Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.

If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.

NEW: Trump said Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director of national intelligence, will investigate elections he falsely claimed were "rigged." Known as “Little Trump,” Pulte over the past year has used his obscure federal post to target the president's political enemies.

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

NEWS The SPLC demans a hearing to determine whether a judge should sanction prosecutors for allegedly violating grand jury secrecy by sending a draft of the superseding indictment to the press before it was docketed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MYTH: The far-right says California has “some of the most corrupt elections in the world.” FACT: There’s been no evidence whatsoever of election fraud in California’s elections. And the delay in counting votes is consistent with the state’s past reporting timeline in previous elections.

1. NEW: The Informant is back again today with a look at what former Navy SEAL Robert J. O'Neill has been up to lately. The man who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden was recently the guest of a pro-Hitler podcast hosted by neo-Nazi commentator Stew Peters. Here's a short thread. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A proudly pro-Confederate school board member sieg heiling towards her J6er III% co-worker because they’re arguing has gotta be one of the most overtly white supremacist WTF moments in the history of modern day school board meetings.

Whoopsie:Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump are taking over protected Albanian land in a $1.4 billion project to build luxury resorts and an Israeli-linked development. The Albanian prime minister changed the law to make it happen. Now his house is burning The Trump's don't know how hated they really are

1000%. I've recorded ICE trips lasting 82, 75, 69, 59 and 51 hours, just since November. All on Omni Air International. The two longest ones I confirmed with passengers and/or passengers' attorneys they were shackled the whole time. Wrote about the clot risk here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Inside access: The SpaceX IPO will make ten White House officials — ranging from Steve Witkoff to Kelly Loeffler — millions of dollars according to their most recent public financial disclosures: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The new leadership at CBS News told 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley "to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.” While legacy media capitulates to Trump, Democracy Docket's only bias is being pro-democracy. Support its work and expand its reach by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Since I'm getting accused of not reading the article, let me make it clear: I did, and my issue was with the framing, not the content. Starting with the headline: women are not the 'new' enemy of far-right extremists. Women have always been one of the central targets of the far-right. 1/

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

Commercials cost thousands of dollars and the Maine Democratic Party charges $12k for me to get contact information for Maine democratic voters. So yeah, I have been contacting as many folks as I can with postcards and emails, but we don’t all have the same access to voter information.

Once again blatantly and openly using active duty military as political props — something that would have ended any other presidency and resulted in courts martial for any military personnel who participated voluntarily. But not for our one special boy!

When insurance coverage for her husband’s lifesaving care was denied, Teressa didn’t stand down. She fought back and won. She found the secret to winning buried deep in her insurance coverage booklet. Listen to her story on "Paper Trail": www.propublica.org/podcast/heal...

Reports of an explosion heard around Boston are believed to be a significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere, a very large flash was detected by GOES-19 satellite that does not correlate with active thunderstorms. https://t.co/MSDGX6ZnMA

There are people who actually say that a voter should not vote for the person who is the less than ideal candidate in preference to the worst one because supposedly you never get progress that way. VOTING FOR THE BETTER OF THE TWO IS HOW EVERY BIT OF PROGRESS HAS EVER BEEN MADE. Sheesh.

US immigration agent arrested in Texas for Minneapolis shooting reut.rs/4dPK1zw

if one removed people who obsessively talk about teenagers' genitalia in public, a huge swathe of the conservative movement would simply vanish

Breaking news: The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn, and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

YES!!! JUDGE BLOCKS CLOSING OF KENNEDY CENTER *AND* SAYS "YOU CAN'T ADD TRUMP'S NAME"! Just now a Federal court *blocked* Trump's effort to close the Kennedy Center *and* basically said "You want to add WHOSE name next to President Kennedy's? Talk to the hand, buddy!"

Vietnam War veterans who dedicated much of their lives to U.S. government service are suing the Trump admin to halt the construction of Trump's proposed arch. Its planned height — twice of the Lincoln Memorial — would obstruct the view between the two hallowed memorials in a "disrespectful" manner.

BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

Horrific. The entire piece is well worth a read. These are PEOPLE. This part jumped out: “Delaney Hall is managed by the private prison firm GEO Group, which in February received a $1 billion, 15-year contract from ICE to hold immigrants there.”

ICYMI — Justice Alito’s son has been working in the Trump administration 🤔🤷🏼 So much corruption

Host of the “Mueller, She Wrote” podcast sued the Justice Department Thursday over its creation of the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” saying the federal government failed to follow required public comment procedures.

Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.

James Talarico is developing a new kind of politics for the era of Late Stage Trumpism. He treats it as fundamental that Trump/MAGA are wrecking our civic life at a profound moral and spiritual level. His message: A better society, a better future, is possible. newrepublic.com/article/2109...

In case you still haven't caught on. The explosions are intentional but not in the way you think. They're getting huge government contracts, spending one tenth of it making a trash firework, then they'll go back to the well end take more taxpayer money. This is not a new scam. Space X does this too

We broke the world to make it whole...

this is the funniest and least convincing way that an AI has ever been *right* about something

We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses. (Published Nov. 2025)

#birds #birbs #bird

The “Brick House” is crumbling The Commodores bow out of the 250th event in DC Event is falling apart… brick-by-brick

I can't tell if it is just willful stupidity, magical thinking, or abandoning all pretense of truth and reality to appease the orange turdwaffle. All of the above?

Every state that has the power to do this, should. Though I imagine we would watchJan 6ers flock to wholly red states to live. cbs6albany.com/news/local/a...

JUST IN: A Trump appointed federal judge has refused to block the president’s executive order to illegally limit mail-in voting, clearing the way to disenfranchise millions of voters for the upcoming midterm elections. newrepublic.com/post/211023/...

This fucking moron. ONE MORE CHEESEBURGER, PLEASE!

This does not feel unrelated to AI companies buying up warehouses of old books, devouring their data and then destroying them. It feels like another piece of a terrible puzzle.

The list just keeps growing, what the heck is wrong with these people

BREAKING 35 former federal judges move to reopen Trump v. IRS in an effort to kill the $1.776B slush fund. Doc buff.ly/1065CA7