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I get that people have to sell books. And I get that DNC Vice-Chair elections matter. But if a Democratic President accepted a $400 million gift from the Qatari royal family, coverage would be breathless, non-stop and wall-to-wall -- no room for any other story.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Trump is taking a bribe from a country that funds Hamas. If you can’t say that, then you shouldn’t be a journalist.

submitted 6 days ago • 144 comments

It’s pretty fucked up that Trump knows he can lie and take bribes because he knows the press won’t use the words “lie” or “bribes.”

submitted 6 days ago • 157 comments

Now Stephen Miller is talking constitutional rubbish about a supposed presidential power to suspend habeas corpus to get back at federal courts that displease Trump too much. But only Congress has suspension power — and then only when “public safety requires it” in times of “invasion or rebellion.”

submitted 9 days ago • 140 comments

Things we can’t afford: Cancer and Alzheimer’s research Head start Jobs for veterans Park rangers Sesame Street Things we can afford: Tax cuts for Elon Gold Oval Office Military parade for an idiot’s goddamn birthday

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

Focus people. Trump has the levers of power. The only people who can take them away from him are elected Republicans. And we must focus on that. Every single R in the house and Senate should be asked why they are not stopping him. They hold the power to impeach, convict, and remove

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

Wow. Remember Trump trying to publicly humiliate the Governor of Maine and she calmly responded by saying she'd see him in court. She saw him court. She won. It pays to stand up to bullies.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Why would we believe jobs numbers from this administration?

submitted 44 days ago • 1149 comments

This awful 5-4 vote ensures that “dozens of programs upon which public schools, public universities, students, teachers and faculty rely will be gutted” despite Congress’s decision to fund them. This is the first clear sign that Roberts can’t hold back the tide. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

submitted 44 days ago • 98 comments

Interesting that nobody is seriously considering suing Trump for treating the successful economy he’s busy trashing as an “emergency” justifying taxation without representation. The tariff laws and the National Emergencies Act would be unconstitutional if they really authorized this form of tyranny.

submitted 44 days ago • 68 comments

If Joe Biden had promised to lower prices on day one and then flip-flopped and said pain was coming instead, the press would be asking him why he lied to the American people.

submitted 47 days ago • 15 comments

Republicans: Americans should work from the office! Also Republicans: Welp it’s Tuesday better call it a week

submitted 47 days ago • 24 comments

OMFG

submitted 74 days ago • 120 comments

Oh my. It appears the FELON’s administration is running right into the arms of Putin for a big bear hug and perhaps something else. Hegseth suspends offensive cyber operations against Russia: reports www.axios.com/2025/03/03/h...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

The nature of “shock and awe” is that it makes it hard to see or think clearly. What’s playing out through a veneer of chaos is a deliberate tactical program to create a system in which the President has sole authority over the entire executive branch: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 86 days ago • 66 comments

I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

submitted 85 days ago • 187 comments

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 85 days ago • 615 comments

Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

submitted 85 days ago • 366 comments

Congressional Republicans handcuffing themselves to the railing of the Titanic so they don’t lose their spot to watch the drowning

submitted 88 days ago • 19 comments

We have added @trumpgolftrack.com to Bluesky. Please follow and pass on!

submitted 88 days ago • 301 comments

This Fourth Estate--what is this Fourth Estate that you speak of? Other than a few indepedent media outlets here and there, I am amazed at the eunuch brigade we have in newsrooms. They are just allowing their power to be run over roughshod while their billionaire owners laugh and sneer at democracy.

submitted 88 days ago • 144 comments

If anyone knows let me know

submitted 94 days ago • 635 comments

Seems like this executive order bolsters the argument that Musk is an Officer of the United States, who, under Article II of the Constitution, can only be appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 95 days ago • 14 comments

The role of the executive branch is not to make determinations about which promises of federal funding made by Congress it will keep, and which it will not. Chief Justice Roberts wrote: “No area seems more clearly the province of Congress than the power of the purse.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

submitted 96 days ago • 70 comments

The same beltway reporters who wrote stories asking if Joe Biden talked about his dead son too much don’t seem to think Trump pardoning child porn guys is all that newsworthy.

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

The biggest story in the country right now is how many lawsuits DOJ is losing trying to defend Musk and Trump. I've never seen so many courts, so clearly outraged at the federal government. The latest one, blocks cuts at HHS and FDA. Visit www.democracydocket.com to stay informed.

submitted 96 days ago • 344 comments

Wild morning in LA. I keep trying to turn off the kitchen sink but the 101st airborne keeps turning it back on.

submitted 110 days ago • 40 comments

Nepotism noted

submitted 110 days ago • 59 comments

America is under attack by the President of the United States

submitted 110 days ago • 753 comments

Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel because he wants to show Republicans that he is the boss. That he can strip them of their dignity by making them support terrible nominees. Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.

submitted 117 days ago • 364 comments

I wish Americans cared as much about the loss of democracy as the loss of TikTok.

submitted 121 days ago • 151 comments

I covered Obama’s first inauguration. It was really cold. And everyone still did it outside without being total chickenshit wusses about it.

submitted 121 days ago • 76 comments

submitted 121 days ago • 262 comments

Maybe orange bitch boy was worried we’d see him trying to walk down a ramp again.

submitted 121 days ago • 152 comments

Joe Biden: No president is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office

submitted 123 days ago • 151 comments

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

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submitted 130 days ago • 1364 comments

John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.

submitted 137 days ago • 1305 comments

Happy New Year!

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

All judges MUST READ this thoughtful description of how Donald Trump’s unprecedented threats of selective and indeed vindictive federal prosecution should refocus the lens through which they assess all requests and actions by Trump’s Department of Justice or his FBI: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...

submitted 141 days ago • 63 comments

World champion of constantly killing innocent people

submitted 143 days ago • 1132 comments

So true

submitted 149 days ago • 104 comments

The richest man in the world says he wants to shut down the government, forcing millions of American workers - including our troops - to go without pay through the holidays. Republicans are following his orders. This is insane.

submitted 151 days ago • 272 comments