When the Republican National Committee (RNC) called for an army of 100,000 poll watchers in 2024 – in alignment with the Trump campaign’s prejudicial declarations of voter fraud – Norton was tapped to serve as its election integrity director. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...

1/ I have to correct some misinformation here. The stakes are too high. We aren’t going bankrupt. It's a totally unfounded and incendiary suggestion, especially for a news outlet to make. Also, they’re fundraising for themselves off of our bruises? Oof. Mercenary in the guise of being supportive.

Subscribe for the news you need, not the noise. Here's just some of what you missed last week: —-> Trump’s gutted the agency tasked with keeping illegal guns off the street —-> ICE raids shrank local economies, destroyed businesses Americans own and run, and cost American-born workers their jobs.

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The machinery of bullshit has indeed become part of the political infrastructure of this country. Great article explaining how this works and what this means for the Department of "Justice" in the second Trump administration: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

My latest for Truthout. Black job loss due to structural racism in Trump 2.0 truthout.org/articles/bla...

People died for the Voting Rights Act.

Democrats Flirt with Radical Reforms Needed to Dethrone Supreme Court talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democra...

The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower. That audit could have cost him more than $100 million. (From May 2024 w/ @nytimes.com)

Thurgood Marshall in the early 90s warned about the dangers of bad-faith legalism on the Supreme Court and Republican appointees' willingness to use originalism as a cudgel against 20th century progress. I wrote about it for @liberalcurrents.com. www.liberalcurrents.com/thurgood-mar...

guess what, if you join a protest, you’re criminally responsible for everything anyone does.* *you’re not, this is a bizarre conflation of civil vicarious liability with criminal law

This is so pathetic. DOJ is 0-6 in lawsuits to gain access to state voter roles. It couldn't find any legal authority for its claims so it wrote its own memo to cite to the 6th Circuit. SAD! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“Jackson’s dissent prompted Alito to write a concurring opinion that is more or less an angry blog post about how much Jackson had hurt his feelings.”

Christian nationalists have already taken over the "America 250" history narrative with Trump's full approval & taxpayer funding. Now this: Credit to @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social for holding corporations to account. She's a must follow if you don't already. www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...

Another Republican Governor is refusing to bend to Donald Trump’s demand to rig their elections in his favor. trib.al/XKb97Lu

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

These used to be highly sought after jobs. Now they are offering ICE bonuses.

The Trump regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, but its capacity is not. In corrupting DOJ, changing it from a law enforcement org into a try to hurt people the president personally dislikes org, they've reduced their prosecutorial capacity to the point of desperation.

absolutely thrilled to say I told you so

JCK is the Nellie Bowles of Thomas Chatterton Williamses 🤷🏽‍♀️

Happy National Cartoonist Day! We're celebrating the work of @anntelnaes.bsky.social on the same day DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE is launching in the US on Kinema.com! democracyundersiegedoc.org/watch Featuring: @hcrichardson.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @profmmurray.bsky.social @elienyc.bsky.social

These stories and more are in my latest newsletter. Subscribe for the news you need, not the noise. → Texas Tech bans students from writing about LGBTQ+ topics → Iran war us costing about $1 billion a day → You really shouldn't look away from just how bad data centers are for climate change

It's impossible to look at the firing of FOIA officials after the release of a declassified memo in response to FPF's records request "as anything other than inappropriate retaliation for a lawful FOIA release," FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social told @notus.com.

Brazil’s competition watchdog unanimously decided Thursday to open a formal investigation into Google’s use of news content, including in its AI Overviews, without compensation to publishers, reports Laís Martins.

What's funny is that PBS took one look at this collaborationist AP story, decided to publish it and thought, "You know what? We can make that headline even better with a skeet."

Miss these stories last week? They’re in my latest newsletter. Subscribe for the news you need. → Trump sending Afghan allies to Congo → Election officials worried about security, erosion of gov support → MSM refuses to contextualize Kushner corruption open.substack.com/pub/publicen...

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

Norah O’Donnell, Jan Crawford, Nancy Cordes, and Weijia Jiang, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. None of them should have a job in journalism, now or ever.

This is not a dilemma. The legacy media needs to spare us the bullshit, grow a backbone and get some self-respect. Don't go to a dinner with Donald Trump! Support pro-democracy media that will stand tall and not break bread with a wanna be dictator. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Peter Thiel’s “meeting with Milei is scheduled for Thursday…It will be one of the Argentine president’s first activities after returning from his official trip to Israel & the 4th meeting he has held with Thiel in 2 years.“ 4/23/26 (Thiel & Milei are likely reeling from Viktor Orban’s defeat.) 1/

Americans should prepare to hide these people in attics and basements, like Jews in World War II. We owe it to them.

It'd sure be nice if Kamala Harris' campaign organization wouldn't constantly promote Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and whatnot. But oh well.

The Florida Democrat, under indictment on charges of stealing federal funds, resigned just before the House Ethics Committee was set to hold a hearing on whether to recommend she be expelled.

"AI approach the bench, Your Honor?"

Eugenics is your policy. Got it.

#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

Reality: verifiably delusional false claims: “ended 9 wars”, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, + deranged genocidal extortion and threats “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” @nytimes.com editors sanewashing: “coercive diplomacy”

Just 26% of Americans say they approve of how the president is handling prices/inflation, 35% on jobs and the economy. His net rating is way underwater on both www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-21...

@shahanafrombk.bsky.social is the first elected official here in NYC to propose legislation following to our @wired.com investigation into Madison Square Garden's intrusive surveillance operations.

These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.

Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

Did you miss these stories last week? They’re all in my latest newsletter. Subscribe for the news you need, not the noise. → Coachella artists fund MAGA → Trump set to auto-register young men for draft → Trump admin prepares for a midterms procedural coup open.substack.com/pub/publicen...

8 in 10 AI chatbots would help 'teens' plan violent attacks. This is what our research found. That’s why Parliament must retain Baroness Kidron’s amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which require AI developers to assess & mitigate risks on AI platforms. Because unregulated AI can be deadly👇

Taught about the framing example from the AP & AFP photo captions during Hurricane Katrina, captioning the black man as "looting" and the white couple as "finding" food. Students were horrified, & wondered if journalists would do better now. I'd love to think so.. but🤷‍♀️ www.snopes.com/fact-check/h...

Did you miss these stories last week? They’re all in my latest newsletter. Subscribe for the news you need, not the noise. → 10,000 vets lost their homes thanks to Trump’s VA → Trump posts snuff video to Truth Social → Fascism expert warns of Trump’s next coup open.substack.com/pub/publicen...

Saying Republicans have a “different interpretation of civil rights” w trans issues is like saying kkk has some disagreement w black people

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41... -Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users -3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached -Exposed users older, more conservative

The perception that “news finds me” is increasingly central to political comm & democracy work. People who believe that “news will find them” even if they don’t consume it directly are less knowledgeable & less politically interested (Gil de Zuniga 2019) psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-... ALSO…