the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

Traders made over $2.6 billion through four suspicious trades made in March and April, according to an ABC News report.

How the fuck does the GOP explain this? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Despite the Verrazzano's best efforts, I finished the 48th Annual 5 Boro Bike Tour. See you again next year!

ICE Arrests Violated Order Requiring Warrants in D.C., Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

A sobering thought: nonpartisan historians judged Trump to be the worst president in America’s history *before* his second term started... and this term has been such a global disgrace that it’s no longer clear how to even speak of the man in historical terms.

These deaths are on him as well as the parents he has misled.

More than a dozen former NFL players join sex-abuse lawsuits against Ohio State University - NBC News 1/ apple.news/AHRRIZTUjS52...

👀 "Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing Project Freedom. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort." www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

America is still business as usual.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 we are so effing stupid in this country.

One of the biggest lies Americans believe is their vote doesn't matter because if that was really true they wouldn't be trying to stop you from doing it

BREAKING: The FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth, Virginia, according to Fox News, who was conveniently on the scene. 1/4

Lotta people on this platform feel the need to say “make sure you vote”. The people on this platform DO vote, including me. The people that don’t vote are the ones that neither party has even attempted to reach.. who have been completely abandoned by our electoral system & Congress. Talk to THEM.

Oh, so you mean the US Government has been lying to us about the cost of the war and the "total victory", etc.? Who would have guessed. 🙄

I'd rather have free higher education than a fake war used to distract from the fact that Traitor Trump raped little girls. And bombed the fuck out of their schools in Iran. He's a pedophile and a war criminal. He must be removed from power immediately.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Video of Howard Lutnick's testimony today regarding Jeffrey Epstein must be released to the public. This is a massive cover-up and it's 100% within our rights to see it.

"After my story appeared, I heard from people in Patel’s orbit and people he has met at public functions, who told me that it is not unusual for him to travel with a supply of personalized branded bourbon."

Touché

Obama: “The president of the United States shouldn’t have a bunch of side hustles.”

another accurate cartoon from @deadder.bsky.social

Now Trump is announcing peace and war in the same statement. It’s completely incoherent batshit lunacy.

These are basic questions and I find it interesting how we do not get answers to them. People do not want to talk about how we are continually lied to and massive scandals are swept under the rug.

Rep. Chuck Edwards is a sex pest. Eau. 🤢 Good for Luna and Mace for wanting to boot him out. “The corruption and misconduct in Congress goes far deeper than anyone outside Washington knows,” Mace said in the statement about the allegations against Edwards.

"The private credit industry’s role in fuelling the AI boom could backfire, with a sharp correction leading to 'sizeable' losses, the Financial Stability Board has warned."

UNAPOLOGETIC RANT This is bullshit. Senate Republicans are trying to quietly slip ANOTHER $1 BILLION into a funding package masquerading as “security” for Trump’s ballroom. Taxpayers shouldn’t get stuck with the bill. 1/2

Chad Bianco’s candidacy went up in 🔥 tonight. ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA: “You’re an Oath Keeper. We all know that.” CHAD BIANCO: “I’m very proud of it. I don’t think you know what an Oath Keeper is.” For the record: the Oath Keepers is a far-right extremist white supremacist militia group.

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

also curious. worked in a pathology dept in a hospital where we all assisted in autopsies (incl infant). several coworkers had babies during that time, and we had some real discussions about safe sleeping vs being able to get sleep. having a newborn is exhausting on a level most people don't get.

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to be preparing to drop a nearly two-year criminal investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, agreeing to return or destroy evidence seized from the diehard MAGA Republican before the FBI got a chance to review it. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

President Trump’s immigration raids and checkpoints are weighing on the labor market, leading to fewer jobs for both U.S.-born men without a college degree as well as undocumented immigrants, according to a new economic study.

Discussed here: www.lawdork.com/p/the-fifth-...

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

But why would the most chaotic, corrupt, cruel, criminal "administration" in US history care? It doesn't fit their mission of waste fraud & abuse of our reputation & taxes. #voices4Victory #usDemocracy #dv1

Picked this up at the library today. 2 chapters in and I LOVE it.

“It’s like a wreck over there,” one Republican senator told The Hill on the condition of anonymity, noting that their mainstream GOP colleagues in the House shared their frustration. “They don’t know if they’re coming or going. Everybody is fighting,” the senator said.

ICE kills, part 2. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #FuckICE www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Sorry I didn’t post video on May Day- but I was busy arguing for press rights with an -out of control LAPD. Earlier in the day they cuffed both Alexis & William. After arresting LA Press Club attorney Weston Rowland- they arrested my colleague Nick Stern and refused to let me take his cameras.

This has been the most frustrating year of my service in Congress, and it isn’t close. Mike Johnson is the weakest Speaker in the history of the House. He has turned the people’s branch into a rubber stamp.

Moneywise: Three Vietnam War vets & an architectural historian sued Trump. They argue his plans to build a "triumphal arch" near Arlington National Cemetery's main entrance lacks congressional approval, violates federal law & would be disrespectful of those buried there. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

This is about fear, not fraud. The GOP's poll numbers are tanking, their agenda is unpopular. Their response? Nationwide voter suppression bills to stop Americans from voting them out. CALL NOW: #HandsOffHerVote

Elon Musk is so relentlessly focused on achieving his goals that he is directly responsible for killing <at least> hundreds of thousands of people via his wildly illegal DOGE actions & their impact on foreign aid. This is grotesquely obscene nonsense from Ezra Klein.

Poland is often seen as Europe's coal stronghold. In 2000, coal generated 94% of its electricity. But something remarkable is happening: Coal's share has fallen to 50%. Wind+solar, non-existent 15yrs ago, now generate 1/4 of electricity. More in my newsletter. Sign up here: janrosenow.substack.com

Fascism is by far the most malignant, active threat to life and human rights, full stop. Anyone who thinks allying with pro-democracy people you don't agree with on policy is tactically incoherent to the point of uselessness, if not an active hinderance to triaging what's left of our democracy...

Both these guys are kind of annoying, but on this particular point, Miller is 100% correct. The obsession of everyone on the left with fighting other factions on the left RATHER THAN THE FUCKING FASCISTS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY is insane to me. It was insane in 2015 & has gotten steadily insaner.

tRump can’t stop admitting it: his “election reforms” are straight-up rigging 2026 midterms for Republicans. Gerrymander maps for 20+ House seats. Kill mail ballots. “We’ll never lose a race—for 50 years!” He’s saying the quiet part out loud. mcsp.short.gy/HOOA

Trump’s “excursions” abroad are making the cost-of-living crisis worse for everybody. Except the Trump family — they’re cashing in.

Iranian commander says US military attacked two passenger boats, not IRGC vessels, in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.