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S. 2741 by Sen. Mark Kelly [D-AZ] passed the Senate yesterday (→House). Legacy Mine Cleanup Act of 2025 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s2741 🏛️
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
S. 2741 by Sen. Mark Kelly [D-AZ] passed the Senate yesterday (→House). Legacy Mine Cleanup Act of 2025 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s2741 🏛️
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TODAY:
⚖️ A North Carolina court will hear pro-voting groups’ challenge to a state law that makes same-day voter registration more difficult.
⚖️ An Arizona court will hear the RNC’s challenge to a state law that allows certain U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in state elections.
⚖️ A North Carolina court will hear pro-voting groups’ challenge to a state law that makes same-day voter registration more difficult.
⚖️ An Arizona court will hear the RNC’s challenge to a state law that allows certain U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in state elections.
October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
TODAY:
⚖️ A North Carolina court will hear pro-voting groups’ challenge to a state law that makes same-day voter registration more difficult.
⚖️ An Arizona court will hear the RNC’s challenge to a state law that allows certain U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in state elections.
⚖️ A North Carolina court will hear pro-voting groups’ challenge to a state law that makes same-day voter registration more difficult.
⚖️ An Arizona court will hear the RNC’s challenge to a state law that allows certain U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in state elections.
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“The power to draw fair maps is so important that people will try to find ways to get out of doing it,” @mcpli.bsky.social of the Brennan Center told Democracy Docket.
And Utah Republicans are doing just that in their brazen efforts to avoid compliance with a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering law.
And Utah Republicans are doing just that in their brazen efforts to avoid compliance with a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering law.
This is the Most Brazen GOP Gerrymander Yet
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“The power to draw fair maps is so important that people will try to find ways to get out of doing it,” @mcpli.bsky.social of the Brennan Center told Democracy Docket.
And Utah Republicans are doing just that in their brazen efforts to avoid compliance with a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering law.
And Utah Republicans are doing just that in their brazen efforts to avoid compliance with a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering law.
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Now you can doomscroll on a bigger screen with the new Instagram iPad app.
The Instagram iPad App Is Finally Here
Now you can doomscroll on a bigger screen with the new Instagram iPad app.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Now you can doomscroll on a bigger screen with the new Instagram iPad app.
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Bogs are more than just soggy, open land. They also serve as a dangerous trap for enemy tanks.
As it happens, Europe's peatlands are mostly concentrated on NATO's border with Russia, presenting an opportunity to use them as a defensive shield.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
As it happens, Europe's peatlands are mostly concentrated on NATO's border with Russia, presenting an opportunity to use them as a defensive shield.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
August 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Bogs are more than just soggy, open land. They also serve as a dangerous trap for enemy tanks.
As it happens, Europe's peatlands are mostly concentrated on NATO's border with Russia, presenting an opportunity to use them as a defensive shield.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
As it happens, Europe's peatlands are mostly concentrated on NATO's border with Russia, presenting an opportunity to use them as a defensive shield.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
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ICE attempted to enter the home of a woman with her children in Huntington Beach. However, the entire community, police department, and city council intervened and forced them to leave.
Keep fighting back ✊🏽
Keep fighting back ✊🏽
July 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ICE attempted to enter the home of a woman with her children in Huntington Beach. However, the entire community, police department, and city council intervened and forced them to leave.
Keep fighting back ✊🏽
Keep fighting back ✊🏽
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Trump admin. destroyed enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. It was stored in Dubai. Instead of listening to caring employees who told them to distribute,they just let it go to waste. This is disgusting. Cruel. Criminal. Religious leaders across the board should condemn.
July 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Trump admin. destroyed enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. It was stored in Dubai. Instead of listening to caring employees who told them to distribute,they just let it go to waste. This is disgusting. Cruel. Criminal. Religious leaders across the board should condemn.
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Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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July 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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Really?? Nothing put democracy at risk more than his disgraceful, false Citizens United decision. First, he bought the obvious lie that unlimited funding would be transparent; then when the falsity became indisputable, he refused to correct. ZERO cred here.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’
The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.
www.politico.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Really?? Nothing put democracy at risk more than his disgraceful, false Citizens United decision. First, he bought the obvious lie that unlimited funding would be transparent; then when the falsity became indisputable, he refused to correct. ZERO cred here.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders on Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary’s history in an open rebuke of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government.
