NEW: I explain the details of the order requiring Acting AG, Todd Blanche, to produce by July 2nd specific unredacted documents from the Epstein Files, incl. FBI interview notes of a woman who alleges sexual & physical abuse by Felon Trump when she was just 13 years old. youtu.be/xfR0hDLsTm8?...

We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience

he is not wrong

“Bill Pulte has installed as his chief of staff a woman who worked on election-related issues for the Republican National Committee…Pulte’s decision is likely to further fuel concerns that he intends to focus on hunting for election fraud at the behest of Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

Trump’s America

More Evidence that Harmeet Dhillon's Team Fabricated Their Entire Case against Georgia Fort emptywheel.net/2026/06/26/m...

Wow. ca.news.yahoo.com/judge-corner...

The October 2024 cover of The Economist:

FREE LINK for this scary story by @jessicanix.bsky.social -- the US sent Ebola responders to Africa with just 90 minutes to full safely training > www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW: The Meltdown Blowing up a bill signing. A shouting match with a GOP senator. A sparely attended rally. Iran tensions. NATO broadsides. And - oh, yes - that green reflecting pool One day that captures how Trump has gone from unpredictable to chaotic: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A federal judge has just ordered DOJ to turnover five categories of items from the Epstein Files that it previously failed to disclose by July 2 in a lawsuit brought by Katie Phang. Read the details here: joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-a-...

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is such a disturbing flex. He’s basically acknowledging that he and Trump have raised the bar on what scandals presidents can get away with so much that Watergate was nothing compared to them today. True. But yikes.

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) sued Michigan Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson (D) Tuesday to block protections that make it harder for partisan poll challengers to interrupt the state’s ballot-counting process. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"That's it?" -- Durbin confronts a Trump DOJ nominee named Konstantinos Ligris with some of his tweets -- including calling Walz "tampon Tim," Biden officials "retarded," and referring to cops as "dumb as dirt" -- and Ligris doesn't even try to defend them, leaving Durbin dumbfounded

One day after a Delta Air Lines flight aborted a landing at Logan Airport to avoid a potential crash, a second Delta flight pulled up abruptly before landing and performed a maneuver called a go-around Sunday because another aircraft was still clearing the runway, according to the FAA.

PETERS: If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list to the federal govt, will Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule? STEINER: No PETERS: So it basically coerces states to hand over their absentee voter rolls or face consequences of not being able to vote by mail

Affordable housing held hostage for voter suppression. This is authoritarianism on full display.

The man is so dedicated to stealing elections he won’t pass bills that help him politically

🚨BREAKING: Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

This is great story by colleague @noupside.bsky.social . It dissects not just of this particular Tulsi smear, but the whole genre of Tulsi's smears—and, indeed, the whole genre of conspiracy theorist smears used to defame so many decent people every day. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

... Haberman and Swan report that the Secretary of State called Netanyahu’s plan ‘bullshit.’ The C.I.A. director declared it ‘farcical.’ Whatever. ‘Sounds good to me, the President told the Prime Minister.’ Everyone fell into line. Well played, sir!”

“Netanyahu assured the President that together they would topple the Iranian regime and end its nuclear ambitions before it ever had a chance to close the Strait of Hormuz. ...

Don't be fooled by the fact that none of today's 5 #SCOTUS rulings were "big" ones. Four of them split the Court along its usual 6-3 ideological lines—one of which guts accountability for human rights abuses; one that makes it harder to enforce Spending Clause statutes; and one that's bad for LPRs.

Dolezal said he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with altered signatures — including forms signed by children — and then used the fact that they received ballots to argue that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Warner: Pulte could claim, whether there’s a source of intelligence or not, that China is going to do X. He could claim that there might be a terrorist threat around polling stations. All of it could be used as an excuse to try to shut down the election.

*10 years in prison for touching the reflecting pool* *pardons for burning the Capitol Building*

Trump's latest ploy: Nationalize control of the elections using United States Postal Service @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Reup, from this weekend: The Reflecting Pool Arrests Are an Attempt to Cover Up Trump's Corruption emptywheel.net/2026/06/21/t...

A federal judge threw out the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit seeking Maryland’s statewide, unredacted voter registration list, dealing another blow to President Donald Trump and the department’s sweeping campaign to obtain voter data from the states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“This is a 5-alarm fire, and we need people, everyone, to first of all, understand the implications of these new policies and make sure that you reach out and make your voice heard,” said Carolyn Bertozzi, Nobel laureate, about the new OMB rule https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20260612_1/

Sen. Dave McCormick: "Folks in Pennsylvania support the president's actions in Iran" (every poll indicates this is false)

Actual journalists would write “Trump tries to avoid blame for Reflecting Pool fiasco, blaming imaginary ‘vandals’; Law enforcement obliges him by arresting tourists.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran that, in article 1, explicitly forbids the US and Iran from threatening each other. He did not have to sign that, but he did. And he touted it. Almost immediately he violated it, and the Iranians used that to their advantage.

If Trump went within eyeshot of the Reflecting Pool, there must be media pool notice of that fact and photographic evidence of it, right? Right?

Ossoff: Because in our time, what those who build ballrooms and monuments to themselves, who rake in billions through foreign princes while the people's savings vanish, along with their hospitals, what they hate the most is when the people try to hold them accountable at the polls.

Legal impunity for the president's allies - more and more brazen

"God created them fools"

The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on mail voting is heating up. And Democracy Docket is covering it more closely than any other news outlet. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Dear newspaper editorial boards: At what point do you call for him to be removed from office? Are we not there?

A new study by Katherine Pompilio reveals for the first time that almost one in 16 Jan. 6 insurrectionists subject to the president’s clemency order has been arrested for and charged with—and in the vast majority of cases convicted of—other crimes.