Sharon Dolente
sharondolente.bsky.social
Sharon Dolente
@sharondolente.bsky.social
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Two time amender of MI Constitution to expand voting rights. Civil rights lawyer; Owner, GSD Group; ACLU of MI alum; Obama alum; Proud to call PA, MI and CA home.
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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WATCH body cam video of an ICE agent arrested for DUI after his shift at the Broadview facility.
He crashed into some bushes after officers found him asleep at the wheel and knocked on the window.
"Oh this is a fun one,” the officer tells his sergeant.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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BREAKING: The Democrats have seized the majority in the Minnesota Senate!
Well would you look at that.
Domestic manufacturing rose sharply under Biden and is falling under Trump
Mary Sheffield is elected Detroit’s mayor. The first woman to serve in this role.

#WhenWomenLead
No matter which candidate you favored, it is a huge win for NYC to see huge turnout.

By early evening “more people had already voted in this year’s race than cast ballots in any mayoral election in more than three decades.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: In New York, Mayor’s Race Draws Highest Turnout in Decades
www.nytimes.com
NYC just had a mayor on Trump’s payroll. It didn’t go so well. How embarrassing for Cuomo to go from standing up for NYC to bending the knee
Allow for variation among candidates bc there’s a ton of variation in the country. What a great idea!
I’ve read lots of Detroit newspaper articles from the era of the “wets” and “drys” describing the efforts to turn out and suppress voters. It was fascinating.
Chester county, PA is where I grew up and many family members live. I’d like to see it do better.
Unaffiliated voters in Chester County may have to cast a provisional ballot through the early hours of Election Day.

Poll books delivered to Chester County’s precincts did not include the names of independent and third party voters.

🔗 More live updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
Election 2025 live updates: Philly DA, N.J. governor on the ballot; voting issues in Chester County for independents
Voters will also decide the makeup of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Tuesday.
www.inquirer.com
The smell of onions and mustard is a gift from the gods!
Thank you Election Heroes for answering my oh-so-many questions.
Sometimes I get curious and make a chart. This one is the percentage of eligible voters that are actively registered in Michigan compared to the US from 2012-2024. Then I look at it for awhile and look for the story it tells me.
I think of owls as curious. It fits me.
There are lots of lovely people on the agenda and I'd love to hear from each and every one of them. Might I humbly suggest that we will not help ourselves get the country on the right track with another gathering of folks in the nation's capitol.
ONE WEEK TILL CROOKED CON! Get ready.

Limited tickets still available! Get them now at crookedcon.com.
Can you imagine the army of political appointees it takes to police every work of every federal employwe?
This exchange should remind us all of the critical importance of amplifying state and local election officials. Return your ballot in person is always great advice. Providing more detail than that requires localized knowledge.
If you have received a mail ballot, and have not returned it yet, DO NOT PUT IT IN THE MAIL, regardless of your state. Drop it off at a drop box or an election office (or early voting site if your state allows), or bring your unvoted ballot to a voting site and vote in person.
Mail-in voters who haven't returned ballots yet: Check your state's deadline to make sure your vote gets counted.

If your ballot must be received by Election Day, consider stopping by a ballot drop box or early voting site. It may be too late for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver it by Nov. 4...
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“.. A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states .. to form ‘quick reaction forces’ trained in ‘riot control’, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive ..”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
1. Bribes take at least two people.
2. SCOTUS has said the prez has immunity for OFFICIAL acts, not the rest.
3. Conspiring to enrich yourself and your family is not an OFFICIAL act.
"This spring, Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture’s new stablecoin product, enhancing its credibility and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion. Trump granted Zhao a presidential pardon last week..." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder
The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...
www.wsj.com
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NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...
@leedrutman.bsky.social is it that candidates cannot outrun party or they don’t because of the nationalization of how campaigns are run and and what I call the big boxification of messaging and communications?
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WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."
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Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.