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Writer, reader, musician, spouse, parent, companion to cats
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Marc Elias
about 15 hours ago
At this point, I think he is just trolling us.
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John Scalzi
about 16 hours ago
Fucking racist complains people are mean to him for being a fucking racist
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George Takei
about 19 hours ago
Talarico is meeting the moment with the right message.
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Duaa Eldeib
1 day ago
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns
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George Takei
1 day ago
Add lying under oath to his list of wrongdoings and crimes.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
2 days ago
The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.
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The Lincoln Project
2 days ago
Trump tore down nearly half the White House, without approval, then told you this ballroom would not cost any taxpayer money. Now, Republicans are requesting $1 Billion of your money for security features related to it.
#ballroominflation
https://bit.ly/4tdZaAg
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Republicans Make Jaw-Dropping $1B Demand for Trump’s Ballroom
The president has insisted his vanity project would be funded by wealthy donors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-make-jaw-dropping-1b-demand-for-donald-trumps-ballroom/
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Ryan H.
3 days ago
My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
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More Perfect Union
3 days ago
BREAKING: Congressman Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) is introducing a constitutional amendment to establish term limits for Supreme Court Justices. The ROBE Act would establish 18-year term limits for justices.
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Marc Elias
3 days ago
🚨BREAKING: Florida voters and pro-voting group Equal Ground Education Fund filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the GOP’s new congressional gerrymander, urging a court to block the map for violating the state constitution’s ban on partisan gerrymandering.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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‘One of the most extreme gerrymanders in American history’: Voters sue to block Florida’s new map
Florida Republicans raced to enact the map with minimal public input and despite sharp criticism from Democrats — as well as unease within their own party.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/voters-sue-to-block-floridas-new-map/
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Marc Elias
4 days ago
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tel everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks.
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Marc Elias
4 days ago
Trump and the GOP don’t care about the constitution. They only care about power. We will fight them tooth and nail to protect voters and free and fair elections.
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Marc Elias
4 days ago
I must be going to different restaurants. I have never been asked to show ID to eat.
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Laurel Krahn
3 months ago
Want to help people in Minnesota? The best place to start is:
www.standwithminnesota.com
You can donate money to people who need it, donate airline miles, send supportive messages, & read about other things to do to help or prepare your own community:
www.standwithminnesota.com/actions-to-t...
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Brilliant piece. MAGA really is dumping acid in the national swimming pool...
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Marc Elias
5 days ago
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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Marc Elias
5 days ago
If you want to help me, here is my one ask: pread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks.
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Marc Elias
6 days ago
A long day to end a long week. I am doing everything I can to spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. You can help me by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free and sharing its content with everyone you know. Thanks.
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The Lincoln Project
6 days ago
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry declared a state of emergency, not for a natural disaster, but to redraw district lines and erase a historically Black seat. This is what election manipulation looks like, and they're doing it in plain sight.
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The Lincoln Project
6 days ago
"Small businesses right now are thriving" No, they are not. Small businesses are failing. Farms are closing. Bankruptcies are spiking.
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Jamison Foser
7 months ago
John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump:
takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...
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AdotSad
7 days ago
Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this
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Nathan Goldwag
7 days ago
Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.
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Ida Bae Wells
8 days ago
There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.
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Marc Elias
7 days ago
What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.
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Marc Elias
7 days ago
How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
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Marc Elias
7 days ago
🔴PAY ATTENTION: The Governor of Louisiana is declaring an emergency to cancel an ongoing election so that his party can rig the rules moving forward. This is not just about redistricting...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Louisiana governor suspends active election to allow for gerrymander
Early voting was set to begin Saturday in Louisiana’s May 16 primary election, and mail ballots have already been sent out to voters.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-governor-suspends-active-election-to-allow-for-gerrymander/
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Max Berger
7 days ago
5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
8 days ago
My latest is up!
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SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Dissemation of the Voting Rights Act
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/scotus-drops-the-other-shoe-on-the?r=1sqa3e&utm_medium=ios
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Robert Reich
8 days ago
The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.
