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The expressions of bewilderment and confusion by the voters quoted here are a pretty stark indictment of the state of elections coverage in Georgia: atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/05…
If voters don't know the stakes or the candidates in an election, that's a clear sign that the Fourth Estate is failing.
#politics #USPol #GAPol #elections
Despite strong Democratic turnout, progressive judicial challengers mostly came up short
Discover the outcome of Georgia's judicial elections, where incumbent judges faced significant challenges but largely held their ground.Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon (Atlanta Civic Circle)
REMINDER: Donald Trump has told us how we can take him down.
#IRS #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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...nobody could have forseen the #Chainsaw implementation of #DataRaids throughout #US government agencies in 2025.
Nothing seems to be off limits anymore.
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1) NS-Schrifleitergesetz (German)
taz.de/Presse-im-Nationalsozia…
Presse im Nationalsozialismus: Im Dienste des Regimes
Vor 90 Jahren stellte Goebbels das „NS-Schriftleitergesetz“ vor. Es regelte, welche Journalisten arbeiten durften – und schaffte die Pressefreiheit ab.Christian Walther (taz)
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...licenses to the #WhiteHouse. #Hegseth has already hinted several times that he expects more pro-American stances in the press.
When will they be able to move towards a #Goebbels-style complete #Backgrounders (#Presseunterichtung), or even a NS-styled "Schriftleitergesetz" 1), which determined which journalists were still allowed to work? Even though #Project2025 foreshadowed many actions (originally a #Nazi term in German, as I researched 2day),...
Report: A new Jewish diaspora movement (JDM) explicitly rejects Israel’s ethno-nationalism.
"Solidarity with oppressed peoples, including in Palestine, is central to its understanding of Jewishness", the coalition states.
So far, the coalition has 46 member organisations, incl "Jewish Voice for Peace, Rabbis for Ceasefire, IfNotNow, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice & the American Council for Judaism".
New from Jesús Jank Curbelo: Under #Trump, more than 50 American kids per day have an undocumented parent yanked into #ICE detention.
These children are citizens and the government has left them struggling to survive. Here are the stories of some from #Texas ... texasobserver.org/ruptured-fam…
#children #immigration #HumanRights #politics #USpol #fascism #news
Ruptured Families: The U.S. Citizen Children Left Behind by Deportations
More than 800,000 Texan kids with citizenship depend on an undocumented parent. Trump’s immigration crackdown is tearing their households apart.Jesús Jank Curbelo (The Texas Observer)
Liberal congressman #BarneyFrank, who crafted the most significant reforms to the #financial system in a generation & was trailblazer for #GayRights, whose coming out in 1987 helped normalize being openly gay in public life, has died. He was 86.
Report: The judge in the Filton 6 trial "secretly ruled that, despite not being charged with terrorism, there was a terrorist connection with the six, due to the activists attempting to influence the Israeli government."
The so-called “terror connection" is highly likely to lead to punitive jail terms at sentencing on 12 June.
It was illegal for the British press to report the fact.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/a…
#USPol #EUPol #Filton6 #UKPol #UKRepression #News #palestine #palestineAction .
Report: 87 Gaza flotilla activists being held by Israel "have begun a hunger strike to protest their detention & show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails."
"Global Sumud Flotilla on Tuesday said that all 50 vessels in its aid convoy had been seized by Israel."
middleeastmonitor.com/20260520…
#USPol #EUPol #GlobalSumudFlotilla #news #palestine .
RE: mastodon.social/@realTuckFrump…
Vance, like so many others, wildly overestimates Trump's capacity for strategic thinking. He has been trying to conjure a perpetual get-out-of-jail-free card since he entered office & with the entitled logic of a spoiled child he thinks putting it on a grown-up looking piece of paper makes it real.
Also, maybe focus on the fucking multitude of crimes he's already committed, over the ones he's going to commit? If you deal with the former, it also solves the latter, you see.
#TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper@mastodon.social)
Trump is trying to bury something big — and he just gave away the game: ex-prosecutor #RawStory https://twp.ai/E5AyzP#TuckFrump (Mastodon)
Report: ICC prosecutor's office seeks arrest warrant for Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Charges include "forced displacement as a crime against humanity & war crime, the transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, & persecution & apartheid as crimes against humanity."
There may be two more warrant applications, including for national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi…
#USPol #EUPol #ICC #Smotrich #news #palestine #GazaGenocide #Apartheid .
Exclusive: ICC prosecutor's office seeks arrest warrant for Israel's Smotrich
The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court last month filed a secret arrest warrant application for Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in …Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us…
Senate Votes to Take Up Measure to Force Trump to End Iran War
Senators Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rand Paul & Bill Cassidy joined Dems in voting to send the bill to the floor for a vote.
DINO Sen John Fetterman was the lone "Democrat" to vote w/#GOP.
Of course he does. Paxton was a full fledged member of the #SeditiousConspiracy to overturn the #2020election. He brought that lawsuit to #SCOTUS to nullify Biden’s win.
He’s also a #criminal, his own staff tried to get him fired from being the #Texas Attorney General.
#Trump endorses #KenPaxton in Texas #Republican primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn
THIS CANNOT STAND.
US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s tax returns
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
#AuditTrump #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns
Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s alliesSam Levine (The Guardian)
❝ What the Voting Rights Act produced – not just officeholders but the constituency-mapping that allowed Black political coalitions to cohere – is precisely what Republicans are now undoing.
They have a roadmap. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson’s administration resegregated the federal civil service that Reconstruction had pried open. They did it by executive action and administrative memo. ❞
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#JimCrow #AmericanFascism #VotingRights #Elections2026 #USpol
The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter
New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American historyJamil Smith (The Guardian)
Let’s face it. CBS is a loss-leader for Larry Ellison to curry regulatory favor from the regime. He’s happy to burn it down, and with it democracy and free speech. Because Larry doesn’t have enough money.
