Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 5hJustice Alito says he'll weigh retirement. If Democrats flip the Senate and he wants out, there’s an eight-week lame duck period. But the GOP vote math for confirmation of his replacement is tight. My write-up in the link in the comments. 1617520
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11hAs bad as Ken Paxton is now on corruption, policy, hyper-partisanship, character, personal life, divisiveness, dishonesty, slavish loyalty to Trump - he will be 10 times worse as a US Senator. 412190448
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11hHow is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it. 769109993016
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 21hThe people who can't even keep lettuce and eggs safe are 'actively monitoring' the plague outbreak in Russia. 571704477
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 8hRs could have taken back tariff authority, cut off war funding, reined in ICE to, refused to confirm unfit Cabinet secretaries and a weak Federal Reserve chairman. And, most of all, they could have rejected the Big, Ugly bill. They didnt and now dread Trump coming to their district/state. KARMAopen.substack.comPlease, Mr. President, Campaign For My Republican Opponent!🚨 29 Days to the Midterms 🚨 425972
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 8hThe Court has several other big culture war cases on its docket — one is yet another case where plaintiffs seek exemptions from civil rights protections for the LGBT community, in their case with a rationale of religious liberty. 55714
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialCarole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 8hThe best way to be sure your vote counts is to vote early and in person. www.vote.org 34597345
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A civil lawsuit. A renewed criminal investigation. And a very complicated area of the law. I’ve tried to give you the information you’ll need to understand the unfolding investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell fraternity. joycevance.substack.com/p/jane-doe?r...joycevance.substack.comJane DoeJane Doe is the name by which we know the young woman who has come forward to say she was gang raped in a room at the Chi Phi fraternity house while she was a student at Cornell in 2024. 27747210
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12hWhat will the Court do to us this term? It’s already taken away Roe v. Wade, given Trump a pass from prosecution for January 6, and permitted partisan gerrymanders. How much worse can it get? This term, there are some distinctly unpleasant possibilities. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...joycevance.substack.comThe Week AheadOctober 4, 2026 39877311
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026History won't ask what you posted. It'll count who showed up. Be in the count: check your registration, make your voting plan, and bring two people with you. When we vote, we win. #LetsGetVoteReady 27700386
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check. 68962241
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, he got drunk, he got in a car knowing he was drunk, and he endangered the lives of others doing so. He could have killed someone. A grown ass man with enough money to have a personal driver decided to drive drunk. No sympathy for him. Sorry. And I'm a lifelong Cowboys fan. 2668777
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire. 22686852211
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 02/10/2026U.S. nonfarm payrolls added only 29,000 jobs, well below expectations, in September while unemployment rose to 4.2 percent. Good luck to Republicans spinning this away. (Image by @byheatherlong.bsky.social) 710445
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A man died in a GEO Group cell in Michigan while Congress begged for answers. Ten weeks later GEO's PAC wrote a check to the Republican running for Senate there. He kept it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill... 7156104
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes, this is true DOGE knew *exactly* what USAID resources were used for & where those resources went to: health & humanitarian assistance to women & children in low- & middle-income countries Here are 20 projects that Musk killed He knew exactly what he was doing apnews.com/article/usai...apnews.comUSAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closedCountries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding. 18352
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 02/10/2026New York governor vows to close legal loophole after Cornell gang rape allegationslemonde.frNew York governor vows to close legal loophole after Cornell gang rape allegationsFollowing public outcry over an alleged gang rape at Cornell University in 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for closing a loophole in state law that allows offenders to avoid rape charges if their victims were willingly intoxicated. 17517133
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Renee Good’s family is suing the officials who sent the ICE agent who killed her, using a law Congress wrote to stop the Klan. Their real goal may be discovery, and the Trump regime will fight hard to deny it. My write-up in the link in the comments. 19616
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For four years, Sen. Ron Wyden has followed Epstein’s money. Now he’s found an FBI interview with one of Epstein’s bankers that the Trump regime kept out of the Epstein files. My write-up in the link in the comments. 7610166
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Judge had the discretion to dismiss WITHOUT prejudice but in a censure of how prosecutors played loose & fast with what they knew to be the evidence in this case, has dismissed WITH prejudice. The gov’t is out of business in this one. 281643329
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Remember when Judge Cannon blocked release of Vol. II of Jack Smith’s report? The part about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case? Now there’s an encouraging update & you’ll want to know all about it. joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-vo...joycevance.substack.comFinally. Volume II.Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report should be public. Donald Trump wants to keep that from happening. 171000373
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Michael Whatley has Trump's endorsement, Trump's cabinet's money and a $71 million super PAC pledge. He's down 15 and calls the poll "trash." The poll came from a conservative outlet. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen... 88232
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialKatherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Democrats are ready to act on AI. We must have guardrails to keep people safe while leading in innovation. But Republicans refuse. 23614
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026tfw you decide to pivot after spent months hyping the threat of Hasan Piker and it didn't hurt Democrats' midterm polling. 2445974
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.” 912597862
