Jacqueline Goldfinger

“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.”

- former First Lady Betty Ford

The East Wing is gone.

Over a century of American history, reduced to rubble.

All to appease the vanity of a corrupt authoritarian.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Federal Court Tosses Another GOP Lawsuit Against California’s Redistricting Plan Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan ruling that the plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Nasty business

We're going to make history tomorrow. #NoKings

When Pam Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while legacy news outlets like the Washington Post wanted to seem "fair" and gave her a thumbs up.

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Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

DC — racial profiling, violating rights, insane waste of resources.. this video really has it all. Where are the “gOVerNmeNt wAstE” small government folks?

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DPz0rll...

Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket The Biggest Redistricting Trial Yet

NEW EPISODE: The GOP's Texas gerrymander map was challenged in court and for ten days, Democracy Docket covered the hearing from gavel to gavel. I discuss the testimony, the map, and the potential outcomes with the Jen Rice, the reporter who was there on the ground.

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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

People who mock the "No Kings" title, saying, "Donald Trump never asked to be a king," show:

(1) A gross inattention to what he is doing; and

(2) A profound ignorance of American history and what the Revolution was all about.

Immigrants in Donald's family:

Grandfather
Grandmother
Mother
First Wife
Current (for now) Wife
2 Father-in-Laws
2 Mother-in-Laws

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

Damn! Every clip from last night’s debate is Mamdani wiping the floor with Cuomo.

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.