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Sadly, this does not surpise me ... current.org/2026/08/nine...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Office of the Secretary of State has received a letter from the Department of Justice requesting information about individuals appearing on Washington’s voter rolls. Read the full news release: https://bit.ly/4yKxeqv

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Elon apparently wasn't too happy about our latest episode of the Coffee Klatch — and my criticisms of him. Here's the full conversation, in case you missed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6g...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

And we know Trump is a stickler about proper handling of national security information…

Lina Khan on Mamdani: "One thing we saw the mayor be very attentive to is all sorts of daily nickel and diming -- taking on junk fees, subscription traps. Those can seem very micro and targeted, but in the aggregate I see those as really designed to take on unfair methods of competition."

I did not intend to take anything away from the student protesters in Serbia - who were brave...and *organized.* But far more important is that the protests were accompanied by grassroots organizing and *voting in large numbers* Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Serbia... Voting, in a coalition. #Lessons

I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mike Rogers believes in government of the billionaires, by the corporations, and for the special interests.

I normally include links but so far, I only have access through my PACER account and haven't been able to locate the Courlistener links. I will post it here when I get it, or if someone else has it, please reply with the link below. Thanks! END/

Wow! I was not expecting that.

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

Big Brother is watching, but now we can watch Big Brother right back. I love that MapQuest is flipping the script. Apple Maps, where you at?!

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Trump claims the billion+ dollars he's spending on White House renovations is "peanuts"

Trump: "We'll never be a manufacturing c**t, company -- uh -- country again"

corporate media routinely describes Tim Scott as a moderate and celebrates his "relentless optimism"

The man who has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has in his entire lifetime never says anything positive about his guy Ken Paxton. But he does serve up a steady diet of this stuff.

The Republican Party takes your money and uses it to openly bribe voters. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is how we treat our veterans?! 🤬 defiantdonkey.substack.com/p/hegseths-p...

Even if the Republican wins, as remains likely, this is a huge amount of change that doesn't just evaporate after the election.

Late adaptor here, just catching up now with the *depth* of this shit pit. Let my relative "moderation" -- I'm not really a screamer -- give extra oomph when I say this is *an enemy.* Not of any faction--an enemy of us all, even if you're a fool who imagines you're this murderbot's friend.

😲😲😲 that is SO offensive!!

Let’s do this in America.

it is hard to sell how effective this was. the far right here was completely lost in the past two weeks because *nothing* of their tried and true methods to dictate public opinion and the media were working. even bot farming views to pump the algo did jack shit

ICE thugs are sending immigrants to countries that they have never been to, because there are orders by judges protecting them from being returned to their home country due to persecution. But these third party countries are sending them back to their home country, anyway. #ICELawlessness

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He's so close

1. BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration illegally fired Maurene Comey, the veteran federal prosecutor and daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

I can save you some time. He doesn't name ONE SINGLE ISSUE. When asked to name what people are concerned about, he's got NOTHING. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

So basically Trump’s lawsuit against Alaska is just saying that he thinks people in Alaska are too stupid to figure out their ballot.

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.

John Pavlovitz Is Right ✅️ But We Must Vote In Overwhelming Numbers, So There's No Doubt...💙

I know I say this every time, but it's true. They try to make you believe they are inevitable, when in fact they are defeatable. They do this because once people believe they will always win, there's no point fighting back.

The people who trade in despair, including progressives on here, are not their enemies. They are their handmaidens.

He tells struggling Americans to celebrate higher gas prices because Big Oil is making billions, proving his priorities are definitely not yours.

Bolsonaro had corrupt media on his side, Meta interference on his side, US propaganda operations, and his party's officials actively sabotaging public transport in Lula strongholds to prevent turnout. Yet he was still beaten by the power of voter turnout.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Literally enlisting people in using growth hacking tactics *against* the networks themselves. I don't know that this is replicable, I don't know how this changes down the line against an adversary who might be even more brazen in their interference, but it worked this time.