🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist of the band Kiss, died on Thursday at 74. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem watched.

R.I.P. ACE FREHLEY

In two days, be a part of the largest peaceful protest in modern American history. Join No Kings this Saturday at an event near you to push back on Trump's power grabs and make it clear—we don't do monarchs here. nokings.org

“I think Vance’s “New Right” will carry the argument. The motivation is obvious: As long as you never criticize anyone on the right for smaller scandals, you don’t have to do the same when the consequences are much greater and involve someone like Trump himself.” www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities. Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Be part of this, show up for #NoKings on Saturday — and join up with an organization afterwards — do what you can, it matters.

Meet the Master Race! Insane GOP Telegram Chat Rips Off The Mask open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Supercut of comments from Republicans today alone about the No Kings rallies taking place this weekend. This has to be some of the worst, and most anti-American, coordinated messaging of all time.

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

NEW NORMAL: Amid constant threats, high-profile federal lawmakers are spending five- and even six-figure sums — every quarter — from their political campaign accounts for private security protection. Fresh analysis w/ @taylorgiorno.bsky.social of @notus.com: www.notus.org/money/campai...

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

It honestly blows my mind how this is all in plain sight on.ft.com/4hxfyrD

Ohio Statehouse, Ohio Book Prize for "On Freedom," very proud

The Golden Age of Corruption. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

TODAY at 10AM ET: The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act, and potentially give the GOP at least 19 more U.S. House seats that were directly created by the provision. https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

ICYMI — with electricity rates already skyrocketing, Trump just canceled the largest solar project in North America. Utah’s Republican governor seems to understand this is probably not the best idea: “This is how we lose the AI/energy race with China” 👇🏽

'1929-Inside the biggest crash in Wall Street History' by Andrew Ross Sorkin #books www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Lots of horns this am!! And 8 of us here on this Pop-up #visibilitybrigade Same message both sides promoting NO KINGS 2.0! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @aaronparnas.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @ctriverhuddle.bsky.social

47’s allies are raging over the Oct 18 "No Kings” protests. The unanimity of messaging ("terrorists") means it’s almost certainly coordinated by Stephen Miller. Yet it’s backfiring: Dems & rally organizers are using it to galvanize attendance, which will likely succeed. Free link: archive.ph/dTtxD

Trump cut a program that gave free black lung screenings to coal miners.

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Supreme Court will hear a case TOMORROW that could gut a central voting rights protection that safeguards against racial gerrymandering. We’ll be covering it live at 10 AM ET. Follow us on Bluesky @democracydocket.com for real-time updates. https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D

🚨Democracy Docket’s Jen Rice spent the past two weeks in El Paso covering a crucial hearing on whether Texas’ Trump-approved gerrymander can be used in the midterms. From the RNC’s role to a shadowy paper trail, here are the top takeaways👇 https://bit.ly/4pXR0LY

Cartoon by John Deering.

we need to abolish this shit