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The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide if citizens can still enforce the Voting Rights Act, after a federal appeals court ruled that only the government — not private citizens — can sue to enforce protections against racial discrimination in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
TONIGHT: @weissmann.substack.com joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
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Mr. Eisen will be Jen Psaki's guest on The Briefing coming up next hour. 9pmET on MSNBC!
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In “Mob Boss in the White House,” guest host @jonathanalter.bsky.social w/ @peterbakernyt.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social & @sykescharlie.bsky.social take on Trump’s power grab, the week’s firings, the elusive Ukraine deal & why his mob-boss tactics still work. bit.ly/MobBossTF
"But it’s not just the individual threats that weigh on us. It’s the sheer volume. The autocrat’s playbook isn’t just about single acts of repression; it’s about creating a dozen crises at once. This is not incompetence; it is a strategy," explains tonight's guest @ianbassin.bsky.social
What’s so woke about Cracker Barrel? The restaurant chain caves to MAGA backlash by walking back its logo redesign and quietly scrubbing DEI and LGBTQ+ pages.
'Taxation without representation': Prof. @tribelaw.bsky.social breaks down Trump's loss on tariffs in appeals court youtu.be/4YRXO2oUtwU?...
If you missed Andrew Weissmann on The Last Word, it is archived here (via GDELT Project): archive.org/details/MSNB... @weissmann.substack.com
The convicted felon gets secret service protection and is also the sitting president. Make it make sense!
The incredible Sue Gordon ! Take a listen to her take on Trump and his use of the word dictator and what it means!
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My privilege to speak with Sarah Longwell on The Bulwark and be a poor man’s George Conway open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
"You know who can die without vaccines? Republicans and Democrats, MAGA supporters and people who are against MAGA. This is just a health issue. It's not a political issue." @weissmann.substack.com (in for George Conway) talks Trump's latest power grabs with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:
Joining @velshi.com tonight: @alsobrooks.senate.gov Dr. Nirav Shah @weissmann.substack.com @genesperling.bsky.social @martinomalley.bsky.social #LastWord
"Anger can turn into activism... Activism can turn into pressure on elected officials and that pressure can turn into laws. It's not hopeless at all." Watch Jen Psaki's powerful remarks on turning anger over today's tragedy in Minneapolis into action against American gun problem.:
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Think New Mexico isn’t fighting for patients, they’re fighting for private equity. There’s a doctor shortage because Wall Street buys up community hospitals, guts staff, and turns ERs into cash cows. Patients wait 16 hours for care while profits soar. Private equity is strip-mining hospitals.
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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Take a listen before you throw that sandwich!
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A different place indeed ! The lines between law and lawlessness are starting to blur with the Trump retribution tour pushing every law to the limit. They have no boundaries. Keep on them Andrew and Mary! Thank you !
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If a president can fire a Fed governor on accusation, not cause, monetary policy shifts from the Fed to the White House. Goodbye independent Fed; hello maga Fed, and watch decades of hard-won credibility turns to dust. Posting the entire interview on youtube as an experiment. youtu.be/DpSqbqQde3Y
"Acosta took what was a prepared, 60-count federal indictment that could have landed Epstein in prison for the rest of this life many times over, and turned it into the sweetest plea bargain in the world." Rep. Raskin previews why congressional Democrats are so eager to hear from Alex Acosta.
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
"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."
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Not tired of winning!🥳
Thank you for listening!
One of the most important lines from the hearing. Note: The Trump admin never disputed that it did that, and there's now a public paper trail confirming it, in exhibits to Abrego's criminal case.
New Executive Order (Aug. 25, 2025) - despite its name - reaches far beyond DC in potential use of the U.S. military inside and across the United States. Link: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Highlight of some key provisions⬇️
One crucial front in the war against fascism will be the right to photograph police. The cops have always hated that right and they and their various lickspittles will push back at it at every turn.
My take on the Ghislaine Mexwell proffer - www.instagram.com/reel/DNwLJPP...
Andrew your mantra is good on every take! Facts matter! Maxwell has everything to gain from lying and nothing to lose!
"The defense official who spoke to The Associated Press said only troops on certain missions would carry guns, and that would include those patrolling to establish a law enforcement presence throughout the capital." only throughout the capital
A dangerous decision. "Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms... Some units on certain missions would be armed — some with handguns and others with rifles." apnews.com/article/trum...
Thank you for the update Ryan! Terrifying!
6/6 I started this thread with everyone should be held to same standard of accountability. So to end: "Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida." bsky.app/profile/rgoo...
5/ One of more remarkable parts of timeline surfaced by @kfile.bsky.social: Maxwell's "renewed scrutiny spurred top Clinton aide Doug Band to instruct an aide in an October 2011 internal email to 'remove Ghislaine, from all lists' for Clinton-related events according to information seen by CNN"
Big 1: Everyone should be held to the same standard of accountability - regardless of party. Big 2: Imperative to release all the Epstein files to get to the bottom of this. 3: Key points about Clinton-Maxwell timeline ... (see thread) (@kfile.bsky.social report) 🧵1/ www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/p...
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
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NEW: DOJ has released a transcript of Todd Blanche’s interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Read it here: www.justice.gov/storage/audi...
What’s the difference between Donald Trump and the leader in George Orwell’s 1984? Listen in for our takes as the Civil Discourse community reads 1984 together. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Candidly, one would think that would happen but it often does not, especially in national security cases. I've had clients fully cooperating with FBI and suddenly their house is the subject of a search warrant at 6 am. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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Trumps justice department releasing any info on the Epstein files now is like asking a thief to hold your purse!
