“Let’s pause for a moment from today’s latest campaign “scoop” to make something clear: None of this is normal. None of this is how American democracy is supposed to work. Trump is not a normal candidate, despite how the media often covers him.” vanityfair.com/news/donald-tr…

If you're looking for eclipse glasses right now you understand why same day voter registration is important

Trump Media's accounting firm, whose other clients include Lingerie Fighting Championships Inc., has had a string of regulatory issues, including a 100% deficiency rate on audits reviewed by a US watchdog $DJT bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Kremlin trolls have written 1000s of fabricated news articles, social media posts & comments that promote US isolationism, stir fear over border security & attempt to amplify US economic & racial tensions, according to Kremlin documents. w/Joseph Menn washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Yes…2016.

“It is not partisan to be *for* democracy.”

What Russian “liberation” looks like.

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow and his family's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. See how this works?

Notes from a judge at a Jan 6 sentencing hearing this week:

'This is not normal. This cannot become normal. We as a community, we as a society, we as a country cannot condone the normalization of the January 6 Capitol riot.'

Read them here:
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“When people tell you who they are…”

20+ years ago.

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This is so, SO good.

Do yourself a favor and watch this.

Thank you CBS Evening News for keeping the record straight of this attempt to overthrow the government. MAGA tries to hide the magnitude of Jan 6 and also depict it as a patriotic act.

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“We live in a world where the only US president ever to attempt a coup has a too-close-for-comfort chance of being re-elected on a platform of overt fascism. That changes everything. We do not have the luxury of indifference.

We do not have the luxury of being “just”…

Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional.

This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.

Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.

Good news for anti-autocrats.

The journalistic trope of saying we are “deeply divided” is a normalizing frame and a moral dodge. Yes, we were “deeply divided” during the Civil War, but the two sides were not equal: one was in favor of enslaving human beings. One candidate already has tried to overturn an…

Without a doubt, Mehdi Hasan.