Lisa Gilbert

Trump will federalize D.C. police, deploy the National Guard, & send the FBI after homeless people to combat a made-up crisis in D.C.

But on Jan. 6th when violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol he couldn't be bothered to call the National Guard.

Make it make sense.

Opinion | Trump’s IRS is battering the wall between church and state Religious Americans largely reject attempts to bring partisanship into our houses of worship.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... Important piece on protecting the Johnson Amendment.

Tech does not deserve special legal treatment Pulling down regulatory barriers to aid innovation ignores the fact that they protect the public from harm

Impt piece: on.ft.com/4oiBsBD

JUST IN: Former Jan. 6 prosecutor Michael Gordon (prosecuted Riley Williams, Ray Epps, Bigo Barnett, among others) and press aide Patty Hartman have sued Pam Bondi over their terminations from DOJ.

Their lawyer: Abbe Lowell

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Analysis | Trump’s ‘Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’ is already stirring debate Critics unveiled their own “People’s AI Action Plan” ahead of new executive orders expected to address energy and “woke” AI.

Trump’s ‘Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’ is already stirring debate wapo.st/3UuboFS

Incoming, dangerous, environmentally hazardous, plan...

Reasons for hope in American democracy…millions of them! Publisher's Roundup 27

Yes a lot of bad things happened in our democracy this week ... but so did a lot of good ones!

My weekly @contrariannews.org column celebrates the Good Trouble Lives On protests, the memory of my friend John Lewis & recaps the week good & bad alike open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Nationwide protests planned against Trump’s immigration crackdown and health care cuts | CNN Protests and events against President Donald Trump’s controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid and other safety nets for poor people are planned Thursday at more than ...

www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/u...

Join us today!

More than 75 former judges urge Senate committee to reject Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove | CNN Politics More than 75 former federal and state judges on Tuesday called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, to a prestigi...

Former federal and state judges know that Bove is not fit to join their number

More than 75 are speaking out--including from the Third Circuit

The Senate Judiciary Committee must reject this abomination of a nomination

www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/p...

167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again Comparing Monday's unexplained grant of emergency relief in the Department of Education downsizing case to how the justices handled President Biden's student loan program is ... telling.

My quick take on Monday afternoon's unexplained #SCOTUS ruling in the Department of Education downsizing case—and how the justices' inconsistent treatment of the (similarly postured) student loan cases during the Biden administration illustrates in technicolor why the Court needs to explain itself:

We are not spectators to history. We are the makers of it.

On July 17, communities are coming together for #GoodTroubleLivesOn—a nationwide day of peaceful, nonviolent action.

LFG!
social.demcast.com/s/tkrGyXiC

More Than 220 Groups Tell Congress: Pass a Clean Budget - Clean Budget Coalition WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 220 organizations in the Clean Budget Coalition told Congress to pass appropriations bills free from poison pill policy riders that harm the public in a letter sent today....

NEW: 220+ groups tell Congress to pass a clean budget.

Already we've found nearly 60 poison pills in the House's five draft FY 26 spending bills released so far.

All of the culture war riders and special favors for industry must be removed!
cleanbudget.org/more-than-22...

Blackburn, Cruz find potential truce on state AI moratorium, child online safety An amendment would add notable exceptions to the GOP's prohibition on state AI laws.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

@MarshaBlackburn and @sentedcruz.bsky.social’s “compromise” arms Big Tech with even more power—ignoring the families they’ve devastated and making justice unreachable for grieving parents.

Tell Congress: Stop protecting the powerful. Protect our kids.

Reports: Trump Justice Department fires three Jan. 6 prosecutors The firings come months after President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people connected to the U.S. Capitol attack.

Reports: Trump Justice Department fires three Jan. 6 prosecutors

usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com

The firing of three January 6 prosecutors is political retaliation, plain and simple.

'No Kings': Millions to Protest Trump's 'Dictator-Style Birthday Parade' Millions to attend nonviolent protests against Donald Trump, his military birthday parade, and the crackdown on dissent in Los Angeles.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Impt framing for the upcoming weekend of peaceful protest

The images of federal agents tackling and handcuffing Senator Alex Padilla should send chills down every American’s spine.

Full statement from the Not Above The Law coalition ⬇️

A stark abuse of power. Unacceptable force used on a sitting Senator simply asking questions and doing his job.

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

On June 14, we’re peacefully coming together to stand against Presidents being Kings. It’s about our fundamental freedoms and protecting the rule of law. This day of action is about making our democracy work for all. Join us. www.nokings.org

Indicting Rep. Mclver for Oversight is ‘Political Intimidation’ - Public Citizen WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced on social media that congresswoman LaMonica Mclver was indicted…

“This malicious indictment is a miscarriage of justice delivered via tweet"

www.citizen.org/news/indicti...

He said he wanted to be a dictator

This is the essence of dictatorship

Meeting peaceful protest with military force

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards

Ca Gov Gavin Newsom: “The President of the US just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.

“I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”

Trump was quick to send troops to peaceful protests in California—

But missing in action when help was begged for on January 6.
This isn’t national security.

It’s political theater—and a disgrace to the uniform.

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.

The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

Trump and Musk take their feud public.

I have to say I love this. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Elon Musk officially announces departure from Trump’s government Billionaire says DOGE’s ‘mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government’

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Musk’s legacy, “is lost livelihoods for critical government employees, hindered American education, loss of funding for scientists, and the violation of Americans’ personal privacy, all in the service of corrupt tech-bro billionaire special interests.”

Give me a break, Musk is not leaving because his scheduled time is up

The litigation held him accountable, & for that & other reasons he became politically unpopular & a liability

He lost. Democracy won. Only one round of the fight but a biggie!

thehill.com/opinion/cong...

GOP to GOP on the nuclear option incoming if we don’t avert it

News: Thune defends push to block California climate waivers Senate Majority Leader John Thune is diving into a contentious fight over the Senate’s institutional prerogatives.

punchbowl.news/article/sena...

The GOP is about to go nuclear w/broad implications

The decision to charge here is outrageous. She was doing her congressionally mandated duty www.citizen.org/news/doj-cha...

My statement on the charges filed against me: