Clap, I cooked. Yes, it's a tuna melt.

Trump announces a “large public safety surge” in DC and possibly LA and NY ahead of 250th anniversary celebrations.

For all the talk of how Democrats aren't close enough to the mainstream, only Republicans act—consistently, through all of their members in every branch, federal and state—as if they know there is no chance they could hold power in anything resembling a free and fair election.

BREAKING: Virginia Democratic leaders asked SCOTUS to review the Virginia Supreme Court's last week ruling overturning the will of voters who approved Democrats' redistricting plan. Full story to come.

Canceling the Washington Post was the best money I didn't spend.

We have a Republican Party committed to building systematic advantages into the current system to maintain power indefinitely and a Democratic Party that cannot think outside the bounds of the current system even as it is being actively restructured against them.

Overheard someone wondering aloud why anyone would want to make it appear that the reflecting pool is filled with the blood of a thousand Smurfs.

Someone installed a functional arcade game at the DC War Memorial called Epic Furious. Play battles against schoolgirls, and threats like DEI or the Pope, and collect Trump-style trophies. The best part is you don't have to travel to DC to play: epicfurious.com

JUST IN: The Trump admin was hit with a lawsuit this morning for painting the Reflecting Pool blue. The Cultural Landscape Foundation claims the admin violated federal laws by altering the historic site without first having its plans reviewed. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Doing some canvassing today for @erinpetrey.bsky.social #ky6

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

I say this all the time but the way I would put it is that electoralism has eaten Dem politics. Things are viewed through the lens of the next election. But, the party often seems to have forgotten that winning that next election isn't an end in itself, bc for the candidate, it is

BREAKING www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hawaii-jus...

Trump is approaching the fiddling-while-Rome-burns level of corruption, and voters are not happy about it.

Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy

No, It’s Really Not a ‘Race to the Bottom’ on Redistricting talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-it...

it's not my fault your honor i was being driven slowly mad by low-flying helicopters

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

It's become totally commonplace. But it's remarkable how quickly it became commonplace that having totally valid immigration/work permit documents just became irrelevant and these people are routinely tossed into detention by ICE.

1970: A sleepless Nixon meets with Vietnam War protestors at the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night 2026:

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

US data center construction rose to a new record high in official data released today, hitting a pace of nearly $50B/yr (and this only includes data center facilities, not the expensive computers within) Spending is up 34% over the last year and 260% since the launch of ChatGPT

Pretty infuriating that while we haven't touched the negative signs they've posted all over the neighborhood, bike lane opponents have gone around tearing down our supportive fliers and thrown them in the trash

This person rode only regional rail & local buses from DC to Boston. Took them 22 hours and cost $110. old.reddit.com/r/transit/co...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to put a coat of white paint on the exterior of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a 19th-century historic building next to the White House, is getting a hearing by a key federal agency. Public sentiment is overwhelmingly against a new paint job.

Broken mushroom omelette, chapati, and arugula salad

VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...

Asparagus and shrimp stir fry

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.

I have a new piece up on Slate, on how the "tough on crime" Louisiana GOP is cutting prosecutor jobs and judges in New Orleans, and even eliminating one position solely so the person who won it (an exoneree) can't take his seat. Another case of "tough on crime" really being abt social control.

Judge Reyes has since ordered the admin not to go forward with any plans to close down the golf course or start work to convert it into another Trump course.

During the COVID pandemic, biking to Hains Point kept me and a large number of other users of East Potomac Park (tennis, golf, mini golf, biking, walking/running, fishing) sane.

As an example, two weeks ago House Republicans proposed a $4 million cut to D.C.'s HIV treatment and testing efforts. To be clear, *these were not cuts in federal dollars*. This was prohibiting D.C. from spending *our own money* on HIV treatment and testing. This is the shit we have to put up with.

sounds great Ron, the version of Chuck Schumer who lives in your head is way more awesome than the one who lives in mine

BREAKING: The Court has ordered the government to respond with answers at 7:30am — and there will be a status conference at 8am. Thank you team @democracyforward.org and co-counsel and clients!

case you missed it yesterday, activist Guido Reichstadter scaled the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in DC to protest the war in Iran and AI.

It took me three decades to become emotionally available enough to appreciate Tori Amos, please clap

Trump shares bizarre AI-generated image of himself lounging in Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool with Cabinet members Trump’s odd AI image came on the same day the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation site was vandalized with graffiti www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

REP. @aftynbehn.bsky.social : “Well, that concludes our 250 year 🇺🇸 experiment, because Grandma Gone Wild @MarshaBlackburn decided to eliminate the last Democratically held seat in Tennessee, in MEMPHIS, where 65% of the constituents are Black. We need international attention on this.”

My hot food take is that brunch is *solely for ordering breakfast-coded food later into the day*. It is not a Frankenstein hybrid of breakfast and lunch foods.

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Who knew that authoritarianism, persecution of foreigners, and the wanton torching of US soft power would be bad for the US hospitality industry?

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

Bad! This is really bad! www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Louisiana not a state too bothered by democratic norms

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the #MayDay day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.

No, but it is treasonous to steal a bunch of classified documents, store them in your bathroom, and share them with people who are not authorized to view their contents with the aim of enriching yourself

Today, after 75 days, Republicans finally passed the same DHS funding bill they could have passed back in February — a bill to fund TSA, FEMA, & the Coast Guard without giving a penny to Trump’s lawless ICE & CBP.  75 days of pure political theater. Total incompetence.