Scott Britton with a bizarre story about "losing" his son for 15 mins as a reason for approving this Flock contract is...something. Then says we should just trust the contract to protect Cook County residents. The contract that didn't exist for the past 3 years while CCSO kept using the systems.

If I lived in Scott Britton's district of Cook County, I'd be very concerned with his ability to properly advocate for his constituents after his line of questioning today. Yikes.

@annabower.bsky.social obtained a trove of audio and video from the Fulton County investigation into Donald Trump, including never-before-seen proffer sessions with Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, and Sidney Powell. View the materials on Lawfare:

Activists sing “I ain’t gone let nobody take my vote” outside Louisiana hearing on new rigged maps. Credit @sydneysimone1.bsky.social

Today's elections are in Nebraska and West Virginia. On the ballot in Nebraska is a constitutional amendment that would extend state legislative terms, and in WV a state ballot measure that would make it harder to vote. Go to your states voting website to see your voting rights and where to vote!

#westvirginia #nebraska #gotv

EXCLUSIVE: We obtained dozens of hours of never-before-seen audio and video recordings from the investigative file in the Fulton County election interference case against Trump. Read, listen, or watch: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/new-...

update: the illinois network for pretrial justice, along with 80 community, faith, and policy organizations, have sent a letter to cook county commissioners urging them to reject briefcam, sheriff dart’s proposed ai surveillance camera system to monitor the jail for drug use.

Elon Musk calling Social Security and Medicare "wasteful entitlements" while sitting on billions… please just stfu.

🔥REP. @justinjpearson.bsky.social to @katiecouric.bsky.social: “They rigged the maps, now they’ll rig them even more because Trump doesn’t want to be impeached…most focus on congress, but ~200 majority-Black STATE seats may be eviscerated…if you’re not actively fighting you’re part of the problem.”

Trump one month before the 2024 election: “Think of it - within one year you’re gonna have electric bills and energy bills and gasoline for your cars is going to be 50% cheaper than it is right now. That’s a big thing.”

"they're here to kill us all" - strong words from the country's most brain dead senator, a highly-coveted and hotly-contested title

Secretary Duffy, his wife and nine kids took a "Great American Road Trip" to celebrate America's 250th. They say no taxpayers funded the project. But a nonprofit with transport-related sponsors did. n.pr/4uDPBf1

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Epstein Survivor hearing happening in West Palm Beach now. We stand with survivors.

The testimony from these survivors is so powerful and emotional. Stunningly raw. The continued traumatization of these victims is unforgivable.

The DOJ filed a lawsuit against Denver CO, alleging the city’s 37-year-old assault weapons ban violates the 2nd Amd. Denver restricts certain semi-automatic AR-15 type rifles and high-capacity magazines. Denver’s mayor says they’ve kept 'weapons of war' off their streets.🧵 #DemsAbroad

Kean absent again from Capitol Hill this week

Q: To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal with Iran? TRUMP: "Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody."

It was a political hire. We know that because Bari Weiss had almost no experience in brodcast news when hired. Thus: "When the season finale of '60 Minutes' airs Sunday night, it may very well mark the end of the program as it has long been known inside CBS News." www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

Once again, they insisted Obama was a narcissist because he used the pronoun "I" in speeches too much. But this? This is fine.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

HEGSETH: The destruction of Iran's defense industrial base has been clear and overwhelming SHAHEEN: It's certainly not clear to me because what we see is Iran still producing drones. We have not won this war, despite the rhetoric

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (AZ-7) has been inside ICE detention centers and she's telling the truth about the horrors she's seen. From children held at the Dilley facility to the staging grounds in Florence, the reality is far from the "orderly" narrative the administration is pushing.

People who get Social Security and Medicare from the government are not getting "entitlements"—they are getting the money they gave the government back. Unlike when Elon Musk got at least $38 billion from the government in contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits over the past two decades.

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

Remember when Joe Biden's son was excoriated for using his family name to get a simple seat on a board of directors in a foreign country? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is anyone investigating why the president keeps falling asleep in public, or do we have to wait on the tell-all book to come out?

“I don’t think about anybody” is a wild sentence for the president to utter

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

What happened to all those private donors, Donald? Americans are on the hook not only for his tariffs but also for the billion he needs for his gilded ballroom. In the meantime, he's cut your healthcare coverage and SNAP benefits all to "save" money.

Regular thief: "Your money or your life!" MAGA Murder Regime: "Why not both?"

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

President Trump wants the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted blue. He used an exemption to steer a $6.9 million contract to somebody he said had worked on his own pools, despite rules about how government money is spent, The New York Times found.

I love a good road trip, but this is brutally out of touch: a Trump Cabinet member making a documentary about himself while regular families can’t afford road trips anymore, because Trump and his war put gas prices through the roof.

US House Democrats will hold public hearing on Epstein files controversy, with testimony from Epstein survivors, on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida

more on 11-year-old Victor, his younger sister Monseratt and their stepmom, currently locked up at Dilley after being taken at their school bus stop: youtu.be/kNiOuXYo4uA?...

"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello." here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.

Not long ago, reauthorizations of the Voting Rights Act were bipartisan votes that Democratic and Republican presidents alike signed without controversy.

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

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8 years ago today, Trump ripped apart the Iran nuclear deal. Now look where we are.

I really fucking needed this. Not as bad as my client, who's been locked up by ICE for over a year. But his case really hurt and I needed to win it for him and for me.

Vote harder cause MAGA just made it harder to vote. Doesn't that make you feel empowered?