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His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

The US military stops getting paid from next week.

Graphic reading "Black adults compromise 14% of our nation's population but they account 41% of people currently on death row." Hands holding through jail cells.

Racism is embedded in the death penalty.

This World Against the Death Penalty Day and every other day of the year, we’re calling on our elected officials to work toward an end to capital punishment once and for all.

Opinion | I Investigated Corruption. The Homan Affair Is Full of Red Flags.

I spent years investigating senior-level corruption and misconduct at the Department of Justice. In 2019, Mr. Trump appointed me inspector general at the Interior Department, a position I held until January, when he fired me and many of my counterparts in other ..
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Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

Congress tried to ban this dark money slime for a reason. The Court should let us do our jobs and reject this overtly partisan challenge to our campaign finance laws.

It also calls out the Captured Court’s false facts. When the Court makes up false facts to get a result, the decision is not entitled to deference — the Court is owed deference to state the law, not fabricate facts.

Whitehouse, Colleagues File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Reject Yet Another GOP Effort to Flood Politics with Corporate and Mega-Donor Cash - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Plaintiffs in NRSC v. FEC aim to eliminate one of the few remaining limits on special interest influence in elections Whitehouse and Senate Democratic colleagues instead urge Supreme Court to reconsid...

My new amicus brief calls out this shady maneuver and the damage Citizens United continues to wreak by rotting our democracy with corrupting dark money. (For a legal brief, it’s also a pretty good read.)

Now, Republicans are running to their right-wing Captured Court to strike down one of the few remaining commonsense election spending limits.

The fossil fuel industry and other giant corporations have spent gobs backing Republicans ever since Citizens United.

That case – based on demonstrably false facts btw – opened the floodgates to untraceable dark money billions rotting our democracy. 🧵

Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday said the recognition would instead go to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

This is a straight news report Jesus God. time.com/7324832/trum...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More

The GOP hopes to flip two swing districts in Washington's state Senate in November. In the first round in August, Democrats finished narrowly ahead of GOP opponents but margins were narrow.

All part of our guide of the races to watch this fall.

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

From top to bottom, no one in this administration thinks they will ever be held accountable for anything.

Will Trump Invoke Insurrection Act? Here’s What He Can—And Can’t—Do If He Does The law would give Trump broad authority to send the military to cities like Portland and Chicago.

The law would give Trump broad authority to send the military to cities like Portland and Chicago.

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

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New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map Read more here.

New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Troops will miss paychecks next week without action on the government shutdown The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay.

Congress made their pay permanent. Military pay? No. Could congress fix it? Instantly. But why would the arsonists turn off the gas while they’re still warm and well-fed? They are fake patriots, fake christians who see everyone as disposable. “Respect the troops” means paying them!

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

Suck up

Trump’s such a deal maker he’s got the military out there doing war crimes for free.

“The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. “In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.”

MIT makes compelling case, as it rejects the university “compact,” making it clear that the Trump administration’s proposal is fundamentally inconsistent with the very values it claims to embrace.

This is what principled leadership looks like. 👏

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Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy How the Insurrection Act could become the 21st-century Enabling Act, with six justices and the GOP standing by…

Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy
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