With @rickhasen.bsky.social for Slate Plus subscribers on the Voting Rights Act, the redistricting wars, and Trump's war on voting machines. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
With @rickhasen.bsky.social for Slate Plus subscribers on the Voting Rights Act, the redistricting wars, and Trump's war on voting machines. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
⚡️ There will be strikes deep into Russia. Forces and means are already prepared, — Zelensky The President also reported that Russian troops suffered the greatest losses precisely in the Donetsk region, while failing to implement any of their strategic objectives.
As Trump’s health declines, he seems completely preoccupied with his likelihood of reaching Heaven. Guess what, Donny? It’s too late for you. On the bright side, you’ll spend eternity with your best friend, Jeffrey Epstein.
Don’t let the cover up of Trump’s deteriorating health distract you from Trump’s coverup of him being in the Epstein files.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Why Isn't Donald Trump's Declining Health Being Covered by Corporate Media? Where are the op-eds & news programs calling for Trump's resignation due to his declining health, impaired abilities, & march towards fascism? Oh, yeah, "both sides" corporate journalism. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
“The White House wants you to see its kitschy displays of the president and its militarization of the nation’s capital and conclude that the game is over and that they have already won,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “But as much as the situation might feel that way, it isn’t true.”
A seismic decision: Trump's tariffs are deemed UNLAWFUL under IEEPA. The court directed the Clerk to withhold issuance of its mandate until October 14, giving the parties time to petition the Supreme Court.
"Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American..taught in schools, in seminaries & colleges...written in Primers, spelling books & Almanacs...preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, enforced in courts of justice...become the political religion of the nation." --Lincoln
Evercore wuz right.
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
“Almost nobody in Ukraine believes that handing over additional unconquered territory in the Donbas would satisfy Putin’s imperial ambitions or remove the threat of future Russian invasions.“ Another good piece from @mykolabielieskov.bsky.social www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
A brief public service announcement: Do not give up hope that we can overcome this. That’s how Trump and his regime wins.
A US appeals court ruled that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool. The case is widely is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court reut.rs/47l6pz9
"Arias Cristobal came to the United States at age 4 from Mexico. She knows only one state, Georgia, and only one country, the USA. She said she loves her family’s culture, but considers herself American." She spent more than two weeks in immigration detention. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-happe...
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, revisit our Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation about the impossible choices doctors and nurses faced in the aftermath of the disaster. This is "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," co-published 2009 with The New York Times Magazine:
WATCH: “Its not exactly an Agatha Christie mystery.” @marcelias.bsky.social & @raskin.house.gov say Trump’s seat-stealing, mail-in voting ban, and inevitable invasion of Blue cities to intimidate voters are all to steal the 2026 election. Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLI...
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
The masks have to go.
Breaking News: A federal appeals court ruled that many of President Trump’s most punishing tariffs are illegal. But the judges delayed the implementation of their order until October to grant the administration time to seek review by the Supreme Court.
“A delayed advisory panel meeting and shifting vaccine policies under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are making it difficult for people to get updated Covid shots.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Horrific.
Hope SCOTUS enjoys being treated like Trump’s lapdog
I believe the speculation will be proven accurate. The Chief Justice will have destroyed his legacy. Some day, some may even come to think of him as a traitor to our democracy.
Elderly man confused and medicated rants and raves...
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Wrong again.
NEWS: Trump revokes visas for Palestinian officials planning to attend the UN Assembly in New York next month. This will mean there will be a reduced Palestinian delegation at a meeting where Britain, France, Canada and Australia plan on recognizing a Palestinian state. @meidastouch.com
A new writer joins the @theatlantic.com Daily!
WhatsApp finds new hacking campaign targeting fewer than 200 people reut.rs/4nbURD7
While Trump goes backward on clean energy development, California pushes forward in building an affordable, clean energy future. I signed a new executive order to maintain our progress in adding clean electricity to our power grid while protecting thousands of good-paying jobs.
