The Supreme Court weaponized the Voting Rights Act against the very people it was written to protect. “Destroying Black representation in the South.” Jim Crow 3.0

Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.

We're coordinating with the fine folks at Laurel Resist to do alternate Fridays & Saturdays at Brooklyn Bridge Road, 2 miles south of Gorman on I-95. Mark your calendars for our June specials: the 5th (End Gun Violence), 6th (Honor D-Day: Defend Democracy) and 19th (Juneteenth: Let Freedom Ring!) 🦋

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Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As ICE has returned to swifter arrests across Chicagoland, internal alerts & stats collected by public defenders show courthouses have become a honeypot. Sightings near county property have continued this week, & feds abducted 1 person from Pullman court today. More from @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

NEW: Trump is going to give himself $1.7B from the treasury to pay his allies who were prosecuted under the Biden administration- including pardoned insurrectionists. This is a “settlement” deal in his $10B suit against the IRS. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Trump is poised to effectively steal $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds to pay off January 6ers and other political allies, without any oversight by Congress and despite the fact that the people who’ll be handed cash straight from our paychecks don’t have viable legal claims.

Trump's DOJ is now suing the DC Bar for disciplining top lawyers who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election. Anyone else remember when the DOJ and Attorney General were supposed to serve the American people, not serve as the president's personal attorney?

Trump’s cuts to health care are here - and they’re impacting hospitals across the state. We struck a deal to help stabilize health care at HCMC and other critical hospitals, but the threat to Minnesotans health care remains thanks to the “big beautiful bill.” www.startribune.com/205m-for-hcm...

ICE is moving forward with its plans to convert commercial warehouses into mass detention camps which may become the largest prisons in the entire country. Initially, ICE planned to open the first one by now. That never happened. Now they’re targeting early next year.

Louisiana's SCOTUS-enabled racial gerrymandering will bring the tyranny of toxicity without representation to the mostly Black folks of heavily polluted 'Cancer Alley,' who'll lose a seat in Congress Voting rights die, environmental racism thrives. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/raci...

MIN: Do you know how much new energy China put online last year? BURGUM: Intermittent or base load? M: 543 GW. How much was renewable? 434 GW. B: But only when the sun is shining M: Meanwhile, the US put up 53 GW of new energy last year - less than 10% of China. You're harming our natl security

So in case anybody’s counting, today Donald Trump called not one, but two female reporters “stupid.” He is going to continue to do this. He’s going to start calling them far worse. Because nobody fucking stops him.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Hands Off BLACK VOTES! Visibility Event · Hosted by Forest Hills Indivisible Wednesday, May 13 4:30 – 6pm EDT Long Island Expressway pedestrian overpass Horace Harding Expressway & 62nd Avenue & Grand Central Pkwy Queens, NY 11375 www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)

WATCH: Trump says he doesn’t care about Americans’ financial situations when negotiating with Iran. He doesn’t care what working Americans are going through. He never did.

Trump has publicly championed the U.S. steel industry, and yet, the White House just secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for Trump's $400 million ballroom project.

🚨 When GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans hears “cotton-picking hands” directed at the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress and responds with “That’s right. Ditto” — smiling as she says it — that’s not a slip-up. That’s her mask coming off. 👉Let’s flood the replies with #JimCrowJen!

Sidney Blumenthal: Donald Trump has had an indispensable ally: the Supreme Court.

Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst said the estimate increased “because of updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost.”

More than 29 million gallons of unbilled water flowed to Quality Technology Services’ data center campus under development in Fayetteville, Georgia, after two industrial-scale hookups went unaccounted for. ground.news/article/data...

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

It's not just that the FBI director is acting like a spoiled child; he keeps repeating the dumb lie that Van Hollen was "drinking margaritas with a felon" when he visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As a reminder, it was a stunt from the El Salvador regime, who put sugar-rimmed glasses on the table.

this is absolutely BONKERS behavior from the director of the FBI. it's a disgrace to his position and the entire US government.

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

The first honest thing he’s said

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It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

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🧡 On Friday, June 5 (4-6 pm) at the Gorman Overpass on I-95 🧡 Moms Demand Action volunteers will join HoCo Indivisible and others to promote its nationwide Wear Orange message of ending gun violence. Wear Orange for Gun Violence Awareness weekend is June 5-7. act.everytown.org/event/wear-o... 🧡🍃

USPS considers allowing people to ship handguns through the mail

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

NEW: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email.

Isn't it astounding how efficient the government can be when they really want something done?

New in PN: Stephen Miller's closed system of white supremacy "Trump believes anything he scribbles down is the law, Miller's firm treats it as such when complaining to govt agencies, and then those agencies accept Trump’s blatherings as law too. It’s a perfectly closed system of white supremacy."

Incredible stuff here about the corrupt Roberts Court using bad data and bad faith arguments (I know, shocking!) to advance their rancid racism.

A win! A federal appeals court ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must continue allowing lawmakers to inspect immigration detention facilities without advance notice, finding that the impromptu visits posed minimal problems for the government.

Alien or Russian? you decide

Some may even have been shackled in the WRAPS device the entire time; they've done it before. It's brutal.

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

Another in a series of late nights. I am doing everything I can to spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. You can help me by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free and sharing its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Republicans are trying to give ICE and Border Patrol billions more for detention camps, raids and militarized crackdowns — after making massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to fund Trump’s deportation agenda. If you’ve got a GOP representative, it’s extra important for them to hear from you right now.