@clearing_fog

I follow people I disagree with; vet my tweets instead. Mastodon: [email protected]

 Nashville raised, now in SoCal
Joined August 2019
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Marc E. Elias
@marceeliasMay 29
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting

It signaled it plans to send ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.

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Judd Legum
@JuddLegumMay 29
4. The same Austin mailbox store was used in 2024 for a GOP astroturf campaign in the Arizona Senate election, attacking Ruben Gallego and boosting the Green Party candidate. popular.info/p/two-progressi…

Two “progressive” super PACs linked to House GOP

Two newly formed super PACs which purport to be progressive are linked to House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a Popular Information investigation reveals.

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Judd Legum
@JuddLegumMay 29
3. The treasurer of that PAC, Stop Talarico, is Lisa Lisker, Mike Johnson's campaign treasurer. Lisker also is the treasurer of Grow the Majority, one of the joint fundraising committees for the CFL, the House Republican super PAC.
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Martina McBride@martinamcbrideMay 29
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CONSEQUENCE
@consequenceMay 28
Young MC has become the second act to drop off Trump's The Great American State Fair following Morris Day + The Time.
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Anna Kramer@anna_c_kramerMay 28
SCOOP: Trump admin is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects notus.org/trump-white-house/…

The Trump Administration Is Spending $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold

The Interior Department quickly gave nearly $100 million in contracts in a rush to beautify D.C.

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Maybe this is what we should all be doing. Or at least those of us who might be able to.
🔻Rio Slade 🔻@RioSladeMay 28
Holy shit this is amazing journalism. Stop what you're doing and read this.
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Aaron Blake
@AaronBlakeMay 27
Pretty compelling evidence that Republicans were indeed behind secretive attempts to nominate a Democratic candidate who made antisemitic comments -->
Judd Legum
@JuddLegumMay 27
1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵
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Wow. Justice Alito’s son is “quietly” advising the Treasury Department on legal matters - like how to approach cases that could be decided by the Supreme Court (that is, by his dad). Philip Alito was hired early - as a loyalist - before they even had a job description for him.
The Washington Sun
@washingtonsunMay 28
Samuel Alito’s son has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department. notus.org/us-news/samuel-phi…

Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department

Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department.

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Tymofiy Mylovanov
@MylovanovMay 26
Snyder: Saying “history is over” is an authoritarian idea. If history is over, people have no agency. But democracy is about people acting, caring, and being unpredictable. If nothing you think matters, it is not democracy. 4X
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Tymofiy Mylovanov
@MylovanovMay 26
Snyder: The essence of MAGA is losing and pretending to win. Trump is a failed businessman whose political career depends on persuading people he is successful. When he lost in 2020, he tried to convince people he had somehow won. 1/
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It’s important to note that the lion’s share of the GOP’s goals revolve around removing/repealing legislation, rather than creating it. Viewed from that perspective, the courts are the perfect vehicle for “legislating,” by a party that is unable to maintain popular support.
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And while they use the Senate as a means to attack opposition to their agenda, they use the federal bench and dark money networks as their new, replacement legislative branch. It is a way to maintain power, despite being voted out of power. In a sense, it is a judicial coup. //
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Feb, 2020 Uncovered documents reveal ... that Koch funding for the Libertarian party helped subsidize the legal effort that resulted in the infamous Buckley v Valeo decision, which equated spending money with free speech. Precursor to Citizens United. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Love the billionaire bucks flooding the 2020 elections? Thank Charles Koch | Lisa Graves

New documents reveal Koch attack on campaign laws began more than four decades ago

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ClearingTheFog@clearing_fog6 Oct 2023
SCOTUS used the shadow docket to place a stay on the AL gerrymandering case, ensuring the 2022 midterms would be held under illegal district maps. Later decisions showed that GA, LA, & 1–2 other states may have also been wrongly decided. Giving Republicans control of the House.
ClearingTheFog@clearing_fog8 Jun 2023
Great news. But don’t forget that SCOTUS put a stay on this case last year, allowing the 2022 midterms to be held under the illegal Republican district maps.
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Remember: When John Roberts gutted that part of the Voting Rights Act, he never said that these actions are legal or constitutional. He simply said that we’ve moved past all of that stuff now, and we don’t have to worry about it happening anymore. Then five GOP states did it.
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Oh, and Georgia & Louisiana also. How many House seats would Republicans even have if not for unconstitutional redistricting?
Steve Vladeck
@steve_vladeck13 Nov 2022
Federal courts ruled earlier this year that AL, GA, and LA each had to draw an additional “majority-minority” House district to satisfy federal law. In unsigned, unexplained orders, #SCOTUS *blocked* those rulings — resulting in three R seats that would likely have been D seats.
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