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Ida Bae Wells
8 days ago
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Paul Waldman
8 days ago
Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.
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This, tragically, makes so much sense. Thread:
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Chris Hayes
8 days ago
Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.
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The Onion
8 days ago
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/
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Marc Elias
8 days ago
Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservative court basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans. An absolutely mockery of the law and a stain on the court.
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Kelly
8 days ago
He murdered Renee Nicole Good. Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”. Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”. He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state. No punishment. No accountability. No justice.
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ICE Agent Who Shot Dead Unarmed Mom Quietly Reassigned as FBI Probe Stalls
DHS officials tell PunchUp the FBI needs to “s--t or get off the pot.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-agent-jonathan-ross-who-shot-dead-umarmed-mom-renee-good-quietly-reassigned-as-fbi-probe-stalls/
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Matthew Kirschenbaum
9 days ago
Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game
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A.R. Moxon
8 days ago
Lying is a virtue to fascists. Cruelty is a virtue to fascists. Violence is a virtue to fascists. Killing is a virtue to fascists. It's not inconsistent at all; it's all very consistent to the one true belief of fascists, which is domination.
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Mark Hamill
9 days ago
He hates comedy because it speaks truth to power & a malignant narcissist can't handle that. Period. End of story. With many thanks to:
@jimmykimmellive.bsky.social
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social
@latenightseth.bsky.social
@thedailyshow.com
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The Lincoln Project
9 days ago
Trump & GOP hates farmers - as gas & oil prices go up, they also are trying to stop them from saving money w/ REAP benefits. Meanwhile, farmers are reeling from tariffs, high fuel & fertilizer prices created by Trump's war.
https://bit.ly/4efxQ0Q
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Trump is blocking solar for farmers. Can the Farm Bill fix that?
REAP had been helping farmers go solar and save money since 2008, until Trump came along. A looming Farm Bill vote could seal its fate — or solve its…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/food-and-farms/trump-blocking-solar-farm-bill
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Sarah Longwell
11 days ago
Here’s Trump threatening violence, calling for his political enemies’ executions, celebrating the deaths of people he didn’t like, and otherwise casually promoting political violence. There was also the small matter of Jan. 6 and subsequent pardons for violent felons.
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molly conger
11 days ago
this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
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Marc Elias
10 days ago
I abhor violence. Unlike the president, I have never celebrated the death of others nor incited a violent mob to ransack the Capitol. I have dedicated my life to fighting for free and fair elections through lawful means: organizing, protests and litigation.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wi...
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I will not lower my voice
The media's insistence that Trump's critics are part of the problem gives cover to false equivalence — treating his lawlessness as one side of a legitimate debate.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-will-not-lower-my-voice/
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Marc Elias
10 days ago
This piece was originally published this morning for Democracy Docket members only. Democracy Docket made a decision to share it more widely because it felt too timely to keep behind the paywall.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wi...
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I will not lower my voice
The media's insistence that Trump's critics are part of the problem gives cover to false equivalence — treating his lawlessness as one side of a legitimate debate.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-will-not-lower-my-voice/
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him)
10 days ago
A student handed in a lab assignment, and one of his answers ended with "Is there anything else I can help you with?" and I want to leave teaching forever. Not only did he feel the need to ask the environment-destroying plagiarism machine, he didn't even have the motivation to delete the evidence.
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Radley Balko
10 days ago
Disqualifying
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Democrats will not focus on impeaching President Trump if they regain a majority in the lower chamber after midterm elections. Wh…
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5849707-democrats-decline-trump-impeachment/amp/
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Marc Elias
10 days ago
Donald Trump can threaten. The legacy media can scold. But I will not lower my voice in the fight for free and fair elections. My latest:
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wi...
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I will not lower my voice
The media's insistence that Trump's critics are part of the problem gives cover to false equivalence — treating his lawlessness as one side of a legitimate debate.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-will-not-lower-my-voice/
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George Takei
10 days ago
We need sunlight as a disinfectant stat.
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Matt Novak
11 days ago
“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people
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