Three Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance a judicial nominee who refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. At least one judicial advocacy group is fuming. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Congress legislated a prohibition on withdrawing any troops from Europe or Asia without an extensive study of costs/consequences and an assurance by the Secretary that it’s in U.S. national interests — neither condition has been met. It’d be great if Congress would exercise its authority.

This is an absolute travesty. The 5th circuit is imposing a nationwide restriction on accessing abortion medication. This is such a blatant power grab and perversion of the law. www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

In case you’re wondering, this is a real post.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the National Council of Jewish Women and Louisiana voters, my law firm has sued Governor Jeff Landry (R) and Secretary of State Nancy Landry (R), challenging the state’s decision to suspend the 2026 congressional primary elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...

There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.

They’re gonna try to ban Bluesky

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Unfortunately the administration seems to have latched on to a key vulnerability in our constitutional order, which is that if you charge ahead and do the illegal thing, you often get most of the result you wanted even if you later lose in court.

SLOTKIN: If Trump asks you to seize voting machines during the 2026 election, will you stand up for the Constitution and say no? HEGSETH: It's yet another gotcha hypothetical, which is your speciality SLOTKIN: The guy you're performing for right now says he wishes he signed that EO in 2020!

Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

A profoundly listless campaign. Acted like the primary was an annointment, seemingly refused to (or couldn't) recognize that Platner was a serious threat, wasn't able to jump on his vulnerabilities as they emerged, and visibly all but gave up shortly afterward. A fairly sorry display all around

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

OpenAI's attorney mentions term sheet Altman sent to Musk in 2018 or '19 (I'm not positive on year) about creating capped-profit company. Trying to establish Musk knew for-profit was coming, didn't object then “I did not read the fine print,” Musk said. Attorney counters: “It’s a 4-page document.”

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

Don't think I've ever seen @rickhasen.bsky.social this angry. "The Supreme Court itself has shown itself to be the enemy of democracy. [Democrats] have to consider reform of the Supreme Court itself, a conclusion I had been resisting until the court made this unavoidable." slate.com/news-and-pol...

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

THAT’S RIGHT!!!!

lol, same loser playbook they ran with tiktok

Scanlon is one of the only members Congress consistently trying to draw attention to NSPM-7

The former director of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, went on a tour of the West Bank to examine settler violence. He said it made him "ashamed to be Jewish" and that "it reminded me of the events that happened in the last century against Jews." 13tv.co.il/item/news/po...

I keep saying: anyone who is nominated by Trump for any position is disqualified by virtue of having accepted the nomination there are no “good ones”, there are no guardrails, by definition taking the position is an indication that you will debase yourself and your department for Dear Leader

This is so terrible. The third country removals are human rights catastrophes; South Americans fleeing persecution in their homes, then being dumped in Kinshasa and told they can’t stay and must go… somewhere. Preferably right back to where they fled.

Matt Mahan took a private plane to court a large donation from Sergey Brin, but didn't get the money because Sergey and his girlfriend Gerelyn were pissed that Mahan had attended a No King's rally You don't hate billionaires enough xcancel.com/Omggerelyn/s...

so true, bestie

Today we’re shipping Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2 – our first public models. We’re also shipping our agent harness and a preview product experience. Both models were trained from scratch on our own stack: data pipelines, training infrastructure, and agent RL. poolside.ai/blog/introdu...

people are so fucking stupid i could just scream

he thinks he owns the country and rules us as king

BREAKING: A 2nd Circuit court of appeals panel rejects ICE's mandatory detention policy, splitting with the 5th and 8th Circuits and putting the case on a likely trajectory to SCOTUS The 3-0 decision rejects "mass detention w/o bond for millions." www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

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The Palestinian Authority held the first municipal-level elections in years in occupied territory and in response the Israeli army kidnapped one of the victors and held him hostage and released him only on the condition that he step down from his seat.

I couldn’t agree more with what Julie K. Brown is saying here. Michael Tracey’s misconduct is not funny. I understand why people mock him, but it would be nice to see more of our media peers actually seriously condemn his treatment of women.

Another Silicon Valley guy who protested the first Trump administration is now aligned with him. The pattern has been extraordinary. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

Maybe it's not fair given that Trump is the one on a berzerker spree of illegality, but by saying shit like this Jeffries is sanctioning lawlessness and stands every bit as responsible for the functional end of our constitutional republic as the Republicans. bsky.app/profile/suri...

ludicrous headline from the bbc here

Triumph of the Schill

it’s weird how the WHCD has mutated over Trump’s presidencies from an event honoring the press to an event where the press honors the president, and the attendees just keep clapping like seals and don’t notice the change

This is how they respond to literally everything though, at some point it just becomes background noise because there isn't actually any way to escalate it any further.

An America destroyed by madness was on full display after the chaos of an assassination attempt at the WCHA dinner, in a nation so numb to gun violence and so drunk on corruption that Trump and journalists wanted to party on Gunfire of the Vanities: My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Holy shit. Holy. Shit. Trump sent the Gestapo to kidnap kids and shoot helpers in HIS TOWN.

Dude forgot to take the sticker off his pants

so cool how this guy got severe brain damage and it turned him MAGA

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

Remember the wave of chattering class solidarity we saw after Sarah Huckabee was politely declined service at a restaurant? Get ready bsky.app/profile/atru...

Siri, show me the dumbest possible version of “never let a good crisis go to waste.”