North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.

Modern authoritarians seldom cancel elections, because they prefer the veneer of democratic choice that voting provides, and because they can tilt the playing field toward themselves. “No one likes an election better than Vladimir Putin,” the Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias told me.

Deeply racist, yes, but also deeply stupid.

Rural counties have higher enrollments than urban ones. Some of the largest enrollment states are red ones like Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia. Undocumented immigrants are ineligible. Most beneficiaries are required to work 80 hrs/month.

Major new measles outbreaks ongoing in states nationwide prompting quarantines in schools.

I’ve gotten several inquiries on booster guidance for Measles. We reviewed the recommendations this morning for @msnbc.com

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

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Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol

Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law

It hasn’t been hung

The Emerging Shape of American Politics Dynamism v. Reaction / Open v. Closed

“I wish I could be the guy who says, ‘everyone calm down; things have been just as bad before, and we got through it.’ But I can’t be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are.”

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The Trump admin illegally leaked my unredacted personnel file to Jack's allies to try to smear me.

The full force of the federal government is being weaponized to defeat me — I’m asking you to help me fight back!

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Trump Administration is erasing history and data it doesn’t like in our national parks.
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What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

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Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

You need to know what might be coming.

Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.

'He becomes enraged': Trump insiders spill about Stephen Miller 'making them cry at work' A top White House adviser is responsible for making multiple officials cry at work, according to new reporting.Rolling Stone over the weekend dropped an in-depth piece on White House deputy chief of s...

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What science and medicine have proven, must not be denied by RFKjr.

It's time for aggressive class-action lawsuits.

Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.

“He’s a nut.”

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RFK Jr.’s enemies list just got a lot longer First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors.

Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

The actions today by the Florida SG were a disgrace but not a surprise. He traffics in performative politics.

Most polls show strong bipartisan support (80%) for childhood vaccine requirements

Go to healthychildren.org for all information related to childhood vaccines and ignore the nonsense

Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”

My latest in @thebulwark.com

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Let’s be clear, RFK is now currently limiting access to vaccines by preventing pharmacists from doing their job.

This is playing out as we speak.

In several states, pharmacists cannot vaccinate if the CDC and relevant advisory groups fail to give recommendations.

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It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines.

The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible.

Vaccines save lives. Period.

New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says

“I think we should all be scared about the nation’s health security.”

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If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:

1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.

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