Damn…
"There would be a special appointee that would focus on sexual assault in the military. How's that fucking going? Have we seen that? Or have we actually just seen women get purged from the military?" @timmiller.bsky.social and @radiofreetom.bsky.social on Joni Ernst's "promise" from Pete Hegseth:
Garcia: This is a great ruling by the court. Of course, Donald Trump is already overreacting, saying this is going to somehow be the destruction of the United States. I'm not sure if he's aware he's trying to do that all on his own.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
"This is all the same project: attacking the government and re-engineering it to serve as a weapon against the American people. It’s the greatest act of civilizational self-mutilation since the First World War."
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CAP ECON: “We obviously have no particular insight into whether the Supreme Court will uphold .. If it did, “Treasury would .. need to return most of the now-close to $100bn in additional customs duties .. and there is a danger .. other countries would back-track on any preliminary agreements.”
New video: "JD Vance CAN’T CONTROL HIMSELF after getting EXPOSED" click below to WATCH👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bssgdMbGxJk
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Trump pushes Missouri to pass new gerrymandered map
Countries are telling the Trump regime to fuck off. They aren't taking calls. They aren't returning calls. They are cancelling scheduled meetings. No one respects Trump and the clowns he employs. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/j...
Big ruling against Trump's blatantly illegal imposition of tariffs, which are taxes on every American. Working my way through the 127 pages of opinion, so more later. THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL, WITH NO LESS THAN THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AT ISSUE! See: share.google/0v8nPm966u0H...
TRUMP IS AMERICA’S BIGGEST LOSER.
Emil Bove, a senior Trump administration official, was narrowly confirmed last month to serve on a powerful appeals court judgeship. He's not yet been sworn in, and has continued working for the Justice Department.
I follow @taniel.bsky.social for his excellent state level analysis on elections
“.. He told POLITICO his experts are “able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection in 2026: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... Iowa swung hard to the right starting in 2016, but the 3 special elections that have happened in Iowa so far in 2025 have swung toward Dems by 22, 24, & 26 percentage points. Two seats have flipped blue.
More retirement news: Conservative Wisconsin justice Rebecca Bradley will NOT seek reelection next spring. Liberals (as you all know now) have a 4-3 majority on this high-stakes supreme court. This is their shot to go up 5-2, in April.
“.. The Florida Division of Emergency Management will lose most of the value of the $218 million it has invested in making the airport suitable for a detention center ..” @apnews.com @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
NEW on MSNBC: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa plans to announce that she will not run for re-election next year.
substack.com/@deadder/not...
Rupee plunges to all-time low on steep US tariffs, logs 4th month of loss reut.rs/45IrzGo
Norway seeks to defuse clash with Trump ally over fund's Caterpillar exit reut.rs/3JElimn
Far-flung powers trying to exert authority over Boston haven't fared well historically
India's economy grows 7.8% in April-June quarter, beats forecasts reut.rs/460XFfm
The party of “freedom”
August 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Is the United States a revolutionary country?
Is the Trump Regime Trying to Kill Us? open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
"Danish intelligence services have uncovered a network of “at least three” people working on “influence operations” in Greenland to drive a wedge between Denmark and the territory, in a bid to pave the way for it to get closer to the United States." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I think it's time for me repost and pin this: My advice to both liberals and conservatives in 2022 about how to build a coalition, including the sage advice of "get over it" www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
William Pulte evidently a student of Roy Cohn. The corruption can be smelt from miles away. The art of the pretense.
bleak: The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
Fabulous @brianklaas.bsky.social newsletter episode on promising developments in the fight against Alzheimer, how comb jelly have a completely unique type of nervous system and much more. www.forkingpaths.co/p/brain-food...
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 193. www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...
Immigrants power California’s economy and keep our state moving. Indiscriminately targeting them is not only cruel but illegal, and Californians aren’t buying it.
Trump’s militarization of Los Angeles seems to have been just the start of an authoritarian takeover of American cities. This is not leadership. This is a scary, unlawful grab for power, and we should all be deeply concerned.
Look at that mug. It's a mob boss for sure.
