update: lol

If you live in MN, MI, or OH, call up the GOP Senate candidate (or better yet find a way to ask them in person) and ask them if they back Trump's order to rename random Great Lakes while raising your gas prices.

Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform By now... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/

Oh.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security privately confessed that it lacked “high confidence” in its claim that more than 14,000 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote in Pennsylvania, according to a letter from the state’s top election official. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

They did what now

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d ago

UPDATE: The White House has now deleted its tweet in which it compared Donald Trump to Hitler

Costco runs it's own rigorous food inspection program. And they didn't bend the knee on DEI. Plus, they dropped Callaway Golf after their horrific ad depicting violence against women. And they are refusing to carry trump meat. So that's where I'll be shopping.

NEW: Pro-voting groups challenged USPS' newly published final rule, arguing it gives the agency unconstitutional “election regulator” status it doesn’t have. The move marks the next chapter in a battle that will now move past procedural woes to arguing how it would harm voters.

Voting rights groups challenge USPS rule on Trump's anti-voting order in next chapter of litigation

“The Final rule attempts to disguise as a technical procedure what is really granting itself authority to enforce state election laws,” the plaintiffs wrote.

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Get ‘em.

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 3d ago

States have just filed a complaint against the USPS rule, too. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

👀👀👀

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3d ago

Updated results from Alaska, which counted thousands of mail ballots, lifted Mary Peltola's total in the all-party primary from 48.1% to 48.9%. All in all, candidates with the "D" label are combining for 50.6%, & candidates with the "R" label (including the 2 Dan Sullivans) are combining for 46.4%.

For the next 70 days, our job is to unify against the fascists to win the midterms — and anyone who doesn’t understand that is helping the fascists.

We all saw ICE treat Jake Lang as a dignitary, but now we get word that a (sympathetic???) cop in the Minneapolis PD was working with Lang, AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY, helping to coordinate his team. And now we can't press charges... www.startribune.com/jake-lang-no...

Hennepin County Attorney: No felony charges related to far-right activist Jake Lang’s Minneapolis confrontation

Mary Moriarty said there was prior communication between police and Lang’s security detail before he drove onto the sidewalk and raised a large sign with a racial epithet on it.

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Not great that the Census Bureau is now in the propaganda business.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good for a college study in the maliciously deceptive manipulation of data: the Census Bureau says it found 24,000 noncitizens who voted in 2020. They had to match voter records to citizenship records. But citizenship records are missing SSNs, so they use name, address, birthday, and gender.

Ffs

Mad_as_hell (Maddie)@maddie-says.bsky.social · 3d ago

DA won't charge Musk because he doesn’t think he could convince a jury that giving $1 million to a voter was election bribery. However, if Elon had tried to give water to citizens waiting in line to vote, then he would be in big trouble. 🙄 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks apnews.com/article/elon...

😢

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3d ago

A message from the family of Dolly Parton. 🙏

Lindell: I want a recount MN: Ok here’s your recount, that’ll be $825K Lindell: Not like that, I want a different recount

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3d ago

A recount would cost Lindell $825,000. Per a court filing, the value of his pillows is $4.90 each. Maybe he could pay with 168,000 pillows. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Good.

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 3d ago

In short: She's not taking action on the government's violation, the better to clear the way for the voting groups to obtain a new injunction that SCOTUS wouldn't automatically shoot down on standing/ripeness grounds

Oh no. One of the best people. 🥺

Dolly Parton Dead: Singer-Songwriter, '9 To 5' Star, 11-Time Grammy Winner Was 80

Dolly Parton, the 11-time Grammy winner behind such memorable hits as "Jolene," "9 to 5" and "Here You Come Again," died Tuesday in Nashville. She was 80.

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NEW: Just got a ridiculous response from the DoJ in my lawsuit to get the Epstein files redaction training videos. I’ll post a whole video about it here Sunday.

DoorDash has been silent as ICE detains and murders their delivery drivers. But to avoid a 20-cent tax on delivery orders, DoorDash is now backing a bill that would give Trump more authority over DC and its residents. Delete your account until DoorDash stops fighting to give the regime more power.

Delete DoorDash: our demands

Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.

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wtf!

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 6d ago

NEW: Hakeem Jeffries met with Kushner recently to discuss how democrats could work with the administration when we take the house back. We shouldn’t work with fascists, and I’d appreciate a leader who felt the same. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...

I haven't written any effusive letters to Trump, don't worry — but I realized this week that I have a unique perspective on this Natalie Harp business. Thanks to @newrepublic.com for granting space to write about it.

Natalie Harp Should Concern Everyone—I Should Know, I Once Had Her Job

When I ran President Obama’s socials, I treated that work as needing checks and restraint at every point of the process. Its absence in the Trump White House is scary.

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Why did the MN police escort these dipshits driving illegally on the sidewalk through a crowd while trying to incite a riot?

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d ago

Cowardly Nazi Jake Lang showed up to perform a racist rally in Minneapolis today. His crew drove onto the sidewalk of City Hall as they maced protesters and spouted Nazi rhetoric. Jake Lang and his entire crew were arrested

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 7d ago

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

So this is saying they’ll trigger these rules as soon as SCOTUS gives the green light in the pending cases. I don’t see how they give election administrators time to prepare for anything but capitulation. For example, moving away from mass mail-in voting to other systems is a years long effort.

StuFalk@stufalk.bsky.social · last wk.

(GIFT ARTICLE) DANGER: The plan complies with Trump's executive order to restrict mail voting, which was blocked by federal courts and is under review at the Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...