DG

DG

@deesull.bsky.social

Truth and reason ⚖️ 📎 Democracy defender Love our Earth Don’t care at all about Mars 🐕🐕🐩🐕‍🦺🦮🐕‍🦺 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱

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EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

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Newsom: "He's not screwing around. He wasn't screwing around when he called Greg Abbott for 5 seats, said he was entitled to 5 seats. Why does he do that? Because he knows he's going to lose the election unless he rigs the election before one vote is cast. That is what we're up against."

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NEW: USPS is moving forward with Trump's attack on mail voting, proposing a rule that would require states to share private voter information to receive mail ballots. There's still time to fight back, Marc Elias writes: the public comment period is open through July 2. Submit your comments today👇

democracydocket.comMail-in voting is under attack. Here's what you can doThe USPS is proposing a rule that would require states to share information about voters who request mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections.

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Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

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WaPo, CBS and now it is being reported that when the Paramount deal goes through, Bari Weiss will oversee CNN's editorial direction. If you value independent media that cannot be bought, help Democracy Docket grow by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

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My one ask to everyone right now: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

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Don't forget: my old Yale Law classmate Clarence Thomas refused to recuse from Jan. 6 cases despite his wife's involvement in the plot. And he's taken at least 100 gifts worth over $2 million while serving, including from GOP donor Harlan Crow. He's a disgrace to the Court.

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org

Clarence Thomas is set to become the second-longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court. His legacy is marred by ethics scandals that highlight the lack of accountability for justices. It's past time to reform the Court. bit.ly/42Ql6qg

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OBAMA: A good policy that I'd like to see followed is that the president shouldn't have a bunch of side hustles that companies and foreign entities can invest in COLBERT: How much of that is just jealousy that you didn't think of selling sneakers?

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Many of you are asking how you can help my work. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.

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Actually I don't find it funny at all. We've wasted $72 billion, seriously made life harder and more expensive for those in our country that can least afford it. It's a debacle that infuriates me.

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NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Wednesday declined to order the return of 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI from Fulton County — but not before heavily criticizing parts of the Justice Department’s case as “misleading” and “troubling.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comJudge lets DOJ keep Fulton County ballots despite ‘misleading’ FBI affidavit claimsThe court acknowledged flaws in the investigation and affidavit while finding those flaws insufficient to justify the "extraordinary" remedy Fulton County sought.

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Scott MacFarlane on the FBI raid of Sen. Lucas’s home and office: There are going to be questions raised about how Fox News was there as the raid was undertaken. That type of thing is rare.…

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Rick Stengel@rickstengel.bsky.social

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

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A Golf club firm owned by Trump’s sons is merging with a drone manufacturer. But nothing to see here, right? Cause a golf club manufacturing company and drone manufacturer with Israeli ties merger is perfectly fucking normal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.comGolf club firm owned by Trump’s sons merges with drone manufacturerMerger to take drone firm public is latest business move by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr as father is in White House

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ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

mprnews.org‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respondICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send

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Wow! I can’t believe we got this done! Now call your senators and tell them restrictions are nice, but they should strip the BBB funding of ICE and CBP.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.

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We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

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Kristi Noem has been an abject failure leading the Department of Homeland Security for the last year – and the abuses of power we’re seeing from ICE are the latest proof that she has lost control over her own department and staff. 🧵

Please share this widely so everyone knows the American Prairie is being destroyed by greed-AGAIN.👇👇👇 No leases=no reserve

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👇This amazing effort, over many years & many donor dollars raised, aimed to re-create the American Prairie-where bison roam. Purchased tracts of land linked together federal lands that were leased for bison grazing. Sec Interior Burghum cancelled the leases👇 pls share. americanprairie.org

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Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."