On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility.

He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.”

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DOJ Threatens Wisconsin Elections Commission with Funding Cutoff Over Alleged Voting Law Violation Read more here.

The U.S. Department of Justice issued a formal warning to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, accusing it of violating federal law by failing to provide voters with a required complaint process under the Help America Vote Act.

Ed Martin is expanding his operation, and it’s as dangerous as it sounds. The US Department of Justice’s pardon attorney, Ed Martin Jr, is now laying the groundwork to pardon even more of Trump’s allies, this time focusing on the Republican fake electors who tried to help overturn the 2020 election.

Jasmine Crockett is running to be Ranking Member on Oversight — and ready for the fight.

She’s sharp, qualified, and speaking directly to this moment.

Watch her make the case — and check out her take on the seniority issue. It might surprise you.
@repjasmine.bsky.social

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

31 years! Happy anniversary, Gwen. The kids and I are so lucky to have you in our lives.

A win! A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate Job Corps a Department of Labor program that provides job training to young people entering the workforce.

Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

Another win! At NIOSH, workers are back at the Black Lung Program, and efforts continue to restore services cut by DOGE.

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” tried to embed a team inside the Government Publishing Office (GPO), the agency responsible for printing official documents and maintaining public access to federal records across all three branches of government.

Back out in Rockville for #TeslaTakedown today

My best friend.
The love of my life.
I’m grateful we’ve had so many big days together.

Happy birthday MK, and here’s to many more!

Abigail Spanberger shares priorities to lower healthcare, prescription drug costs at Hanover drug store Former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger stood in front of a crowd at a Mechanicsville drug store Wednesday, announcing how she looks to lower drug costs and make healthcare more affordable for Virg…

I have a plan to lower healthcare and prescription drug costs. Virginians are counting on us to take action here — as Governor, I will.
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My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin."
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Casar: What we discovered last night, which is really breaking news, is that they’re not just robbing Medicaid—it turns out they’re also planning to rob Medicare of nearly half a billion dollars if they pass this bill.

Precisely!! #AbolishTheElectoralCollege already! When/If there's another election that is...

Bribe? - You be the judge!

Imagine starting a car that hadn't run in 21 years, that's 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. That's what the NASA team just did with Voyager's thrusters. People are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...

My Time on 60 Minutes and Why I Refuse To Stay Silent From Marc | From the opening words of Judge Beryl Howell’s opinion to the 60 Minutes closing credits, this has been an emotional weekend for me personally.

I have endured his scurrilous attacks for years. He has sued me for racketeering — and lost. He has unleashed his right-wing army of online trolls. Since his reelection, he has threatened me, defamed me and singled me out by name in two executive orders. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...

A new formal resolution from Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) seeks a "sense of the Senate that Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr does not have the confidence of the Senate or the American people to faithfully carry out the duties of his office"

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Odd that those criticizing @gtconway.bsky.social for endorsing Diane Seltzer because he isn't a member of the DC Bar, ignore the fact that I have as well and I am a member.

Vote Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president.

98-Year-Old WWII Vet Uses Tank To 'Crush Fascism' By Literally Crushing A Tesla In Viral Video He knows fascism when he sees it.

Powerful.

This

Huge thank you to Judge Susan Illston, who ordered a two-week pause on the DOGE’s mass layoff plans blocking two dozen agencies from carrying out the largest wave of job cuts yet. She ruled the move was illegal without congressional approval.

Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.

“The notion that I or any of my colleagues ‘body slammed’ armed federal officers is absurd. DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line.”

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Pure insanity.

#AbolishICE