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At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says. The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze

Algebra. Chemistry. Optics. White prople only have our “classics”—Ancient Greek and Roman texts—because Arabs saved them from Europe’s Dark Age. This kind of openly racist lying would have been the top news story and ended a career just a couple decades ago.

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

MD PG County PD is piloting license plate reader technology that also collects data from devices in passing vehicles to create "a digital fingerprint for devices that routinely travel together.” Harford County is in the research phase and plans to start using the tech as well.

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

This is the same Chris Hilton who was ultimately forced out of the OAG amid sexual harassment allegations. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/28/j...

NEW: Transgender Texas Student Union has retained counsel in response to the Travis County filing related to the fake transgender mailers. It's Chris Hilton, who previously worked for Ken Paxton at the Texas Attorney General's office and left temporarily to defend Paxton in his impeachment trial.

In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”

A better link, as it is from the authors: "Individuals with the most negative views of women and gender equality are the most likely to support [transgender sports] bans."

But… her emails?

NEW: US lawmakers say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding a secret court opinion about the surveillance of Americans, even as it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

Thinking maybe the Romans were on to something with that “Momento mori” thing. These types are always trying to live forever. If it’s not a weird immortality cult like AI, it’s expecting their children to be them—not be *like* them, BE them—when they’re gone.

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.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

ALPR camera networks are routinely abused for everything from stalking romantic partners to tracking peaceful protesters. Misconduct is built into the system; this dangerous mass surveillance network can't be fixed. Read EFF’s agenda for state lawmakers on why a total ban is the only real solution.

With so much at stake—Musk himself has billions of dollars in government contracts he wants to protect or land—it would be surprising if the final days of this campaign were free of disinformation skullduggery and campaign-cash chicanery.

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

Some argue web accessibility is super expensive and time-consuming. That's true if you wait till the end and have to rebuild the site. But if you consider accessibility from the beginning and your team knows what to do, then accessibility doesn't have be costly or time-consuming.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

When someone is rich enough to spend millions harassing you (and the temperament to do it) without a blip to his bottom line, and rich enough that no AG or politician would dare to stop him for fear of a political-spending reprisal… They are a threat to the state and to democratic rule.

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

striking how WaPo can write a headline with such moral clarity when they want

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Muddling through is not good enough. It's kicking the can down the road for the next would-be autocrat to try again and try harder. It can be repudiated as a fundamental discontinuity in legitimacy and its perpetrators punished accordingly or else the democratic death spiral doesn't stop with him.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

The recommended fix to avoid more problems like this is (I kid you not) “write better software.” 22 years, used by 70% of websites, but no one would pay to fix it. Open source was meant to have people at their day-jobs being paid to do just this kind of work. Companies are bad community members.

Ya mean the same state that elected Lisa Murkowski through only write-ins, by getting everyone to spell "Murkowski" properly on their ballot? That state? I think they can handle the "Sullivan dilemma."

There's a scenario in which the Supreme Court gets this case in December and three justices involved in Bush v. Gore on behalf of Bush will be asked whether confusion is grounds to reject election results.

NEW: The EPA is quietly killing its web archive. Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear.

NEW: Elon Musk gave his super PAC $76 million in just two weeks of October, and more than half of its new candidate spending went to one race: the Texas Senate fight against James Talarico. He’s now given more than $445 million this cycle, far more than he spent electing Trump.

ICYMI: Democrats want to block the Trump administration from pressuring states to purge voters, citing how wrong they’ve been in the past. The suit calls out DHS’s claim that 16,000 Nevada voters were noncitizens, then just 185 – all of whom turned out to be citizens: https://demdock.com/4z27l6t

Trillionaires are an existential threat to any democratic nation that allows them.

Just going to be straight here — no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

It says his son, with the same name, is a citizen and registered voter. So it’s probably the same voter caging they use to bump people off the voter rolls. So FBI sends a clown car with little to no probable cause.

A 72-year-old man raided by federal agents over alleged illegal voting in California has been identified by his wife as a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump.

U.S. government policy is to actively assist the Ukrainian military. Pro-Kremlin industrialist Elon Musk's policy is to actively assist Russia while harming Ukraine. End this man's government contracts and investigate him for treason.