Lori K. Davies

Treason Worse than Benedict Arnold turning over Continental Army tactical plans and West Point to the British

MAGA seems to be trying out a new pro-corruption argument. At NatCon in Israel, conservative lawyer Will Chamberlain argued that "countries should be willing to tolerate mild amounts of corruption." New from me in @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/10/26/a...

JFC. Did no one tell her what the Trump administration is trying to do to California, literally as they spoke?

This is such bullshit.This is just too convenient. ‘Federal Election Commission Takes Down Filings Website After Reported Hacking Attempt’ www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

i caught them doing it last year to overstate black support of trump www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The red square is the $1 trillion the Republicans cut from Medicaid (over 10 years). The green square is the $50 billion Rural Health Fund they're all so proud of (over 5 years). The blue square is the $190 million that Susan Collins is crowing about in her Maine rural health care ad.

Tech bros can’t build data centers fast enough, to interfere in elections.

First Musk said he did not disable Starlink for Ukraine. Now he's confessing to disabling it but says he was justified in doing so. Congress, if you can hear me, we need hearings when Dems take over. www.cnn.com/2026/10/25/e...

The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

Post Edited: Alaska Democrat Alleges Election Officials Failed to Open on Schedule Early Voting Centers in Remote Native Alaskan Areas https://electionlawblog.org/2026/alaska-democrat-alleges-election-officials-failed-to-open-on-schedule-early-voting-centers-in-remote-native-alaskan-areas/

A Brazilian union member complains that Meta blocked her union's account for supporting Lula (Subtitles)

"The last resort: if Democrats retake the House, Johnson remains speaker until the new House convenes at noon on 3 January.That morning he could fire the nonpartisan clerk... & install a loyalist who would refuse to accept the certifications of Democratic winners" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

GM has made major layoffs throughout 2026. But its net profits for Q3 2026 rose 151% compared to a year ago. Its CEO was paid $30M in 2025 (333x more than the median employee). And GM is planning $20 billion in stock buybacks — the largest in US automaker history. Corporate greed in a nutshell.

Trump’s personal Attorney General Todd Blanche doesn’t rule out challenging election certifications in various states (You are not alarmed enough)

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

Imagine telling struggling families there’s no money for food assistance, then sweetening tax incentives that can help finance giant rural data centers. Trump’s priorities couldn’t be clearer. Who asked for this bargain, exactly? #RepublicansLoveDataCenters

It’s a clear conflict of interest for the Trump Administration to have their own lawyers represent immigrant children against their own deportation machine. We have two demands for Secretary Kennedy: (1) Drop this absurd plan (2) Restore independent legal counsel Now.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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I'm not kidding, the guy simply has to be at the very least deported at the end of this. If we're doing "he's not from here" shit, he is the most not from here guy alive. He needs jail or deportation the second it's viable to do it.

He should not be allowed to have any government contracts--he is operating like a rogue state.

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

Time reviews the scheme Netanyahu used to fund Hamas and keep it in charge in Gaza.

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

This is the piece www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...

🤔 James Carville: “I’d rather Republicans keep the house by 5 than Dems win by 5… Because then they’re hostage to DSA, and Hakeem can’t move.” 😬Bill Kristol: “Good point.” So afraid of DSA folks who want M4ALL, etc. they’d rather Republicans hold power. Unreal. True colors.

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

It’s the cowardice that gets me. Every damn time.

Hard to get more "let them cake" than this. Wars everywhere, the economy going to shit, the health care system is getting battered, energy/interest rates/inflation soaring and this is what Trump is spending his time on.

Zelenskyy: "If the United States supports Putin, it's unbelievable, it's a tragedy. It's a historic mistake. If United States officially takes the side of Russia, of course we will not prevail and we will not be able to stand."

In other words: “You brown people should be grateful to live in a country where the vice-president calls you weasels in public”

Zelenskyy: Trump is letting Putin off salon https://www.salon.com/2026/10/17/zelenskyy-trump-is-letting-putin-off/ Support →

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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Update:

Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

This isn’t in our “national interest.” It doesn’t lower our prices or create opportunities for Americans — It just actively emboldens Putin in his illegal and immoral war against Ukraine. Enough.

Break them up.

As Kash Patel heads off to report to his handlers in Moscow and St Petersburg, an MS-Now review shows that criminal law enforcement cases have tumbled dramatically under his leadership at the FBI, and he has adulterated the FBI's records to cover this fact up. www.ms.now/news/crime-s...

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

newrepublic.com/article/2163... 👇🏼💯Repeating my support for this excellent piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social because after reading the whole thing (honestly, just the headline and sub-head were enough for me to begin with) the points about CA establishment pols being socially liberal, but

I'm not a law person but presumably a judicial finding of a premeditated campaign opens up the perpetrators of said campaign to legal liability. And Elon Musk has some VERY deep pockets.