Donna Davidson

MIZZOU Journalism grad. Light Worker. USAF Brat. World traveler. See 1st account @Path_ology.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Important court decision today striking down Trump’s exective order directing USPS to control voting by mail. Our Constitution gives the president no role in voting. Hands off!
https://t.co/nhfG4So6ki

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Two Utah commissioners lost their jobs over their votes to approve the controversial Kevin O'Leary data center.

The president of the Utah State Senate, who had pushed for the huge data center next to the Great Salt Lake, was also defeated in his primary Tuesday night.

This especially shocking result saw J. Stuart Adams, one of the longest-serving and most powerful politicians in Utah, lose a primary he had easily won multiple times before.

https://t.co/PgTJMurXLk

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

BREAKING: In a huge win, a federal court blocked parts of Trump's executive order targeting mail voting.

The judge halted:
✔️A mandate to create lists of verified U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state.
✔️ USPS' decision to only mail absentee ballots from certain individuals.

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

"For more than a year, federal agents have been staking out immigration courthouses—waiting for people to finish their scheduled hearings and arresting them on the way out. Not criminals on the run—people following the law, showing up when the government told them to.

On Tuesday, a federal judge ended it—for the entire country.

US District Judge P. Casey Pitts threw out the policy in a 71-page ruling. ICE courthouse arrests are now limited to genuine emergencies like national security threats.

“For 80 years,” Pitts wrote, “Congress has commanded federal agencies to think before they act.”

ICE didn’t. The court noticed. People who show up for their hearings deserve a system that shows up for them—and now they have one."

A Brutal Week For The Regime: Epstein’s Secretary Contradicts JD Vance, 101 Former Judges File Complaint Against Trump’s AG Todd Blanche, and Military Reinstates Flu Shots After Hegseth’s Outbreak https://t.co/59j6ff08xm

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is now threatening to withhold more than $1 billion meant to prevent terrorism and prepare for disasters, unless states adopt his preferred election rules.

This isn’t about election integrity. It never has been. It’s about strong-arming states into making it harder for you to vote.

His plan would force states to run voter rolls through a deeply flawed database that could flag perfectly eligible American citizens for removal. And complying with his new mandates could cost states more than $2.7 BILLION.

The Constitution gives states control over how elections are run. Courts have said so repeatedly. And yet here we are, watching the President try to buy his way around it with funds meant to keep communities safe.

I am fighting every single day to make sure our elections stay free, fair, and out of Trump’s hands.
https://t.co/rP94nfQShF

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 In a 2-1 vote, the Sixth Circuit ruled that the DOJ cannot force Michigan to turn over its unredacted statewide voter-registration database under the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! The European Parliament formally demands that Albania END Jared Kushner's corrupt resort development in a massive blow to the President's son-in-law.

This is the nightmare scenario for Ivanka and her crooked husband...

“The Flamingo Protest shows that citizens care about protecting the environment and joining the EU. We will stand with them, supporting their protest against Trump allies who exploit their natural heritage and supporting their journey towards the EU,” said Dutch MEP Tineke Strik of the Greens–European Free Alliance.

Protests have swept Albania over the past month in opposition to the project, which includes a $1.4 billion development on an island and a $4.7 billion deal for a stretch of protected coastline. Because the development endangers wildlife including flamingos, the protests have been nicknamed "The Flamingo Revolution.

The EU previously warned Albania that the ecological disruption could endanger their bid to join the Union, because it runs afoul of their environmental rules. This new move from the European Parliament is an escalation of that campaign to abort the project.

The lawmakers adopted a resolution in their 2025 Commission Report on Albania which calls for an "immediate moratorium" on new permits as well as the termination of all construction in protected regions. While it doesn't specifically mention Kushner, the intent is clear. This is a response to his plutocratic endeavors.

