This is bad. At least 9 county prosecutors in pro-Trump areas of Virginia have now openly declared that they won't enforce the assault weapons ban that the Dem state legislature recently passed. It's a MAGA nullification movement. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2114...

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

They’re so happy about it. Destroying Black political power is all they ever wanted.

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

Roberts Court now engaged in blatant electoral warfare, doing everything it can to give Republicans as many seats as possible in midterms & completely erase Reconstruction amendments. If Dems don’t reform court when back in power there will be no democracy left to protect

to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

This is why it is so important to publicize and make visible the essential work of the “submerged state” or the “government out of sight.” The GOP and the conservative movement have convinced many people that deregulation and trimming the compensatory state are not only efficient but just.

Bahahahaahaaaa

We sort of "knew" this but now we *know* it. It's just staggeringly grotesque to imagine that much world-warping power, and the compulsion to use it, to punish a child he didn't even parent. This is genuinely comic book super-villain scale bile.

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

The money was always there for the good things.

According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

my favorite part of every internal meeting leak at CBS is that absolutely every single person at CBS that wasn't installed there by the ellisons or bari weiss hate the new leadership so much and let them know that

This political and cultural moment is crying out for people to plainly tell our ruling class of liars, thieves, and charlatans to eat shit. It's the fastest track to superstardom

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

#OtD 31 May 1921 the Tulsa racist massacre took place leaving 300 dead and 10k homeless after a fake allegation of a Black boy attacking a white woman was used to stir up white supremacist violence. Racists destroyed a whole area dubbed Black Wall St. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

The people who led the negotiating of Trump's slush fund were all Trump's personal lawyers, who had worked with one another. There was no-one there representing the public interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

lol honestly

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Bovino posted this on X earlier today, so suffice to say I think there's a particular audience he's pandering to now after being proverbially driven out of town

it was never about kids, not one time

I hate these people so fucking much, man years of whining about "weaponized DOJ investigations" and they're just going down the enemies list launching frivolous bullshit because the bossman says so

The case for why Talarico might really win, really, in Texas. Candidate debates might really have the potential to matter: Paxton is charisma-free; would give Talarico a chance to meet voters outside of their information bubble.

genuinely what reading this literature feels like

"...treat this merger not as an arms-length and above board business transaction, but as what it plainly is: a political arrangement to circumvent constitutional safeguards, with severe consequences for American democracy"

PIPER: “.. We think the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed for months yet, meaning shortages become more urgent and oil hits new highs this Summer.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/p...

Cornyn mostly gained the image as a bipartisan policymaker after Kay Bailey Hutchison left the Senate. Cornyn's strength in the GOP was as a massive fundraiser (Because Texas). The image of Cornyn as an adult came after he became whip. It grew when he was standing next to Cruz. 1/

To enter into an ongoing debate: this is not nihilistic violent extremism. This is two teenagers trying to start a race war and specifically immitating others who did the same.

"Over time it became difficult to distinguish the policies of Black and white mayors, as both were beholden to the police and corporations in their cities and thereby unwilling (and often lacking any real power) to advance policies to help rank-and-file Black Americans." Whew. That's Andre Dickens.

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

No Nut November as a concept is anti-Semitic, sexist, and aphobic.

👇🎯 Purely anecdotal, but I do not think it is coincidental that most of the political scientists in 🇺🇸 that I know & who are more skeptical of polarization are some combination of not-white, not-male, not-Christian, & not-heterosexual.

it rocks that in every era of recorded history teenage boys have been creating public chaos as entertainment

The plaintiffs are represented by the Becket Fund whose board includes Leonard Leo, a longtime member of the Council for National Policy (CNP), the Christian Right’s umbrella organization. The CNP was co-founded by the late Gary North who explained the Christian schooling agenda as follows:

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Some of them have occasionally been honest about the strategy. Helen Joyce, 5/25/22: "We can't win this by saying you know there's 60 x million people in this country and we've got to persuade all of them or a great majority of them. We've got to get through to the decision makers."

She should really post this in a longer form like an op-ed. She’s an amazingly erudite writer and could really flesh these ideas out very well.

This is what the antivax movement does to kids. You are under no obligation to kowtow to these people when they try to impose their delusionals on your school districts or anywhere else.

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

"Most of the domestic carnage of the second Trump administration is inseparable from Vought-led attacks on the non-military federal workforce ... and his unlawful moves to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in socially beneficial funding appropriated by Congress."

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

The die isn’t cast: France is pessimistic, but not doomed to far-right rule | Joseph de Weck

To recap: @chrisrabb.com ran as an unapologetic progressive. •PA Gov Josh Shapiro supported his opponent •NJ Senator Cory Booker supported his opponent •AIPAC supported his opponent RABB STILL CLEANED HOUSE AND WON BY DOUBLE DIGITS. We need more of this. Let’s stop fascism in its tracks. ❤️✊🏽

‘He had a unique ability to be human’: late-night TV says goodbye to Stephen Colbert

This is all very serious but it's also hilarious that someone thought the way to build a popular anti-IRGC/Ayatollahs popular front in Iran was to liberate Ahmadinejad using Israeli missiles, and it's even funnier they then missed and accidentally had those missiles put him in the hospital.

#OtD 20 May 1989 2.8 million people protested in over 80 cities across China at the peak of a national uprising for workers' and democratic rights as hundreds of thousands of Beijing residents blockaded the army stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7840...

I can't believe we turned "Laptop Worker" into a term of derision. We now have the tech and business models to allow millions of people to make a living in ways unthered to a farm plot, assembly line,, or cubicle. That's very cool! Do not project your weird yearning for the mines on to me.