I just signed the Election Rigging Response Act to put Proposition 50 up for a vote on November 4th. The people of California will have the power to push back against Texas and any other state that obeys Donald Trump's demand to rig the next election.
The real reason Gavin Newsom is breaking through is this: He's saying Trump/GOP will no longer be allowed to play by their own rules, and we will use our power to the max to put an end to it. On the pod, @whstancil.bsky.social and I go deep on Newsom and Dem failure: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
Newsom isn't breaking through because he tweets in all-caps, or because he uses cool memes, or because he trolls Trump. It's because he's leveling with Dem voters about Trump, MAGA, and power. @whstancil.bsky.social and I develop this theory at length in today's pod:
🇬🇧 UK has purchased refrigerators and mobile morgues capable of holding 700 bodies at a time, – Steigan. ▪️For this, UK has signed a contract for £7.5 million. The article notes that such a purchase may be related to preparations for war or a new pandemic;
"Trump showed the world what an 'America First' foreign policy looks like in practice—attacks on allies, capitulation to dictators, and the abandonment of any remaining pretense that the United States will support and defend democracy around the world."
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
THIS is the way 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
"Lt. Gen. Kruse was removed, presumably for failing to echo President Trump’s “obliteration” comment about U.S. strikes on Iran...Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Allvin announced early retirement...Their firing and forced resignation send a dangerous message." www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
My take on the Ghislaine Mexwell proffer - www.instagram.com/reel/DNwLJPP...
National Guard troops on duty in President Trump’s D.C. crackdown began carrying weapons Sunday evening, according to a spokesman for the National Guard task force.
🇳🇴🇺🇦 Norway will allocate $8.45 billion to Ukraine in 2025-2026, the country's prime minister said during a meeting with Zelensky. “Norway has allocated funds for the purchase of the Patriot system for us: this is a very important contribution to the protection of Ukraine’s skies,” — Zelensky.
🇳🇴🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today, Prime Minister of Norway is in Ukraine. We had very substantive discussions on many issues – our defense needs, support for sanctions, cooperation in the energy sector, the efforts of the Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, diplomatic prospects, security guarantees.
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In March of last year—eons ago—I interviewed John Bolton at a @chkbal event at the National Press Club about how "Trump would seek retribution … and there would be 'continuing crisis, turmoil, chaos—perhaps amounting to constitutional problems.'" And here we are. www.c-span.org/program/publ...
Big setback for Nobel ambitions.
This must be one of the "agreements" he made with Putin.
🇺🇦🕯️ Zelensky: A place of remembrance and deep reverence. Here are the names of those who gave their lives for our independence and freedom. Today, together with First Lady and PM of Canada, we honored the fallen defenders of Ukraine at the Wall of Remembrance.
Last year, in an address to the Society for the Rule of Law Institute (@chkbal.bsky.social), Ambassador John Bolton warned that, if elected to a second term, Trump would abuse and corrupt the Justice Department to carry out retribution. Watch. (ht: @greggnunziata.bsky.social)
August 23, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Today's letter explains how we came to be here in this racist, anti-democratic onslaught of fascism.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Consider the irony: "The president"—unquestionably the biggest blowhard on the planet—"is not a fan of wind."
I spoke in Rock Island, Illinois tonight for women’s equality day. I was lucky to share the stage with so many fantastic speakers, including the Mayor of Moline, Illinois, Sangeetha Rayapati. It’s always a good day to talk about equality. 
Sunday morning, premium members will get a transcript of my newsmaker interview of the week. Sunday afternoon, they will receive my exclusive analysis of the legal challenge filed against Texas' new map. Join now to support Democracy Docket and receive both in your inbox. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
I love this and wish I'd said it this simply: "people of good will, stop using charged jargon" 👏👏👏
@joshtpm.bsky.social: "Who can demonstrate the greatest ability to use power effectively and aggressively to counter Trump and Trumpism? That is what the [2028] race needs to be about. And Newsom is the first one to enter that race." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/let-t...
UNICEF’s Tess Ingram: “Claims aid is entering the Gaza Strip at scale are not true... It is clear and simple. There is a famine.”