Around 100,000 march at Budapest Pride in defiance of Hungary's ban on the event
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and heavy fines to participate in the 30th annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed in March by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's…
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June 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders on Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary’s history in an open rebuke of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government.
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It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend
After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
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The news media have normalized a president brazenly lying every day. Decent people are appalled, and that should include journalists, but instead the media have accepted lying as part of the game.
Trump brazenly lies: "We're cutting $1.7 trillion in this bill and you're not gonna feel any of it. Your Medicaid is left alone. It's left the same."
June 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The news media have normalized a president brazenly lying every day. Decent people are appalled, and that should include journalists, but instead the media have accepted lying as part of the game.
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in which the president of the united states comes to understand that forging peace in the middle east is actually quite hard
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Trump says Israel and Iran “don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing.”
June 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
in which the president of the united states comes to understand that forging peace in the middle east is actually quite hard
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I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
June 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
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June 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. https://trib.al/VQXR96o
June 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. https://trib.al/VQXR96o
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The Israeli military is “attacking regime targets and government repression bodies in the heart of Tehran with unprecedented force,” the Israeli defense minister says.
The targets include the Evin prison for political prisoners and opponents of the regime.
The targets include the Evin prison for political prisoners and opponents of the regime.
Israel attacks Evin prison and other targets in Tehran
The Israeli military is “attacking regime targets and government repression bodies in the heart of Tehran with unprecedented force,” the Israeli defense
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June 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Israeli military is “attacking regime targets and government repression bodies in the heart of Tehran with unprecedented force,” the Israeli defense minister says.
The targets include the Evin prison for political prisoners and opponents of the regime.
The targets include the Evin prison for political prisoners and opponents of the regime.
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The 287(g) program allowing local police to act as federal #immigration officers in collaboration with ICE has expanded from 135 agreements in 25 states to 628 in 40 states since January. A criminal justice professor explains why this undermines community trust and public safety: buff.ly/M7C8if8
June 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The 287(g) program allowing local police to act as federal #immigration officers in collaboration with ICE has expanded from 135 agreements in 25 states to 628 in 40 states since January. A criminal justice professor explains why this undermines community trust and public safety: buff.ly/M7C8if8
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Russian forces have been building military infrastructure near the Finnish border, according to recent satellite imagery, in moves that could reveal their strategy for what happens after the Ukraine war.
Russia Beefs Up Bases Near Finland’s Border
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Russian forces have been building military infrastructure near the Finnish border, according to recent satellite imagery, in moves that could reveal their strategy for what happens after the Ukraine war.
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A photograph of a Japanese American man and his sons. Caption: "Oakland, California. Residents of Japanese ancestry waiting for evacuation buses which will take them to the Tanforan Assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 28." Taken by Dorthea Lange on May 6, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
May 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A photograph of a Japanese American man and his sons. Caption: "Oakland, California. Residents of Japanese ancestry waiting for evacuation buses which will take them to the Tanforan Assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 28." Taken by Dorthea Lange on May 6, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
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Big loss in court for Kari Lake
Judge Royce Lamberth orders administration to restore millions of $$ in funds to Radio Free Europe
Judge: "When money has been appropriated by Congress.. Executive has no residual constitutional power to refuse to spend these appropriations"
Judge Royce Lamberth orders administration to restore millions of $$ in funds to Radio Free Europe
Judge: "When money has been appropriated by Congress.. Executive has no residual constitutional power to refuse to spend these appropriations"
April 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Big loss in court for Kari Lake
Judge Royce Lamberth orders administration to restore millions of $$ in funds to Radio Free Europe
Judge: "When money has been appropriated by Congress.. Executive has no residual constitutional power to refuse to spend these appropriations"
Judge Royce Lamberth orders administration to restore millions of $$ in funds to Radio Free Europe
Judge: "When money has been appropriated by Congress.. Executive has no residual constitutional power to refuse to spend these appropriations"