Corruption in the United States The threat that corruption poses to democracy has never been greater, requiring bold reforms to return power to the American people.

During the Gilded Age, demonstrations and political organizing led to reforms that reduced corporate influence over elections. Today, intense pressure from the public is needed to fight corruption and restore accountability. bit.ly/4mcMsPL

I thought Donald Trump said he couldn't deploy the National Guard on J6 but apparently now he can for his pointless "liberation" of Washington D.C.

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Trump's federalization of the DC Metro Police Department and deployment of the National Guard is an attempt to gaslight the American people so he can seize more power. It will do nothing to make us safer. Here's my full statement.

We need strong crypto regulation – not an industry giveaway that puts our economy at risk and supercharges President Trump’s corruption.

Ohio managed to get thousands of people to hold hands and link arms in a human chain that stretched 8 miles to stand against ICE.

8 miles of humans linked together.

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Absolutely!!💯👇

What were those ICE requirements again? 🤔

@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."

Exactly right.

They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work.

It’s cheat codes all the way down.

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Solar for All will slash electric bills for working families by up to 80%. Now, Trump wants to illegally kill the program.

Working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs. The planet is literally burning. Sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s insane.

share of americans who prefer congressional districts to be drawn to

advantage the dems: 9%
advantage the gop: 11%
not give an advantage to either: 67% (thank you, fellow americans)
not sure: 13%

-yougov

The House Oversight Committee just subpoenaed the Epstein files from the Justice Department.

@mawaldman.bsky.social on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social: "For the first time, we see a concerted drive by the Trump administration to undermine the 2026 election. A lot of this is illegal, and it is emphatically not normal." Read our latest report: bit.ly/4l1lUPP

i have been thinking a lot about how the entire concept of “the deal” is antithetical to transparency, fair play and rule of law, as larry notes. the deal is necessarily nonstandard, ad hoc and dependent on the whims of the dealmaker

Hochul: "I will put saving democracy as my top priority at any cost. Bc it's under siege. Just like those who put on uniforms to fight battles across the ages. For centuries we stood up & fought. Blood has been shed. This is our moment in to stand up for all we hold dear & not let it be destroyed."

At the time I was too young to realize that the Molly Pecan episode was commenting on Robert Moses bulldozing hundreds of apartments and displacing thousands of people from their homes to make way for the Cross Bronx Expressway.

In my favorite episode of Car 54 Tutti and Muldoon worked to get an old woman played by Molly Pecan to move out of her rent controlled apartment that was about to be demolished to make way for a highway.

I love this view of the Quiraing on the Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland. We experienced this first hand two years ago.

I’m not an expert but it seems as though instead of studying autocratic regimes like that of Orban of Hungary, Republicans should study other minority parties operating in democracies to see how they effectively participate in government without ripping their nations apart.

Wellington was wearing stack of 4 traffic cones last week.

I suppose that Tulsi Gabbard would consider me a coconspirator because I have never been on Twitter, even b4 Musk X’ed it up.

Neogothic stone spire of red sandstone illuminated by floodlights against a cloudy sky during Blue Hour. Purple wildflowers in the foreground.

Just returned from a trip to Glasgow and Dublin. This is one my favorite photos of the spire that crowns the Victorian era Gilbert Scott building on the University of Glasgow campus as seen one evening from Kelvin Way.

The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

An important new analysis: we’re now seeing a strategy unfold to undermine the 2026 election. It’s unprecedented and often illegal. And it will be a big and growing story for the next year and a half. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The Trump regime is blocking release of the Epstein files after promising their release.
It's giving preferential treatment to child molester Ghislaine Maxwell in hopes she won't reveal Trump's connection to the scandal.
Keep reminding people about this. It matters.