Anyone else find it suspicious that the White House is releasing a bunch of “newly discovered” findings concerning the 2020 election weeks after they conducted mass firings of career intelligence officers? 🙋‍♀️

Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂

Spain has a chance to make #FIFAWorldCup history by becoming the first nation to reign as champions in both the men's and women's World Cups simultaneously 👀🇪🇸 via espnW

More like this please, @markwarner.bsky.social

Warner: "As an American, I'm embarrassed ... we gotta decide whether we can keep our republic. And if we simply blow this off as another Donald Trump rant, we do that at our own peril"

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

California is suing the local governments of Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest, and Turlock for ignoring state housing law. We can't fix the decades-long housing crisis if a few municipalities choose to just sit on their hands.

Tonight seems to be the ceremonial kickoff of President Trump’s campaign to interfere in the November election. Trump has badly lost independent voters, even MAGA is disheartened; he is failing and unpopular, and he’s dragging his party down with him in the midterms.

ICE agents: • No vetting • No training • No bodycams • No identification (badges, uniforms, marked cars, etc) NO FVCKING ICE!

NACDL is prepared for what comes next. Our Criminalization of Voting Rights Rapid Response Team is mobilizing now to counter an expected spike in voting-related prosecutions, supporting individuals and organizations facing investigation or charges.

2. The case for new restrictions rests on a false premise. Study after study, audit after audit, and court after court have found no meaningful evidence of widespread voter fraud. Restrictions built on that premise are not election protection. They are a centralization of power.

1. The Constitution gives states the leading role in running elections. Article I, Section 4 assigns the times, places, and manner of congressional elections to state legislatures. No provision hands the President unilateral authority over how Americans vote.

OSSOFF: I heard a president who is, as always, focused on his personal shame and humiliation, and above all, focused on his personal fear of the accountability that will come when we win this fall

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Ossoff didn’t mince words: The only person who tried to steal Georgia’s election was Donald Trump. That’s the story MAGA wants everyone to forget. Donald Trump was trying to pressure officials to change the outcome after Biden won Georgia! Ossoff nailed it. #USDemocracy #Pinks

He's lost his damn mind...if that wasn't already abundantly clear by now.

Trump’s speech lying about elections and pushing old conspiracy theories that are weak by even conspiracy theory standards shows how: By democracy standards, the US is in bad shape. We’ve fallen so far. By consolidated authoritarianism standards, things don’t look so bad. This guy doesn’t have it.

Just a friendly reminder that propaganda works because it gets shared and spread, no matter the intention of the person spreading it.

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Trump’s Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He Made a Pitch to Pass the SAVE America Act But Offered No New Fed Mandates electionlawblog.org?p=157434

Senator Warner is yelling at CBS for carrying the speech as news. Also fascinating.

Mail-in voting is a secure, century-old tradition in American elections. It is not radical, and one person’s inability to accept an election loss from five years ago doesn't change the facts. Don't let lies cost you your vote. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Trump's speech was nothing. It wasn't a Reichstag Fire moment or the end of democracy or a national emergency or anything. It was a hoarse old man shouting about how wronged he is and how pathetic our country is. Nobody is listening anymore.

Trump's speech tonight was a 5-alarm fire for our democracy, our Constitution, and our country. No matter your political party, we must stand together for our democracy & fight back against this attempt to undermine it. No Kings.

haha sorry i only saw the times alert — he's saying china "compromised voter files"? like, accessed publicly available voter rolls? is that really it?

I think most of the networks must have gotten the word in advance that this was basically going to be a televised mental breakdown and for the sake of the honor of the United States declined to air it In retrospect it is obscene any media outlet anywhere in the world aired this

I am serious in saying that if you work for this man at the Cabinet level and love your country and heard this speech tonight you should be making phone calls to try to get everyone together to 25th him before midnight I'm still shaken by how utterly crazed what I just heard was

I'm watching the Trump speech because I have to for my job and it's the most batshit crazy presidential speech I've ever heard in my nearly 50 years alive Where it's coherent—which is only intermittently—it's on its face the largest tureen of turd soup any POTUS has ever served

28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.

There is no need for elections per GOP. If we win they call it fraud. This is how revolutions start. And if it does there is no one else to blame but the GOP for being traitors.

Makes sense to me.

Thomas Massie and I are introducing the Epstein Files Transparency Act 2.0 to force the release of the remaining Epstein files.

The US Senate. The greatest assisted living facility in the nation www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

🔥 Hunter Biden on Trump: “I would tell him to go fk his fking self. And please leave. This man has tried to torture me for fking ten years. The sh*t that he says about my dad." @marcofoster.bsky.social

In 2018 we had to flip 24 seats. We flipped 40. This November we need 6. Read that again. —-> SIX ‼️

This is Susan Collins giving the most feckless response to ICE killings possible. She mastered the art of saying almost nothing while people are dying. The only proper response to the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero is outrage. VOTE HER OUT

Completely—and utterly irresponsibly—unhinged.

Activism works! A must read. As of last night, there were 53,000 posted public comments on the OMB rule that seeks to codify political interference in all federal grants. An analysis shows that the public overwhelmingly rejects it. IT IS THAT BAD. 🧪 www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...

“The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.” Fleeing. The vehicle was driving away. That’s murder. A legal resident of the United States is now dead. The threat to public safety is ICE. It must be eliminated.

Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Andy Beshear says he is willing to launch a legal challenge to allow him to choose Mitch McConnell’s replacement if the senator cannot return to office. GOOD. Time to play some hardball.

BREAKING: ICE orders officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles after fatal shootings in Maine and Texas, according to a current senior DHS official and two former senior DHS officials.

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Trump’s Iran strategy abruptly reversed course Tuesday when he announced the end of his plan to charge a 20% fee on commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. To be fair, it is Taco Tuesday. apnews.com/article/abd0...

TRUMP DIARRHEA OUTBREAK: Cyclosporiasis cases are surging now across 40+ states, a severe diarrhea outbreak linked to contaminated produce. Reports indicate Trump admin CDC changes made Cyclospora surveillance optional and restructured the parasitic diseases division.

Trump is in a corner and scared so he is about to say something horrible to distract.

Remember yesterday when Trump said we would charge 20% tolls in the Strait of Hormuz? Yeah, that’s already changed. Now he says gulf states are going to “invest” in the US instead. (That’s not going to happen either, btw.)

Is your Shark Awareness Day resolution to spend 3 days on a shark research vessel with a marine biologist? I have great news for you! We’re running my open-enrollment course again this fall. You can take it for university transfer credit, or just for fun! Tag a friend who might be interested!

As the ASPCA commercial discusses the plight of animals going hungry, my suburban pet privileged cat is letting me know that he, too, is suffering. Sure, Freddie, you’re starving. #MeowToo

Oil surged after Donald Trump said he would blockade in the Strait of Hormuz again — and demand payment for cargo moving through the waterway.

BREAKING: A federal judge says President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an "improper purpose" and refers attorneys for disciplinary action.