@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-08-22 01:40:01
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-22 06:13:57
The Justice Department appears to have hired a convicted election hacker to monitor elections.
Democracy Docket reported that David Michael Levin appears to have joined the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
A Florida attorney, Levin in 2016 was charged with three felonies for hacking a Florida state elections website as well as a county elections website.
The hacking had no impact on the vote counting or outcome,
but Levin pleaded guilty to the crimes.
Levin argued he…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-22 16:34:50
Keir Starmer has announced his resignation as the United Kingdom’s prime minister and leader of the Labour Party
following growing pressure from within his own party to step down.
During his time in office, Starmer faced mounting opposition over his embrace of austerity measures
amid a cost-of-living crisis in Britain,
as well as his brutal crackdown on Palestine solidarity protesters.
Former Manchester Mayor
Andy Burnham is widely expected to become the…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-07-21 13:21:35
TIL: There’s a town in the U.P. of Michigan named “Felch.”
I have no comment on this novel (to me) fact. @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@nwstornado_bot/11
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 20:17:33
Two contrasting films,
produced eight years apart,
neatly distill the evolution of John Fetterman,
Pennsylvania’s maverick senator in his journey from progressive icon to a man seemingly more at ease with his nominal Republican opponents than his fellow Democrats.
Fetterman’s evolution has been so stark that some Democrats fear he will go over to the Republicans
– jeopardizing the party’s hopes of regaining control of the Senate
– despite his disavowals of…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-07-19 17:36:46
hells yeah #NYCPol
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-20 05:38:14
The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend National Park in Texas following public criticism of the controversial project.
Crews were filmed bulldozing pristine desert wilderness earlier this month, sparking rare bipartisan pushback.
The construction is part of a larger plan for the Big Bend region to build hundreds of miles of walls, vehicle barriers and other border infrastructure.
The Department of Homeland Security waived req…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-18 03:40:27
A White House post targeted Kristen Holmes, a senior White House correspondent for CNN,
after she asked Donald Trump to respond to a widely shared comment by Democratic senator Jon Ossoff in a speech on Sunday.
The Georgia senator told a crowd that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job”
and instead “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar”.
The comment was an apparent reference to Natali…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-19 16:24:15
Primaries in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming held on Tuesday provided the latest view into how voters are feeling ahead of November’s US midterm elections.
One candidate aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) netted an extraordinary win
while another was defeated handily.
Donald Trump’s handpicked candidates received a mixed reception from voters.
In Alaska, voters chose their fighters for one of the year’s marquee US Senate races,
and in Florida, e…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 15:28:56
Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan,
has warned that there will be more “bloodshed” unless Democrats
“shut their mouths.”
Following the
back-to-back fatal shootings of a Colombian native in Maine
and a Mexican man in Houston by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
👉the Trump administration has tried to shift the blame onto Democratic leaders who have been educating immigrants on their rights.
“I'm scared to death because assaults with vehicles …