"Europe should pay close attention to what is happening in Albania. There is no better guarantee for the path toward accession to the European Union than a living, conscious people capable of mobilizing against predatory capitalism, in defense of justice, the commons and freedom," said Italian MEP Ilaria Salis.

We stand with the proud, defiant people of Albania. They have every right to defend their beautiful country from the wicked tendrils of Donald Trump's family. Kushner wants to carve out yet another luxury playground for the war criminals, pedophiles, and sex traffickers of the Epstein Class.

He must be stopped.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Albania

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican South Dakota state Sen. Tom Pischke has been charged with two felony counts of election fraud.

He forged 16 forms putting people on the ballot without their knowledge.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

A federal judge just ruled that videos of DOGE staffers must stay up — and they are devastating.

Under oath, they couldn't define DEI. They admitted they never reduced the deficit. And they wiped out $100 million in humanities grants — including a Holocaust documentary — using ChatGPT.

The regime tried to bury this. It didn't work.
https://t.co/fWMDX4EeEb

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: YES! A federal judge BLOCKS Trump from creating a shady centralized "database" containing Social Security numbers, citizenship status, and other crucially sensitive data about voters.

This is a major blow to the MAGA assault on our elections...

“All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens,” stated District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan.

She said that Trump officials working in numerous government agencies “haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable."

They were executing directives handed down by an executive order that Trump signed in an effort to reshape our elections to aid the Republican Party's faltering prospects. That order required the government to create a list of eligible voters gleaned from citizenship data, which would then be sent to the U.S. Postal Service with the express direction that only people who appeared on the list should receive mail-in ballots.

Specifically, the Social Security Administration was commanded to create a State Citizenship List based on the data available to them plus data from naturalization records and DHS's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database.

While these efforts are ostensibly about making sure that only citizens can vote, in truth they're part of a sweeping voter suppression strategy. Republicans want to purge as many voters as possible and erect as many barriers to the ballot box as they can because worse turnout advantages them. We know that mass voter fraud doesn't exist but right-wingers perpetuate the myth as a facade for their anti-democracy efforts.

“Since then, states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information,” Sooknanan wrote.

She said the database is unlawful and violates the Social Security Act, Privacy Act and Administrative Procedure Act.

Once again, the Trump administration has sprinted face-first into the solid brick wall of our federal judiciary. We love to see it!

Please ❤️ and share to thank the judge!

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

OOF: The plaintiffs who unsuccessfully sued trying to stop Trump from renovating the Reflecting Pool have just uncorked a scathing update to the judge

"This is the foreseeable result of defendants’ decision to bypass the consultative process required by law and which must occur before the government can alter our nation’s most sacred spaces"

"It should go without saying, Congress required agencies to consult with experts and public before making changes to historic properties for a reason. The public is now witnessing what happens when, instead, agencies barrel ahead with ill-conceived plans in a hasty manner to meet an arbitrary deadline imposed by the White House"

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: RED ALERT! Anti-ICE protestors in Texas get sentenced to FIFTY YEARS IN PRISON by a Trump-appointed judge in an outrageous North Korean-style kangaroo court to punish free speech!

This should terrify every one of us…

A group of nine protestors were convicted of bullshit terrorism charges from a Fourth of July protest at an immigrant detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, south of Fort Worth.

The protestors had fireworks to set off in solidarity with those poor individuals detained inside. Police arrived and immediately escalated the situation, leading to the slashing of tires of ICE vehicles, and breaking a security camera.

One protestor fired a shot at one of the guards, hitting him in the arm, in order to stop him from shooting one of the protesters.

Benjamin Song, the shooter, received 100 years in prison.

His fellow protesters Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Meagan Morris were sentenced to 50 years in prison. Maricela Rueda, another demonstrator, was sentenced to 70 years in prison.

In comparison, the leader of the Proud Boys received 22 years in prison for attacking the Capitol on January 6th.

All six were convicted of riot, providing material support to terrorists, and explosive charges.

