BIG news: The proposed border wall through Big Bend National Park is off following months of bipartisan backlash.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

i will graciously accept apologies from any of the multiple Washington Post pundits who claimed i was misrepresenting the editorial shift of their publication after it was purchased by Jeff Bezos. i am sure that is coming any day now. correcting the record is so important, after all.

Hantavirus Ship Passenger Attended Packed Wedding After Leaving Cruise. "YouTube influencer Ruhi Cenet attended a crowded wedding in Istanbul after disembarking from the MV Hondius cruise amid a hantavirus outbreak" Source: archive.md/T3aUi

Sean Duffy will pay for his crimes against humanity

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

"Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and their Republican allies should realize that the people will not stand for privatization of their hard-earned benefits."

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

Just like when Trump adviser and Blackstone CEO; the oligarch Stephen A. Schwarzman infamously compared the treatment of billionaires in America today to the plight of the Jews in Nazi Germany. Raising taxes on the wealthy "is like when Hitler invaded Poland.” archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nyt...

Remember when VC Tom Perkins compared criticism of rich to kristalnacht

very funny that this guy is literally like “tax the rich? that is the n word to me, personally” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

Nine out of 12 Trump voters told a New York Times focus group that they wish they had not voted for the president.

Trump, surrounded by kids, is struggling to stay awake as RFK Jr drones on and on

The CDC quietly stopped helping states test for infectious diseases like rabies. RFK Jr. is gutting critical public health services and making our country less safe. I'm calling on him to answer for his dangerous choices.

Texas is running out of water and has an unstable electricity supply, but we're giving tax incentives to the greatest consumers.

My piece with @ajvicens.bsky.social on how hundreds of Americans were fired or otherwise punished following the killing of right wing influencer Charlie Kirk is part of a package that has been recognized with the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

In December, SCOTUS stayed a district court ruling blocking TX from using its new maps because the lower court ruled "on the eve of an election." That district court ruling was issued 15 weeks before the TX primaries. Callais was issued *17 days* before the LA primaries.

Last week, 42 House Democrats voted to reauthorize a little-known law that lets the regime spy on American citizens. Fortunately, there’s still time to stop this civil liberties disaster — but your senators need to hear from you about Section 702 of FISA.

NEWS: MAGA influencer Craig Long has been arrested in a human trafficking and prostitution sting in Florida, along with Ryan Yates, a Trump supporter who pleaded guilty in Feb 2024 for his involvement in January 6. Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. just a few weeks ago.

I would like to reject this thesis, but the evidence for it keeps piling up

Dropping a gift link so non-subscribers can access this fantastic story: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

I highly recommend taking the time to read this.

This line in particular makes me feel ill: "The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." SCOTUS' Republican majority has long required elections to be held under illegal maps—when it hurts Dems.

We are witnessing a catastrophic collision between unchecked narcissism and obvious neurological decay. It is the most dangerous intersection in American history: a man with the absolute power of the Presidency and the absolute cognitive failure of a person no longer tethered to reality.

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

Get the Texas Monthly on Monday when they drop a big story on late Baptist leader Paul Pressler, a pedophile who preyed on boys. Pressler's still central to politics: he mentored a young Ted Cruz; Mike Johnson's first big job was leading the Judge Paul Pressler Law School. (Cruz was on the board.)

Polls are closing for school board races around Texas. I'll be tracking results as they come in. Follow this thread for updates!

RESULT out of Texas. The Lake Travis school district in the Austin area become a focal point for book bans (see this story from 2024: www.kut.org/education/20...) Two conservatives school board members who were integral to that push just lost their reelection bids tonight, and are ousted.

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

Former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, just released another ad for the Democrats.

REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social : “This is a power grab… they’re spitting on the graves of all that work, saying we’re going to allow Black political voices & representation to be dismantled across the South- following marching orders of the White House. We’ve gotta fight back.” @GovBillLee

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

They’re getting more brazen all the time, and the assaults on democracy are going to get worse. The canary in the coal mine, already wobbly, just keeled over. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Texas State Senate District 4 Special Election Jefferson County (>95% Reported): 🔵 Ron Angeletti - 1,726 (67.2%) 🔴 Brett Ligon - 844 (32.8%) This SD-04 portion of county was Trump+11 in 2024, so this is a 45 point overperformance for Democrats.

Honestly question now what Americans think government is there to do. For nearly 50 years the GOP has hammered the idea that it's inherently evil. While they now hold all reins of power, wealth disparity is at Gilded Age levels and millions suffer or die because we're led by a "businessman."

new episode of kill the computer where we talk to @bencollins.bsky.social about the long battle to takeover infowars from alex jones

He’s barely beating @killthecomputer.com lmfaooooooo

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Trump’s latest justification for building his ballroom is security—but that betrays what the White House has always symbolized, Neil Flanagan argues:

You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block.

This was shown in Australia, but why in the hell, not in the US. First claims of men being gang raped at Epstein’s Zorro ranch revealed in bombshell doc - amid probe over ‘buried girls’ share.google/p20FobdJK36h...

Cops can't hold you for more than 48 hours without charges so they raided those of us organizing protests against the '08 RNC on Friday night, held folks over the weekend (doesn't count) and Monday (a holiday) then "released" an organizer on Thursday ...re-arresting her as she left the building.

No concept of a plan!? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

EPSTEIN NEWS: For the 83rd consecutive time, 60 minutes Australia puts our mainstream media to shame. They won’t let the Epstein files die. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

For decades, a good paying union job was the pathway to the American Dream, but the corruption of Greg Abbott and the donors he works for took that dream from us. As governor, I’ll fight to build a state where Texans can afford to dream again.

Just remembering tonight for no reason how in the days after January 6 Politico turned over the keys to Playbook to Ben Shapiro and the opening word was “howdy.”

While we wait for Washington to act, Governor Abbott could provide relief to Texans TODAY by suspending our state gas tax. What are you waiting for, Greg Abbott? Suspend the TX gas tax today. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/30/texas-gas-prices-increase/