fuck this, support independent media!!

Happy Holidays! A gift to you from me, @yuniorarivas.bsky.social and @jimsaksa.com: We pored over dozens of pages of DOJ legal filings to pull out the breathtaking sloppiness. Misspellings, grammatical errors, sending letters to the wrong officials, and more. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

gracing the timeline with my face and my best friend, America’s Greatest Soccer Writer™️, @mlsist.bsky.social.

tbh, I don't really care what Trump wants to call the Kennedy Center. I mourn the wonderful programming that's been lost. I've seen some of the greatest performances of my life there: Philip Glass leading an ensemble performing a live score of Koyaanisqatsi, Solange + Sun Ra Arkestra, Suzanne Ciani.

Trump personally directing the Justice Department to go after his foes brings a whole new meaning to "trumped-up charges."

Too bad that only Congress has the power to change the name of the Kennedy Center 🤷‍♂️

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read my dude @ronmknox.bsky.social in @thenation.com !

In other worrying news... Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach. ✍️: @mattdcohen.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach — after Trump issued a legally unenforceable “full pardon” last week.

Well this is alarming... Eric Neff, a Republican attorney with a web of ties to election-conspiracy theorists, is the new acting chief of the voting section at the U.S. Department of Justice. ✍️: @mattdcohen.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

remember when I wrote a dang comic. a cool thing I always wanted to get out there finally done this year

Meet Brittany Bennett, the DOJ’s new voting lawyer with a record of promoting false conspiracy theories. And she was a key player behind a 2024 GOP effort to ban Georgia from using Dominion voting machines.

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absolutely wild @dfriedman.bsky.social story. read the whole thing!!

Pardons are just, like, your opinion man

OMFG

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This happened because Trump couldn't shut the eff up. incredible. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

It looks like ~30 no votes, so Indiana is rebuffing Trump's demands for a gerrymander!

Looks like MyPillow CEO/election denier Mike Lindell has, uh, soft launched his Minnesota gubernatorial campaign at one of his pillow factories.

who are the 5% of democrats that approve of Trump's job? are they all just Fetterman voters?

NEW: The DOJ has launched a sweeping civil rights investigation into Colorado’s prison system. And it’s signaling that the probe is part of President Donald Trump’s effort to free the election denier Tina Peters. ✍️: @mattdcohen.bsky.social, @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

This isn't @mattdcohen.bsky.social's first story on Neff. Last week, he revealed that Neff's conspiracy-addled prosecutorial flight of fancy had cost Los Angeles County a cool $5 million.

Wild new reporting from @mattdcohen.bsky.social: GOP lawyer Eric Neff, who recently took on a leading role in the DOJ’s push to obtain state voter records, briefly represented Patrick Byrne, the prominent election-conspiracy theorist who aided President Trump’s effort to steal the 2020 election.

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NEW, from me: One of DOJ's newest voting lawyers once brought bogus charges against a election software company based of conspiracy theories from a far-right election denier group. Charges were dropped and the company sued. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wow. Quite a story from @mattdcohen.bsky.social. A Republican lawyer who recently took on a leading role in the DOJ effort to obtain state voter records was put on leave as a prosecutor in Los Angeles County after bringing charges based on information from far-right election conspiracists.

RELEASE THEM

Prominent right-wing figures are calling on the military to free election denier Tina Peters from prison after the Colorado Department of Corrections said last week it would not release her into federal custody per the DOJ’s request. ✍️ @mattdcohen.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Colorado told the DOJ to “take a hike,” becoming the latest state to reject the DOJ’s request for private voter data. Read an exclusively-obtained email from the DOJ revealing its push to access the state’s “unredacted voter registration” information👇 https://bit.ly/3XyxtF8

Colorado joins the ranks of other states to tell DOJ to pound sand when it comes to trying to seize voters' private data: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.

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The best Scorsese. Sorry ¯\(ツ)/¯

NEW: For the first time in nearly five years, Georgia hasn’t enacted any new anti-voting laws. Instead, Republicans spent the year laying the groundwork to pass an avalanche of voter suppression laws next year that would radically alter elections in the Peach State. ✍️ @mattdcohen.bsky.social

NEW: Pro-voting advocates say North Carolina's student-voting restrictions stem from a pressure campaign by Trump ally Cleta Mitchell, who complained in a deposition that "college students can just roll out of bed, vote, and get back into bed.” ✍️ @mattdcohen.bsky.social

absolutely essential reading by my colleague @jimsaksa.com

absolutely wild interview on several different levels www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsi5...

OUT: taking photos of the band at the gig IN: sketching the band at the gig (love this portrait someone drew of me and my bandmates at our show last night. beautiful!)

how it feels logging into bluesky this morning and seeing all you mfs vagueposting about what i think you’re vagueposting about

Well that Mamdani-Trump press conference was truly surreal.

SCOOP: obtained the agenda and notes from a secretive summit held last week by some of the nation’s top anti-voting activists and election deniers. during the confab, they outlined how they’re pushing to cut early and mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!” So begins the most unhinged dissent I have ever read, in the Texas gerrymandering ruling that came down yesterday.

yesterday: TX racial gerrymandering ruling today: NC racial gerrymandering hearing

And you can read the story featured in Picture A (left) here: www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

Good morning everyone! Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.

Like 4 years @totalvibration.bsky.social and I did a Goo Goo Dolls cover band for Halloween and it was really fun, then a couple months ago Lars brought the Goos to the Tiny Desk and that was also really fun. Thanks for playing fun cover bands with me Lars and the bringing them to the Tiny Desk!

This is wild: My dad sent me this screenshot from the John & Yoko documentary that came out last year; he was watching it and saw himself in archival footage of George Wallace protests in Maryland, the day Bremer tried to assassinate him.