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Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

This is it. This is the five-alarm, break glass in case of emergency moment. If Republicans in Congress decide to back this and, in the process, throw out 250 years of democracy, then that is the end of the Republic. A true civil war will ensue. Guaranteed.
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Did Clarence Thomas Commit a Crime That Could Get Him 5 Years in a Virginia State Penitentiary? The answer probably won't surprise you.

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Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."

If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
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'This should terrify you': Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails OpenClaw nearly wiped out the Meta Superintelligence AI alignment employee's entire inbox, in an incident that social media is calling ironic.

Good thing Trump and Hegseth are going all-in on letting AI with no guardrails make life-or-death decisions at the DoD. www.fastcompany.com/91497841/met...

Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say | CNN The death of a nearly blind refugee in Buffalo, New York, days after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a coffee shop alone, has prompted an investigation into the circumstances of his final days...

ICE CONTINUES TO MURDER DEFENSELESS PEOPLE!!

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SCOTUS rejects private prison company GEO Group's attempt at avoiding accountability A long-delayed lawsuit challenging GEO Group's treatment of people in immigration detention can proceed again. A unanimous decision that matters — especially now.

NEW: SCOTUS rejects private prison company GEO Group's attempt at avoiding accountability.

A long-delayed lawsuit challenging GEO Group's treatment of people in immigration detention can proceed again. A unanimous decision that matters — especially now.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

TRUMP and MELANIA Meme Coins Leave Retail Investors With $4.3 Billion Loss President Trump-related tokens wiped out over $4.3 billion in retail wealth while early insiders walked away with over $1.2 billion.

Trump looking out for the little guy, as always. Lucky for him, there's a sucker born every second.
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Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews | CNN Three interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago appear to be among the missing files in the DOJ release.

Massive cover-up. Expect to see many, many Trump officials in orange jumpsuits after the '28 elections. www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/u...

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

This should be above the fold news, but @nytimes.com just tucks it away. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld The Justice Department didn’t release notes from several interviews a woman gave to FBI agents in 2019.

NEW: WSJ now confirming my reporting that the DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with a woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child
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A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

Let's make Garrett Wade famous for all the wrong reasons. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Ranking Member Robert Garcia Statement After Department of Justice Withheld Epstein Files, Includes Allegation President Donald Trump Sexually Abused a Minor | The U.S. House Committee on Oversight The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Democrat Oversight Committee

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"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009.

The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time.
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How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All The Sunshine State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money

This needs to happen. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-califo...

The Downballot's special elections Big Board for the 2025-26 cycle

Final numbers appear to be in in PA #HD42, and we're looking at a +35 Dem overperformance.

Our special election Big Board has all the data:

Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today:

—Democrats won HD94 by 63 points.
(Harris won it by 30 in 2024.)

—Democrats won HD42 by 35 points.
(Harris won it by 17 in 2024.)

[The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].

While Trump is doubling down on tariffs and race war, this is happening -->

The State of the Union for Small Business Is Dismal Donald Trump's State of the Union is unlike any of the President's preceding him because America isn't working the way it used to.

State of the Union? "Dismal," says Republican-leaning pro-business group. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

US women's gold medal-winning team declines invitation from Trump to attend State of Union address The U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

The U.S. women's hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Just ended my three-decade relationship with the @washingtonpost.com. It has sadly become nothing but a vehicle for Bezos to try to brainwash readers, while currying favor with Trump and his band of neo-Nazis.

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on.

And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.

DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump The document, which was re-posted after I reported the removal, shows Maxwell's lawyers possess three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser that haven't been released to the public.

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The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

Thank you!

Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon The self-described “paleo-Confederate” has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote and Christian enslavers were on “firm scriptural ground.”

We the people need to end this neo-Nazi regime NOW.
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