Once again, there are special rules for the special boy. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

If the President can successfully order the IRS to hand over billions of dollars to his personal bank account, the Constitution is dead and no longer operative. I'm not kidding. We've crossed a kind of Rubicon and the social contract is null and void.

WATCH AND LEARN: The Tennessee House of Representatives removed Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, Charlane Oliver, Gloria Johnson, and Aftyn Behn from all committee assignments. This is an old tactic from the Reconstruction playbook. It denies political representation to the of people in Tennessee.

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

We've finally won the war against woke

When I was an AUSA, I literally put people in jail for counterfeiting for less than this image that Trump just posted on Truth Social.

It’s weird that Republicans and most of the media seem to have decided what Trump does on social media and what he says when he’s riffing in speeches just doesn’t count. None of it. Doesn’t count.

The Court is just implementing January 6th by other means. Republicans know they are cooked if democracy stands, so they are burning it down.

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

It will always be my mission any time a Roy Lichtenstein theft appears in my feed to remind the world others did it first and better — in this case Russ Heath, artist for the story "Aces Wild," written by Hank Chapman, and published in All-American Men of War #89 (Jan-Feb 1962).

Sometimes a tiny bit of justice makes it through the shit.

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

Social Psychology calls this the "foot in the door" technique. It's a form of creating compliance. It's getting someone to agree to a small request, then later make a big request. And because the small request was agreed upon, most people "feel obligated" to agree to the big request even if...

“This franchise is NOT for kids!” - guy who got into it when he was 8.

A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

THIS, @abigailspanberger.com

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

ICYMI — After Republicans stripped majority-Black Memphis of representation, this was @brotherjones.bsky.social in the rotunda. Damn. (From NC5)

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

They’re playing in our faces now.

Kevin González is 18 years old and dying of cancer. He can’t say goodbye to his parents because ICE grabbed them. They did the same thing to Wael Tarabishi, a 30 year old disabled man. They took his father and full time caregiver away. Wael died 3 months later.

Los Angeles friends: come join me, 7pm, May 19 at Stories, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Echo Park. Book launch: DESTINY EXPRESS and THE GREAT EASTERN. In conversation with the great and good Steve Erickson. From @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social.

There was no greater and more effective advocate in the VA redistricting fight. It's 1000% clear what Trump is doing here.

The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

Immediately post-slavery, during reconstruction, Black people were HUGELY successful in taking political & economic power. A centuries-long project of lynching, Jim Crow, Red-Lining, Divestment, drug epidemics, Voter disenfranchisement (again & again) - that's the ongoing work of white supremacy.

I’m enjoying the signs popping up in NYC to protest the tacky Bezos couple hosting the Met Gala. The focus seems to be on both Jeff Bezos connection with ICE and how he mistreats his workers. Bezos won’t allow warehouse workers enough bathroom breaks, so they have to urinate in plastic bottles.

And the children shall lead them

And that, right there, is why you didn't get picked Josh.

The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.

If you were to design a program to destroy the Black middle class in America, it would look exactly like what they're doing.

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

SoFi Stadium workers threaten to strike if ICE isn't banned from World Cup games

It's been a tough last few days. I'm ready for the pendulum to swing back with some new, devastating Epstein Files news next week.

Oof, @deadder.bsky.social.

right now in Los Angeles.

Pope Leo don’t give a FUCK 🙌🏾

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and newspaper articles — yet not once over the countless allegations of child rape. That silence says everything.

You can join rapid response call happening now: www.youtube.com/live/EoFf6vH...

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson: So what happened? I'm glad you asked. Yesterday, the Supreme Court eviscerated one of our nation's most sacred civil rights protections...This is an effort to silence the voices of millions of black voters and other voters of color.

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.