Alex Aronson

👇🎯 A lot of folks don't seem to understand that 90+% of our authoritarian problem is the total failure of Article I of the Constitution, not Article III.

The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid.

No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.

1/ It's a story you need to know.

This is cataclysmic in just about every imaginable way.

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

Some might call them complicit.

apnews.com/article/ap-p...

08-01-2025 (2) ⚡️ Special Edition AM IN THIS EDITION Thune, Schumer and WH struggle over nominations and rescissions SPECIAL EDITION Thune, Schumer and WH struggle over nominations and

Shouldn’t Senate Dems insist on a floor vote on adding a “Release the Epstein files” provision to any deal on nominees and appropriations/rescissions?

punchbowl.news?p=112559

My proposal for the Second American Republic:

- Multi-party proportional representation
- Abolish or denude the Senate
- Make the Supreme Court into a constitutional court with weak judicial review
- Make the constitution easier to amend
- Move from a presidential to parliamentary system

Ghislaine Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Women’s Prison in Texas

The whole world’s watching this ludicrous coverup unfold as Trump’s team moves convicted sex offender Maxwell to a minimum security camp after Trump’s lawyer found she answered all his questions correctly. Nobody’s falling for this fraud—release the files.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

Arkansas AG Threatens to Sue Sites for Providing Info About Abortion Pills One of the sites, Plan C, is a well-known resource for information about medication abortion.

got that @autonomynews.co in my inbox and one thing to add to this from @susanrinkunas.com:

this kind of speech is *exactly* the sort of thing the court has said crisis pregnancy centers have a first amendment right to say. it's just the other side of the story.

will the court care? lol lmao

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Is she about to get pardoned or Epsteined?

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.

Then the harassment began.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

Six credible threats to his life.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

What the DOJ Is Doing Behind the Scenes Read more here.

Please pay attention.👇

We cannot afford to leave our democracy in the hands of a process that requires this DOJ to act in good faith. We must act now to harden our election systems. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked Secrretary Noem's move to terminate temporary status for Nicaragua, Honduran and Nepaii immigrants, finding the cancelation was likely rooted in "racial animus." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dude has seven children at 34. I mean, I’m sure they have high entry quotas but seems like he’s doing his part in the pronatalist movement.

American Abortion Policy Will End Up in the Hands of This 34-Year-Old Trump Appointee Josh Divine—the perfect embodiment of the post-Dobbs anti-abortion legal movement—swans his way onto the federal bench

As one commenter summed it: “So fetuses will have rights, but women won’t. Got it.”

courtaccountability.substack.com/p/american-a...

Good. No unilateral disarmament in the face of fascism. This is the type of leadership the moment calls for.

Time to get real. There aren’t any guardrails left. All the institutions are captured or hollowed out. We’re in a new political paradigm and it will take moves like this to win the future.

YESSSSS SEND ME MY BALLOT RIGHT NOW

Our kids won’t get to watch Sesame Street so we can pay for this tacky den of autocratic corruption.

You have to read this report to understand just how gonzo Jeffrey Clark—who Trump came close to naming Acting Attorney General—was in pursuit of a stolen victory in 2020. He was touting the "smart thermostats are stealing votes" theory, and worse: calling for the Insurrection Act to quell dissent.

(All seven of his offspring nod furiously)

Ha, as if these zealots were explicit about their designs all along.

American Abortion Policy Will End Up in the Hands of This 34-Year-Old Trump Appointee Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate handed Trump nominee Josh Divine a lifetime seat on the federal bench.

I wrote today in @slate.com about the anti-abortion movement's quiet but devastating implementation of its Project 2025 agenda.

"If Democrats think the battle ended with Dobbs, they’re making the same mistake that allowed that catastrophe in the first place."

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The "Kick Me!" party trying to decide how to bend over, how far & in which direction.
"It's very complicated, and people outside of politics just don't understand."

Being younger isn’t enough of a reason to back a candidate. Picking younger candidates with no values (or bad values) will only leave us worse off in the long run. Check their policies, look at who their early donors are, and ask local folks.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Correct

This was completely predictable back when Senate Democrats honored Republican blue slips even as they abused them block Biden’s nominees, leaving key judicial vacancies for Trump.

Hard to see how the blue slip survives this if Trump leans in.

1/ Important:

"Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida."

So Trump didn't kick him out for many years after knowing Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from MAL in 2000.

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Supreme Court Lets Trump Enact His Authoritarian Agenda on Its ‘Shadow Docket’ The right-wing-dominated Supreme Court keeps greenlighting Trump’s most authoritarian actions without even bothering to give us an explanation

New from Court Accountability's @mikesacks.bsky.social (via @rollingstone.com) on how the Roberts Court has deployed its shadow docket to rubber-stamp the worst of Project 2025.

courtaccountability.substack.com/p/supreme-co...

Supreme Court Lets Trump Enact His Authoritarian Agenda on Its 'Shadow Docket' The Supreme Court granted Trump’s emergency requests in 17 straight cases, reversing lower courts that temporarily blocked the admin’s overreach.

Hey yo I’ve got a piece in @rollingstone.com today:

“While the Roberts majority cowers from Trump to preserve its own relevance, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is calling her colleagues to account over the real-world effects of their capitulation. She’s also showing us a path forward.”