Heather Thomas

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So let me get this straight RFK jr wants to ban antidepressants, make it easier for children to get access to tanning beds and is about to put flavored vapes back on the market. Also, he’s anti-VAX and he did nothing about roundup?

What happened in the State of Tennessee was the largest and swiftest disenfranchisement of Black people that we've seen in at least a century. It's on all of us to organize, mobilize, and participate in bigger numbers than their maps account for.

AOC: “America was founded in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. It’s actually the most American thing in the world for us to be fighting for the working class. It’s actually patently un-American to transform our country into a place of kings and landed gentry”

Saw this yesterday and it really hit. I’ll never understand the hate folks show to people because of their ethnicity, their religion, or heritage. Jews in America should not be attacked for the actions of Netanyahu or the Israeli government. Stop it! And if your first instinct is to jump into my replies with antisemitic garbage or conspiracy theories, that says far more about you than it does about anyone else. The fact that this even needs to be said in 2026 is pathetic. Watch this segment.

@cwebbonline Excellent segment. It's really scary how prevalent antisemitism is right now. A school not far from me was vandalized with antisemitic hate this past week, and I know it's happening in other states as well. During Jewish Heritage Month.

Now here's another question: why is an Oklahoma company being subcontracted for a project in the nation's capital? Plenty of qualified local firms exist. Oh, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who was photographed at the reflecting pool with Trump, is from Oklahoma. I'll let you connect the dots.

This feels like malpractice to me. 🚨 CDC officials tracking the hantavirus outbreak aboard a luxury cruise ship say there is no mandatory quarantine for the 17 Americans awaiting repatriation. What could possibly go wrong?

Lieu: Are there photos of Trump with girls of uncertain age? Patel: No Lieu: How do you know? Patel: It would have been brought to light. Lieu: That’s not true because no one knew about the creepy birthday message until the WSJ disclosed it.

In the same way Donald Trump publicly asked Russia and China to interfere for him in two elections, he told his GOP minions to rig the 2026 midterms. Now they have. Obviously all of us still *must* vote. But we also need to ask ourselves how we will react if this rigging works.

The White House ballroom lawsuit just escalated. The preservation group suing Trump says DOJ made multiple “false statements” in court and delivered this brutal line: “All of this may be standard fare for a social media post. But in a federal court filing, it is neither appropriate nor permitted.”

How dare six Justices try to erase the progress that was made 60 years ago when the Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow.

Vibes in Budapest. The elderly are celebrating with us. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.

@RedactedReading today. Deeply sombre, beautifully mounted, honoring the survivors, and All survivors. The horror of this relationship is irrefutable. The biggest coverup in American history.

Getting a lot of questions about why I don't publish on Substack. I built Democracy Docket to be as independent as possible -- which means not relying on any single platform. Having its own tech stack is more expensive, but guarantees total independence.

#BREAKING: Hayes: “You see that picture there? The FBI agents in camouflage with long guns, you think that’s necessary for this raid at the office…of Louise Lucas…82 year old state representative…you think you’ve got to do that, or you think that’s done for the camera?”🤦‍♀️

Exactly. When Roberts was nominated to SCOTUS, I read every memo he wrote against the Voting Rights Act. If civil rights organizations knew one thing about him, it was his hostility to voting rights. We warned the U.S. Senate in no uncertain terms, but they confirmed him anyway.

The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. The expected impact of wildlife is catastrophic. sltrib.com/news/environme…

Republican Nebraska Rep.Mike Flood did a town hall and his Constituents ripped him a new butthole because they’re sick of the same old lies each time they ask him a question. He will be voted out come reelection .