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Barbosa de Cunha immediately goes to the front of the line as the most important case #SCOTUS will decide this term. Trump's entire immigration arrest and detention policy regime *depends* upon its novel reading of the statutes, one that's been rejected by an overwhelming majority of lower courts. 1319974
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Samuel Alito has recused himself from a Supreme Court climate case, after ethics watchdogs uncovered his fossil fuel stockholdings. Instead of relying on the justices to occasionally do the right thing, we need Congress to enact real SCOTUS reform.youtube.comHow to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert ReichJustice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg 15667592173
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The question presented here couldn't be more consequential. Answering "yes" would require the detention--without any possibility of a bond hearing--of millions of immigrants currently residing in the United States. 416157
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trump is getting pushback, even in Alabama joycevance.substack.com/p/florida-me...joycevance.substack.comFlorida MenThis Friday, Donald Trump will be in Mobile, Alabama, the place where his first campaign really started to gain traction after then-Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III threw his support ... 81074233
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026NEW: In a loss for South Carolina voters, a federal judge upheld three state laws that restrict voter assistance weeks before the midterms. While the decision could affect nearly 15% of South Carolinians who identify as having a disability, the judge left the door open for a future challenge.democracydocket.comSouth Carolina voters with disabilities lose key mail voting challengeVoters with disabilities last year challenged South Carolina laws that make it more difficult for them to vote, arguing that state statutes violated the Voting Rights Act. The laws that will now remai... 710162
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You do run a country, you idiot. 1847463
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hahahahahahahaha this ad is awesome 7660421558
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026High school teachers, I respect the hell out of you and know you are in the trenches doing the hard work. But I am *begging* you to stop telling your students to email a professor to sit for an interview or to guide their special project. I already have my own students. I’m not looking for more. 1447629
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/09/2026Part of me secretly hopes that members of the 11th Circuit were cool to have arguments for releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report in January, but watching Schmitt's colossal fuck up made them move the arguments up to Nov 2. 301770415
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialOpinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Rural MAHA followers say Trump hasn’t improved health of their communities, an AP-KFF poll finds apnews.com/article/rura...apnews.comRural MAHA followers say Trump hasn't improved health of their communities, an AP-KFF poll findsA new AP-KFF poll finds that the Make America Healthy Again movement has a substantial following among rural voters, but most don't think President Donald Trump's healthcare policies have benefited th... 73816
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top." 10731526255
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tone-deaf AI slop from the White House, data center pushback dismissed as a "Chinese psyop," a predator's sweetheart deal, and GOP breaks with Trump over Iran. A party that won't answer for its choices. With 35 days to go, how far will that strategy take them?thinkbigpicture.substack.comThe GOP Crisis: Five Separate Stories, One Looming Disaster 1355657
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026More than tone deaf. Rubbing their greed and utter lack of care in the public’s face is more like it. 26111
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Or maybe—just hear me out—people simply don’t want deafening, water guzzling, heat generating, utility bill exploding data centers anywhere near their communities. Video: buff.ly/GwiTUX2 810916
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hours after Axios floated him as Vance’s 2028 running mate, Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over an Atlanta Hawks game. But Schmitt hadn’t double checked his work. My write-up in the link in the comments. 2835339
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just a reminder that the last time DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against a district judge, it was dismissed in a ruling by Chief Judge Sutton that was all but dripping with contempt (for the government): www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/jud...opn.ca6.uscourts.gov 15488128
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialMark Mucci @mlmucci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026DHS Secretary Mullin needs his binkie if he's going to talk to the mean reporters. 36897145
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think we all saw that coming 42061611910
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0 45668351997
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you need a refresher about the issues involved in release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report, you’re not alone. The case was briefed months ago, but has been sitting on the court’s docket waiting for oral argument. I wrote about it back then: joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-pas...joycevance.substack.comTrump's Past Is Catching Up With HimWe’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president. 351151418
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026All of this happened yesterday: Jack Smith testified Trump still wants his name on the Kennedy Ctr CNN, MSNOW & Politico asked a court to keep forcing Trump to give them WH access A DC appeals court decides if the Trump admin can be investigated for contempt joycevance.substack.com/p/flooding-t...joycevance.substack.comFlooding the ZoneJack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his... 30622167
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030851087
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026Trump’s mail voting restrictions would have disenfranchised thousands if the Supreme Court had allowed them. But Trump’s plan to restrict mail voting was supposed to be even more prohibitive, with the help of two election conspiracists inside the White House. More from this shocking report:democracydocket.comReport: Trump wanted all mail ballots sent by certified mailTwo White House officials, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, tried to help Trump make his USPS rule even more restrictive by requiring all voters sign their delivered ballots at home. 11272123
Reposted by @donnabickford.bsky.socialThe USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mf’er is like Batman. 318118592526