Three of the defendants weren’t involved in the planning and left after the guards told them to; one of them WASN’T EVEN THERE but got 30 years in prison for “moving leftwing zines.”

The judge stacked the charges together and gave outrageously long sentences to the protesters, who were smeared as “antifa.”

As if you needed any more proof, the Trump-appointed judge said explicitly said he was handing down maximum sentences to "send a message" to anyone else who shares this ideology of caring for other people and exercising their rights to protest.

The implications of this are DEEPLY disturbing. “If you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism,” writes organizer Hannah Riley Fernandez on Twitter.

With Trump judges installed across the country, Trump and his goons are clearly ready to hand down massive sentences in kangaroo courts in order to brutally punish anyone who dares to protest his appalling persecution of immigrants.

Fascism has come to America.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The Trump regime has killed at least 210 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

This is a danger to us all. https://t.co/rQOadGfmzZ

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington D.C. blocked DHS from using its citizenship database to remove voters from registration rolls, striking a significant blow against Donald Trump’s unconstitutional attempt to take control of federal elections. https://t.co/QDeJGIZF76

[CNN @CNN]

Judge blocks Trump administration from obtaining medical records of minors who received gender identity care at New York City hospitals. https://t.co/NrWr3vQ1cG

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Brutal. Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz (a George W. Bush appointee and former Scalia clerk) just tore the regime’s DOJ a new one. He called their revenge subpoenas "blatantly unlawful" with "nonexistent" ties to any actual crime.

Read his scathing order: 👇 🔗 https://t.co/iR7tL1PRW2

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu humiliates MAGA U.S. Attorney Judge Jeanine for threatening to charge the nonexistent “vandals” dumping imaginary chemicals into the Reflecting Pool.

This is EXACTLY how you handle these lying lunatics…

“I guarantee that @JudgeJeanine will not charge anyone for dumping chemicals into the reflecting pool. Because if they had any evidence they would be parading it around 24/7,” Lieu wrote on X in response to a clip of Pirro ranting on Fox News.

“The reality is Trump screwed up the reflecting pool by overpaying on a no bid contract to an amateur,” he added.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a defining debacle for the Trump administration in recent weeks. The President boasted that he was going to beautify the pool while slamming Obama for failing to do so. Trump poured $14.7 million of your tax dollars into the project, only for the algae to bloom more vividly than ever before. The entire pool turned a sickly green color, at which point Trump’s minions began dumping hydrogen peroxide into the water, exacerbating the discoloration. Soon after, strips of blue lining began to flake and dislodge from the pool’s lining.

Rather than admit that he made a mistake by handing the renovation contracts to shady, incompetent firms — including one operated by a convicted felon — Trump has begun insisting that "sick" and "deranged" vandals are to blame. Pirro has eagerly embraced the insane narrative.

"Anyone who is in a position of vandalizing or attempting to vandalize will face the criminal justice system in D.C.," she said. “Look, the president has made it a priority to make D.C. not only safe, but beautiful.”

Obviously, nobody is vandalizing the pool. Trump and Pirro know that, but they also know that the Republican base is gullible enough to believe anything that Trump says. They bought his lies about the 2020 election without a shred of evidence and now they’re eagerly gobbling up this Reflecting Pool propaganda.

Our best recourse is do what Congressman Lieu is doing: call them out at every turn. Republicans won’t listen to us, but the Independents who decide elections will!

Please ❤️ and share if you’re loving this Reflecting Pool saga!

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

NEW: Federal judge Christopher Cooper orders Team Trump and Kennedy Center to file report in next month that “shall also indicate the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center”

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: Judge Carl Nichols has ordered the Trump Admin. to respond by the end of the day to plaintiffs who've challenged Reflecting Pool project

Plaintiffs (a conservation group) want Team Trump to halt future "renovations" til proper studies are conducted

They say the initial damage to Pool from the initial "renovations" was.... "forseeable"

https://t.co/suW6yu7Ohx