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Billionaire owner of Washington Post seizes control of opinion page. Will focus nearly exclusively to promote rightwing libertarianism. "Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." Democracy Docket will expand its pro-democracy opinion section. www.democracydocket.com

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A person hospitalized with measles in West Texas has died, the first in an outbreak that's infected more than 120 people.

submitted 11 hours ago • 102 comments

Elon has always been reliant on government money to bail him out. Now he's made up DOGE to save himself again. Catch this and more on the LP Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aU5...

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

While MSNBC shit the bed firing the best talent they had, FoxNews is busy mixing up white women

submitted 2 days ago • 348 comments

MSNBC might as well rebrand as the Gulf of America Network.

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He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.

submitted 3 days ago • 984 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court issues TRO blocking the Department of Education and OPM from disclosing personal information to DOGE. Visit www.democracydocket.com for breaking democracy news.

submitted 2 days ago • 196 comments

Everyone seems to be forgetting that Bongino got his big break as a video host for the NRA. They are putting an NRA spokesman as the Deputy FBI Director.

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 2 days ago • 5191 comments

👑 Jane Fonda with a mic drop "Empathy is not weak or "woke." And, by the way, "woke" just means you give a damn about other people."

submitted 3 days ago • 409 comments

Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

submitted 3 days ago • 1328 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 4 days ago • 2203 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 4 days ago • 185 comments

We don’t just need to defeat Trump, we need to defeat Trumpism and everything he has corrupted. @heathmayo.bsky.social discusses this and more on the LP Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Gi...

submitted 3 days ago • 130 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 4 days ago • 1307 comments

I am proud that my law firm is currently litigation 48 voting and election cases in 18 states.

submitted 3 days ago • 1274 comments

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

submitted 4 days ago • 700 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 3 days ago • 2640 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 5 days ago • 1257 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 5 days ago • 989 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 5 days ago • 2909 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 6 days ago • 3463 comments

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

submitted 6 days ago • 693 comments

Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 7 days ago • 840 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 7 days ago • 4556 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 7 days ago • 2190 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 7 days ago • 2368 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 7 days ago • 1220 comments

Unreal.

submitted 9 days ago • 765 comments

Last night @60minutes.bsky.social opened an otherwise superb segment on Germany’s approach to online hate speech by saying “in the U.S., most of what’s said on online [social media] platforms is protected by the First Amendment.” No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.

submitted 9 days ago • 267 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2290 comments

An important point to keep in mind.

submitted 9 days ago • 633 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 9 days ago • 2757 comments

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

submitted 10 days ago • 761 comments

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

submitted 11 days ago • 6489 comments

Money talks

submitted 10 days ago • 2304 comments

This is the way.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 10 days ago • 2238 comments

This says it all

submitted 14 days ago • 1634 comments

Communism:1950s::DEI:2020s

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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 15 days ago • 2314 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

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submitted 16 days ago • 2025 comments

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 15 days ago • 305 comments

Information blackouts and constant distractions won’t prevent the truth from coming out. We give you the basics on bird flu in 45 seconds. #medsky

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 16 days ago • 486 comments

BREAKING: VIRUS FROM NEVADA DAIRY WORKER WITH BIRD FLU HAS THE SAME GENETIC MUTATION seen in the Nevada cows – a change of PB2 D701N that has previously been assoc with more efficient virus replication in ppl & mammals. CDC told Fortune that the D1.1 variant in this worker is the same strain of

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