None of us take pleasure in being right: But we are in the Second Nadir. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

💯 Democrats must take over as many state legislatures as they can. Fight fire with fire, and more. Thank you @gregsargent.bsky.social

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Must read. Thank you @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com

(NYT in 1896) IN SUPPORTING SEGREGATION, CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES SEE PROGRESS ON RACIAL EQUALITY

DOGE was supposed to slash waste. Independent audits found the receipts were cooked. Not one American got a dollar back. Meanwhile, bills are up across the board. And House Republicans? Looking the other way while waste, fraud, and abuse run wild in Washington.

Absolute truth from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. We warned you. You did it anyway. At that one moment, all you had to do was check the right box for a thriving, peaceful and successful life. And now every decent American is under complete, life-threatening assault.

King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

A brilliant take.

Trump has posted "LET THE SHOW GO ON" in relation to getting back on stage and I repeat: even if this is all real, it's fake.

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

If this is a crime scene it makes no sense at all.

Amal had more love courage and compassion in her than the entire Zionist Cult of Destruction 😓❤️👇🏼

IDF Terrorists are looting the homes of the Lebanese displaced by their illegal bombing on returning home only to find these thieves have stolen all their stuff 👿👿👇🏼

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

If literally any random marginalized person, literally any Black or trans person or immigrant, had this many speeding tickets, they'd lose their license and be incarcerated. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

Remarkable: 100% of the ads in Northern Virginia heavily featured Trump to turn out voters for the redistricting referendum in the closing days, a source tells me. That's right, all of the ads were all about Trump. This backfired for him spectacularly. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

“How much of your money do you want to give directly to Trump or his allies, including those who were prosecuted for attacking the US Capitol on January 6? …Who pays for [Trump’s $10 BILLION lawsuit against the IRS]? Obviously it’s the taxpayer.“ @macfarlanenews.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ifin...

The Epstein files contain evidence about the sexual abuse of women, and especially minors. That was terrible. But there's something even worse in those files: evidence of billions of dollars of corruption. Many wealthy people who were not involved in sex abuse were involved in financial crimes.

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

Those fuckers. 🤬 “Ahmad Ibsais, a Palestinian-American legal scholar and commentator, argued that the real motive lurking behind the yellow line and all associated security arrangements was to drive out the Palestinian population.”

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

"Yes" Wins In Virginia Tonight - Congratulations Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

The person negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of the United States does not technically work for the United States.

In a nutshell. 😊

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

Men: don't be sociopaths. Thanks.

Living under Donald Trump is like living with an abusive husband whose first move is to isolate you from everyone who loves you. Cut off the support system, poison the relationships, make sure there’s nobody left to run to. Then he can do whatever he wants. That’s exactly what he’s done to America.

Trump’s war to distract from the Epstein files has cost the American taxpayer $50 billion.

If you are in NYC and want a good distraction from all this *waves hand*, please join me this Wednesday April 22nd on my walking tour of the Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue 🎩💰🚶🏻‍♀️It’s a lot of fun! www.boweryboyswalks.com/walking-tour...

The only reason to announce a total victory before reaching a signed deal is to manipulate the markets for profit taking.

Me too. I know people who didn’t vote who are upset with the way things are going. Sometimes it takes every thing I’ve got not to scream in their faces, “THIS IS ON YOU TOO!!” 🤬

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

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Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) Alistair Cooke hosting Masterpiece Theatre on @pbs.org (1971-1992)

We will be taxing the ultra-wealthy and global elites.

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

IT ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK IS NOT

People when they say they don't support Trump anymore but they support a lot of Trump's policies, but they never say what policies they support. Ask them what policies. Have them name one. They can't. Why not? Because if they did it would just circle back to racism.

Pope Leo said he has “no fear” of the Trump administration and vowed to continue speaking out against the war in Iran after President Donald Trump criticized the American pontiff for his views on the war and immigration. bit.ly/4mr86Ra 📸: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters

We stand in solidarity with the 4 women who had the courage to come forward with their stories & with survivors everywhere. 50501 supports the proposed resolution that simultaneously expels Representatives Tony Gonzales, Eric Swalwell, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, & Cory Mills for their misconduct.

Hillary Clinton was hated by all the right (eg bad) people and they all like Trump. Should tell us something about 2016 and the motivation to intervene in Trump’s behalf.

Excellent writing from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social on the irrational actions of the regime: “We are dealing with chaotic destruction wrought by an increasingly delusional wannabe-dictator who leads a comically incompetent government and a movement drowning in its own conspiratorial hyperreality.”