Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There was a huge crowd at the Indiana Statehouse in opposition of redistricting. Let's see if the Senate listens to Hoosiers or to Washington.

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the democrat running for michigan secretary of state. watch and pass it on!

The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration. Now, the app's developer is suing. n.pr/3XDeFVc

Of course, because every accusation is a confession.

has Four Seasons Total Landscaping announced the recipient of their Peace Prize yet

Trump just attacked a woman reporter for the sixth time in the span of a month.

12 FBI agents who were fired this year for taking a knee during racial justice protests in 2020 are suing the Bureau and Kash Patel, alleging unlawful retaliation.

Trump to ABC's Rachel Scott: "You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you -- you are an obnoxious-- a terrible reporter. And it's always the same thing with you. I told you."

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

California asked the Trump Administration back in February to request relief from Congress for the Los Angeles fires. Nearly 11 months later, Trump has failed to send Congress that request — and his FEMA won't even schedule a meeting to discuss it.

In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, Bruna Ferreira, the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, who has been in ICE custody since Nov. 12, details her arrest, relationship with the Leavitts, and how the White House, in her own words, is spreading “disgusting” lies about her.

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics will skip publication of its delayed report on wholesale-price inflation..." www.wsj.com/economy/bls-...

Larry Ellison, the world’s 2nd-richest man, predicts an AI surveillance state where “we’re constantly recording & reporting everything.” Are we headed toward a future where every call, text, email & search is tracked by billionaires? That's not democracy. It's authoritarianism.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) will potentially treat opponents of President Donald Trump’s policies as “domestic terrorists,” according to a leaked memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi to all U.S. law enforcement agencies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs. They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.

Congresswoman says she was shoved & pepper-sprayed after identifying herself during ICE operation. "‘When I presented myself as a member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed aside and pepper sprayed.’" www.commondreams.org/news/adelita...

Your Dear Leader wears makeup and a diaper, dyes his hair, and throws hissy-fits when he’s not dancing to YMCA or waxing poetic about Arnold Palmer’s junk.

Trump has quietly gutted the endangered species act. He does not care about any animals that will now die off and become extinct.

In their infinite wisdom, the Trump admin including RFK jr’s HHS has RESCINDED Biden’s rule for nursing home staffing minimums. Now nursing homes will be even more under staffed than they are now. HHS is spinning it as a “clean-up”. www.naco.org/news/hhs-rel...

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

Despicable

It should really be a bigger story that the government apparently has a kill list.

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.” In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

Yes, the entire murderous campaign is premised on the GOP pretending we live in some kind of Breaking Bad Extended Universe where drug cartels are peer-state enemies with fleets, Air Forces, and maniacally dedicated soldiers who will continue “their mission” after being blown to bits in the ocean.

Hegseth reversed the policy Mark Esper put in place in 2020, which was designed to prevent “discrimination, prejudice, and bias in all ranks.” Hegseth wants to know what they look like when these decisions are made.

You're also a war criminal in the sense that Putin's a war criminal for invading Ukraine in what he insists isn't a war but a special military operation. You can commit war crimes by doing warlike stuff outside the context of war.

New in PN: Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise "For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing 'drug dealers.' Now he's making that happen even as he pardons actual drug kingpins."

Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."

It’s important to remember there are two scandals here: 1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes. 2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.

A MAGA grandpa in Wyoming called 911 and told the operator to “call ICE” on an Amazon delivery driver simply for speaking Spanish. “There’s this guy in front of my house who can’t speak English. You need to call ICE on him.”

Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically. If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.

-They are hiding the Epstein Files -They are hiding the video of the boat murder -They are hiding job numbers -They are hiding military leadership from the press -They are hiding Trump's repeated health issues -They are hiding detainees taken illegally *They do this because they are lying cowards.

CNN: “Trump issued 1,500 pardons in his first month—compared to 212 for Obama over two terms, 189 for Bush over two terms… Has he possibly had enough time in the day to look long and hard at each? He is abusing the presidential pardon."

Should it side with the president, the Supreme Court could supercharge Trump’s effort to assert absolute control over agencies that regulate the economy, the stock market, federal campaign finance and communications. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The GOP U.S. Supreme Court is not a court-it's an arm of the GOP. In 2028 we need Democratic presidential candidates to make reforming this corrupt court one of the top priorities!

Democracy doesn’t instantly vanish, it’s dismantled, department by department, ruling by ruling. SCOTUS was the law. Now it’s the knife. Congress sets laws to keep presidential powers in check. Our corrupt SCOTUS is destroying that balance and fast-tracking us to certain demise. #Resist

Because this isn't about immigration. It is about race. Wake up and cover the racism. The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

If your first reaction to someone having their legs run over by an ICE vehicle is “was he here illegally” then you’ve completely lost your moral compass The same goes for asking what the “whole story” is There’s nothing a person could do to justify running them over with a car.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) announced that it will no longer publish content on Elon Musk’s platform, X. The organization said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

Every right-wing oligarch, podcaster, hack, Russian apologist, paid influencer, and bot has been activated in a coordinated manner to attack Europe after the EU fined Musk.

He shouldn’t be president. I’d rather have Jimmy Kimmel.

More than 1,000 state and local agencies have partnered with ICE this year. 😡

When I taught Civics, I used Supreme Court cases to trace our expansion of rights to demonstrate democratic values. If I were still teaching Civics today, I would need to place the concepts of 'precedent,' 'stare decisis,' and 'rule of law' in the trash bin. This SCOTUS is corrupt.

ICE is literally being used by a fascist criminal regime as their personal army to assault, abduct, kidnap, imprison and terrorize people of color and their perceived enemies. They aren’t a lawful agency, they’re a criminal Gestapo.