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Keith Ellison on Kristi Noem blatantly lying about the circumstances of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "It's just deeply heartbreaking to see a person responsible for safety and enforcement of American law make such a brazenly false statement. It is truly sad for our democracy."
January 7, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Keith Ellison on Kristi Noem blatantly lying about the circumstances of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "It's just deeply heartbreaking to see a person responsible for safety and enforcement of American law make such a brazenly false statement. It is truly sad for our democracy."
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MAJOR: The Trump Administration has been caught lying about the D.C. shooting suspect.
The truth: He was vetted by Trump. He had a CIA badge, worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, and granted asylum by Trump in April.
Spread this everywhere. Subscribe to support my work, even on Thanksgiving:
The truth: He was vetted by Trump. He had a CIA badge, worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, and granted asylum by Trump in April.
Spread this everywhere. Subscribe to support my work, even on Thanksgiving:
Major Update: The Trump Administration Caught Lying About D.C. Shooting Suspect as CIA Ties Exposed
Good afternoon, everyone.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
MAJOR: The Trump Administration has been caught lying about the D.C. shooting suspect.
The truth: He was vetted by Trump. He had a CIA badge, worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, and granted asylum by Trump in April.
Spread this everywhere. Subscribe to support my work, even on Thanksgiving:
The truth: He was vetted by Trump. He had a CIA badge, worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, and granted asylum by Trump in April.
Spread this everywhere. Subscribe to support my work, even on Thanksgiving:
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I have had one of the strangest weeks of my legal career:
-My firm won TX redistricting case.
-Trump's bogus RICO against me was in 11th Cir.
-Accused in deranged opinion of being a Soros puppet.
I write about all of this and more tomorrow. Join Democracy Docket now to receive. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
-My firm won TX redistricting case.
-Trump's bogus RICO against me was in 11th Cir.
-Accused in deranged opinion of being a Soros puppet.
I write about all of this and more tomorrow. Join Democracy Docket now to receive. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I have had one of the strangest weeks of my legal career:
-My firm won TX redistricting case.
-Trump's bogus RICO against me was in 11th Cir.
-Accused in deranged opinion of being a Soros puppet.
I write about all of this and more tomorrow. Join Democracy Docket now to receive. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
-My firm won TX redistricting case.
-Trump's bogus RICO against me was in 11th Cir.
-Accused in deranged opinion of being a Soros puppet.
I write about all of this and more tomorrow. Join Democracy Docket now to receive. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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In case you'd been wondering why Trump rolls over for Putin at every turn:
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In case you'd been wondering why Trump rolls over for Putin at every turn:
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New research from my colleagues @brookings.edu finds that mail voting fraud is extremely low
They also show that adopting universal vote-by-mail voting reduces racial & economic disparities
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
They also show that adopting universal vote-by-mail voting reduces racial & economic disparities
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings
Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.
www.brookings.edu
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New research from my colleagues @brookings.edu finds that mail voting fraud is extremely low
They also show that adopting universal vote-by-mail voting reduces racial & economic disparities
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
They also show that adopting universal vote-by-mail voting reduces racial & economic disparities
Read more👇 –TN
www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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The GOP bragged they’d never negotiate — that they didn’t need Democrats.
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Republicans Made This Mess — Democrats Just Cleaned It Up for Them
While Republicans partied at Mar-a-Lago and cashed shutdown paychecks, Democrats gave them an escape hatch.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The GOP bragged they’d never negotiate — that they didn’t need Democrats.
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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FBI: Oh yeah, the FBI agent who read Jim Comey's privileged comms with Dan Richman TOTALLY briefed the GJ witness on those comms. But bc the Agent only PUT IN WRITING STUFF pre-May 11, it's all good.
DOJ: We recognize the privilege started on May 9.
DOJ: We recognize the privilege started on May 9.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
FBI: Oh yeah, the FBI agent who read Jim Comey's privileged comms with Dan Richman TOTALLY briefed the GJ witness on those comms. But bc the Agent only PUT IN WRITING STUFF pre-May 11, it's all good.
DOJ: We recognize the privilege started on May 9.
DOJ: We recognize the privilege started on May 9.
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Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
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“Under past administrations, lawyers and policymakers inside the Executive have exercised oversight over the use of force. It is possible members of Congress have grown to rely on those internal constraints and lost their muscle memory to check the President.”
www.justsecurity.org/123717/war-p...
www.justsecurity.org/123717/war-p...
Expert Backgrounder on War Powers Resolution 60-Day Clock for Boat Strikes Expiring Monday
Expert backgrounder on how War Powers Resolution works in application to U.S. military operations against suspected drug cartels.
www.justsecurity.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“Under past administrations, lawyers and policymakers inside the Executive have exercised oversight over the use of force. It is possible members of Congress have grown to rely on those internal constraints and lost their muscle memory to check the President.”
www.justsecurity.org/123717/war-p...
www.justsecurity.org/123717/war-p...
