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🚨BREAKING: Georgia Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN four State Election Board rules concerning certification and hand counting ballots last year. A big victory for GA voters and a stinging defeat for the RNC and election deniers. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

TONIGHT: at 7 PM ET: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS training for the upcoming NO KINGS events this Saturday: act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

We can’t afford healthcare because we need that money to shoot rubber bullets into the stomachs of people who don’t want their neighbors to get kidnapped.

These should be all-purpose Dem talking points, deployed in response to every question regardless of whether they're responsive and worked into every press conference and talk show appearance.

Salvadoran restaurant workers rendering aid to an LA sheriff's officer who got pepper-sprayed. 🤔

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

Marine Vet's perspective (aside: 😮‍💨 HKIA)

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

For those insisting that the Marines will "know better" and exercise "restraint" here's an item that will cure you of that delusion for life:

Does anyone remember when the Marines were deployed to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots? In response to a domestic violence call, they fired more than 200 bullets into a house… www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...

Jesus Christ

👇🎯 And again, everyone’s effort is wildly misallocated. Another day/week/month, & the Lisa Murkowskis keep getting total free passes, when they are the only people who can end this: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The bloodthirstiness with which people are cheering on the marines going into an American city, is a problem.

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Trump is going to keep escalating until he breaks the constitution.

While I don't think LA is a distraction from the Big Ugly, I do think the challenges they face passing the Big Ugly are why they ratcheted up immigration chaos to help pass it. Miller and others have repeatedly said you need to pass it BC of LA.

I think this likely. In his most egregious moves against Americans themselves, Trump takes a frog-in-boiling water incremental approach, acclimating us to "bad" so we eventually resign ourselves to "worst." And by "Trump" I mean Trump + the entire GOP membership.

"CBO now estimates that if the debt limit remains unchanged, the government’s ability to borrow using extraordinary measures would probably be exhausted between mid-August and the end of September 2025. That estimated range begins about two weeks later than the agency estimated in March 2025"

Back in the 2010’s the economists I know would’ve been concerned about the decline in the prime-age labor force participation rate:

🚨 "Beware of the Leopard!" ~20% of Medicaid expansion enrollees would likely have no way of reporting their work hours...by design: acasignups.net/25/06/09/bew...

BREAKING: California AG Rob Bonta says the state is suing the Trump admin over its deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles.

Trump calls for the arrest of California Governor Gavin Newsom. The President of the United States calling for the arrest of a sitting state governor is unprecedented. Even during the Civil War, President Lincoln never arrested governors of the states that took up arms against the union.

You couldn’t get 90% of lawyers to agree on whether puppies are cute or ice cream is sweet, but my man you got 90% of lawyers to agree you should not be bar president. Very impressive! Maybe save the sore-loser scolding about politicization for your loved ones, though.

Why isn't Trump's clear and open call for federal law enforcement to arrest a Democratic governor based on zero lawbreaking of any kind leading every single news site right now?

Citibank: Tariff infaltion pass-through "could be evident as soon as the May data, but we pencil in limited upward impact on prices for now as tariff delays could mean businesses hold off on raising prices for longer as inventories are drawn down."