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Deaf Tesla Employee Fired After Complaining Factory's Heat Disabled Hearing Aids, Lawsuit Claims The litigation claims that the company failed to adhere to federal regulations for people with disabilities.

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I Protected Mail-in Voting in 2020. Now I Will Be Defending It at the Supreme Court. If Republicans thought they could score an easy win by suing a friendly state, they thought wrong. They didn't count on my law firm representing groups that would intervene to defend the law -- but that's exactly what happened.

NEW: Two weeks after Democracy Docket launched in 2020, I outlined four pillars needed to protect mail-in voting. Five years later, Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to strike down one of those pillars in an effort to limit ballot access — and I’ll be there to defend it, Marc Elias writes.

“We Have Breath Again”: Black Americans on Leaving the US for Mexico The Americans recently relocating to San Miguel de Allende are a new kind of “expat,” a word they refuse to call themselves.

New Black Retirement community just dropped :)

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FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.

Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

An absolute powerhouse of a @propublica.org team has done what U.S. officials refuse to do: identify the men and women swept up in that midnight raid in Chicago. Life in the building was not perfect, but reporters found little evidence to back up government claims: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Excellent & important reporting from ProPublica.
Indoctrinating & dumbing down our children is a vital step towards autocracy. I fear for all of our children. Please give @propublica.org a follow for important & excellent (real) investigative journalism.

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Us looking at the Tennessean site for a story about @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty being 2 of 8 senators sneaking a provision into the government funding bill to enrich themselves for getting investigated in relation to Trump’s insurrection…

Let us know if y’all see it!

“Just the day before he was detained, Ya’akub had recorded and participated in a city council meeting in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, where he spoke out in support of local community leader Marwan Marouf who was detained by ICE, according to a court filing from his legal team last week.”

happy epstein thermonuclear launch day to all who celebrate

Yes, please have this guy who cares mostly about his billionaires’ ballroom, gaudy gold and stuffing his own pockets travel America and discuss affordability and grocery prices.

1. I don't think anybody argues that... INFANTICIDE... should be irrelevant in college admissions.
2. Conflating SEXUAL ASSAULT with "hit on" is the problem.
3. People who won't use proper capitalization in their emails are telling you they're selfish and lazy.

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Yikes

Deepak Chopra asking Epstein if Trump is crazy in March 2017 (after the "Obama wiretapped Trump Tower" nonsense).

Kashing in on his perks again, I see.

NEW @thebulwark.com: @jaredpoland.bsky.social discovered that Trump's Truth Social AI search tool is actually woke.

This and more from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social in today's Morning Shots.

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

We need a new Bill Nye-style show or something

“OUTRAGEOUS” 💰 

Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social  taking note of THE BLACKBURN-HAGERTY PROVISION that lets @SenatorHagerty
 & @MarshaBlackburn grab $500,000 for being investigated for potentially being linked to Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government.🤔

But Sleepy Joe!

Veterans Day 2025
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A reminder that there is a lot of ongoing litigation around the drawing (and redrawing) of congressional maps. My firm is currently involved in more than a dozen cases in 10 states: AL, CA, GA, LA, MO, NC, NY, TX, VA and WI.

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How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died duri...

Temptress Peebles called Nashville’s probation office for help. Her ex was on probation and had an arrest warrant. But until police served that warrant, probation stopped in-person oversight. 10 days after that call, she was dead. 🧵 1/7

Guns in Dangerous Hands Archives Tennessee has one of the highest rates of women killed by men in the country. Loose gun laws and weak enforcement make it easier for dangerous people to keep their guns, even if they are barred from h...

Over nearly three years, @mariamelba.bsky.social and I have examined hundreds of fatal domestic violence shootings in TN to understand how often they are committed by someone legally barred from having a gun, and the gaps victims fall through in the system. 2/7

For the record, it’s going to be a long while before my anger subsides at the Democrats who surrendered. They’ve made this fight harder. But I won’t allow my anger to distract from the necessary focus on Trump & the feckless Republicans who will exploit every weakness to intensify their demolition.

DOJ Efforts to Seize Voter Data ‘Pose Serious Risks’ to Privacy and National Security, Senators Warn Read more here.

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, a pair of Democratic senators said the DOJ’s efforts to seize voter data from states “appear to be driven by blind allegiance to the President’s unlawful” sweeping anti-voting order and pose serious privacy risks.
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What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.

Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.

Tech Billionaire Mocks Pope Leo’s AI Warning — and Reveals Silicon Valley’s Original Sin A billionaire tech guru openly mocked Leo's call for moral AI — and quickly backtracked after backlash. It’s a telling collision of Silicon Valley hubris with a pope they cannot buy, bully, or ignore.

A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI.

The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.

It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.