If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"

Read Jack Smith's full report and watch instant analysis from MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas: www.meidasplus.com/p/doj-releas...

🚨BREAKING: Department of Justice releases volume 1 of Jack Smith report.

"The evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States' democratic process."

Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.

Per Smith's report, prosecutors contemplated charging Trump with an insurrection statute but got bogged down in part by the vague literal/legal definition of "insurrection."

Jack Smith report confirms Donald Trump engaged in an 'unprecedented criminal effort' after losing the 2020 election and DOJ would’ve secured a criminal conviction.

Thank you Garland for failing to do your one job, and thank you Biden for failing to replace Garland when you knew he was a failure.

Norovirus is surging across the country, and all I can think of is a video @thespeechprof.bsky.social recently responded to of a woman bragging that she doesn't wash her hands after going to the bathroom at home.

(This is a thread about hand-washing but also about justice and living our values).

President Carter was was 32 when the last Civil War vet, Albert Henry Woolson, died

Woolson was 19 when the last Revolutionary War vet, Daniel Frederick Bakeman, died

Bakeman was born 1759—before our nation even existed

Preceding them all is Elizabeth Freeman
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Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.

Republicans & Trump are planning to gut Medicaid, SNAP, & put an additional 10%-20% sales tax on nearly everything you buy so they can give MORE tax breaks to billionaires.

Republican economics: Tax breaks for the rich, paid for by working Americans.

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Human trafficker being offered the DOJ? Trump and his cabinet picks ARE the swamp.

Just absorbing the fact that the first order of business in the new QAnon-inflected MAGA Republican era is to demand that Congress bury its report on sex trafficking and drug allegations against a Republican member of Congress who they're trying to promote to higher office.