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tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start.

so, let me help:

here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!)

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Could you end up in an #ICE detention hellhole? Could your kids?

This administration is trying to expand detention facilities for ICE to the point where it's over double the size of our entire federal detention system.

Featuring rotten food,foul water, lack of medical attention, abuse, & torture.

Senate Dems aim to disrupt Trump bid to declare national emergency on elections The fast-track process would ensure a public vote and put pressure on Republicans to take a position.

🚨BREAKING: If President Donald Trump attempts to declare a national emergency to seize control of federal elections, Senate Democrats say they are ready to force an immediate vote aimed at blocking it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company’s concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.

Glad I’m not on X. There’s an appalling Anthropic vs. Pentagon debate argues national security overrides Anthropic not wanting their AI to make kill decisions.

This ignores the obvious that LLMs aren't reliable enough for life or death decisions. They can’t even consistently summarize a blog post.🤦🏾‍♂️

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

BFD

“‘This is really an economic disaster, a public health disaster, a moral disaster,’ said Esteban Wood, director of advocacy and legislative affairs at the advocacy group AIDS Healthcare Foundation.”

Donald Trump campaigned on releasing the Epstein files.

In reality, he’s was just trying to get power so he could bury them.

the seemingly inexorable march of antisemitism into the very heart of US politics from both the left and right is pretty depressing

the broader onslaught of conspiracism and ethnonationalism driven by internet culture feels like it's sharpening into one very specific point

The Department of War regretfully informs you your husband has died lethalitymaxxing in Operation Epic Furry

I generally try hard not to indulge in any kind of doomerism. But this shit… betting on war, betting on death - all fully legal and pushed down our throats by our tech elite overlords… It’s just so fucking infuriating.

The worst people on the planet are determining the trajectory of our species.

This is the most wildly successful, popular war to ever be started from the basement of a US president's personal, for-profit country club.

crying about birthrates & creating a world you're frightened to bring children into

Trump’s attack on Iran and the plot against your vote Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.

Trump is setting the stage to claim extraordinary powers to take over the 2026 elections — from banning mail-in voting to imposing new obstacles to voter registration. All of this will be justified on the grounds of national security. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on elite impunity. IMO this is the biggest issue in US politics, the one that underlies all others. It gets too little discussion, because discourse is so heavily governed by precisely the elites who favor the impunity, but beneath the surface, pressure is building.

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.

"Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting."

wapo.st/3N5cpEn

Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Fulton County officials argue FBI agent misled judge to seize ballots from 2020 election A Trump-appointed federal judge has ordered the agent to testify at an upcoming hearing this week.

Did an FBI agent deliberately mislead a federal judge to secure the warrant that initiated the bureau’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election records from an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: While Old Man Trump, who can barely breathe while he’s speaking he’s so old and out of shape, rambles on, in Pennsylvania, Democrats have just over performed by THIRTY-FIVE POINTS in 2 special elections held tonight.
#SOTU2026

These people are beyond evil and the only reason that it doesn’t always seem that way is that they’re also beyond stupid.

The President who just took $10b from the Treasury for his personal slush fund is going to find all the fraud.

SOTU taking on some ominous lynch mob vibes as the almost entirely white and overwhelmingly male Republicans in the chamber stand and jeer at their Democratic colleagues while their angry, screaming leader eggs them on.

And the general public will come away thinking, "eh, they're all corrupt."

The right wanted Hunter Biden to stay in the headlines, so he did. They wanted "her emails" to say in the headlines, so they did. They wanted Biden's age to stay in the headlines, so it did.

This? Corruption with measurable ill effects on FBI performance? It will vanish before the day's out.

All my life, Democrats have bent over backwards to run scrupulously scandal-free administrations, while Republicans have wallowed publicly and unapologetically in crime and corruption ... and Democrats have gotten zero advantage for it. Zilch.

One of the things we’re going to see even more from the NYT as Democrats take back power is a hysterical insistence that they aren’t betraying trans people enough. The editorial leadership is fully brain broken on this and mad that the Democrats aren’t doing a Labour.

Don’t let the media tell you this dumpster fire is normal Major news outlets under-react to stay out of Trump’s crosshairs

Masked thugs are executing people on American streets, yet major media act like our country is operating normally. TV coverage of the State of the Union will focus on the pomp and tradition in the Capitol while the dumpster fire burns outside.
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Put the next No Kings protest on your calendar today. It's March 28. Bring your family and friends.
It's a way to express our disgust with Trump, and it's also a rehearsal for the even more massive protest ahead if Republicans dare try to cancel or steal the midterms.
People power > fascism.