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Traveler/seeker/collector/artist. Looking for peeps who want to be good people. I now know you're out there.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump's Midterm Power-Grab Just Took a Direct Hit

Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine just torched Trump's traitorous scheme.

CAIN CALLS TRUMP'S POTENTIAL ORDER "UNLAWFUL"

In a letter to Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Caine stated the military has no plans to send federal troops or federalized National Guard to polling places — or to seize ballots, machines, or election materials — in the November 2026 midterms. He added he has "neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order" about the Joint Force's role.

That's after Trump flooded cities with Guard troops against protests, Hersh reported a White House insider confirming a poll-deployment plan in July, and Trump himself refused to rule it out. Slotkin earlier asked Defense Secretary Hegseth the same question; Hegseth dismissed it as a "gotcha hypothetical" and still hasn't answered.

Voting-rights expert Wendy Weiser called Caine's letter "significant": it preemptively labels any such order unlawful and slams home that state and local officials — not the Pentagon — run elections.

The top general just drew a bright legal line in the sand that the most corrupt president in U.S. history can't easily cross.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

BREAKING: A whistleblower has alleged that USPS rushed a “potentially unlawful implementation” of Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order in a way that fails to safeguard every citizen's right to vote, according to a letter from Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office.

More to come.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to create a national voter registry is an illegal attempt to influence who can vote just weeks before the midterms, a new lawsuit alleges.

The suit seeks to halt DHS and SSA from carrying out Trump's attempt to federalize voter registration. https://t.co/B5RH0OnTIc

[susanendres @susanendres]

https://t.co/c8OY39Knxm

[Acyn @Acyn]

Collins: Do you want to respond to what the vice president said today, saying that there is something that is, quote, “very, very evil” about you?

El-Sayed: Well, let me tell you what’s evil. Evil is the idea of starting wars when there is peace. Evil is the idea of stripping away people’s health care when they absolutely have no other option. What’s evil is to do that so that you can pass a tax cut for billionaires. What’s evil is putting a data center that people don’t want in their backyard despite them. What’s evil is corrupting yourself because you want a little bit more power…

To come to Michigan from Ohio, where he's from, to tell us that we ought to pay for a vanity trade war, that his president is spiking with Canada. Well, that's a little bit beyond the pale, and I think he can go take himself back to Ohio, where apparently they like politics like that

[BPS 🌐 Pro @BPSPro]

@MattMcBradley Huckabee's claim this is just a rogue group of settlers is ridiculous. There are numerous videos of IDF soldiers protecting settlers while they are attacking Palestinians. Par for the course for 78 years.
https://t.co/8MwMZ6M3nD

[Norma @Norma81321397]

Is this the Israel that American taxpayers’ >70 years unconditional support created?

Is this the Israel that AIPAC Pro-Israel American donors made (coerced?) America’s Republican and Democratic Party presidents, congressmen, senators to create and maintain?

Is Israel what Judaism is about?

Is Israel a country, Americans are proud to call an ally?

[Fly Girl Black Ops @FlyGirlBlackOps]

@MattMcBradley Well, looks like some Israelis are just outright violent and steal what is not theirs, eh? They said to being cameras and see for yourself. You did, and now we see. Don’t let this go - because we know who runs the media. 🥵 Americans will be next. 🥵

[Philos @RicardoPhilos]

@MattMcBradley Interesting choice of words, "settlers". How about "terrorists," "violent thugs," "religious gang members," "invaders," or take your pick around their general descriptive theme of lebensraum?

[Jase @_Jase_C_]

@MattMcBradley @MattMcBradley why doesn't the news mention that Israelis who are invaders to the West Bank.... None have been convicted and jailed even for killing massive amounts of children since 2019?

Read the date.... Imagine invaders killing kids in your town and nothing happens

[More Fresh Hell Than Dorothy Parker Imagined 🔥 @ReturnOfThJabba]

@MattMcBradley @ofer_n The people in Tel Aviv support this too, or they would have been booted from the West Bank a long time ago. Now, if they treat a US news crew like this on camera, imagine what they do to Palestinians every day, when the cameras aren’t rolling. 😒

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

@MattMcBradley This is why Israel killed so many journalists in Gaza (more than all other conflicts in the world combined). Because if people see what they're doing to the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, they would be even more horrified by Israeli actions. Please keep doing journalism!

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.

But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.

A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.

We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.

Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.

#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The Trump White House has put into place a series of mechanisms to fix or invalidate the midterm elections. Congress will not save us. The courts will not save us. Our only hope — should the election be rigged or stolen — is nationwide strikes. Our only hope is to cripple the machinery of commerce and government, although this militancy will be met with savage state repression.

