It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
NYT: “When Tennessee’s Republican governor @GovBillLee dispatched troops to support Trump’s crackdown on crime, critics wondered why he didn’t keep them within state lines. Memphis has a murder rate twice DC’s, Nashville’s is higher as well.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
Whatever he's got, I hope it's something they were about to find a cure for, but his administration canceled the funding.
The White House needs to be pressured and start answering questions and providing information. This is the latest photo that’s been released (he’s in his limo—I cropped it):
💪 Ukrainian soldiers repelled a massive assault by Russian occupiers and prevented a breakthrough of the defense line. ❗️In the Siversk direction, soldiers of the 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade precisely eliminated the invaders.
🇺🇦 The General Staff shows footage of the raising of the Ukrainian flag in the village of Novoekonomichne, Donetsk region.
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Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
REPUBLICAN @repthomasmassie & DEMOCRAT @rokhanna.bsky.social are holding a bipartisan news conference on Wednesday with 10 victims of Epstein demanding the House vote on the files Speaker Johnson has been avoiding. www.foxnews.com/politics/kha...
“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
I love this guy
Yeah he's not beating the allegations
Ok burning man. We see you 🤣 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall
Your Labor Day reminder that Trump doesn't actually care about working people. Take it from me, a former Secretary of Labor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARL5VvYJUe8
This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Did I mention ICE arresting firefighters who were LITERALLY fighting a massive fire at the time of their arrest? 🔥 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
I don’t mean to be “high & mighty,” and I’ve only been a Democrat for 3 months, but it’s clear to me the Democratic Party establishment is not meeting this moment. Our 249yr old democracy is literally being destroyed, “concerned” just doesn’t cut it. I’m pissed off. We’re at war defending democracy.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
So they have reduced the charge against sandwich guy to a misdemeanor, but they're still going to trial over it? This seems not normal...
In Atlanta, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered to applaud colleagues who resigned following the firing of Director Susan Monarez. With four top officials stepping down, many now feel that the CDC is effectively finished.
Breaking news: The White House selected Jim O’Neill, a top deputy to RFK Jr., to serve as acting head of the CDC after a clash over vaccine policy ended in the departure of several agency leaders.
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
India out here catchin strays
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court rejects Republicans’ bid to block state officials from putting a redistricting measure aimed at countering Texas’ gerrymander on the November ballot. This marks the second GOP challenge to the state’s redistricting to be thrown out in one week.
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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HAPPENING NOW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say in court he has filed a motion to reopen his immigration proceedings, set aside his deportation order and seek asylum. Judge Xinis says that process is totally distinct from her purview.
ICYMI: The 3rd Circuit ruled Pennsylvania must count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, determining that rejecting such ballots was unconstitutional. “Casting a ballot and having it counted are central to the democratic process,” a judge wrote.
A warning to Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and Pamela Jo Bondi: Your totalitarian antics are not playing well to ordinary Americans.
EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein Government buying stake in private companies: socialism Epstein Epstein Epstein President having stakes in those companies: corruption Epstein Epstein Epstein Worrying about Cracker Barrel logo instead of governing Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN
That disturbing moment when the💡goes off in his head and he basically tells us how he’ll stay in power. “So you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections” #Pinks #ProudBlue #PedoTrump #Felon
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
Pritzker: “Over the last 4 years, homicides have dropped in half. The President should pay attention. I know he doesn’t read — but maybe if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here, he’ll catch it on TV.” 💀🔥 #Pritzker #ShotsFired
Constituent: I've heard President Trump say more than once that he's lowered drug prices by 1500%. I'm not sure how that works
It’s always so easy to laugh at this, but it’s not funny. For 3hrs today, grown men & women all took turns getting down on their knees, fellating their dear leader. In front of the cameras. It’s sad. It’s gross. It’s North Korea. It shouldn’t happen here.
IP: “.. If Trump’s effort to remove Lisa Cook for cause succeeds, and perhaps even if it doesn’t, this week will go down as one of the most consequential for financial markets in decades.” @wsj.com @opinion.bloomberg.com www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
Sorry, fuckface. California consumers make the car rules because of our buying power and we won’t go along with this dipshittery. Nor will we allow lower fuel standards.
