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Fox News alleges NoKings is a communist funded movement. Couldn’t possibly be a grassroots protest, eh?
I laughed earlier when I saw that. I am pretty sure every local democratic leaning political organization is going to be signing on to join, good or bad. The vast majority of people protesting are not part of any of those though.
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Plus math says that 500 organizations that sum up to $3B means most of them can’t be any bigger than $6M. And I assume most are much much smaller than that. That’s pretty much grassroots right there.
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Doesn’t being supported by 500 organizations make it a broad enough based support to be a grass roots group?
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Obligatory Soros though.
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Funny that they think billionaires effect change via protest.
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I also laughed as it was such a pathetic and desperate attempt to demonize a widely popular movement. Fox still likes to raise the threat of communism.
How much in revenues do the billionaires who are propping up Trump make?
Arkansas is attempting to ban physical books from state prisons.
Archive.is mirror of a WaPo story: https://archive.is/NvIWZ
Original WaPo link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/30/arkansas-prisons-book-ban-drugs/
They’re proposing letting inmates buy books (or access preloaded public domain books) on tablets, since books have been used to smuggle drugs into prisons.
They’re being obtuse!!
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Since it’s Arkansas, I assume Hank Williams recordings are still permissible.
tl, dr: The GOP is trying to make elections for district attorneys, county commissioners, and tax commissioners non partisan ONLY in the metro Atlanta counties. The GOP can’t win those elections with an R by their name, so they are changing the rules. All the other counties would still be partisan elections for the same positions, as republicans generally win them easily.
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“Our boss doesn’t have to do stuff he doesn’t want to” says Department of Justice; film at 11.
I’m trying to figure out who has standing to challenge that in court. I’m not having any success.
Congress and the National Archives clearly have standing.
The question is what records might disappear before control of either changes.
EDIT: One clarification; presumably the DOJ opinion itself can’t be challenged. However Congress or the National Archives have standing to sue should our Glorious Leader or any hypothetical future administration (if we are fortunate enough for there to be a future administration) act on that guidance.
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I’m not so sure about “clearly”. But, I haven’t really researched this.
Googling fails me in finding a case where Congress successfully sued a president when the president refused to follow a law. You may have found a case, I didn’t.
Blumenthal and 200 members of congress sued Trump over the emoluments clause. I believe the DC appeals court said they didn’t have standing, but seemed to leave open the possibility that a majority could have standing. I just haven’t found the case where the majority succeeded.
Practically, this congress isn’t going to sue Trump
The National Archives is an executive branch agency. The “Archivist” is a senate-confirmed job, but the president has unilateral authority to fire the Archivist. I don’t see that happening even if the SC could get its head around the idea of an executive agency suing the head of the executive branch.
I hope that we get a test case next year. First, because I hope the Ds get a majority at least in the House, and second because I think we need some limits on Presidential powers.