Otherwise, we are doomed. There will be no exit.

If the measures advocated by the Trump administration are implemented, emergency powers will be invoked to assert unprecedented federal control over voting. Federal agents will seize election materials. They have already seized ballots from previous elections.

The U.S. Postal Service will only send ballots to those included on federally approved eligibility lists drawn from state voter rolls. These rolls, subject to citizenship checks, will deny election-mail services entirely in states that refuse the administration’s demands for voter data.

Federal troops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — with $113.5 billion in additional funding allocated by Congress through September 2029 — will be deployed to or near polling stations which have a traditional Democratic Party majority. Those branded as “anti-capitalist” and “anti-Christian” or charged with belonging to antifa will be intimidated or blocked from voting.

Trump told The New York Times in January he regretted not directing the National Guard to seize voting machines after the 2020 election. Trump not only wants to abolish mail-in ballots – Democrats vote by mail in higher numbers than Republicans – but voting machines and tabulators which allow election boards to post results on election night.

Trump and his supporters in Silicon Valley are acutely aware that the level of their corruption and disdain for democracy — unlike anything seen in U.S. history — makes them vulnerable if they lose power. They have no intention of allowing this to happen no matter how egregious the constitutional violations. They seek to extinguish the last vestiges of democracy. They believe, as PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel wrote in 2009, that “freedom and democracy” are not “compatible.”

Theil is sweeping up all our information gleaned from government tax, medical and law enforcement records. This information is being delivered to databases that can be exploited for state control and profit. Thiel and his coterie of technocratic billionaires are implementing the agenda he envisioned 16 years ago: to make technology an “alternative to politics.”

Read my full column, "The Next Election May be Our Last", at Substack — link below.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

And there it is. Netanyahu openly admits he manipulated us into his war against Iran, which he’s been trying to drag us into for the past 40 years.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Annie Andrews is challenging Darline Graham to a debate and she won't accept.

Why? Because Darline Graham was handed a Senate Seat that she has no knowledge of how to run.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

This is why Jim Acosta is sorely missed in the briefing room. And kudos to Peter Alexander for the way he stood up for his colleague. Where is this courage today? Today’s WHPC should take lessons from this…

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden: “There is a sickness that has descended upon the land. There’s this license to cruelty that exists. I had a really fascinating conversation with an undocumented person yesterday. They have three family members they can’t find now that have been put into detention. None of them are criminals, they’ve all been here for decades. Why are they targeting them? The answer is this: cruelty. Cruelty is the point with them”

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE wrongfully deported a 25-year-old U.S. BORN citizen to Mexico… and he had to SUE the federal government to finally be allowed back into the United States.

Brian José Morales García repeatedly told authorities that he was born in Denver.

He told them he was an American citizen.

He told them he had a birth certificate, and Social Security number, at his home in Austin that he could provide.

And they deported him anyway.

According to his lawyers, the government deported Brian in April after a police stop near Fredericksburg. His citizenship was questioned, and ICE treated him as someone who had entered the country illegally.

Except he was born in the United States.

His lawyers later submitted additional evidence, including hospital records, witness affidavits, and a certified Colorado birth record confirming his citizenship.

And now, months after the government wrongfully deported him, Brian has finally been allowed to come home.

A U.S. citizen had to SUE the federal government, and produce an overwhelming amount of documentation, just to get back into the country he was born in.

And this is exactly why the argument that “if you’re a citizen, you have nothing to worry about,” is absolute bullshit.

Because what happens when the people with the guns and badges decide they don’t believe you?

What happens when saying, “I’m an American citizen…” isn’t enough?

What happens when you have to produce your birth certificate, your Social Security number, hospital records and witnesses… and even THAT doesn’t stop the government from deporting you?

So, when DHS say, “We won’t deport citizens.”

They already have. Brian is proof.

And the most terrifying part is that he was lucky enough to have lawyers who could fight like hell to get him back.

How many people don’t have that?

How many Americans could be detained, deported, or have their lives destroyed because an ICE agent decides they “look undocumented,” and didn’t believe them when they say they’re citizens?

That is why racial profiling is so dangerous, why due process matters, and why ICE agents violating constitutional rights puts everyone in danger.

And that is why giving federal agents more power, while demanding less accountability, is a dangerous combination.

Brian José Morales García was born in America… he told them he was an American...

They deported him anyway.

And months later, the government finally had to let him come home.

[Annabelle 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @Folon15]

@PerfectOurUnion Thank you for speaking out and sharing your experience with us. I'm sure it wasn't easy.