Breakfast Club host Charlamagne says of Hakeem Jeffries: "I call him AIPAC Shakur." "I just don't think he stands for anything."
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
if i were on this deployment i would be pissed. these people have actual jobs! and here they are, walking around picking upt rash.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
These guys should be home with their families.
The Trump Administration manipulates data provided to the public from agencies like the Dept. of Energy & the EPA, to help his buddies in the fossil fuels industry. @govjayinslee.bsky.social: “Trump is a big speedbump” in the fight for clean energy, but Inslee has a plan. youtu.be/XQMpwJ4CzEo?...
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
“on Tuesday, for the second time this year, a Democrat appeared to flip a conservative-leaning district in the Iowa Senate…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Please Lord, may YouTube drop it completely forever and forever, Amen. thedesk.net/2025/08/fox-...
This should please RFK Jr given his penchant for chopping up beached whales and strapping them to the top of his car while their decomposing juices slosh around and cloud up his windshield.
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Let’s all take a moment to reflect on how this just absolute alpha male sprayed on his hair for TV
RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic
I was worried they were starting to get it. It doesn’t appear that will happen anytime soon though.
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He saved Cracker Barrel and College Football today. Amazing!
Not tired of winning!🥳
Our long national nightmare is over.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Trump ended 27 wars today and saved Cracker Barrel and college football all before lunch.
I miss Molly. She was a great one.
Trump on DC: "We want to stay there for longer than 30 days."
It's been 13 days since sandwich guy was charged with assault. DoJ has 30 days to get an indictment from a federal grand jury.
Trump Says Cracker Barrel Should Go Back to Old Logo politicalwire.com/2025/08/26/t...
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
UPDATE: After Netanyahu called the bombing of journalists in Nasser hospital — followed by the bombing of rescue workers live on air — a “tragic accident”, the soldiers who did it are mad at him and want an apology. Yes, seriously. TLDR: It was not an accident.
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Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount
Always a good day when I can stop by Punjabi Deli in the East Village for a delicious <$10 lunch.
“If you hurt my people,” Gov JB Pritzker said, “nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-y...
The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
And the World Cup. The United States is a fascist police state where no one is safe.
Checking in on the cabinet meeting in Pyongyang …
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REPORTER: It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department TRUMP: We’re just gonna do it. I’m sure Congress will go along if we need that
NEW: A federal judge dismisses a DOJ lawsuit against every federal district judge in Maryland, calling the Trump administration’s efforts to “smear and impugn” judges unprecedented. The lawsuit sought to overturn a court order blocking the government from deporting certain individuals.
FOX: So you support National Guard troops in these cities if it comes to that? REP. RALPH NORMAN: Absolutely. Why not? The crime speaks for itself.
In June, officials at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) moved a live copy of the Social Security Administration’s Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT) into a cloud environment “without any independent security or oversight mechanisms in place,”
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "The business of this president is not fundamentally like that of his predecessors. The business of this president is subverting our free government. And yesterday was another day at the office for carrying out that business." www.thebulwark.com/p/dictator-f...
A retirees group working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm raised concerns in June about a plan that could resolve the legal dispute. The Elias clients’ court filing suggested that the legal action threatens voting rights in the state. www.carolinajournal.com/nc-elections...
NEW: Jack Smith’s lawyers write to the Office of Special Counsel to say that they’ve read news reports about an investigation into Jack Smith, but no one has actually reached out. “The predicate for this investigation is imaginary and unfounded.” 1/
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
What you missed overnight night.🥳 Utah's gerrymandered congressional map was struck down. The judge reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The Trump administration has been testing a strategy of using the courts as leverage to force political outcomes. In Texas, government leaders and conservative activists have been willing collaborators. The state’s new voting map is their latest win. with @texastribune.org
😎🇺🇦 Bradley IFVs of 225th Assault Regiment!
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order instructing prosecutors to go after protesters who desecrate the American flag. The Supreme Court has been clear: Desecrating the flag, including by burning it, is protected by the First Amendment.
