Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
Right, but we have to trust (checks notes) convicted felon and 2x impeached Trump and his minions that the targets are who they say they are?
WTF? This is part of the ceremony of citizenship. These people aren’t against illegal immigration, they’re against legal immigration as well, and always have been.
Winner, winner, Big Mac dinner!!
In case anyone wasn’t aware of this. www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/u...
At the very least, Americans should know the actual costs, not what this administration will say. A lawsuit will compel those details.
Trump: "Without the United States, everything in the world would die ... I settled seven wars."
With Texas National Guard troops, apparently. I want to remind everyone of Abbott’s Folly of Jade Helm. He has no self respect. He’s Trump’s little lap dog. www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/h...
I guess she got info that she did not like.... hmmmm
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Abbott’s Folly, again. www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/h...
Hello, darkness. My old friend. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
Oh, silly Abbott. No self awareness. www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/h...
Town Halls!! Dems need to keep doing them every month until election.
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
How do you ignore: - Jan6th attack - Supreme Court granting sweeping powers to POTUS - The Big Lie - Fox News and Newsmax lawsuits based on Big Lie - Gerrymandering madness - Troops in the streets The list goes on but this guy has clearly checked out of democracy and maybe society in general.
I see lot of “Trump did this.” He’s nothing without GOP, Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society. When he’s gone, they remain the existential threat, along with the oligarchs.
What does Nate have to say about the scientists abandoning Leon Musk and Twitter for BlueSky?
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
I hope Jake Tapper is tracking down Biden for a new book.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
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.
I’m sorry, WHAT?
No WAY!!!
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!
China isn’t the reason to build solar—it’s the reason we can’t afford to wait. While US nuclear flatlines, China’s solar has already rocketed past it. The lesson isn’t to copy them—it’s that the transition is happening at breakneck speed. Delay now means falling behind forever. ⚡☀️ #EnergyTransition
Yay! Let’s have a Nat Guard on every corner in America!!! ^^^ sarcasm
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
🚨🔥🔥🔥🚨 Truth to power! 1/2
What a ridiculous person.
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Proving once again the S&P 500 is a wealth index, not a measure of the economy #EconSky #FinSky
Agree with every word
Humans are stupid.
Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.
TOTALLY not something an authoritarian (heading towards fascism) government would do.
Letting Nixon off without jail time is where this started.
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
I could not have put it better...
It’s quite an impressive competition for worst department in the worst administration in American history.
Kellogg was sidelined specifically because he’s a better negotiator. They aren’t actually trying to end this war.
Hundreds of employees and supporters of the CDC lined the sidewalks outside the agency’s Atlanta headquarters for a “clap out” rally to honor three senior leaders who resigned a day earlier. Read more here: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Anything to subvert the will of the people. Texas is leading the way in dragging America down.
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
she said that “black” with a hard r
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
He’s trying to get her killed…
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
ICE is doing a great job of looking like a villain.
"Every school in the country should have a metal detector." Sean, what are metal detectors at schools there to detect? A baloney sandwich or a GUN? You would be preventing the entry of people with GUNS because GUNS are the problem, you shamelessly dishonest idiot.
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
The core issue is fear.
Pam Blondi & Justice Dept wanted a filet mignon, got a bologna sandwich.
We’re supposed to believe POTUS/Trump? The 34x convicted guy? The 2x impeached guy? The 4,000 court cases between 1973-2016 guy? The serial liar? The guy who tried to violently overthrow the US government guy? The “they’re eating cats & dogs” guy?
No words. This is… a) …laughable b) …dangerous c) …damaging
He’s the Vice President of the United States. He could actually *do* something about this instead of just play pretend games.
What’s the depth of her furrowed brow?
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
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.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Who asked that question?
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
RFK Jr on autism: "There's an aggregation of causes, and we are now sufficient evidence to ask for regulatory action on some of those, or at least recommendations."
Anything but calling for an assault weapons ban. I can’t with this man.
This was all knowable. Every damn Republican who confirmed this wrecking ball has blood on his or her hands.
Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
That will definitely be considered for Pulitzer Prize.
Photo of the Day. If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical. Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.
Yep. That Alaska “summit” was so Nobel Prize level productive.
The worm made the contents asymmetrical.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
Mark this day as the death of expertise at the CDC. All we have between us and the next pandemic are a bunch of horse paste eating conspiracy loons.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
NEW: ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited until it was too late. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
Dubya called him Turd Blossom because he fertilized the nascent MAGA movement.
I’m no fan of Bolton, but how is anyone trusting Navarro? Besides the Jan 6th contempt conviction, there’s so many other red flags. www.npr.org/2019/10/18/7...