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BREAKING: Trump withdraws his pick for D.C. U.S. Attorney, Ed Martin, who defended the actions of Jan. 6 rioters. The president said he will announce a new nominee soon and that Martin will go to the DOJ. Background:

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“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country. “Our leaders must follow their example.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

submitted 24 days ago • 566 comments

This was a great conversation — thank you Stacey!

submitted 24 days ago • 65 comments

BREAKING: Wisconsin voters sue to get new congressional districts. Voters allege that the map is gerrymandered to unfairly benefit Republicans, violating the state constitution.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

How Gibson Dunn backed away from a case involving immigrant children as Trump's attacks on the legal profession create a chilling effect even among big law firms not (yet) targeted by the White House. @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social Jessica Silver-Greenberg www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/b...

submitted 24 days ago • 30 comments

“Going door-to-door, especially in critically hit areas, to share information is very important…Getting rid of it completely is really going to hamper some things.”

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According to RFK Jr., over the past few years “HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery” and was a “vector” for 300K missing children. Read @annamerlan.bsky.social on the sorry details of Trump’s brain rot cabinet www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

This story is wild.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: A close look at Nike’s massive supply chain offers a case study in the possible ripple effects of the escalating global trade war and shows how vulnerable factory workers could get squeezed. With @oregonian.com

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Ed Martin, the acting US attorney for DC, has harassed medical journals with letters accusing them of acting as “partisans” in scientific debates. Those letters may have been inspired—even directed—by RFK Jr. @dfriedman.bsky.social reports:

submitted 25 days ago • 179 comments

It's telling that a president who has never questioned the tax-exempt status of white nationalist groups is now suggesting the IRS go after Harvard’s. @michaelmechanic.bsky.social on America's strange charitable sector and what qualifies as "education."

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

In a major win for voters, a federal court blocked Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin’s efforts to overturn the North Carolina Supreme Court election and disenfranchise thousands of voters.

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

The dumbest thing about Trump's desire to manufacture dolls in the US is that many of the jobs would be bad ones: Connecting plastic body parts to torsos, attaching nylon hair, etc. I talked to toy industry people who laid this all out. Striking stuff: newrepublic.com/article/1949...

submitted 26 days ago • 92 comments

Laura Ingraham mocks concerns about empty shelves due to Donald Trump’s tariff policy: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/lau...

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

This is worth reaing & internalizing. Trump projects confidence & inevitability. But, as @lizdye.bsky.social writes: "After weeks of public fulminating, the administration quietly folded and quit trying to steal kids’ lunch money for the grievous sin of letting a couple of trans girls play sports."

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

New: Helping to lay off 90% of the CFPB’s staff while holding $715K worth of stocks in companies that would benefit from a weakened CFPB “looks like a pretty clear-cut violation” of the federal criminal conflict-of-interest statute, one ethics expert said.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin concedes the North Carolina Supreme Court race to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs, ending his six-month legal battle to overturn the election. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 164 comments

The case that could gut disabled people's right to equal health care

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Watch or listen to the latest #WITHpod with New York AG Letitia James and @chrislhayes.bsky.social now!

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

Trump is escalating his anti-democracy agenda, ordering the DOJ to investigate ActBlue, the financial backbone of Democratic campaigns. It’s a clear effort to weaponize the government against his political opponents. Details here: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 33 days ago • 37 comments

This case will be studied for years to come, and whatever else these executives and board members accomplish in life, their enduring legacy will be this craven, short-term-profit-driven act of appeasement in the face of fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

“Since Trump took office, the DOJ froze all work on pending police misconduct investigations, including high-profile work in places like Minneapolis, where an officer murdered George Floyd, and Lexington, Kentucky, where a SWAT team killed Breonna Taylor.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 32 days ago • 36 comments

Super-PACs can accept unlimited donations from easy to obscure sources. And, rather notably, the funding for Trump’s attack on ActBlue seems to have come from just such a source: a super-PAC bankrolled by Elon Musk.

submitted 32 days ago • 32 comments

Also, read this story: Inside the ‘multibillion-dollar game’ to funnel cash from nursing homes to sister companies @nj.com

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. @jessicamiller.bsky.social @sltrib.com

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

Join us and all of these incredible unions and orgs in the streets TOMORROW! 5pm, Foley Square. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has broken his own record for the lowest presidential approval rating at the 100-day mark. app.sosha.ai/s/SBQWlkNS

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Recent staffing cuts by Trump and Musk are putting Social Security at risk. app.sosha.ai/s/7nNAr47X

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

Good piece by @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and some reason for optimism. Hard to do Orbanism without a clever Machiavellian at the head www.vox.com/politics/410...

submitted 32 days ago • 23 comments

The U.S. Supreme Court did not release a decision on Louisiana's congressional map today.

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Gosh, this is something. In an interview with Dr. Phil, HHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

Replicating the SAVE Act, GOP lawmakers in 24 states have introduced voter suppression bills to impose or expand proof of citizenship requirements for voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

Tonight! Virtually! Live from the frontlines! Join @ariberman.bsky.social + @workerscircle.bsky.social for a timely discussion on the many threats to democracy during Trump's first 100 days—and how to fight back.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Here's the very long list of the many mistakes Trump and his crew have made in his first 100 days. We're not talking about misguided and destructive policies but dumbass errors and blunders they've had to acknowledge and correct. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 23 comments

The Justice Department is ending voting rights lawsuits, and dozens of attorneys are leaving the Civil Rights Division of the department. It's a dire warning about the state of voting rights under Trump: youtu.be/4b-h3LnQolk%22

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

ICYMI: Kash Patel took $25k from a production company run by a filmmaker who has made pro-Putin documentaries and even helped run a Russian government propaganda program.

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: Just 100 days into his second term, Trump has launched near-daily efforts to expand his power and has threatened fundamental principles like due process and the separation of powers. One political scientist called it “an all-out assault on democracy.” From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

US President Donald Trump's administration has so far withheld at least $436.87 billion of congressionally approved funding, the top Democrats on the US Congress' appropriation committees said reut.rs/42Wrhcl

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NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel said bureau agents arrested a Wisconsin county judge for allegedly helping a man evade immigration agents, highlighting the Trump administration’s push to prosecute officials who resist deportation efforts. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 50 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 37 days ago • 325 comments

The recklessness of this administration is matched only by its disregard for accountability — and if Congress doesn’t act now, it’s only going to get worse. Demand that your elected officials take a stand: indivisible.org/camp...

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” a federal judge wrote in a recent order regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he has led a high-profile campaign to crack down on lawful protests. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

Workers are not asking to get rich. They just want to afford three meals a day. In the richest country in the history of the world, no one should work for starvation wages. It is time to raise the disgraceful $7.25/hr federal minimum wage to a living wage of AT LEAST $17/hr.

submitted 41 days ago • 334 comments

On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities.

submitted 41 days ago • 64 comments

@maddow.msnbc.com Hey Rachel, I really appreciate you mentioning the little places that protest. We had about 150 in Baton Rouge march from the capital to the steps of the Federal courthouse.

submitted 41 days ago • 48 comments

Don’t look away. Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments