The Constitution is clear: the executive branch has no authority to set rules about how states run our elections. Our guide for advocates, lawyers, and election officials outlines exactly how they can block executive overreach in this year’s midterms. 🔗 https://protdem.org/election-advocates-2026

Birds in Donetsk are using fiber-optic drone wire to build their nests...

A new study by @katherinepomps.bsky.social 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. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Who you say you are, what you say you believe, your identity as a citizen of this country, are all on the table. “Are you prepared to stand and watch as Black political representation is erased? Do you not yet understand that this is also your fight if you have any hope of living in a democracy?”

The USPS’s newly proposed rule for the way states handle their mail-in ballots is a textbook example of the Trump administration’s strategy to override the midterms. Here's what you can do now to protect your vote: https://protdem.org/3ROdcf3

Gov Cox used to issue declarations celebrating June as Pride Month. Then he turned spineless and became just another MAGA Trump bootlicking lackey. He now designates June “Fidelity Month”. I guess the other 11 are now infidelity months

June 2, 2026 Officials in the Trump administration have worked hard to restrict the access of members of Congress to the detention centers it has established across the country. Although lawmakers have a constitutional duty to oversee executive agencies and courts have reiterated their authority….

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Gift article. Very much worth your time: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

May 31, 2026 On June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, stood up against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin and his supporters, who were undermining American democracy in a crusade against “communism.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-31-2026

By Hap Kliban, 1976

A reminder that my team is trying to bring some joy and reaffirmation of human agency to this anniversary with the 250 to 250 videos. Here's Pete Buttigieg talking about the Erie Canal, for example:

This All-American story has been repeated throughout our history in various iterations. A private venture for the rich that ignores safety concerns & threatens lives, a big rain, then a massive flood. The Johnstown Flood, killing 2,200. The rich evade accountability claiming it was an act of God.

Trump Admin Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent NYT gift article Departure of more than 10,000 federal lawyers has left some agencies without sufficient staff and has boosted the ranks of state attorneys general offices and advocacy groups Lack of attorneys to carry out his agenda bit.ly/4o08BCw

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Trump’s Autopen @anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Judge Cannon has done everything possible to keep Volume II of the Jack Smith report buried. The 11th Circuit just stepped in. I've been tracking this one for months — here's where things stand. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

TODAY IN 2024: “Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt: That the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.” manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-de...

New Goulash out! Nikola Gruevski — one of Orbán's longest-sheltered fugitives — has received Hungarian citizenship, granting him legal protection. We've also obtained specifics of how Orbán himself might seek shelter from prosecution — possibly via the UN.

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The Rich and Powerful get away with everything America is lawless

Cartoon by Drew Sheneman

This is our house. Donald Trump has turned these grounds to trash. He never should have been allowed anywhere near the levers of power. He should be removed from office now.

Today with @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @jbpritzker.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/i2VBz5o...

Today's Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/27vL9pu...

From today’s Russian papers: “The number of Russian regions with restrictions on the sale of fuel is multiplying.” The reason given? “Unscheduled repairs at oil refineries.” #ReadingRussia

May 27, 2026 In Texas yesterday, Republican primary voters chose Trump-backed state attorney general Ken Paxton over incumbent senator John Cornyn by more than 27 points to be the Republican candidate for senator. President Donald J. Trump endorsed the scandal-ridden Paxton last week after….

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

May 26, 2026 Yesterday, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) along with demonstrators outside Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed detention center in Newark, New Jersey…. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-26-2026

"I expect soon that Trump will come up with a fund to compensate those men in the Epstein files for the embarrassment they had to go through" - LP Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens

Check out this new Heather Cox Richardson channel of 1 minute US history lessons narrated by different people focusing on pivotal moments and people who moved us forward bit by bit: youtube.com/@twofiftytot... @hcrichardson.bsky.social @250to250.bsky.social

What #torch will you pick up? This @hcrichardson.bsky.social talk with @katebarrcanwin.bsky.social really struck a chord with me. We all need to engage directly w/ our own community. I plan to "adopt" a group of young voters to guide thru primaries & midterms. And you? youtube.com/shorts/EH6Q4...

May 25, 2026 Last Friday, just before the long holiday weekend, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigned, effective as of June 30, citing her husband’s recent cancer diagnosis as the factor that forced her decision.… heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-25-2026

"In September 2025, nine mosques and cultural centers in and around Paris were targeted...Bloody severed pig heads, each marked with the word “Macron” in blue ink, were left outside their front doors." This was a Russian stunt. From @occrp.org Read more: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

The state of America in four panels.

Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

Democrats shouldn’t just be focused on defeating Trump. It should be the extinction of the Republican Party They haven’t done a single thing to make the lives of ordinary Americans better in the past 40 year. The GOP is a party of, by, and for billionaire assholes

Cite this link every time you see or hear a White House racism denial. Everyone needs to remind their representatives that that Trump's proposed arch would obscure the Lincoln Memorial and highlight Robert E. Lee's house. Another sop to the racist South. Release the Trump/Epstein files.

What Russians struck: Shopping malls, markets, water treatment facilities, living quarters, train stations, museums. It is a waste of time to comment on the primitive character of this Russian state. It is a constant, just as it happens every time, when Russians are not getting what they want.

En voor wie liever een fantastische rapportage leest in plaats van naar tabellen kijkt, dit is echt een heel goed stuk over één van de meest schokkende plots die Rusland ondernemen heeft, namelijk de poging in 2024 om DHL toestellen neer te halen: vsquare.org/revealed-how...

Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words. Cartoon artist Mette Dreyer got the Pentel prise for best cartoon in 2025. Reported in today's Politiken newspaper.

Chaos, cruelty and corruption = the current administration in America.

May 23, 2026 President Donald J. Trump’s proposed triumphal arch would sit at a rotary on the Virginia side of the Arlington Memorial Bridge between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The proposed arch obscures the Lincoln Memorial….

The Republicans are the primary reason this con man is still in office. (cartoon from the archives)