A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop arbitrarily holding up federal permits for new solar and wind projects. Major victory: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... via @mariagallucci.bsky.social

Trump wants to investigate everything except his assassination attempt and Epstein.

The shadow docket hurts people, judges, and a functioning legal system. And I'm glad that Steve is out there, as patiently as humanly possible, reminding the public that, as much as defenders of the Supreme Court may try, there's simply no sanewashing it.

I watched the California Governor's primary debate last night What I learned Xavier Becerra completely separated himself from the pack.. He was not flashy but showed he could be Governor day one, so qualified Every Dem had good answers but Becerra put himself on the map last night

What is on democracy's docket today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 159 Active Redistricting Cases: 43 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 85 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 72 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 30 Subscribe to Democracy Docket now! bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Lots of People Are Lying About the SPLC Indictment: Here's the Evidence www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/the-splc-i...

@mayor.nyc.gov Why in the world is this person still a police officer this is egregious to say the least?

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

The Epstein files didn't start a revolution because a good portion of Americans are completely fine with having pedophile fascists run their country.

I attended the trial of Renea Gamble, the Alabama woman arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No Kings protest. Like the viral video of her arrest, it was both funny and enraging. New from me @theintercept.com:

Well that’s TPUSA’s fault for holding an event in a deep blue city like…wait, Waco?!

GOP Rep. Tom Kean Jr. represents New Jersey’s most competitive district this November — but nobody, even his GOP colleagues, can say where he’s been for the past month. Kean’s team says he’s facing unspecified health issues. He hasn’t voted since March 5th and has missed almost 50 roll call votes.

🚨BREAKING: The Republican majority on the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted Wednesday to block a proposal that would have prepared local officials for scenarios involving federal agents at polling places and attempts to seize ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

America First = America Alone We are not better off alone.

✊🏼 May they continue to hold the line! These are OUR treasures! ✊🏼 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Meta is hoovering up data to train its AI agents by tracking employees' keystrokes and interactions w/ sites & apps including Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Atlassian's Jira and 100s more. Scoop w/ @jonathanvanian.bsky.social @cnbc.com - yes, ChatGPT was on the list. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/m...

wjla.com/news/local/v... A republican judge has blocked yesterday's YES VOTE IN VIRGINIA... NOW WHAT NEXT... The VIRGINIA Attorney General, Jay Jones already set to appeal... But remember The VIRGINIA Supreme Court is the court that ordered the Election to go ahead back in February

Good god the kicker:

there were some characters running in 2006 too

Hakeem Jeffries to the GOP on redistricting, "Shut your motherfu**ing mouth and sit your a*s down."

Lawyer astounded as 'powerful' court order clears 'runway' for Trump to be sued #RawStory

Virginia attorney general pledges to appeal injunction blocking redistricting referendum certification #TheHill

So now Pete Hegseth has fired the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Staff of the Army, both in the middle of a war, both with no public or known explanation? Seems fine.

The Trump administration continues to be riddled with stories of appointees seeking to profit from prediction markets. Illinois is stepping up to ensure those here who are serving the public do just that, not their own personal financial gain.

time is a flat circle: tonight I’m standing in the back of a church watching a County Executive candidate forum (this one for @actioninmontgomery.bsky.social), the same thing I did 20 years ago the summer I first started my blog. where does the time go

DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS IDIOT! ======================= bsky.app/profile/madd...

Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war

US Navy chief out as Iran seizes 2 ships amid Hormuz blockade. The former Trump campaign donor’s departure comes as Iran tightens its grip over the Strait of Hormuz and as Trump says he will not call off his blockade of Iranian ports. www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

This is a very good resource. I don't know how @taniel.bsky.social does this but he makes highly technical stuff like this very easy to follow and use:

Our new Acting Secretary of the Navy: Hung Cao, a former EOD dive officer, claims extensive combat experience and that he was wounded in Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He managed to get “blown up” in THREE separate conflicts but never received even one Purple Heart or Combat Action Ribbon…

PabloReports: What do you make of Stephen Miller and Tom Homan asking for all this money but then refusing to show up to the hearing today? Frost: That’s what happens when you have a lapdog as speaker.

The President and his Administration have already failed twice in court trying to intimidate me, and he's still not letting up. Just more proof that he'll do anything it takes to silence those of us willing to call him out. I'm not backing down — ever.

New - a federal judge has dismissed Laura Loomer’s defamation lawsuit against Bill Maher and HBO storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

OK the Daily Mail found their critical mass with the Noem story and now the tips are self-propagating

I've been laughing at this for two minutes. I'm definitely not OK.

Bolts last year reported on Indiana’s law, which was passed by state Republicans over the objections of voting rights advocates who warned it would unduly burden young voters.

A federal judge in Texas has just tossed a defamation suit brought by Kash Patel against former FBI assistant director and former MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi.

NEW: Rep Krishnamoorthi is demanding Todd Blanche hand over communications between DOJ and Ghislaine Maxwell about a pardon. Maxwell's lawyer has said he thinks Trump will give her one. Right now, Maxwell's holding a lot of cards. krishnamoorthi.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

BREAKING: Israel is besieging two Lebanese journalists, Amal Khalil & Zainab Farraj, in southern Lebanon. Nothing confirmed yet, but people on the ground saying one of the journalists is reportedly trapped beneath rubble & they've killed at least two people in airstrikes nearby

Oh, they do keep getting shorter. But, stepping back, it is astounding to think about the fact that Johnson, Thune, Thomas, and Alito, as well as often Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, just go along with this man. Historically embarrassing and presently horrifying.

Thank goodness we got rid of those DEI hires.

They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists. Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table. FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

WARREN: So those massive discounts-- RFK Jr: Massive. 600 percent WARREN: 600 percent! They can pay hundreds of dollars on TrumpRx or they can get it for $12 as Costco

So that's why a 30lb bag of dog food went from $55 to $85.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden slams Donald Trump and RFK Jr. in the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the HHS budget: "The rank hypocrisy of the Trump administration on health can be summed up in a sentence: goodies for those at the top while American families get sicker and poorer." Nailed it!

Welcome to Day 2 of RFK Jr. testifying on Capitol Hill. Yesterday, RFK -- who has spent decades spreading disinformation about vaccine safety -- testified to Congress that measles outbreaks aren't his fault and said he's "never been anti-vaccine." Really. Really! www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-me...

The CEO of the world’s biggest condom manufacturer says they’ll need to increase prices up to 30%. What a neat coincidence for the Trump admin's creepy pro-natalist agenda. www.jezebel.com/the-trump-ad...