Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.

Great take from @sulliview.bsky.social about the cowardly Washington press corps sucking up to Trump. When Trump subpoenaed Times reporters to coerce revealing sources, the dinner should have been canceled in protest. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner

And why I reject every specious argument that encourages the media to keep normalizing Trump

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...

🚨 United States of America v. Adams

Learn more.

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Pretty sure the Dems who were cut off by AIPAC will wear this like a badge of honor.

@whattheactualf.bsky.social · 2w ago

No money in politics. I’m tired of politicians being bribed.

Perhaps we should amend the Constitution to include the right to breathe. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Wildfire Smoke Pushes Air Quality Index in U.S. and Canada to Unhealthy Levels: Live Updates (Gift Article)

Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires is choking a vast stretch of the Northeast and Upper Midwest. Officials encouraged residents, including in New York, to stay indoors.

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No media outlet should let Trump lie on Thursday night without challenging those lies. Fact check in real time with split screen. @cbsnews.com, @cnn.com, @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, @nbcnews.com, @abcnewsdesk.bsky.social, @msnownews.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump to attack voting systems, undermine elections in primetime address Thursday

The address is likely aimed at accelerating his multi-pronged campaign to restrict the right to vote before the midterms.

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Donald Trump is a stone-cold liar. He lies about his height, his wealth and his golf game. He lies about his accomplishments and his failures. He lies about everything, large and small, important and insignificant. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-the-media-h...

What's the fuss? Doesn't everyone like explosive diarrhea?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

Trump to Epstein: "May every day be another wonderful secret." Gee, I wonder what he was talking about? #TrumpRapedChildren

Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion@nateturner.bsky.social · 4w ago

The President of the United States is a wretched Epstein pedo.

.@marcelias.bsky.social, thanks for all you do. I highlighted your work on my latest "Problem Solved" Substack post: stevevalk.substack.com/p/marc-elias...

Marc Elias: Defender of democracy

Wherever Trump and Republicans are trying to rig the elections, you’re likely to find the Elias Law Group standing in their way

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It would be the greatest of ironies if he died from heat stroke on the Fourth of July.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh please do this. 🤞 “On July 4th, it’s going to be 107 degrees out, and I’m going to make a really long speech just to show that I can do anything. It’s going to be 107!” — Senile Satan, unregistered sex offender

$2.5 billion in taxpayer money has now been spent to stop clean energy projects. This is absolutely insane. @maxinejoselow.bsky.social #wind www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/c...

Trump Administration Pays Duke Energy $129 Million to Halt Offshore Wind Farm

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This may be an unpopular take, but I hate the Minions. They're annoying as shit on your shoe.

You notice that the criminal-in-charge who sues everyone for everything is drop dead quiet about this. Says a lot.

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

Could This Actually End Citizens United?

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

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Child care is a huge piece of the affordability crisis. I look at the need for government to provide this necessity in my latest Substack. open.substack.com/pub/steveval...

Americans need free or subsidized child care

The cost of caring for kids is a huge piece of the affordability crisis

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The Oval Office is looking like a scene from "Weekend at Bernie's."

@calliesue.bsky.social · 2mo ago

May 2026. It just keeps getting worse...

Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. Here's why: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-senate-should-not-confirm-this

If you make residents pay for the additional power data centers need and use up their water, people get mad. Before we fill the landscape with data centers, maybe we should hit pause and see how the AI bubble plays out. More in my latest Substack. stevevalk.substack.com/p/do-we-real...

Do we really need all these data centers?

As opposition grows, some see an AI bubble that is destined to burst

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.@clairecmc.bsky.social, what's in the cake stand today? Looked like red velvet cupcakes.

Hmmm. Is public outrage giving SCOTUS second thoughts about their racist Louisiana v. Callais ruling? Applying the same argument they just made with Alabama, they would also have to strike down similar gerrymandering in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters

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Great piece from Heather Cox Richardson about the Great Society movement of 1964 that expanded the ideal of what America could be. If not for the quagmire of the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson would have ranked among our greatest presidents. May 22, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

May 22, 2026

On May 22, 1964, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson put a name to a new vision for the United States.

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The recent decision by the Supreme Court to further gut the Voting Rights Act was the last straw for me. I make the case for expanding the court in my latest Substack. stevevalk.substack.com/p/to-save-de...

To save democracy, expand the Supreme Court

Decision to gut Voting Rights Act is latest in rulings to silence the voice of the people

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The beginning of the end of fossil fuels.

Chris Meder@evcurvefuturist.com · 3mo ago

China switched on the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm in late 2025. 2.3M panels. 2,934 steel platforms. Built offshore to survive force-11 gales & sea ice. Powers ~2.67M people. And yes… they’re farming fish underneath it too. Solar above. Food below. Fossils below both.

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling

Hawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and "dark money" influence in politics. This move comes after the 2010 U.S.

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With all the noise in the news lately, folks may have missed this encouraging development. stevevalk.substack.com/p/movement-t...