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These are dark times to be sure. But I believe future generations will look back on this scourge and see not just what was destroyed but also what was born.
Many of you are now sowing the seeds of fundamental reform. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mo0FnoBC7yc
Many of you are now sowing the seeds of fundamental reform. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mo0FnoBC7yc
Why Trump Can’t Stop Us
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
These are dark times to be sure. But I believe future generations will look back on this scourge and see not just what was destroyed but also what was born.
Many of you are now sowing the seeds of fundamental reform. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mo0FnoBC7yc
Many of you are now sowing the seeds of fundamental reform. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mo0FnoBC7yc
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BREAKING: Norwegian Nobel Committee offers Trump a special participation ribbon if he promises to stop pouting and shut the fuck up about not winning the prize.
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
BREAKING: Norwegian Nobel Committee offers Trump a special participation ribbon if he promises to stop pouting and shut the fuck up about not winning the prize.
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Prosecutors are facing discipline for telling a judge the truth in a sentencing memo. This post traces the case, its facts, the sentencing process, and helps us understand why this completes the cycle of corrupting the Justice Department Trump has set us on.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Is Justice Done?
You’ve probably seen or read at least something about the story that is the subject of tonight’s post.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Prosecutors are facing discipline for telling a judge the truth in a sentencing memo. This post traces the case, its facts, the sentencing process, and helps us understand why this completes the cycle of corrupting the Justice Department Trump has set us on.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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This literally makes no sense:
"The administration says it is relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."
And the reporting doesn't question it.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The administration says it is relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."
And the reporting doesn't question it.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Top Intel Democrat rips Trump administration over exclusion from boat strike briefing
A briefing held only for Republicans in Congress on U.S. military strikes is drawing a fierce rebuke from a key Democrat
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This literally makes no sense:
"The administration says it is relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."
And the reporting doesn't question it.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The administration says it is relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."
And the reporting doesn't question it.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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A telling absence:
"On the House side, the administration briefed both Republicans and Democrats on Thursday from the House Armed Services Committee, although lawyers were not on hand to discuss the legal rationale."
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
"On the House side, the administration briefed both Republicans and Democrats on Thursday from the House Armed Services Committee, although lawyers were not on hand to discuss the legal rationale."
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump administration gave GOP senators secret details about strikes on alleged drug boats, leaving Dems on outs
The Trump administration gave Republicans a legal rationale and secret target list on its military campaign against drug cartels in the Caribbean, icing out Democrats.
abcnews.go.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
A telling absence:
"On the House side, the administration briefed both Republicans and Democrats on Thursday from the House Armed Services Committee, although lawyers were not on hand to discuss the legal rationale."
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
"On the House side, the administration briefed both Republicans and Democrats on Thursday from the House Armed Services Committee, although lawyers were not on hand to discuss the legal rationale."
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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Mamdani is working miracles in NYC:
- He has united both Blue and Red MAGA in their disdain of him
- He’s making Fox & Facebook work overtime to produce BS memes tarnishing his positions
- His working class movement is making ruling class oligarchs very nervous
More of this defiance, please.
- He has united both Blue and Red MAGA in their disdain of him
- He’s making Fox & Facebook work overtime to produce BS memes tarnishing his positions
- His working class movement is making ruling class oligarchs very nervous
More of this defiance, please.
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Mamdani is working miracles in NYC:
- He has united both Blue and Red MAGA in their disdain of him
- He’s making Fox & Facebook work overtime to produce BS memes tarnishing his positions
- His working class movement is making ruling class oligarchs very nervous
More of this defiance, please.
- He has united both Blue and Red MAGA in their disdain of him
- He’s making Fox & Facebook work overtime to produce BS memes tarnishing his positions
- His working class movement is making ruling class oligarchs very nervous
More of this defiance, please.
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I wonder if they are also looking at who’s behind the threats to judges for ruling against Trump. So far, zero answers to my questions.
Dems called for IRS targeting of TPUSA for not masking—Vance, Trump seek investigations of NGOs funding political violence
“If somebody shows up and is a paid protester then riots and commits an act of violence, who paid for it?”
thepostmillennial.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I wonder if they are also looking at who’s behind the threats to judges for ruling against Trump. So far, zero answers to my questions.
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And finally, the Top 10!
Top 40 No Kings Signs, #1-10
The best of the best.
www.meidasplus.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
And finally, the Top 10!
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BREAKING NYT: A shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance’s protective detail, according to a patrol report.
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
BREAKING NYT: A shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance’s protective detail, according to a patrol report.
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Justice Department whistleblower Erez Reuveni says he was fired after refusing to lie to the court. He sits down with Scott Pelley in his first television interview. Tonight on 60 Minutes.
October 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Justice Department whistleblower Erez Reuveni says he was fired after refusing to lie to the court. He sits down with Scott Pelley in his first television interview. Tonight on 60 Minutes.
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The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M
See the problem?
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M
See the problem?
October 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M
See the problem?
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M
See the problem?