NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Democrats can’t just be anti-Trump. To be credible leaders and earn the trust of voters, we must have an affirmative vision for the future of our country. Join me as I offer my vision for America’s diplomacy and global leadership:

Same energy

I am trying to figure out if legacy media lets Republicans lie without correction because they think it's good journalism or because they don't know the facts well enough to point them out. Either way, if you value the truth and pro-democracy coverage, support Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Page One in Miami: “.. taking a wrecking ball to the approval process in an echo of the strategies that he deployed in Palm Beach and New York ..” @miamiherald.com

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Holy moly! Nice reporting here from @juddlegum.bsky.social / @popular.info, republished by @motherjones.com

I'm teaching an entire course right now on US democratic decline and this account just ... just tweeted it out.

If North Carolina enacts this new map, it will be sued. I don't bluff and I usually win.

North Carolina moved closer Tuesday to dismantling a historically Black congressional district in a move one of its former representatives described as “blatant discrimination.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Tragedy was averted in Atlanta because a gunman opted to live stream his plans to shoot up the airport, and his family reported him to authorities. They found an assault rifle and 27 rounds of ammo in his truck. It’s time to deal with the guns. No one needs an assault rifle or 27 rounds of ammo.

📽️ VIDEO: Donald Trump wants to be king, and @ericswalwell.bsky.social (D-CA) is leading the opposition. In our latest podcast episode, Swalwell sounds the alarm on Trump’s strategy to protect himself and undermine American democracy ahead of the 2026 election. https://youtu.be/S2jKnfkgyXA

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Since 8 million people protested Tangerine Palpatine on Saturday, he’s doing everything he can to take back control of the narrative by getting you mad about bulldozing the White House and shitting on everyone.

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

for context this is paoletta, the fixer who helped arrange and then defend Clarence Thomas's various sweetheart deals, gifts and billionaire vacas

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅ Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅ Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅ Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅ #Ugh🤢✅

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.   During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

The first look at the scale of Disney backlash after it suspended Kimmel. Wow>> “Antenna estimated a total of 3 million cancellations for Disney+ and 4.1 million for Hulu in September. Both of those figures far exceeded the trailing three-month averages for the services” www.wsj.com/business/med...

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

It’s book launch day for Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, my first book. I hope you’ll read it or listen to it. a.co/d/43dbybC

"The White House account has drawn only around 12,000 followers. More than 100,000 users have the account blocked."

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The White House and federal agencies set up accounts on Bluesky last Friday. I already blocked them all. According to @wired.com they instantly became the most blocked.

It’s beyond pathetic. The mainstream media, on the whole, is comprised of feckless cowards and shameless hypocrites.

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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I’m actually way more than just a little suspicious. I know what he’s doing and I bet you do too.

If you think the White House looks desecrated now, wait until the airplane hanger ballroom starts to take shape.

It’s Never Just a Joke www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o.... Gift.

Given that everyone at treasury was told to keep their mouth shut and not take any pictures. I’d say that the odds of him having spoken to anybody at NPS or the Historical Association approximately 1 billion to one.

More than any other publication @propublica.org is rising to this moment. So many legacy newspapers still cower in equivocation and shy away from simply reporting the facts in their terrible details. Bravo @charlesornstein.bsky.social and the team. They make history. Support @propublica.org today.

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

See also: news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

Yes, I am awake at 4:30 AM —sick at heart—making posts about the demolished East Wing of the White House. I just…can’t.

This is who is paying for this destruction. bsky.app/profile/aozo...

They are churning up valuable architectural elements, windows, trim, lighting fixtures, probably more that belong to us. Doors that Presidents have walked through since 1904 (2nd floor 1942) and we're just sending them to the landfill. This is a grotesque waste. It's our house.

That's the historical part, for sure. I was surprised by my reaction to the Notre Dame fire, being sad than I would've expected about a building half a world away. But that fire wasn't intentionally set by the most powerful fascist in the world. It's a sickly feeling to know he'll keep going.

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting. I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him. Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

"Trump has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century...." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing