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The political circus in America is degrading the value of democracy worldwide.
Expect more 'wannabe dictators' to rise to power in developing countries.

“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."

- Sun Tzu.

Democracy Docket vs. Washington Post.

Support fearless, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Here’s @RepTedLieu responding to @RepTimBurchett’s shenanigans

(In fairness Burchett probably doesn’t even know how anything works)

Yes, beagles are still being tested on in laboratories — Species Unite Abusing these docile dogs for unnecessary experiments is not a thing of the past.

Yes, beagles are still being tested on in laboratories. It's just heartbreaking and unnecessary. Please share.... we need to stop this. www.speciesunite.com/news-stories...

Minnesota peeps 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Letter from Raskin to Jim Jordon

Letter from Raskin to Jim Jordon

Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan calling on him to accept former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s offer to testify publicly before Congress regarding his investigations into President Donald Trump’s criminal wrongdoing.

Let people see Jack Smith for who he is and not the characters depicted by Trump and others.

🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right??

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

This is wild

👏🏻gotta love data & stats!

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

Marine Mammals Are Under Attack in Congress — Defend the MMPA

PLEASE sign and share - this admin is determined to destroy our environment! www.idausa.org/campaign/cet...

The Chicago no kings, and people showed up.

A tweet from Marco Foster reads: “Actor John Cusack: ‘The whole country was founded on no kings. We have masked goons roaming the streets, hiding their faces, abducting people. Go to hell. If he thinks this place is gonna be a fascist hub, no chance.’” Below, a CNN video screenshot shows John Cusack wearing dark sunglasses, a black jacket, and a cap, speaking to a blonde reporter outdoors with police visible in the background. The caption reads: “ACTOR JOHN CUSACK ATTENDS ‘NO KINGS’ RALLY IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.”

Glad to see those with big platforms and audiences continue to speak out.

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’ The turnout and character of the weekend’s No Kings demonstrations speak for...

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’ talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The Secrets Trump's Spies Share with Putin's Spies YouTube video by emptywheel

Reupping this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSa...

Every single journalist who watched this needs to understand that EVERY TIME Trump has survived political death has relied on Russian disinformation.

The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts In its conflict with a federal judge, the Justice Department claims to be complying with his orders while provoking a constitutional crisis.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... Are we in a constitutional crisis? Sure feels that way. I wrote for The New Yorker, and fixed Karoline Leavitt’s quote for her.

And he complains that Wilmer “engages in obvious partisan representations to achieve political ends” without mentioning that its clients included Jared and Ivanka at the beginning of Trump 1. Where will this end?

BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has *blocked* the dismantling of CFPB. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE REJECTS ELON MUSK'S BID TO DISMISS LAWSUIT ALLEGING HE DEFRAUDED TWITTER SHAREHOLDERS BY WAITING TOO LONG TO REVEAL STAKE

In TrumpWorld every moment & gambit is a harrowing analog for an aggrieved man brutalizing or raping a woman or compelling her denials under threat and menace after the fact - civil servants on the stand to Greenland screaming no again and again, to Ukraine. A gangster state, an incel paradise.

Nearly every Republican in the Senate voted to overturn a Biden Admin rule that limited bank overdraft fees to $5.

This rule, initially established by the now gutted CFPB, was expected to save consumers $5 billion annually.

The GOP is the party of junk fees.

The Pathetic, Cowardly Collapse of Big Law Trump’s actions are an attempt to tilt the scales of justice by using the raw power of government coercion—and they’re working.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Tell Your Federal Legislators to Cosponsor the Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act Take action: Tell Your U.S Representative and Senators to cosponsor the Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act to crack down on animal abuse

PLEASE sign and share the link - animal abuse has really gotten out of control. Barbaric animal fighting activities (dog fighting, cock fighting, etc) only serves to enrich demented individuals who only see money over the horrors of the fights.
act.centerforahumaneeconomy.org/a/che-ace-fe...

The Court does not need to find, and it is not inclined to find, that Martinez intentionally lied. His second declaration and his sworn live testimony during the hearing acknowledged the truth of what the plaintiffs' witnesses were saying, and once on the stand, he freely admitted what he did not know. At times, he appeared anguished by both the demise of the agency and by his being cast in the role of agency spokesman; there were multiple painful pauses when you could see the battle between his conflicting loyalties to his new employers and to the truth playing out on his face, and he grimaced or turned red before he answered. He had the demeanor of an abused wife brought to court by her husband to drop the charges.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson on the CFPB employee whom the administration forced, under oath, to parrot its false claims denying the illegal dissolution of the agency: “He had the demeanor of an abused wife brought to court by her husband to drop the charges.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Taking their cues from the federal government, local law enforcement agencies are extremely likely to increase the violent and disproportionate policing of anti-MAGA protests, as well as the mass arrests of protesters."