CBS Cancels Itself, Not Just Colbert
nytimes.com/2026/05/16/opinion…
#CBS #BariWeiss #DavidEllison #LarryEllison #ShariRedstone #BoycottParamount #BoycottCBS #BoycottOracle #USPol
As a white Southerner in the United States, I am deeply appalled. Words absolutely fail to describe how this gerrymandering could downspiral from the loss of political representation for Black Americans to loss of professional opportunities and individual personal freedoms. And don't get me started about educational equality. This is an outrage, and an assault against the memory of the Black slaves whose labor literally built the Southlands from the ground up. It's a misery and a heartbreak for their descendants, many of whom still live in poverty, oppression, and injustice.
motherjones.com/politics/2026/…
#scotus #uspol #jimcrow #gerrymandering #southcarolina
#louisiana #georgia #mississippi
#alabama #northcarolina
Alito said racism was over. Southern states are now rushing to revive Jim Crow.
Republicans are set to dismantle at least five majority-Black districts in the South.Mother Jones
LARGEST THEFT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
Trump's DOJ announces $1.7B 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' as part of Trump IRS lawsuit settlement
The fund will COMPENSATE Trump, Trump family, and Trump supporters who say they were wrongly targeted under Biden.
The funds will be controlled by Trump's personal appointees!
Trump has just stolen $1.7B from the American taxpayer!
THEFT. IN. BROAD. DAYLIGHT.
#AureFreePress #BreakingNews #Breaking #TrumpRegime #uspol #Politics
abcnews.com/US/trump-court-fil…
DOJ announces $1.7B 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' as part of Trump IRS lawsuit settlement
The fund will compensate those who say they were wrongly targeted under Biden.Katherine Faulders (ABC News)
From Judd Legum:
Examples of stocks trump bought days before promoting them or making policy announcements that affect these companies -
Thermo Fisher - $85K - $215K
Apple - $2M - $7.2M
Micron - $217K - $530K
Dell - $1M - $5M
Nvidia - $500K - $1M
AMD - $50K - $100K
Trades were marked “unsolicited”, that is not recommended by a broker, but initiated by the customer.
There are billions more of grift in this kleptocracy.
popular.info/p/the-smoking-gun…
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The smoking guns in Trump’s new financial disclosure
Trump publicly praised companies the same day he bought their stock.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
Students (along with other campus community members) were punished severely for opposing the use of US tax dollars, and their own institutions' financial investments to support policies that are now... utterly mainstream to oppose
forward.com/fast-forward/81911…
#PolicingTheCampus #Uspol #GazaProtests
In major shift, all but 7 Senate Democrats vote to block weapons sales to Israel – The Forward
Several Jewish moderates and likely 2028 presidential contenders newly voted for the resolutions.The Forward
Will Bunch:
"This is the E-Trade presidency. In an era when the everyday American is increasingly addicted to sports gambling, or loading up on crypto, or betting on the next drone strike, Trump has emerged as our gambler-in-chief.
Why don’t Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors — “A Watergate everyday,” as the writer Garrett M. Graff described them — ever gain public traction in the way that Nixon’s scandals or Bill Clinton’s extramarital affair once did?"
inquirer.com/opinion/trump-sto…
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The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns
The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Political influence of #billionaires:🚨Sen Sheehy preemptively atkd my reporting. Numerous influencers then amplified his post: Trump Jr, R Gaines...
One of the influencers, JR Kraus,🚨now says she'd been paid to amplify Sheehy’s atk as part of an organized campaign offering influencers💰 to boost his msg *means there're ppl out there who'll pay you💰to call me a “dishonest fake news hack.”
1 race:🚨87% of contribs come from🤑s.
Sheehy rec💰from 64‼️
-M Baker
#Corruption #USPol
nytimes.com/2026/05/16/busines…
Sen Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s #Republican #primary in #Louisiana will be covered as evidence of Trump’s grip over the party. #BillCassidy voted to convict #Trump after his second #impeachment following #Jan6, 2021, & this was payback.
At the same time, Cassidy’s third-place finish highlights another unfortunate trend in #US politics: the decline of open primaries across the country.
Interview: Israel wants Hamas to "surrender, capitulate, become fully defenseless, weaponless...
..." and entrust the very army that carried out a genocide against you to be merciful towards you once you are an easier target than you ever were before.”
That is the “disarmament trap”: the "unfairly weighted negotiations designed to strip Palestinians of political autonomy".
democracynow.org/2026/5/15/muh…
#USPol #EUPol #gazagenocide #palestine #palestinianPrisoners #news #disarmamentTrap .
Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel.Democracy Now!
Protest is brewing again in Selma. In the wake of Callais, and the overt gerrymandering and dilution of the Black vote that the Supreme Court now says is legal, protestors marched today. (credit: Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse)
joycevance.substack.com/p/selm…
#JimCrow #Selma #VotingRights #USPOL
Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
#Democrats #uspol #uspolitics
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#USpol
A leaked Army memo🚨warns that #Hegseth's frantic push to flood the battlefield with cheap weaponized #drones is getting soldiers killed by bypassing fundamental explosive safety protocols nobody bothered to maintain in the rush."
-T Welborn3
The #DOD🚨is being accused of cutting corners on safety..
#Incompetence #Deaths #IranWar #Trump #TrumpRegime #Troops #USPol
thedailybeast.com/secret-memo-…
Secret Memo Calls Out Pentagon Pete for Drone ‘Mishaps’
A leaked Army memo warns the Pentagon’s aggressive drone push may be putting soldiers at risk.Olivia Ralph (The Daily Beast)
