NEW EPISODE: The GOP's Texas gerrymander map was challenged in court and for ten days, Democracy Docket covered the hearing from gavel to gavel. I discuss the testimony, the map, and the potential outcomes with the Jen Rice, the reporter who was there on the ground.
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The Biggest Redistricting Trial Yet
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October 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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JUDGE: order in the court *starts banging gavel*
ME: are you going to stop
JUDGE: *keeps banging*
ME: why not
JUDGE: *shows me gavel labeled YOUR MOM* lol
ME: are you going to stop
JUDGE: *keeps banging*
ME: why not
JUDGE: *shows me gavel labeled YOUR MOM* lol
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Fun fact: It takes about five members of the House of Representatives to take the gavel away from Mike Johnson.
October 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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7/ Right now, I assess our chances of stopping Trump from ending democracy semi-permanently or permanently at <20%. Why? The courts have already made clear that, at least at the highest level, they cannot and will not do their jobs. Congress has literally given its gavel over. Trump has the USAF.
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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[bangs gavel] THIS IS NOW CANON
We are now 7 eps into Angel and have decided the words to the theme song are
There is a vampire guy
He
Is
Not
Batman
Yes he is solving crimes but
He
Is not
Batman
There is a vampire guy
He
Is
Not
Batman
Yes he is solving crimes but
He
Is not
Batman
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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PBS News Hour began 50 years ago with a different name.
The show launched in 1975 as "The Robert MacNeil Report," and was inspired by MacNeil and Jim Lehrer's gavel-to-gave coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings two years earlier.
Deema Zein explains.
The show launched in 1975 as "The Robert MacNeil Report," and was inspired by MacNeil and Jim Lehrer's gavel-to-gave coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings two years earlier.
Deema Zein explains.
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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*banging gavel loudly*
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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“Waiting to Exhale” because of the film itself, the ensemble, the ideas the film and novel injected into pop culture AND because it gave us one of the best movie soundtracks of all-time. Also, Whitney’s best comedic performance AND Angela Bassett’s crash out scene.
*taps gavel*
*taps gavel*
October 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Me writing today’s The Gavel newsletter after watching the Louisiana redistricting argument
a black and white drawing of a person wearing a virtual reality headset while using a computer .
ALT: a black and white drawing of a person wearing a virtual reality headset while using a computer .
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October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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No Mike, the irony is you’re lecturing people about their roles and responsibilities while you’ve literally and symbolically surrendered yours in violation of the letter AND spirit of the supreme law of the land. Your job is to remove tyrants from office, not hand them your gavel and bend over.
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Fat judge who barely fits within the confines of her bench and whole body jiggles when she slams down her gavel.
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Gavel... What a VIEW
October 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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What if Johnson never intends to gavel the House back into session?
October 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Kingbreaker croaker,
The gavel come down;
Unbreakable hopper,
Smashing the crown.
The gavel come down;
Unbreakable hopper,
Smashing the crown.
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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And judge doing that has no business swinging a gavel.
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
October 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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We can simply stipulate that Mike Johnson is the biggest tool ever to hold the Speaker's gavel in the modern era. You won't say it, so I will. Johnson is a smarmy little creep.
October 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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And the craziest part is this was needless. Congress would've passed a military pay bill with near unanimous support! Congressional Ds have been begging Rs to bring a bill to pay the military to the floor! But Johnson refuses to gavel in because he doesn't want an Epstein vote.
October 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Says the man who won't open the House to even gavel in a new duly elected representative who he then accuses of not doing her job which she can't because... uh... Huh.
Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Harry S Truman talked about he "Do Nothing Congress," but that was a group of workaholics compared to the current Congress under the gavel of Mike Johnson. He's afraid to call them to order because the votes are present to force the release of the Epstein files. And someone is sweating bullets.
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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On, Monday, Jeffries needs to storm the dias, and gavel the house into session. Swear in Grivalja, then have all the Dems flood in and debate and "vote" on Dem priority legislation. Total theater, I know, but a really powerful visual. Dems there to work, Reps hiding from Trump.
October 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Banging Gavel Brews was recently awarded the 2025 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award for Adaptive Reuse. It was one of nine recipients in the state, and the only one in the south suburbs to earn the recognition.
Banging Gavels Brews in Tinley Park lauded by state for restoring its 160-year-old home
Banging Gavel Brews was recently awarded the 2025 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award for Adaptive Reuse.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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#MAGAMike is really a piece of work. Does anyone remember how many votes it took to get him the gavel? Clown show
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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#TavQOTD #SongAndGavel
Here's #RolimOCs: We have the dawn, some writing for his poetry, his blue roses, Astarion's gavel, and his wolf Echo.
Then water for Astarion's scent and Rolim's fluid way of dancing, a violin with sheet music and some more dance imagery!
Here's #RolimOCs: We have the dawn, some writing for his poetry, his blue roses, Astarion's gavel, and his wolf Echo.
Then water for Astarion's scent and Rolim's fluid way of dancing, a violin with sheet music and some more dance imagery!
October 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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