Democrats and voting advocates are going on the offensive against the Trump administration’s threats to send armed federal agents to the polls as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm elections.

Federal law bans armed civil or military officers from voting locations, but administration officials have repeatedly suggested they could still be deployed.

With Election Day just over a month away, Democrats and civic groups have filed two lawsuits that aim to bar federal law enforcement at the polls. Meanwhile, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) on Wednesday introduced a bill to restrict them from coming within a quarter-mile of voting sites, and some states have advanced their own protections.

The Baldwin measure, in particular — though unlikely to pass into law — suggests Democrats are looking not just to head off any attempt to deploy law enforcement to voting sites themselves, but also to focus attention on what may be an even bigger threat to voting access: potential efforts to snarl traffic and create broader disruptions in urban, Democratic-leaning areas that could make it harder for voters to get to the polls in the first place.

Taken together, the lawsuits and legislation amount to a growing campaign to resist one of the Trump administration’s most alarming threats to the election.

A federal judge issued a permanent injunction Thursday on conditions at ICE’s New York City office at Federal 26 Plaza, finding that officers had subjected immigrant detainees to overcrowded rooms, unsanitary conditions, insufficient food and water, as well as inadequate sleeping conditions, medical care, and legal counsel. “For want of sufficient appropriate places to put them, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (‘ICE’) has confined many of those arrested in overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms...

Those great big eyes look up at me,
Like I’m the best thing he could see.
No question asked, no need to speak,
With just a love that’s soft and sweet.

I wonder what he sees somehow,
To make him look at me like this now.

About a week ago, I created a post detailing a web index I was working on.

I've implemented a few policy changes, after realizing I want this to be more like a library than a search engine.

I remember walking through library shelves as a kid, finding all the subjects I could learn about fascinating. And I'd really like to recreate that experience with this site. An infinitely scrollable catalog that transitions from subject to subject to subject, treating individual domains as books, with rankings (0-9) determined by a mixture of author authority and cultural relevance.

Current Plans:

• I'm removing the index.json requirement, and allowing users to simply submit domains for inclusion within the catalog.
• I also have plans to put the entire catalog on IPFS, for public accountability.
• I'm also no longer referring to it as an index, but a catalog.

Here is the current UX: https://imgur.com/a/QdXTmbz I'm looking for suggestions to make it a better experience. The name is just a placeholder.

Beagle with a bagel 😱