Darcy Conaty

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.

Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.

That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.

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Indiana’s Anti-Trans Attorney General is Preparing to Revoke Trans People’s Documents Indiana AG Todd Rokita has been compiling a list of his state’s trans people. Following in Kansas’ footsteps, he’s quietly laying the groundwork to declare their IDs “falsified records.”

An investigation from Transitics has discovered something highly alarming: Indiana AG Todd Rokita has been making a list of trans people. Following in Kansas’ footsteps, he’s preparing to revoke trans people’s documents by declaring them “falsified records.”

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Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. Who actually earns that much?

New Jersey, Delaware, and other nearby states have increased their minimum wage, but Pennsylvania's has been stuck for 17 years.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

WHAT'S UP EVERYONE, ANDREA LAFLAMME IS ON BLUESKY NOW

Sick of Graham Platner's Nazi bullshit? Looking for a younger candidate than Janet Mills? Lucky for us, the great state of Maine has more than two people!!

The lack of proper alt-text for this image is shameful.

these food recalls and exposures are going to keep happening under this administration. He changed policy and cut funding in his previous tenure and Biden never fixed it. Now, it is worse. Share widely to protect people.

Sharing to let people know the article being spread on cities at risk in a nuclear war is misleading/deceptive.

Welcome to chatbot journalism.

Does "Shield of the Americas" mean we launch her into a geosynchronous orbit as a fine mist over the western hemisphere?

'Cause that sounds pretty good, actually.

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

MargaretMary Kathleen.

Why yes, we're Irish. Why do you ask?

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Dead and Breakfast: The Screenplay A pair of tourists from the US fly into to London for business and pleasure... and abruptly find themselves drawn into a battle for the freedom of human souls threatened by a new and terrible kind of ...

Just mentioning this to those who may have missed it a day or so ago—new at #Ebooks Direct: DEAD AND BREAKFAST: THE SCREENPLAY. WARNING: contains supernatural horror, the city of London, greedy billionaires, dead people, cold iron, Queens in jeans, and steel-belted radial bacon. 😏dduane.link/DandB

Again I hear someone claim that a UK GRC requires you to make a “legally binding” promise of some kind. NO. The GRC statutory declaration is of your _intention_ to live in the acquired gender. You don’t later commit perjury by using the wrong bogs.

Where does this myth come from?

POLITICS Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals. Fulton Deputy DA Will Wooten (left) and and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were part of the prosecutorial team in the case against Donald Trump. (Jason Getz/AJC 2023) By Anna Bower - For the AJC

SCOOP: A prosecutor who helped build the Georgia election interference case against Trump is running to unseat the appeals court judge whose ruling helped bring the case to an end.

Will Wooten will challenge Trent Brown, who wrote the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis.

Me for @ajc.com (link in 🧵👇)

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just came out swinging in the House E&C hearing against dangerous & misguided "age verification" legislation (aka online ID checks) that would force everyone to upload government ID or get a face scan before accessing content or posting online.

Video incoming. This is big

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer The end of ethics

CALL TO ACTION: Today Pam Bondi announced a new rule that would stop state bar associations from investigating misconduct by lawyers. We can work to stop this rule by writing comments stating our objections. youtube.com/shorts/434iX...

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!

Trump is announcing his nominee.

That's it.

If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now.

And that matters come November.

"Your phone is a constitutional right. Use it. … We are all domestic terrorism indicators now, which means the fear is the only thing left to fight, and the law is unambiguously on our side."

Ted Lieu showed our protest video in today’s Senate hearing.

The IRIS Dena, a prized destroyer in the Iranian Navy, had participated in an international naval exercise in India last month. The ship had been making its way back toward Iran from Visakhapatnam, a city in India where the joint exercise ended on Feb. 25. The United States was among the many participants in the drills.

so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent. “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A lawless president just keeps on breaking the law. Should be front page news every time it happens, but that's pretty much constantly. 198 times he's been sued for withholding funds appropriated by Congress. Every one an impeachable offense--violations of the Take Care Clause.

On this day, government begins under our Constitution | Constitution Center It was on this day in 1789 that the federal government started to operate under the terms of the U.S. Constitution, as the Confederation Congress ceded power. However, there was a major problem with the first session of the new Congress: not enough members showed up.

#OnThisDay in 1789, the Constitution officially goes into effect, marking the beginning of the new federal government under the framework we still follow today.

Learn more about the U.S. government’s start under its new Constitution: https://ow.ly/V7KI50Yn5Gh

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

Oh damn I need a Time Machine to travel back to the early 00s to post this on my Boardhost board. The insane number of times I was accused of intolerance by the intolerant because I refused access to their anti-LGBTQ bullshit… I want to post this in 2005 and simply tap the sign!!!

Morning Digest: Talarico wins Democratic Senate nod as nasty GOP race goes to second round Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton will keep slugging out for almost three more months

A HUGE opening night for the 2026 primary season is over, and The Downballot has a fresh rundown of an evening that saw James Talarico win the Dem nod for Texas' U.S. Senate seat, GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw become the first member of Congress to lose reelection, a Dem pickup in Arkansas, and a lot more.