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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13m

If you read only one democracy story today, make it this one. While legacy media largely skipped the Texas redistricting hearing, Democracy Docket's Jen Rice was there for all 10 days. Her coverage stands out and sheds insight into how the GOP operates -- not only in TX -- but nationally.

In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 2h

I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that.

~ Martin Sheen ~

#DemocracyDefender 🩵💙🩵

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2h

Even as the federal government attempts to prop up the waning coal industry, New England’s last coal-fired power plant has ceased operations three years ahead of its planned retirement date. The cl...

New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule

Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 22h

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 4d

Repost if you see one of the most patriotic signs in American history. 🦅 🇺🇸

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14h

🧵 1/ Excellent and impactful work from CCE second in command @loraadair.bsky.social published in the New Metro over the weekend about Outcry Witness

It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories.

No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words 🗣️🛡️

Home - Healing starts when people bear witness

Outcry Witness is the platform where survivors of sexual violence keep an anonymous record of their experience, always under their control.

outcrywitness.com

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 9h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

Paul Simon, born today in 1941.

“It’s a cliché,” he said, “but music really IS the closest we come to a universal language. It crosses borders as effortlessly as a cloud.”

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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 9h

Wishing my old friend Paul Simon a very happy birthday.
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1959 RCA Paramount recording session
Photo courtesy Sony Music Archives

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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 20h

Veterans Encampment &
Community Gathering
Market Square
Second Street
Open 24/7
All are welcome

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Craig Wiesner @craigwiesner.bsky.social · 3d

Honored and humbled to be a judge in this year's HIP Housing calendar contest. K-5 kids create art and share what home means to them. So moving! hiphousing.org/calendar-pro...

Craig Wiesner with 2026 contest entries (there were over 100)

Last year's winner of drawings children submitted

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 4d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Democrats @democrats.org · 3d

Trump’s building a golf course in Qatar.
He accepted a $400M luxury jet as a gift from Qatar.
His son-in-law got a $1.5B investment from Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries.
His top officials like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi worked for Qatar.

And now this.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d

Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

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Lynda Will Not Obey @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA describes how the Qatari Airbase in Idaho is America First:

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .

Alt: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .

media.tenor.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

I remember when the GOP & right-wing hacks accused all Muslims of being Qatari agents & anyone who worked at Al Jazeera English or AJAM of being terrorists and extremists.

So, what does that make Donald Trump, who accepted a $400 million jet from them & now is letting them build a base on US soil?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 3d

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Screenshot from link that reads: The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Wendy Willow Wark @wwilloww.bsky.social · 3d

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that so many US citizens have no idea Bad Bunny is also a US citizen (and don't believe he can be a US citizen) tells you that when they say "citizen," they really just mean white.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 4d

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 3d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a paying subscriber to The Washington Post, this is what you get.

If you are a free subscriber to Democracy Docket, this is what you get.

Support independent, pro-democracy media. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 3d

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 4d

I saw two people do rock, paper, scissors for the last citibike dock in front of NY Comic Con and that is the essence of New York.

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Wendy Willow Wark @wwilloww.bsky.social · 3d

💯 Silence is a powerful sound.

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