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BREAKING: Trump announces that Rudy Giuliani will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest civilian honor. Note that Giuliani has been charged with felonies in two different states, including racketeering and has been found liable for over $100 million in damages.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
@tizzyent.bsky.social what say you? This is not fair!!
The victim was identified as Keontae. He managed to escape and called his mom from a cornfield an hour away. Thankfully, he did not suffer serious physical injuries, but local leaders say the emotional scars are already heavy—mistrust, fear, and trauma. 4/4 www.wkow.com/news/top-sto...
Federal rules restrict who gets COVID shots. New Mexico stepped in—removing barriers so all ages 6 months & up can get protected. Let’s all get on board 💉 #BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #SciSky #EMSky #EMedSky #NurseSky #FmSky #PedsSky #CardioSky #ObSky
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
It means you are a good caring giving compassionate human being. Not that many.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
Honored that Mark is now a Democracy Docket member.🙏 The force of democracy must be with us!!!🥳
Gauze.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.
ICYMI — JUDGE: “This case represents the consequences of a decades long drumbeat of anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation being broadcast & broadcast & broadcast…” 2 immigrants shot in Washington, gunman sentenced in June. Barely even a story. 🤷🏻♂️ www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
It’s obvious at this point that Trump has no intention of leaving office at the end of this term. Fortunately, it seems his heart won’t make it that far anyway. JD is warming up his arm.
Trump did this
Where’s Trump?
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
Good.
xJoni Ernst is quitting the Senate to become a mortician.
Health officials under JB Pritzker, who is showing how to take on Trump, are moving forward. They're exploring buying vaccines in bulk themselves. Mass. Gov Maura Healey is in talks with multiple other states about coordinating purchasing of pediatric vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Husband: D Me: A The fact that we’re so specific means we mean it.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
Just in case you forgot…
The revolution will be led by women.
There are more of us…?
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
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She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
Finding bought-out politicians in the halls of Congress..
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Written by McFadden and Whitehead, recorded in Philly.
I sing it everyday.
Fantastic women of brilliance! Thank you for sharing.
After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The Iowa Senate seat that Democratic candidate Catelin Drey flipped tonight has been in GOP hands for 13 years. Not anymore.
Thank you from PA!
I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
What a putz.
What can we do? Where is the pushback? Well, ICYMI, here is what it looks like. So I thought I would do something I rarely (if ever) do… share the whole damn thing. No snark. No spin. Just the whole speech. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
I’d call it scumbaggery.
I really liked your film of unrequited possibilities. It moves in many ways. Keep going!
Stephen is still fighting the “someone“ in high school who called him a wuss.
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
Fighting Republican attacks on democracy can feel like an uphill battle, but one way to make a difference is by campaigning for Democratic governors who have the power to veto unfair congressional maps, Meghan Meehan-Draper writes.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Pritzker gets it.
My husband want to represent Viet Nam. He hikes 29 miles a week. He can do it. Let us know.
Thank you 🙏🏼
So when we first showed up at the Union Station today, we ran ICE off as soon as we got here.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵
If you haven’t read Heather Cox Richardson’s letter from yesterday, it’s well worth your time.
Her father died of COVID-19, before a vaccine was available. Now RFK Jr. is taking those vaccines from people, undermining public health and risking lives unnecessarily. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
Hope is what we do when the odds are long and the options limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, hope is the commitment of those who believe they can make a difference, however small. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
Kharkiv tonight. People chanting “Putin Khuylo”, which essentially means Putin go f yourself
I love how Congress is taking a break after accomplishing nothing since their last break.
Did you know there’s a special election THIS Tuesday in Iowa that could break the GOP super majority in the Iowa state senate? I had no idea. Just saw it on Tik Tok. Now…just out of curiosity, do you think the DNC should have rallied national Dems to support this election?
Lavrov’s response 3 times is to insist that Russia has “never, ever targeted civilian sites.” So the apartment buildings and hospitals we see in flames every day and bodies of civilians is all made up apparently. This is who they are - liars and barbarians.
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE LYING LIARS & NEWS STINKERS OF FOX "NEWS" SO WE DON'T HAVE TO! IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THOSE OF US WHO VALUE HONESTY, INTEGRITY & DECENCY WHILE ALLOWING US TO CONSUME ACTUAL FACTS WITHOUT THEIR BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES & ABILITY TO TRIGGER BOUTS OF VIOLENT NAUSEA. 🤮
Today proved once again that no one is covering the GOP's redistricting scheme as closely and with as much analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you independent pro-democracy news and information. Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
A win! A federal judge has expanded a ruling that stops the Trump administration from cutting off federal money to cities that limit cooperation with immigration enforcement.
Game on.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Let’s be clear about what’s really going on over at Target. They’re playing us. The current CEO, will “step down,” but he’s moving up to exec chair of the Board of Directors. That’s rewarding his failure. The new CEO, is the current COO & has been w/Target for 20 years. Nothing’s really changing.
I promised Texas would be sued. And I don't bluff. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Now, THIS I love. Making the best of a bad situation. R E S P E C T
I am reading the Maxwell Transcript and it is the biggest pile of bullshit I have ever encountered in my 25 years as a lawyer
Belly laugh with tears.
Thank you @governor.pa.gov !!!
NEW: Oregon and Pennsylvania are the latest to reject the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to acquire states’ private voter data, according to letters obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
There’s still a fascist component to Italia.
Zohran’s campaign is aggressively millennial and I mean that in the best most complimentary way possible. This is good stuff.
“It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s [DOGE] henchmen stole all data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.” @maxberger.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/maxb... bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/mich...
Leave him the hell alone.
The president is getting sicker 🥳 🍾 🎉
Ironically enough, my house is filled with music right now, Let The Good Times Roll o roll!!!
Yes, clearly this man is extremely dangerous🙄
Correct. It’s insane that anyone is standing for this. We need people in the streets, campus protests, a general strike. Democrats should be holding rallies and press events constantly. The apathy in the face of all this is astounding.
I can’t imagine the other side being able to achieve anything least of all conquering a city. They’re imbeciles.
This is how it’s done.
Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
Do not obey.
Wow!!!!!
JUST IN: A federal judge has ruled Alina Habba’s appointment as Special Attorney for the District of New Jersey is unlawful. Judge Brann: “I conclude that she is not [lawfully performing the functions and duties of U.S. Attorney].” Her actions since July 1 may be void.
I urge all Californians to vote to redistrict our maps in response.
BREAKING: The California Assembly has passed the first of three bills to redraw congressional maps
That is a fact.