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They’re not just selling out democracy anymore — they’re betting on it. Trump Jr. joined a platform where insiders can profit off political decisions. This isn’t a game. It’s a threat. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/america-fo...

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BREAKING: North Carolina appeals court allows the GOP to gain control of the state election board, boosting the party’s bid to steal Justice Allison Riggs’ state Supreme Court seat. Gov. Josh Stein (D) has asked the NC Supreme Court to pause the decision. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

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Court of Appeals clears path for Republicans to take over NC Board of Elections. Control over elections administration in NC could flip from Democratic to Republican control within hours, following a decision late Wednesday from the state Court of Appeals #ncpol www.wral.com/story/court-...

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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

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🚨BREAKING: Full Fourth Circuit DENIES Trump admin motion to stay order blocking Musk/DOGE access to personal data at Social Security Admin. Data will remain out of Musk/ DOGE’s hands. A BIG win for @democracyforward.org and its clients! Follow Democracy Docket for details. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 10 hours ago • 376 comments

It appears that OMB appears to be trying to eliminate the National Weather Service (all regional centers ran out of money this week.) Another opportunity for me to re-post an earlier piece: www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/o...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Illegal arrests made by the Trump administration are intended to spread fear and silence dissent. We cannot allow Trump and his cronies to turn the United States of America into an authoritarian society in which people can be disappeared for their political beliefs.

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Putting aside Mike Johnson's blatant abuse of the 1st Amendment Yesterday, GOP Congressman Brett Guthrie Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Admitted that Republicans will try to cut $500-600 billion from Medicaid Which would effectively gut the entire program

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We have not even begun to find a way to politicize the gross corruption of the Trump Administration. Just the outright firesale of impunity for people who pay him for it.

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WSJ: The S&P 500 just ended the day with its biggest loss in the first 100 days of a new presidential term since Nixon's in 1973.

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#ncpol #energy #ClimateEmergency www.actonclimate.com/trumptracker/

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The Massachusetts senator plans to read into the congressional record dozens of cases of Trump using the presidency to benefit himself personally.

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Wikipedia is also under attack as he pulls funding. Maybe its the fact he just green-lit ICE breaking into your homes with no warrant & if you fight back they get to charge you. He is sending his SS to come after us people. The time for soft solutions is over. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

When you even outsource pedophilia to the AI bot... Jesus, what a perfect example of what a mess today's AI really is. It had to learn this shit from being fed previous conversations and posts.....

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Raleigh City Council to discuss possible tolls on section of US-1/Capital Boulevard. According to a new proposal, a section of the highway could be subject to a toll between Interstate 540 and Franklin County. www.wral.com/news/local/r...

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State Board of Elections has removed over 1,000 Franklin County residents, mostly Democrats and unaffiliated, from voter rolls due to "REMOVED AFTER 2 FED GENERAL ELECTIONS IN INACTIVE STATUS." after the 2024 presidential election. see list. fcnonews.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... #ncga #ncpol

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Yes! Exactly. Exactly, exactly. "The Trump administration has been worried schools would team up in resistance, because it is harder to negotiate with a united front..." www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

Looks like ICE is using the New England Patriot’s plane - which is available for charter in the off-season - to carry out their assholery.

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🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, North Carolina settles with voting rights groups and DNC to permanently block part of SB 747. The law required officials to reject some voters' ballots due to address verification issues and offered no remedy to fix the problem. Paige and I explain.

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Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

submitted 3 days ago • 224 comments

It’s interesting that secret service told reporters the guy who stole Noem’s purse what a white male, then they wait a week and DHS says it was an undocumented migrant but refuses to give any other details.

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Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.

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NEW VIDEO: A three-judge panel in a North Carolina court blocked a Republican scheme to gain power over the state’s election board — the agency charged with running elections and enforcing campaign finance laws. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/b91PmDsvX3Y

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.

submitted 5 days ago • 734 comments

OPINION: Trump's first 100 days marked by screw-ups and frantic walk backs @maddow.msnbc.com reviews the main lesson of the first 100 Days of the second Trump admin and highlights how the admin’s incompetence has made reversals the hallmark of their governing.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Good solid explanation here. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

📈15 major chain restaurants increased ⬆️menu prices by more than the rate of inflation between 2020-2025, on average by 42%. Price gouging.

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

submitted 7 days ago • 440 comments

Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

submitted 8 days ago • 686 comments

So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 594 comments

How about a #100daysofTrump social media blitz/narrative or a march on April 30th? The messaging and framing constantly needs to be put forward and preemptive.

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Why is Dave Boliek, the auditor of NC, doing an interview on social media with a far-right extremist? #ncpol x.com/nc_tea2024/s...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

1/ It's ridiculous that NC has to revisit the question of whether the governor should have powers to appoint members of the State Board of Elections. In 2018, 61.6% of voters voted against taking them away. #ncpol www.wral.com/story/republ...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

🚨🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Susan Collins gets a major challenge for her U.S. senate seat in Maine and she’s VERY concerned! His name is Jordan Wood and his slogan is too perfect. Watch this and let’s flip this seat!

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#ncpol Sad that #Tillis voted for this person at Defense.

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🚨BREAKING: In a BIG win for North Carolina voters, the 4th Circuit has blocked North Carolina from beginning the state court ordered cure process in the contested state Supreme Court election. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/edDvHvq3cxM

submitted 8 days ago • 141 comments

Big potential for Democrats in 2026. NC senator Thom Tillis has become deeply unpopular (-15% favorability) because he failed to stand up for our economy against Trump, supported Pete Hegseth who he knew was unqualified. Hopefully our popular former Gov Roy Cooper will run against him. #ncpol

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

👀 Did you know that the budget passed by the NC Senate last week included funding for so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" (fake clinics that target and manipulate vulnernable patients) but did not fund food banks or the Boys & Girls Club, which provide critical services all across our state? #ncpol

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North Carolina trial judges have thrown out another Republican attempt to strip the governor of his authority to appoint State Board of Elections members, declaring that a law shifting it to the elected state auditor is unconstitutional.

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BREAKING: North Carolina court strikes down GOP law that moved the power to appoint state election officials from the Democratic governor to the Republican state auditor — a change that could have affected the ongoing state Supreme Court election contest. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments