Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5hQ: Are high costs the biggest liability for Republican candidates? TRUMP: I inherited high costs from the Democrats. We've gotten prices down. 3981075204
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comTrump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit saysThe change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues. 9535432008
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some North Carolina voters only have a week left to ensure they can cast a ballot in the midterms as a result of a shady settlement the state elections board made with Trump’s Justice Department. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comNorth Carolina mailboxes overflow with voter registration warnings after state cut a deal with Trump’s DOJ“This is death by a thousand cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket. “It’s why you move voting sites, it’s why you have fewer hours, it’s why our absentee mailing ballots are so compl... 441382881
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their families to cast ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comHegseth urges military to vote as Trump administration makes it harder for them to cast ballotsHegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their famili... 21776361
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Each 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. 47164823686
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🚨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... 8550092002
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h🚨BREAKING: Absentee ballot voters in Montana won’t have to comply with an onerous birthdate verification requirement after a state court blocked the measure Friday night, ruling that it violates the state constitution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comMontana court blocks onerous mail voting law that caused thousands of rejected absentee ballots last yearThe mail voting measure led to nearly 3,000 mail ballots getting rejected in the Nov. 2025 election, in a state where 80% of voters vote absentee. 332444735
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6hGeorgia’s election board asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding yet another probe based on hyper-partisan conspiracy theories to the department’s portfolio. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comGeorgia’s GOP-controlled election board wants DOJ to investigate nonpartisan voter roll maintenance programDespite his request for a federal investigation into ERIC, the board's executive director appeared to know very little about the organization during a meeting earlier this week. 24773318
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 6hwww.nola.com/news/courts/...nola.comHow ICE plans to speed deportations by holding children, families beside a Louisiana airportGovernment documents, interviews with officials and public testimony shed new light on day-to-day operations within the controversial new facility designed to hold undocumented women, families and una... 19508288
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 5hSo much corruption. So much betrayal. So many conflicts. So much greed. No real plan to lower your costs. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump AlliesPresident Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 3029570
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5hTrump’s top national-security team quietly met at Camp David as the G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels of emergency oil reserves. And what they were reportedly discussing could expand the war even further.meidasnews.comTrump’s Iran War Team Huddles in Secret as G7 Drains 100 Million BarrelsAs JD Vance chaired a closed Camp David meeting on the Iran war and Yemen, G7 governments committed emergency oil reserves while Trump kept the next military move concealed. 54719307
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026GOP Rep. Moore on Watergate: "Richard Nixon was absolutely couped out of office and was framed. All of this was fake." 16515456
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.social7thkkid.bsky.social @7thkkid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And Hitler was a pacifist and Jeffrey Dahmer was a vegan. These people and their revisionist history are nuts. 21809
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialJohn Russell @murga65.bsky.social · 7hThat is when presidential pardon power should have been first challenged. Your former VP, who becomes the president on your resignation, grants you a full pardon. presidential crimes that rises to level of impeachment should not be eligible for unconditional pardon. 520021
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h(qutoed in Woodward and Bernstein's “The Final Days,” p. 462) 1540736
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974 3873408954
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialJohn @kjj54.bsky.social · 5hMid term promise! Haha ! Just like the Doge check Tariff check Now the vote for the Do Nothings for $5,000 ! 092
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h“Expect the price of oil to continue to go up. Expect diesel to go up. Expect gas to go up.” Ben Meiselas on Trump’s latest chaos as MAGA Republicans freak out and Trump dangles a bogus $5,000 midterm promise. 571297386
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8hONE MONTH FROM TODAY: 723130973337
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7hOssoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president… 215116564189
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialFlingjore @flingjore.com · 5hTrump tries to save an endangered Republican senator by announcing a finalized $54 billion South Korean investment in an Alaska pipeline. The only problem is nobody told South Korea, whose officials quickly point out they have not actually agreed to fund the project yet.apnews.comPresident Donald Trump said South Korea plans to invest about $54 billion in a natural gas project iThe announcement was the second time in three days that the president used promises of big projects to try to elevate Senate candidates in states where Trump won comfortably each time he has run — but where Republicans are now in surprisingly competitive races just weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm 083
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026Attendees listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Alabama REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak 3282716728
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialAgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 11hAnd MTG is also very made at Trump this morning... 1015739
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11hKatie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks." 439129033839
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Congresswoman @replamonica.bsky.social just gave birth to her second child, a baby girl. The weaponized Trump DOJ is prosecuting her for simply doing her oversight job. She has been threatened with 17 years in federal prison. people.com/rep-lamonica...people.comRep. LaMonica McIver Gives Birth as Trump’s Justice Department Threatens Her With 17 Years in Prison Over ICE IncidentRep. LaMonica McIver gave birth to her second child, a baby girl, on Oct. 1, her office said in a statement. She currently faces prosecution by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for allegati... 641928719
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We’re just 33 days out from the November Midterms & Texas Gubernatorial candidate, @ginafortexas.bsky.social, is blazing a trail to the finish line. She joins me for the latest in her campaign, including how she plans to end the Abbott Corruption Tax for Texans. youtu.be/oT8xuPUBO8Y?...youtu.beTrump SCRAMBLES As Texas Gov. GREG ABBOTT’s Elon Musk TIES BACKFIRE!!YouTube video by Katie Phang 19890281
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026UPDATE: Despite being ordered by Judge Sullivan to produce a certified list of the contents of the Administrative Record by Oct. 1st, Todd Blanche once again has decided he doesn't want to comply. I explain why Blanche would want to avoid producing this court-ordered info: youtu.be/junhrisxRlg?...youtu.be🚨AG Blanche IGNORES JUDGE'S ORDERS And TRIES To DELAY MY Epstein LAWSUIT!!YouTube video by Katie Phang 66669132742
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Renee Nicole Good's family has now filed TWO lawsuits, alleging a conspiracy between Greg Bovino, Stephen Miller, & others to deprive people of their rights & killing Renee in furtherance of that conspiracy. Why discovery will bring accountability for Renee’s murder: youtu.be/2kU7_-Yt-Ig?...youtu.beTrump HIT With TWO NEW LAWSUITS Over DEADLY ICE SHOOTING!!YouTube video by Katie Phang 7540171092
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13hThese two lawsuits brought by Renee Nicole Good’s family are exceptionally well-written and legally compelling. Well worth the read, I promise. I break down both complaints in this episode: youtu.be/2kU7_-Yt-Ig?...youtu.beTrump HIT With TWO NEW LAWSUITS Over DEADLY ICE SHOOTING!!YouTube video by Katie Phang 4930511016
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12h“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...liberalcurrents.comWe Have No Supreme CourtThe philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court. 1062611681
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13hLots of blue on this chart from the New York Times 1562189597
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h2026 Maine Fall Foliage Tour 179137202549
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13hEndless corruption. 575106054778
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialClayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 02/10/2026🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge just HALTED the destruction of Big Bend. This is a massive victory for the landowners, local communities, and everyday Texans who stood up to protect one of our state's greatest treasures. The fight isn't over, but today, the people won. 190110303101
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 13h🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...thequeenzone.comNew ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking RisksA new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to... 35443562617
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17hICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off. 129172894519
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 11hSeriously starting to think Elon Musk used the latest technology to make a RoboTrump 3016341
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026DOE announced last week that it was publishing a list of foreign donors to U.S. institutions who had previously been promised confidentiality. Last night, a judge blocked the publication, citing risks of retaliation for donors from repressive regimes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 817281
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In response to the mad, boorish, wanna-be king, repeated, public displays of affection for the Kennedy Center have erupted.open.substack.comUndaunted Arts in D.C.🚨32 Days to the Midterms🚨 171799492
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the Kansas Court of Appeals Friday denied Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) latest request to revive a GOP-backed law that would throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if they were cast on time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comGOP bid to scrap Kansas mail ballot grace period fails againThe ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within the following three days, including in the upcoming November elections. 16893502820
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive. 7103190929
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialBill @williamquatman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trump, the most criminal and treasonous president in our nation's history. 12037921177
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Call the Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline at 844-WHOS-KEN. Learn about his record and leave him a voicemail. (It’s a real number.) 7629651167
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: Memo circulated by campaign of Adam Hamilton, who is running against Sen Roger Marshall (R-KS) "Five independent race raters have shifted this race multiple times towards Hamilton. In the last two weeks, two major pollsters show Hamilton leading... Marshall by 2 points" 11431105
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's revealing that Vance calls Epstein "a creep." Really, that's all he was? It's revealing that Trump dismisses a question about the Cornell scandal, saying he's sure Cornell will do what's right. Being a Trumpist means not taking sexual assault--not taking rape--seriously. 1624738
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality. 78859191498
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Fascism is both a permanent temptation, and, as history teaches and current events show, a powerful one. As history also teaches, it can be defeated. But first one has to recognize it for what it is. Trump and Hegseth have helped us in this task." www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...thebulwark.comNot To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is MeltedAnd Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open. 219038
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AIPAC decided they were going to set a record on the amount of money they spent against me in the primary election. $70 million. Do you know what we could do with $70 million? 18763372065
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🔥🔥 Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Samara oil pumping station this morning, setting it ablaze. The facility is a key hub on the Druzhba and Kuibyshev–Tikhoretsk pipelines, mixing and transporting Kazakh and Siberian oil west for export. 1264024836
Reposted by @queenelizabeth697.bsky.socialThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 02/10/2026Chief Justice John Roberts’s plan to degrade Black voting rights was apparent even before his confirmation to the Supreme Court. @jenrubin.bsky.social spoke with journalists @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social on the issue:contrariannews.orgBlack Voting Power Is Being Dismantled. Is It Too Late to Stop Its Erosion?Ari Berman and Pema Levy explain how the country arrived at this point and what can be done to avoid paying a greater po 311336
