Blanche lied to the Senate

The judge ruled that the word "settlement" cannot be used to describe that Trump shenanigan to rob the US Treasury but Blanche persists

Claiming to oppose "situational ethics," Tillis slams the prosecutions of Trump and certain Jan. 6 rioters — and stays mum on the collapsed, vendetta prosecutions of Comey, James, & Abrego; the no-bills of six Dem senators for reciting the law; and quashed subpoenas against MN officials & Powell.

Maxwell was being threatened... so we moved her from a low-security Federal Correctional Institution to a minimum-security Federal Prison Camp

GOP senators stayed on message about an imaginary wave of anti-conservative prosecutorial bias under Biden, backed by nothing but their opinions that certain cases were unjust. Meanwhile, several concrete examples of judges, juries, and grand juries rejecting Trump DOJ corrupt cases got no airtime.

“A city can reconsider a surveillance contract it signed, but it has far less control over a privately built network that already covers its streets.”

Online commenter shuts down FBI agents.

🇺🇸❗️Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump's teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president's speeches to win more than $100,000, — ABC News

Market manipulation for sale - Truth Social to sell trading firms 'fastest' access to Trump's posts www.reuters.com/technology/t...

Lethal rapists, Inc

Canadian wildfire smoke concentrations will be higher Friday, with a Code Red air quality alert in effect.

Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."

A reminder that a University of California study found that 80% of mass shootings/spree killings perpetrated by men were preceded by violence against women. Either their mothers, wives, girlfriends, or another female relative

Fun fact, $1,000 baby bond would pay, at T-bill rates, yields about $2,000 in eighteen years, not, as our president claims, $100,000.

Trump was in charge in 2020 when all the foreign interference he alleges happened

Why would a noncitizen stick their neck out and intentionally illegally vote, with deportation as the penalty (plus criminal sanctions), to have a minuscule impact on an election? It would be completely irrational (and it basically never happens).

Voters may not really matter now. He's recruiting strong men with guns.

… Remember when Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort gave a bunch of internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent? I was just thinking about that for some reason.

This speech is quite literally an impeachable offense. The President is trying to undermine faith in US elections and to delegitimize the elections of public officials.

NEW: We reported two years ago that Chicago police had made 200,000 secret traffic stops, failing to disclose them as required by law. Chicago police then admitted the problem, & promised to 'fix' it in a legislative hearing. We just investigated again: The problem... got WORSE.

one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

Bout time

Isn’t it weird that Trump’s speech never mentioned Russia – probably the single biggest perpetrator of election influence?

about the wildfires: water quality can suffer for *years* after wildfires, since ash and contaminants that get left on the surface after a fire can be swept into waterways after big rains or snowmelts. droughts can extend this. spending on water infrastructure not keeping pace with climate crisis

NYT nails it.

President Trump has no legal authority over elections and is running out of plays, so he has resorted to rehashing old tropes and nothingburgers. The only way his administration's campaign to undermine our elections works is if voters stay home this fall.

Said this lots of times in lots of venues, but: Trump created an enormous economy — both for money and attention — with his claims of fraud in 2020. Lots of people (D'Souza, Lindell) cashed in. Countless others tried to. But six years later, no evidence of fraud has emerged. None. The end.

All of this applies to accepting their naming, and therefore their framing, for their piece of shit bill to keep people from voting and keep votes from counting. Only thing this bill "saves" is Trump's criminal ass from consequences. It's the Voter Elimination Act.

"After consulting with my client and his family, our understanding is that this was granulated salt, which is paired with lemon and water as a homemade electrolyte mix used by outdoor workers in extreme Texas heat, not methamphetamine or any other illicit substance,” said Ruby Powers,

Just 10 billionaires have already poured over $600 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's Big Money.

What could go wrong?

Say, what? Paxton had been picking up $$ on the side? For whom & what?

🚨BREAKING: The Republican-led North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) approved a plan Thursday to make it significantly easier for county election officials to throw out votes. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.

"That death drive exists within each of us, eternal and inextinguishable." This is kind of what Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is about. (And it's not the only Nolan film about that, either.)

Greed and lack of integrity: a potent cocktail

They are building data centers on top of enslaved people in Stafford county Virginia… 'Don't dig up the dead' | Stafford County woman fights to protect historic cemetery from proposed data center development

It gets worse: “David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - AP Exclusive: ICE officer who shot Maine migrant has history of threatening behavior, family and court documents say.

I do kind of wish that more people realized that the reason why other countries are better at holding their dictators accountable than the US is because their recent histories are full of the kinds of horrors Americans only read about in books

Foreign students have not had enough stress or unrealistic expectations yet…let’s add more

all ICE does is lie to smear the innocent people they murder

Sen. Ossoff: Tonight, Donald Trump, the world's most famous sore loser, will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election.

This is close to the FBI's current investigation of the empty reflecting pool

Trump is trying to invent reasons to interfere in the 2026 midterms because he knows the GOP is losing. Join the Hands Off Our Vote movement: indivisible.org/campaigns/ou...

Tonight is a critical moment for our democracy. Trump is going to use his address to lay the groundwork to interfere in our elections. Follow the facts. Don’t let him mislead you. Our elections are secure and freely administered.

Three incidents "are an affront to the most fundamental democratic principle, that with the awesome power of the state to inflict violence upon its citizens comes the grave responsibility to use it judiciously and only as a last resort." Today's Triad, from @timmiller.bsky.social (link in reply)

Operating via threats like the Mob they are

We’ve known for years that foreign governments have attempted to influence our elections – many supporting President Trump. But the fact is, the IC resoundingly found that no foreign governments successfully interfered in the 2020 election.

Charlottesville Tomorrow reports on a major ICE operation in Virginia that was assisted by local police, one week before a law restricting cooperation with ICE took effect: