Reposted by Asa craneMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12hEach election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comUSPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket. 37953113033
Reposted by Asa craneRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12hTrump could nominate the worst person with a law degree in America and this Republican senate will confirm that person. That includes Susan Collins, who always confirms Trump’s justices. The only chance you have to keep that person off the court is to elect Democratic senators. 23435051053
Reposted by Asa craneDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12hPompeo supported a man who tried to overturn an election and destroy American democracy. This shows what the real threat it. It's not Trump and his authoritarianism; it's the acceptance of it. 35498158
Reposted by Asa craneMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comTarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority votersThe lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio... 6538251541
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10hAttendees listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Alabama REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak 2652036551
Reposted by Asa craneAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire. 22185832175
Reposted by Asa craneGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20hHard to disagree with this. 784155844
Reposted by Asa craneHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19hDelusional. 1601115280
Reposted by Asa craneJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19hBill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...talkingpointsmemo.comBill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated HimCuts Would Put IG Office Out of Business In a move that... 722493
Reposted by Asa craneRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19hThis guy has been doing everything he possibly can every day to use his position of SecDef to tamper with the midterms, from speaking at Republican campaign rallies, to giving partisan political speeches to troops, to this. Do all federal employees get a day off to vote? 2521589461
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19hCharlie Angus: Heavy crude from Alberta has served American refineries for a long time. It has served the US economy super well. But hey, you threaten us, well, we’ll have another pipeline and it can go elsewhere. The message to the MAGA administration is: Keep pushing, sucker, and see what happens 521747478
Reposted by Asa craneKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026AP-NORC poll: 71% of U.S. adults disapprove of how Trump is handling Iran. 69% say the war with Iran has not been worth fighting. 24844187
Reposted by Asa craneFrank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trump wants to claim Nixon got a raw deal. Just to be clear, Nixon should have gone to prison. Pardoning him may have paved the way for the mess we’re in: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...wsj.comExclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw DealA revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly. 50712180
Reposted by Asa craneGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it 1535105692128
Reposted by Asa craneshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this is why Veep had to go off the air. it couldn’t compete with real life anymore. 36881101
Reposted by Asa craneJohn Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026new AP/NORC poll on how Americans rate Trump's performance as president: approve...........31% disapprove.....69% 107427
Reposted by Asa craneBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Becoming really difficult for me to believe he doesn’t have a Grindr account. 4032556
Reposted by Asa craneAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026Todd Blanche’s motion for summary judgement in my Epstein redaction training video lawsuit is due tomorrow after a short delay. Multiple sources told me there were videos training FBI agents on how to redact Trump from the Epstein files. I’m suing to get them. 563768912
Reposted by Asa craneMother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026During a sworn deposition on Monday, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) declined to answer repeated questions from one of his ex-wife’s lawyers about whether he pushed a girl down a staircase during high school.motherjones.comIn a sworn deposition, Rep. Max Miller was silent on staircase assault allegation"If the incident never occurred, why are you afraid of answering the question?" asked his ex-wife's lawyer. 681282498
Reposted by Asa craneAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026Pilots in beautiful machines dropping bombs down air chutes into drug slash nuclear factories? 3441622428
Reposted by Asa craneJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026shame on junior officers for applauding his claptrap, and for their bosses not giving them appropriate instructions in advance www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...nytimes.comIn Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and IranThe defense secretary returned to culture-war themes and used coarse and offensive terms to describe people he believes have no place in the military. 30487101
Reposted by Asa craneKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol. 21135181075
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026Trump is now running pro-Iran War propaganda commercials on Fox News paid by for taxpayer dollars 2301265586
Reposted by Asa craneMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld 13450441709
Reposted by Asa craneTea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trump has made America so much weaker and alone in the world. It’s time to give the world some hope with a Democratic house and Senate! 25502127
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.meidasnews.comJudge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records FightA federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove... 15042901485
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026As the U.S. military depletes critical munitions and evacuates bases amid Trump’s Iran war, Pete Hegseth is now moving to eliminate 20% of the military’s top brass positions.meidasnews.comHegseth Moves To Gut 20% of Top Brass, Calls Press ‘Treasonous’At Quantico, Pete Hegseth paired a sweeping cut to senior military positions with culture-war rhetoric and an attack on journalists reporting on the Trump regime’s war. 135872337
Reposted by Asa craneAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026Impeach Hegseth on January 3. I don’t care if you don’t have enough senate votes to convict and remove. 24140751219
Reposted by Asa craneRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/202625th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president. 991177015279
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026“What a crock of sh*t!” Katie Phang torches Todd Blanche after he declares, “There’s not a prosecutor in this country that should ever, ever violate a court order,” pointing to the Trump DOJ’s documented noncompliance with court orders in her OWN Epstein files lawsuit. 12055031721
Reposted by Asa craneRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this. 1099123273128
Reposted by Asa craneAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026This was obvious. Otherwise Schmitt wouldn’t have had Crabbe and Goyle take down the poster so fast. 1902502584
Reposted by Asa craneBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Can’t wait to see how much of the memo is just citations to other OLC memoranda. 811335
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026Yemeni journalist Hussain Albukhaiti tells MeidasTouch that people there “laughed at Trump” during Xi Jinping’s White House visit, mocking Trump’s apparent attempt to impress Xi with a military flyover: “Trump was looking at it like a child.” 361239345
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.meidasnews.comEXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302sSenator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively 25097354121
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026A man charged with rape and sexual assault casually joking about consent at an official event with Trump White House officials. 80972351
Reposted by Asa craneMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is piloting a training program for Wisconsin election observers to identify discrepancies with voting machines, as the GOP piles additional scrutiny on voting processes in the swing state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comGOP trained Wisconsin election observers to target voting machines in pivotal swing stateThe new RNC program appears to mark an escalation from typical poll watching activities. 38600349
Reposted by Asa craneJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026we're at the "new executive order commanding my people to love me" stage of the story 2535446
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026The internet is erupting in mockery after Eric Schmitt’s spectacular Jack Smith faceplant. Now people are openly speculating: Did his team plant the glowing 2028 story AND coordinate with MAGA influencers in advance, expecting a victory lap that blew up in their faces?meidasnews.comEric Schmitt Gets Mercilessly Mocked Over ‘Planted’ Story After Jack Smith FaceplantA glowing 2028 scoop dropped just before Schmitt’s disastrous “gotcha,” while right-wing influencers appeared ready to celebrate. After it blew up, the internet noticed. 1862402642
Reposted by Asa craneJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing. 341764550
Reposted by Asa craneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...meidasnews.comKen Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator CaseCommunity Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.” 1442822992
Reposted by Asa craneMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous such a declaration would be for American democracy. It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution, which empowers states to run elections, in order to prevent his party from losing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comCould Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless. 1441508646
Reposted by Asa craneAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also, what was the alleged link between the Hawks game and Willis? Was she there?? Or was the allegation that he went to see a game in Atlanta so it must have been a secret meeting with Willis? I’m so confused on the evidentiary logic 2041370208
Reposted by Asa craneKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's official: Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from Bryon Noem.ms.nowKristi Noem files for divorce from Bryon NoemThe announcement of the separation comes six months after a bombshell tabloid photo leak of her husband, Bryon Noem. 2891107244
Reposted by Asa craneRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today wasn’t the first time Eric Schmitt tried to use sports to go after someone only to have it blow up in his face because he knows nothing about the teams he’s talking about. 611139202
Reposted by Asa craneBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is this like a morally binding marriage contract? 179017