America is slouching toward the 250th anniversary of our revolution against arbitrary power with a president who shamelessly exercises it. Never before have we witnessed this degree of self-dealing, bribe taking, usurpation of congressional authority, and open defiance of federal courts.

This is more of the same lawlessness we’ve seen elsewhere around the country. 

Our country deserves accountability. Our country deserves the humane treatment of every person here. In fact, our Constitution demands this. 3/4

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying.

NEW: Responding to the criticism that Pope Leo XIV is “too political” in his conflicts with Trump, Cardinal Czerny defends the first U.S.-born pontiff. “Life is political. It’s not either political or not political. Political is how we live together and how we face our problems together.”

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

You’ve probably had your limit at this point, please read this explanation of what happened yesterday and share it widely. It’s more important than ever to make sure people understand why we have to vote for democracy and we have to get started now if we want to be able to vote.

Are we really going to go on for 2 1/2 years with a deranged White House occupant who can barely keep his eyes open and when he's awake he's narcissistically focused on grabbing attention, corruptly enriching himself, abusing reporters and ignoring the needs of ordinary Americans?

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

They're weird and countercultural and insular and have always provoked deep resentments from the outside. They're also glorious civilizational engines and curators. They're worth having and defending mightily on their own, deeply strange terms.

The Tennessee Republicans who did this redistricting today are virulent racists. We all have a responsibility to speak out against them and to publicly shame and shun them for their racism.

Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results

She chose a very demanding path in medicine and made history in it. Dr. Alexa Canady became the first Black woman neurosurgeon in the U.S., dedicating her career to treating complex brain conditions and co-developing a treatment for fluid buildup in the brain. A legacy that saves lives. #SheShed

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Warnock: "I know that there are those who are tired of the remedy. I'm tired of racism. I think it's a strange position to be more concerned about the medicine than you are about the malady."

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

BREAKING: We're suing Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. On the heels of a Supreme Court decision that eviscerated protections for voters of color, elected officials jumped at the chance to disenfranchise people — we won't allow it.

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TODAY: Americans are walking out of school and work to wield our power as workers, consumers, and students. Join us for the nationwide day of economic disruption: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i... Find one of the more than 3,000 events planned for May Day: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?... #MayDay

LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, US Capitol Rotunda, 1965.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservative court basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans. An absolutely mockery of the law and a stain on the court.

Ron DeSantis is never in the news for doing a good thing. Trying to diminish the voices of voters in Florida is the latest Republican power grab. Shameful.

Follow the money. #TrumpCorruption

1/ Today, as SCOTUS hears arguments to decide if suits claiming Monsanto (parent co Bayer) failed to warn people about the cancer risks of Roundup/glyophosate, we're exposing a huge threat matrix: public and private forests are being bombarded with the herbicide www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Incredible reporting. Please read.

The Constitution and rule of law are serious. They’re not suggestions, and we need to get back to a place where this is respected. It’s the foundation of our country.

NBC News just said 30% of our country is in extreme drought conditions, which are fueling wildfires. IMHO, data centers should be BANNED in all of these regions, as they use 1 to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people!!!

Trump's latest budget is the culmination of 40 years of increasing social control in America. Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private contractors, like the drone manufacturers Trump's sons are now major investors in. All of this is absurd.

So, the guy who thinks that witches have taken over California is now the acting Secretary of the Navy? Super.

U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.” Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

The arts bring meaning to the universe. They make it accessible. They make it personal, and unite us in awe and wonder.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

"This is Amerca's darkest hour." Prof. Krugman has been sounding five alarms all weekend and today just sums it up tragically and, well, overwhelmingly. "Normal life will continue...But this is, in a way, the defining moment. The fate of the whole American idea is on the line."

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

You can find your reps' information here. Even if there are no immediate fixes, everybody in Congress should know their constituents are apoplectic, and they should be hauling ass to figure out a plan. Thinking caps the fuck on. www.congress.gov/members/find...

If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.