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Michael Popok
DeSantis is now the subject of a FELONY criminal complaint w/ the San Antonio district attorney luring Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas on to a plane to dump them off in Massachusetts. find out what the Sheriff has to say about it on my 🌶️ Take:
youtu.be/8ugPr1u3OS4

Some on Second Burrito day.

Three more candidates have entered the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination this week

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett

Y'all know I would've kept going if they let me!

Fuckery in Wisconsin.

Chris Larson
There is buzz in the state capitol that legislative Republicans are waiting for public schools to break for the summer before they seek to break them permanently.

They're planning to again underfund them while prioritizing funding for private schools, through vouchers.

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Dan Friedman

Durham's final report was complete crap. But he sorta got away with it most writers didn't pay much attention or were Trump partisans would have lauded it no matter what it said. But @emptywheel has gotten into details of how sloppy and dishonest it is.

The dishonest and incompetent FBI work John Durham learned to love.

emptywheel.net/2023/06/05/the-

Anderson Clayton
North Carolina Democratic Party Chair
"Whoever said democracy dies in darkness hasn’t met the new North Carolina Supreme Court, whose Republican majority is proudly and systematically hacking away at our democracy in broad daylight."

How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy

Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 . What if it were to become the law of the land?
By Andrew Marantz

archive.ph/x7xMM

"Having now appeared in public as both a leather daddy and a cowboy, Mike Pence is only four costumes away from achieving his dream of cosplaying the entire Village People." -- Mrs. Betty Bowers

The Dark Money Behind Kansas’ Misleading Anti-Abortion Campaign

Tax records show how Leonard Leo’s $1.6 billion dark money network is quietly working to eliminate state abortion protections

levernews.com/the-dark-money-b

Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Shows Path Forward in Deep Red States

"...But this week’s ruling, together with the court’s decision last March, gives some teeth to the limited right the court identified. The court’s decision suggests a kind of middle path for courts in red states to carve out limited, but real, protection for abortion and other pregnancy-related care—and to make abortion exceptions something more than political theater."

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Tristan Snell
Ken Paxton suppressed 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas in 2020.

Donald Trump only “won” by 631,221 votes.

Stop saying Texas might turn blue “someday” — it might already be blue

McCarthy races to sell newly released debt deal amid rumblings of far-right rebellion
The full text was released Sunday evening

politico.com/news/2023/05/28/m

Impeachment recommended for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

An impeachment vote of the full House could come as soon as this weekend and would force GOP lawmakers to decide whether to eject one of the state’s most prominent Republicans

dallasnews.com/news/politics/2

Former President Trump's criminal trial to begin March 25th, 2024, determines Judge Juan Merchan

Jennifer Taub

Today on my guest, the brilliant Steve Vladeck covers everything from Calico Critters to the Shadow Docket

Listen and follow here

t.co/mfpNZsY5u7

DeSantis’s book banners face a tough new foe: Angry moms with lawyers

archive.ph/YbFLr

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