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
Trump defied a subpoena and conspired to hide the illegally retained classified documents and destroy evidence. Garland made the call to execute the warrant and a judge signed off after being presented with evidence of a crime, and evidence of a crime was found. That’s why Mar a Lago was searched.
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Commercial #spyware poses significant harms to privacy and civil liberties. In our new series with the Atlantic Council, “Legal Frameworks for Addressing Spyware Harms,” Nadine Farid Johnson lays out a policy roadmap for redress in U.S. courts. www.justsecurity.org/118704/polic...
Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! That’s like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. There’s no “rest of the voyage” if we hit the damn iceberg!
@weissmann.substack.com Andrew Weissmann: Trump DOJ's slow release of Epstein files is 'such a crazy way to proceed'
Come join us! open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Trump "stole five congressional seats today": State Rep. John Bucy III (D-Texas) joins The Weeknight from the Texas House as Republicans passed a controversial redistricting plan following Democrats’ return from their walkout.
NEWS: Federal judge finds that Alina Habba is NOT lawfully performing functions and duties of U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Judge Matthew Brann disqualifies Habba from prosecution of two criminal defendants who challenged her appointment
It’s no coincidence that the Big Ugly Bill cut SNAP-which feeds 42 million Americans (including millions of children)-by $186 billion Trump is taking the money that would’ve been allocated to feed starving children and is using it to create his own corps of brownshirts instead
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Always great info on the current happenings from Andrew and Mary! The culinary anecdotes were a welcome diversion!
"The actions add up to an unprecedented attempt by a sitting president to interfere in a critical election before it’s even held, moves that have raised alarms among those concerned about the future of U.S. democracy..." apnews.com/article/trum...
"Ms. Gabbard, on orders from President Trump, fired the scientist, who was a leading government expert on artificial intelligence, cryptology and advanced mathematics." This looks damaging to USA and wrong-headed for so many reasons. If only there were a Congress to investigate such actions.
"Among other changes announced by Gabbard, the restructuring eliminates the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which monitors foreign efforts to influence the US public." ODNI Fact Sheet here: www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d... www.bbc.com/news/article...
When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
🎶 $787.5 million dollars How do you measure, measure the lies? 🎶
Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened: www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
Team Eric Adams Get Through Entire Day Without Any New Crimes Challenge
So Bongino now has a assigned babysitter. Won’t this hurt his big tuff guy image? How long will he put up with that ? Interesting.
"It is a clear sign that this administration picked somebody who they think is unqualified and incapable of doing the job." @weissmann.substack.com reads between the lines on why the FBI needed a co-deputy director for Dan Bongino. (Rep. Goldman suggests what else might be going on.)
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2/ Federal court also faults the Government for not giving victims adequate notice.⬇️ What makes that foul even more aggravating and traumatic: It repeats past Executive Branch/DOJ sidelining and disregard of Epstein's victims, from which they and their lawyers fought back.
Another federal court calls out Government request to release grand jury transcripts as a "diversion." "The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials." Real transparency: DOJ can release the Epstein files.
Judge Berman writes: "The Government committed that it would share its Epstein investigation materials with the public." The court refers to this February 27, 2025 DOJ statement.⬇️ Note the commitment including only redactions would be to protect victims. Why did Attorney General Bondi-DOJ change?
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Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
😳 It’s always good to put would-be criminals on notice of what kind of guns they can carry without fear, prosecution, but good to know the administration cares about all of the hunters in DC www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS has denied a trio of emergency applications by Tennessee death-row inmate Kayle Bates—who’s scheduled to be executed tonight. Among other things, this means the current (October 2024) Term has now had more full Court rulings on emergency applications than any other.
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TONIGHT: @weissmann.substack.com joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
Worth a read. 🔽 Given that the Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that the Trump Administration has denied immigrants their constitutional due process right, one would think that would be good and sufficient reason for local city & state governments not to assist in that endeavor, no?
"It won’t be a just deal as long as any part of Ukraine is under Russian occupation. But it could be a sustainable deal." Always read Ambassador Dan Fried (@ambdanfried.bsky.social)
2/ "The worse territorial option would be a territorial settlement including new, formal international borders. That would reward territorial aggression and undermine decades of U.S. policy not to do so." www.justsecurity.org/119273/trump...
Wow what an amazing and extensive time line! Those Epstein files must be horrifying! Thanks Ryan!
If you see someone with 🫘 in their name, they're letting you know they listen to the Daily Beans. It's free. There's appropriate swearing. And you can get all the important news without rage or fear. Today we speak with Swing Left about the CA ballot initiative! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
1/ We put enormous effort into this: Comprehensive Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) Important findings. Some will be new to many, including close observers All levels of government. 3 decades. #GhislaineMaxwell #EpsteinFiles #Corruption 🧵
ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
Take a listen to Mary and Joyce!
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Love this Sue! Thank you ! Spot on!
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I would literally pay good money for a reporter to quote this and ask Leavitt on Monday how Vladimir Putin knew the "real" unreported 2020 numbers well enough to tell Trump he won by so much.
[They] "began quietly setting up shop on Instagram over the past two years. The Tech Transparency Project, which monitors extremism online, identified nearly 200 .. accounts as “militia related” and categorized dozens of those as part of this new generation of Christian nationalist militias."