David Levitus

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 M...

My cheat sheet to election night now has roughly 100 results from elections up and down the ballot, to the governor races you know about to the startling Democratic sweeps in Pennsylvania school boards.

Don't miss stuff! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

The speed and consistency with which law enforcement will lie about incidents of police violence should be taught in every journalism school on day one

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer How to Spook a Fascist

Why all the anticipatory flop sweat from Republicans?

No Kings on Saturday will be one of the largest days of protests in the United States' history.

Andrea Pitzer on why you should go if you can, what protests can accomplish, and what they can't.

It's meaningful that this is Santos. He has no friends. He has no power. He has no influence. This isn't the kind of corruption where Trump gets money or favors. This is a message: no matter how big an asshole you are or how much everyone hates you, the law does not bind you if you are a Republican.

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

This is an astute observation.

I grew up in a town that went for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and had John Birch society chapters. It was rife with conspiracy theories: JFK as agent for the Vatican, LBJ as 'Landside Lyndon' (and worse) etc.

But Fox et al have empowered something new.

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Press needs to assume everything McLaughlin says is a lie. On Saturday within an hour or so of it happening, she was tweeting about the woman they shot and
Everything
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$20 BILLION.

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that helps American families.

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

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Not the main point here, read the whole thread, but it is astonishing that it took children getting dragged out of apartment buildings and ICE shooting pastors for Dems to realize we are in fact in an information war. And Dems, post Obama, have ceded enormous advantages to their opponents in it.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Protesters face off with state troopers with batons

ISP putting protester in arrest wagon

ISP trooper side by side with Border Patrol agent

CBP ride their armored truck down the street for a propaganda op

Broadview, Illinois today—

A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

Prediction: this will get less media attention than "deplorables."

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I clearly don't understand the Constitution and the meaning of "spending appropriated by Congress" or "power of the purse" as well as these genuises.

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YES on 50: Text Your Friends for Democracy — LA Forward Want to help defend democracy? Passing Prop 50 will cancel out the congressional seats Trump and Texas Republicans are trying to steal. The most powerful way to get out the vote is by you making...

The most powerful way to get out the vote is by making sure your friends and family across California cast their ballots by Nov 4. That’s what relational organizing is all about — and we’re making it simple and fun. This Weds 9/24 at 6pm, we’re kicking off our campaign and we want you there!

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Exactly right!

Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse than You Think It Is Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, tells TNR that her boss’ move violates both the First Amendment and the Communications Act. Democrats must extract consequences.

NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law.

That and much more in my new piece:
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Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

When all protest is terrorism The groundwork for Trump's free speech crackdown was laid by the War on Terror.

The question now is whether the Trump administration will continue to expand the use of terrorism material support statutes to go after protests of all kinds—whether for Palestine, for racial justice, or for climate and the environment.

Besides healthcare, what 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚 could these states—let’s call it a “union,” for lack of a better term—do collectively in 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 policy areas to protect and improve their residents’ safety and quality of life? If there’s ever been a time for state leaders to get creative and push the envelope, it’s now.

How to Resist Trump’s Militarization of America The president’s deployment of the armed forces on American streets is an alarming escalation. Fortunately, there’s a playbook for fighting back.

During his first term, the military officers Trump appointed often turned out to have a sense of honor, which meant they wouldn't bow to his every whim.

Now, Donald Trump is building a partisan-political military as his personal police force to impose policy on the entire country. trib.al/xG6EF1Y

again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them