Blackcat52

How busy is the fight for free and fair elections in court?

My law firm is currently litigating 65 voting and election cases. 12 of these relate to redistricting. We have four cases pending in the U.S Supreme Court -- including one I am arguing this Dec.

In New Low for DOJ, Bondi Thanks Trump for Ordering Probe of Dems' Alleged Epstein Ties Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: DOJ reached a new low Friday after Pam Bondi publicly thanked Donald Trump for ordering the department to investigate ties convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — a longtime friend and former confidant of Trump’s — had with several prominent Democrats and institutions.

Trump does not take questions from reporters as he boards Air Force One to head to another weekend getaway at his private club in Florida

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@djrothkopf.bsky.social saying clearly what we need to hear, pulling no punches 🧵

“What Trump is doing is wildly illegal and un-American and reveals his profound weakness rather than any sort of strength. But it's where we are.”

Why home insurance is unaffordable, even in places without wildfires or hurricanes Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes.

The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is coming. Fossil fuel corruption blocks Congress from responding to it, or in some cases even from seeing it.
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Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turn Rachel Reeves looks set to abandon raising income tax in her budget with the chancellor reportedly “ripping up” the main measures in her plan in the wake of turmoil in the party. A source told the Guardian that plans to break the manifesto pledge on income tax had been ditched by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the chancellor. Continue reading...

Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget

2/2 If you’ve got hesitant family, share this.

They love their kids. 💕
We're all trying to make the safest choices in a confusing time - a time flooded with misinformation, sadly also from our own leadership.

Let’s help each other find our way back to trust, facts & protecting the little ones

Newsom Roasts Trump At UN Summit, New Epstein Emails Rock The White House, and Newly-Sworn In Rep. Grijalva Forces A Vote To Release The Files The walls are closing in

Newsom Roasts Trump At UN Summit, New Epstein Emails Rock The White House, and Newly-Sworn In Rep. Grijalva Forces A Vote To Release The Files

Newsom Roasts Trump At UN Summit, New Epstein Emails Rock The White House, and Newly-Sworn In Rep. Grijalva Forces A Vote To Release The Files The walls are closing in

Newsom added: “Trump is temporary—and I hope folks around the globe remember that. He will be remembered in years, not in decades.”
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Newsom Roasts Trump At UN Summit, New Epstein Emails Rock The White House, and Newly-Sworn In Rep. Grijalva Forces A Vote To Release The Files The walls are closing in

Trump is in full on panic mode

Newsom Roasts Trump At UN Summit, New Epstein Emails Rock The White House, and Newly-Sworn In Rep. Grijalva Forces A Vote To Release The Files The walls are closing in

The walls are closing in on trump

Here come the “raping teenage girls isn’t actually that bad” arguments from the right.

We can count on Lawrence to lay out the facts and connect the dots. 💙🇺🇸

A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

There would not have been enough space on the opinion pages of newspapers or segments on cable news to cover the amount of outrage that the media would have directed at Joe Biden if he did not know the standard duration of a home mortgage, but Trump? Crickets.

Any Dem Senator who is not calling for Schumer's removal and removal of the 8 Judas Senators from all committees was in on the betrayal. Any Dem can talk the talk but my money says not a single Dem Senator will walk the walk because they were ALL in on the betrayal.

Sick of weak politicians letting FOTUS destroy us.

This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.

glad to see jones getting back in the ring

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

Trump:

- Doesn’t want to talk about prices or employment.

- Is asking SCOTUS *right now* to let him stop funding SNAP so he can use hunger as a weapon.

- Is still lying about trillions of dollars in tariffs.

All while he builds a ballroom and remodels the White House.

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.

Ukraine war briefing: Bulgaria moves to seize Russian refinery while Poland seeks to be US gas conduit Lukoil’s Burgas plant is Bulgaria’s only refinery; Slovakia running out of reasons to buy Russian gas as US import deal takes shape. What we know on day 1,352

Ukraine war briefing: Bulgaria moves to seize Russian refinery while Poland seeks to be US gas conduit

Opinion | Trump’s proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional Despite what the president says or wishes, the words of the 14th Amendment have meaning that cannot be wished away.

I can’t believe Neal Katyal and I wrote this *six years ago.*

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TONIGHT: @nealkatyal.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

Small businesses sign up prominent appellate attorney Neal Katyal in tariff case A group of five small businesses on Wednesday signed up prominent appellate lawyer Neal Katyal and former federal appeals court judge Michael McConnell to defend their court victory over President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Small businesses sign up prominent appellate attorney Neal Katyal in tariff case reut.rs/4ekFULu