The Texas GOP’s latest congressional gerrymander, passed by the Texas Senate, explicitly targets key districts represented by Latino-elected Democrats, underscoring a strategy to court Latino voters symbolically while cutting off their actual electoral power. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tex...

On Tuesday, Roman Anthony became the youngest leadoff hitter in MLB history to record 4+ walks in a game. 🤯 See the full leaderboard: stathead.com/tiny/kiStF

NEW VIDEO: Lawyers are leading the pro-democracy fight, and @skyeperryman.bsky.social, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, joins @marcelias.bsky.social to talk about recent wins, Texas gerrymandering and the ongoing battle for the rule of law. Tune in below ⬇️

Born on this date: Josh Bell, TJ Friedl, Mark Loretta, Juan Pierre, David Peralta, Clay Buchholz... see more: https://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.cgi?month=08&day=14

NEW: The Fulton County Board of Commissioners appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court after a lower court ordered the board to appoint two prominent election deniers to the county’s Board of Elections. Background:

After three months of legal battles and lobbying, the Voice of America network is officially being reduced to a fraction of its pre-Trump form. Here's my story about today's widespread layoffs >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/m...

3 people have died in a Listeria outbreak linked to pasta sold at Walmart & Kroger. The premade chicken fettuccine alfredo meals have been recalled wapo.st/4kKMGNb

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Dear media, STOP CALLING THEM RECIPROCAL. THEY ARE UNILATERAL TAXES ON AMERICANS. ~ Everyone

8 years ago today, Anthony Rizzo led the Chicago Cubs into Wrigley Field holding the World Series trophy. The Cubs raised the 2016 World Series banner this night. 🏆

Yaz called game. @alexpavlovic.bsky.social delivers the takeaways from the Giants' 8-6 win over the Reds to avoid a series sweep ⬇️

House Speaker Mike Johnson: "I think today'd be a great day to buy stocks." More stock market manipulation incoming?

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

Back in 2023, Elon Musk infamously posted and reposted a meme falsely claiming Republicans hadn't changed their views in the last decade, while Democrats had moved left. An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.

NEWS: New York Yankees starter Gerrit Cole will undergo diagnostic testing on his right elbow, according to a league source. The RHP was shut down with pain in his right elbow following his first start last spring training. More details from @brendankuty.bsky.social & @chriskirschner.bsky.social ⤵️

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Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland was vandalized. “Gaza is not 4 sale.” Donald needs to keep his grubby hands off Gaza.

Spikes former wife was previously married to one of Elon Musk's cousins. Spikes and his ex Natalia Haldeman registered websites and nonprofits tied to Orthodox causes and the Congress of Russian Americans which lobbied against Russian sanctions and pushed a pro-Kremlin agenda since Crimean invasion

NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A federal judge ruled in favor of dozens of states Thursday by finding that President Donald Trump’s massive federal funding freeze in late January encroached upon Congress’s power of the purse.

Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof. ⚡ Bluesky's first IRL ads spotted in @boston.gov @mbta.com.

Unfair to Vader who, unlike Leon, saw the error of his ways & repented.

BREAKING: The Washington Supreme Court upholds the state’s signature matching rules for mail-in ballots, ruling it "does not exclude anyone from casting a vote." Nonprofit advocacy groups and voters had argued it violated state law and disenfranchised voters.

A good time to replay the video of Lou Dobbs telling Stephen Miller to pay me $500,000,000 to stop beat Trump and the RNC in court. It seems Miller and Trump are still mad.😂

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A board that protects the rights of federal employees ordered the Department of Agriculture to reinstate over 5,000 probationary workers fired by the Trump administration as the board investigates their terminations.

Reggie Smith, 1971 #Redsox #Bseball

More of this please. 🍿

BREAKING: In the challenge brought by 23 Democratic attorneys general, a Rhode Island federal judge says the Trump administration’s freezing of congressionally allocated federal funds is unconstitutional and violates Congress’s power of the purse.

I don't think corporate media understands how angry America is. I rarely watch CNN or MSNBC anymore, but when I turned the former on today the mood, tone and structure was identical to 9 years ago—which means no one at the network has any idea whatsoever what's really happening in America right now.

Oh snap!!!! After Elon Musk posted this, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim canceled all collaborations with Starlink in Latin America. This one post cost Elon Musk $7 billion. FAFO. 🍿

So the Trump administration met with two of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's opposition members to try to get them to force an election and they said no? Love this for Donald.

It’s another setback for Trump’s goal of expanding presidential power over independent federal agencies that Congress designed to operate without direct control from the White House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨BREAKING: Federal Judge GRANTS Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger's lawsuit to block his firing. This sets up a potential landmark case involving presidential power for the DC Circuit and Supreme Court. Visit Democracy Docket to stay informed on this and all the key cases. www.democracydocket.com

Is MAGA screeching about raking the forests in South Carolina yet or nah?

1976 Rhode Island #Redsox Official Program #Baseball

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This is an opinion piece that evidently meets Jeff Bezos' new test for supporting "personal liberties and free markets." Support pro-democracy independent media.

Zoe Saldana winning the Oscar for best supporting actress: "I am a proud child of immigrant parents." Love her!

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

The GOP is violating their oath of office by relinquishing the House of Representatives' institutional authority to appropriate money. Article I [of the Constitution] could not be more clear: No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by Law

@marcelias.bsky.social DOGE is targeting DEI and ethnic minorities federal contracts or grants and calling them fraud. This is nothing more than De jure Segregation, and the 14th Amendment section 1 must be applied. This government action is a result of intentional discrimination