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Trump desecrates Memorial Day with an unhinged rant, MAGA Mike flops on TV trying to sell the GOP's disastrous budget, and Trump goes after protections for Cuban immigrants. This and more on the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

Not sure if democracy remains on the docket? My law firm is litigating 53 voting and election cases in 22 states. When we fight, we win.

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In May 2024, 72% of Democrats and 76% of Republicans supported a national policy of banning stock trading by elected officials today.yougov.com/politics/art...

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.

submitted 70 days ago • 1969 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 72 days ago • 782 comments

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

submitted 71 days ago • 422 comments

Bingo

submitted 84 days ago • 14 comments

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday commanding wide-ranging changes to how U.S. elections are administered, a move that will be swiftly challenged by voting rights organizations across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 86 days ago • 556 comments

"The excuses continue unabated as the Trump team finds more creative ways to evade accountability. The problem for the GOP is that this scandal is so cut and dry that their obfuscation attempts aren’t buying them any goodwill, but instead ring so false that they only invite more derision."

submitted 85 days ago • 110 comments

So…lock them up?

submitted 87 days ago • 1952 comments

The Trump administration just shut down a food safety committee to prevent bacteria in baby formula. They are also threatening to fire employees who prevent deli meat from being infected with Listeria and applesauce from being laced with lead.

submitted 92 days ago • 434 comments

Democracy Docket has 350,000 YouTube subscribers!🥳 Check it out! www.youtube.com/democracydoc...

submitted 93 days ago • 71 comments

🚨 Trump's EEOC is now identifying employee resource groups as "Prohibited conduct" of "DEI-related discrimination." "Limiting membership in workplace groups, such as Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or other employee affinity groups, to certain protected groups" www.eeoc.gov/what-do-if-y...

submitted 92 days ago • 14 comments

The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

submitted 92 days ago • 760 comments

A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.” 🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 92 days ago • 294 comments

Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

submitted 95 days ago • 1679 comments

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump is claiming dictatorial power, declaring in a social media post that the pardons issued by former President Biden are null and void—using lies as his justification.

submitted 94 days ago • 602 comments

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

submitted 94 days ago • 902 comments

There is a lot of misinformation being spread suggesting that I deleted my Twitter account in the last few days. In December 2024, I announced that I was leaving Twitter and I deleted my history. You can read about it here. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

submitted 96 days ago • 211 comments

Former American Lawyer editor-in-chief: “I am surprised and disappointed that the leaders of the largest law firms – the Am Law 100 – have not individually or collectively denounced” Trump’s executive order punishing law firm Perkins Coie. www.globallegalpost.com/news/associa...

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

Yesterday, Trump targeted me at a speech be the Department of Justice. If he thinks it will cause me to back down he is wrong. My law firm is currently litigating 46 pro-democracy cases in 21 states, with more to come. We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.

submitted 96 days ago • 626 comments

Why pay for this systemic hate, but defund federal programs? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 111 days ago • 8 comments

77 million dummies... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-could-h...

submitted 113 days ago • 540 comments

Wow. 20+ DOGE staffers just resigned en masse, saying they refuse to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”

submitted 114 days ago • 302 comments

MAGA influencers are out in full force tonight, making up things that were not in this resolution. Congrats on getting your $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy, $19 trillion in added deficit spending, and $880 billion in Medicaid cuts through this initial step, though.

submitted 113 days ago • 448 comments

Is the legacy media going to do anything? Or is this it?

submitted 114 days ago • 1665 comments

The United States just voted against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia for invading Ukraine. The US sided with Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and the Grand Ayatollah of Iran.

submitted 115 days ago • 814 comments

If the Democrats bail out Mike Johnson on ANY spending bill, they deserve the utter political destruction coming their way. Some are already falling for the "but we'll get blamed for shutting down the government" b.s. Have you learned NOTHING? Not. One. Vote.

submitted 114 days ago • 608 comments

Perhaps Nikki wants to consult a mirror?

submitted 115 days ago • 917 comments

What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

submitted 114 days ago • 587 comments

They are not “Trump’s lawyers.” They are US Attorneys and their oath is to the Constitution. Including freedom of the press.

submitted 115 days ago • 524 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 121 days ago • 282 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 121 days ago • 1196 comments

At the behest of Wall Street donors, Congressional Republicans are trying to overturn the CFPB's new rule against predatory overdraft fees. The rule would have capped overdraft charges at $5, saving consumers $5B annually. The GOP is the party of junk fees.

submitted 121 days ago • 161 comments

NEW: Letter from 900+ former federal prosecutors warns of decisions at Justice Dept "Some of you have been ordered to make charging decisions based expressly on considerations other than the facts & the law, including to serve solely political purposes" www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 121 days ago • 53 comments

A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

submitted 121 days ago • 1073 comments

It’s remarkable how quickly the Trump team has sabotaged all the things that actually made the U.S. influential on the global stage. Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …

submitted 123 days ago • 243 comments

Republican lawmakers in Utah are advancing a bill that would allow schools to fly swastika flags and Confederate flags while banning Pride flags. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 123 days ago • 975 comments