I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Just gonna go ahead and post this again, 'cause it's still fuckin' relevant.

Just imagine the level of criminality that compels a President who was already personally granted full immunity by Supreme Court for anything related to 'official acts' to think that's not enough, he must *also* have his DOJ release all civil claims against him, two of his kids, and his company.

Excuse me. It’s “How the jerks I grew up with ON Long Island took over the country”

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

I’m firmly in favor of each and every one of these guys coming face to face with the public and realizing in real time that they’re unlikable, antisocial goons

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

We need an updated version of White by Law by this point. Whole-ass extra chapter if not a full-on sequel. amzn.to/4wAFolg

If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.

Trump allies keep bringing meritless lawsuits against the government, which Trump's DOJ then "settles" for enormous sums of taxpayer money now Trump is personally getting in on it, negotiating with himself for a "settlement" in the *billions* we're being robbed ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

New: A federal jury in Boston is set starting tomorrow to begin deliberating in what could become only the fourth reverse payment antitrust case against a drug maker to reach a verdict since the Supreme Court in 2013 cleared the way for such cases. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

we're hiring a Lead Product Designer at Bluesky. we've built the foundation — now we need someone to lead our design team and bring a fresh vision for how this app should look and feel. crazy fun & rare opportunity for the right leader! jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

Virginia Bill of Rights👀 "whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal."

Zohran Mamdani has fully balanced New York City’s $12 billion deficit — an uncomfortable reminder to the political establishment that governments can, in fact, function when taxpayer money isn’t funneled toward lobbyists wealthy benefactors

7/7 This entire building in the center of Manhattan was expected to have fewer than a dozen full-time residents. It was designed to provide the ultra-wealthy with palatial homes (often full floor) for the few weeks each year they spent in NYC.” These are the targets of Mamdani’s tax.

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

I really gotta recommend the podcast Sold a Story, which offers another powerful explanation for this nationwide trend. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

organizing gets the goods

If I grow up I want to write this well www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

Support grassroots organizers on the ground in these states. They are going to need your help with statewide races and close district races too. Dig in and say you believe that people in these states deserve better.

It's the exact same playbook that segregationists ran against the NAACP in the 1950s. They sued to get membership lists in Arkansas during Little Rock, hoping to single them out for retribution. Meanwhile, Alabama -- this same state below -- just outlawed the organization entirely.

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

This hit me so hard this week.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act!

Never ever ever ever idolize politicians ever.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

Fascinating historical dive into how a 1976 SCOTUS case cleared the way for billionaires to elect Trump. @dannyhakim.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

cool

Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.

trump take snack

“.. On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Jeff Bezos and his wife are the lead sponsors of tonight's Met Gala. Now seems like a good time to remind folks of all the ways Bezos is shafting American consumers and Amazon workers — and how his wealth is putting our democracy at risk. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos

FOX BUSINESS: The EPA is allowing extension of gas flaring for gas operations, and that some argue is not great for emissions. Can you point to something where you have actually tightened regulations to make sure we have clean air? ZELDIN: So, we, uh, um ...

“No apportionment plan or individual district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent.” Florida Constitution, art. III, § 20

Michael A. Santoro highlights the denominator problem: counting harms without measuring the opportunities for harm, and attempting to draw conclusions from data that cannot support them. He argues that this measurement gap is undermining AI governance across numerous domains.

5/The reason why I got on this here social media site on January 28, 2025, was to make this point. If you don’t belong to a federal agency, or you are doing business with a federal agency, the President’s executive order, does not bind you.

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Obviously, the goal here is to end Head Start and eventually, all child care. The GOP is utterly radicalized against women working outside of the home, and everything about this issue must be seen through that lens. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.