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Democratic state attorneys general sue Trump over tariffs

The lawsuit accuses the president of trying to “sidestep” a Supreme Court ruling that overturned many of his previous levies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/05/tariffs-lawsuit-democr…

Democratic state attorneys general sue Trump over tariffs
In a lawsuit, Democratic officials from more than 20 states say that Trump’s new tariffs are illegal and that he is trying to “sidestep” a Supreme Court ruling.

Every time leftists talk about escalating against Trump, liberals point out that Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act. This is true. But they don't notice that he's the least popular president in history and the military has largely already made it clear that they won't be used against civilians. That risk assessment completely lacks context.
Trump could not possibly win against an insurgency because the only thing he could possibly offer to end it would be his own resignation. If Trump tried to escalate to civil war he would either lose or be removed.
More importantly, Trump compulsively escalates. He will continue to start wars because he thinks he's doing a good job and he's a hero. When he gets frustrated at some foreign enemy because he's actually completely incompetent and only able to win against incompetent and wildly unpopular opponents, he threatens war crimes.
I am familiar enough with history to fully believe that he ordered a nuclear strike last night and people said "no." Humanity has been saved multiple times by people refusing to follow orders, and you don't find out until years later. (This is also not the first story of a president dangerously deep in mental decline. Reagan lost the nuclear football.)
The longer this goes on, the greater the risk that eventually someone will actually let him do something unthinkable. But that's significantly less likely if he's trying to fight within the US border.
Just looking at things from a risk perspective, "he's going to invoke the insurrection act" is not nearly as big of a threat as democrats think it is, and it's about time they think realistically about this fact.

Tennessee Approves New Map Aimed at Flipping the Last Democratic Seat - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/elections/tennessee-house-redistricting.html

The “age verification” push is a much bigger deal and dangerous to freedom than any “AI” stuff The TechBros driven AI is going to lead to the biggest economic crash in history and probably be taken over by open source models but we’ll at least add new tools https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116186114328815729

Democrats watched with mouths agape this week as Latino voters,
many of whom have sat out previous primary seasons,
turned out in droves for James Talarico in Texas.
But the push to win back the elusive and swingy coalition that proved pivotal to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory goes way beyond the closely watched Lone Star State.
This is a story that kicked off last year as Democrats overperformed in Latino-dominant districts across Virginia and New Jersey.
It’s o…

JD Vance will visit Hungary on Tuesday
in an 11th-hour attempt to boost key MAGA ally Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn
before an all-important election on Sunday, but the U.S. vice president’s trip appears unlikely to swing an increasingly bitter race.
Trump has already issued several endorsements of Orbšn
— a Kremlin-aligned proponent of “illiberal democracy”
— but polls suggest those interventions have done little to boost the struggling prime minister,
who …

Vance in Budapest: Viktor Orbán’s last throw of the MAGA dice
U.S. interventions by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have so far failed to reverse the Hungarian leader’s flagging fortunes.

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Last week, Trump tried to scratch his election-meddling itch in a new way:
a weird-trick-style executive order trying to seize federal control of mail voting by creating new lists of whose ballots the Postal Service can and can’t mail.
Pro-democracy advocates who are focused on the president’s election predations remain wary.
Not because they think the order has a prayer in court,
but because they see it as part of a larger, ongoing presidential strategy to sow doubt…

The Other Thing Trump’s Dying to Break
Reminder: It’s not just Iran.

RESULT:
Democrat #Chasity #Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana,
62% to 38%.
This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year,
so a big overperformance by Dems,
but the seat was already Dem-held.

Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social)
GOP failed to flip ANY Dem district in 2025 (Dems flipped a lot), & none in 2026 so far. This was as clear an opening as you can imagine. Big blow to Rs. This was one of the 20 races I identified as important to watch in February. Details: https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballot/february-2026-elections-guide/

Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen, viewed as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, will unveil a plan that he says would ensure roughly half of all U.S. workers pay no federal income taxes.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is expected to release the measure next week as Democratic lawmakers search for a sharp economic message to counter last year’s Republican tax law.

Under Van Hollen’s proposal, workers making at or below a “living wage”
— $46,000 for taxpayers filin…

Democrat’s plan would eliminate federal income taxes for half of U.S. workers
Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s tax relief plan could benefit tens of millions of middle-class workers, with a focus on those making at or below a living wage.