SAVE Act: Unintended consequences of voters' documentary proof
Data analysis shows 80% of deep-red voters lack passports, while 69 million women face name-mismatch hurdles. Is the cost of this new bureaucracy worth the risk to the 2026 map?
SAVE Act: President Trump and Republicans sell H.R. 22 as an integrity shield, but data suggest it is a trap. With 80% of red-state voters lacking passports and 69 million women facing name hurdles, legislation creates an administrative tax on the very coalition that delivered the White House.
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If you can read these letters from kids detained at Dilley and not feel sick to your stomach then something is broken inside of you. Absolutely vile what weβre doing to children in detention.
But I guess when youβve got a government filled with child abusers this horror makes perfect sense.
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βIf passed, the SAVE Act will disenfranchise 20 million voters.β
Trump has pushed the Republicans to hold a vote in the House this week.
Call your Rep and your Senators.
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10.02.2026 01:11 β π 1025 π 663 π¬ 17 π 26
That is correct. Since Republicans pre-funded ICE with a massive slush fund, they have given Dems no other choice but to leverage the rest of the DHS budget to get badly needed changes that a big majority of Americans want and will never get unless they take a stand now.
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YouTube video by emptywheel
Swapping VA Care for Dead VA Nurses
Republicans have literally taken money that previously provided VA care and used it to pay thugs to murder a VA nurse.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3U...
09.02.2026 18:30 β π 623 π 270 π¬ 6 π 5
When American athletes in the Olympics make statements critical of Trump, his agenda, and how it's damaging America - and then they get vilified as UnAmerican with nastiness, rage and froth by those who support Trump and his agenda - in my mind, it pretty much legitimizes their criticism.
09.02.2026 19:27 β π 192 π 41 π¬ 5 π 1
JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
09.02.2026 19:11 β π 2544 π 1239 π¬ 124 π 110
Oligarchs usually operate outside government. But under the Trump administration, they moved inside β accelerating the dismantling of the civil service by using anti-democratic tactics.
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In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
09.02.2026 18:09 β π 3037 π 1580 π¬ 230 π 387
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
09.02.2026 17:56 β π 11252 π 6568 π¬ 1141 π 1037
NBC censuring Olympics roundly booing Vance is meaningful because important for US to know that (1) rest of the world hates & mocks our leaders (2) Corporate Media is collaborating with Trump Regime.
08.02.2026 22:17 β π 185 π 57 π¬ 7 π 1
Republicans want to increase the defense budget to $1.5 trillion in 2027. That defense budget alone would add an additional $5.8 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
08.02.2026 17:05 β π 1885 π 741 π¬ 151 π 44
Some Olympic athletes commonsensically and even eloquently distinguish love of country from approval of Trump administration actions that are a blight upon the country.
Trump and MAGA squeal and whine.
Bullies are the most fragile snowflakes.
08.02.2026 18:06 β π 2306 π 431 π¬ 26 π 3
Good.
Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.
08.02.2026 19:04 β π 10659 π 2703 π¬ 356 π 150
Part of what's great about this is how Hunter Hess tried really hard to not go into specifics but Trump (1) deduced (correctly!) that any reference to things that aren't "good" or "moral" must mean him and (2) decided he needed to elevate it with some bonkers response. Great work, Mr. President. π«‘
08.02.2026 19:36 β π 588 π 111 π¬ 16 π 5
Trump praises Nexstar-Tegna broadcast television deal he once opposed
President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Nexstar Media Groupβs $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna, an apparent reversal from earlier criticism of the deal.
Trumpβs flip on the Nexstar-Tegna deal proves policy follows grudges. Branding $6.2 billion merger weapon against "Fake News," he redefines antitrust. Monopoly is fine, provided itβs friendly fire. Media consolidation is now about arming allies for the culture war.
08.02.2026 21:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, itβll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.
08.02.2026 03:43 β π 2183 π 1029 π¬ 160 π 48
Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.
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I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
08.02.2026 06:15 β π 4059 π 831 π¬ 68 π 65
So he personally admits now that a staffer did not post this without his knowledge
07.02.2026 00:48 β π 925 π 200 π¬ 44 π 3
Prosecutors stunned as ICE lets suspect in $100m jewelry heist leave US
Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores, charged with stalking armored truck in 2022, allowed to self-deport to South America
What a disgrace.
ICE may have handed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in American history a free pass by deporting him before he ever faced trial.
This is the result of Stephen Millerβs chaos. Reckless mismanagement that undermines public safety and makes a mockery of the justice system.
06.02.2026 23:58 β π 1250 π 519 π¬ 45 π 75
Even if this isnβt true, in the unlikely scenario Dems retake the Senate in November you better believe heβs quitting and a replacement is being rammed through in a matter of weeks.
06.02.2026 18:43 β π 259 π 76 π¬ 26 π 4
Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its wordβwith little doubt about its intentions and stated purposesβno longer holds."
This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.
06.02.2026 21:46 β π 3551 π 1292 π¬ 60 π 45
He doesnβt even try to hide the fact that whether people in a particular state get disaster relief from the federal government depends entirely on partisan politics.
06.02.2026 23:37 β π 6488 π 1990 π¬ 599 π 133
Just monstrous.
06.02.2026 23:50 β π 500 π 197 π¬ 19 π 5
Reporter: Will you apologize for that racist video?
Trump: *walks away*
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