The shamelessness of Republicans truly never ceases to astonish. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/n...

Rural America was told to choose the form of its destructor, and it did.

East Wing debris dumped at East Potomac Golf Course has toxic metals, National Park Service says www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/e...

You might call these Alito Maps

Parties are built from the ground up, but the fantasy that a presidential bid will somehow be transformative lives on.

Why Trumpseth banned all journalists from being embedded with US forces. It’s one big coverup.

Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences and results of a war than we have seen from this administration on Iran. What we have here is an illegal unnecessary war wrapped in a strategic fiasco inside a huge cover-up.

"We need to focus on building an opportunity economy" isn't bad because the words are too long. It's bad because it sounds like something that resulted from ChatGPT creating a slogan for a big bank advertising campaign. Don't do that. people can tell what's human and what isn't.

HENSLEY: “Their vote will still count the same.” STUDENTS: “Then why not leave it the way it was before?”🤔🔥 Sen. Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald) tries to gaslight NASHVILLE students about the Republican push to strip representation from MEMPHIS… and gets immediately owned.

We will now hold our breath until they respond 🤢

someone might want to inform NYT reporters that Sam Altman and Elon Musk are liars who don't actually support universal basic income (or any other social safety net provisions that take money out of their pockets)

It appears at this point Trump is willing to accept just about any agreement with Iran so he can back out of this disaster as soon as possible and declare victory.

"Whenever I visit, I go see the Vietnam Wall first...Then I head across the river to Arlington to pay my respects. On your way, you pass through Memorial Circle, where Trump wants to put his arch. I can’t think of anything less fitting..." open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

* IRAN'S TASNIM NEWS AGENCY, CITING AN UNNAMED SOURCE: IRAN HAS NOT YET RESPONDED TO LATEST U.S. PROPOSAL, WHICH CONTAINS SOME UNACCEPTABLE PROVISIONS @reuters.com

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Higher ed is under authoritarian attack. Joining the fiction that all college is a sociology class you don’t like, and that Dem politicians are beholden to it, doesn’t help. Around 40% of Americans went to or are in college. No other group that big gets cast by so many national figures as abnormal.

A Fox Nashville poll shows how unpopular what @GovBillLee and Tennessee Republicans are doing to Memphis is, and why they would never put it on the ballot as Democratic states have done (They don’t do ballot measures here. What the people think doesn’t matter to them😕)

NEWSMAX: Are we staying strong on the idea of deportations for all illegals, or have we moved to criminal illegal aliens as the focus? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No. We're staying focused on all illegals, without question. Truth is, we're purposely trying to be a little more quiet.

Even Fox is calling out this sick grift. From no taxpayer funds to $1 BILLION of our money — with Republicans as accessories. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Kevin O’Leary, a Canadian who is backing a massive data center in Utah, said people who live here saw huge protests against his project "and realize, ‘Why am I letting people who don’t even live in my state make decisions for me?’” Repeat: Kevin O'Leary is a Canadian. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05...

WATCH: “Does this feel like the right thing to do? Are you ready to be on the wrong side of side of history?” Tennessee Republicans generally remorseless about stripping representation from majority Black Memphis, drowning it out with white power to protect a corrupt president.

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...

New Todd Blanche lied to Laura Ingraham that DOJ had no info suggesting that SPLC shared what they learned from informants with the FBI. Prosecutors now suggest that's okay because he (sorta) corrected himself on a different Fox program five days later. Doc buff.ly/DvqDBEH

you know you're in trouble when even your propaganda systems are clapping back

Billions wasted, priceless credibility also wasted, thousands killed, all to achieve a new status quo that’s much worse than the status quo ante. Would be genuinely difficult to fail harder.

This administration is just hell bent on recreating the worst chapters in our history. Even bison are slandered as a "special interest" without a right to their habitat my god

Hill gets it. Stop saying "kompromat," it's simpler than that.

Nope. Relatedly: “Charting how Trump became a historically unpopular president” (In this story from today, we see Trump support among Republicans from 3/25 to 3/26 has gone from 90% to 80% and strong support from 64% to 43%) www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...

Marco Rubio explains that the Trump administration's goal now is merely to reopen the Strait of Hormuz -- the prevailing state of affairs before Trump launched his pointless war

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

🚨BREAKING: The lead plaintiff in the case that destroyed the VRA has a history of promoting false election conspiracies and anti-voting policies, and was at the Stop the Steal protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

At the WH physical fitness event today, Trump takes the kids outside to demonstrate his athletic ability with a little putting display. He misses every putt before giving up.

Another $39B for ICE, after Congress already gave it $75B under OBBBA? USASpending shows ICE has obligated about $4B in FY26. OMB records show about $2B more apportioned. At that pace, it would take ICE years to spend what it already has before adding any more.

⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — “THE DISTRICTS MAY NOT BE CHANGED BETWEEN APPORTIONMENTS….” Tennesseans are reading the law Republicans are breaking to steal representation from Memphis out loud before rules committee

Republicans want a billion dollars for the ballroom now. That’s your money.

42,000 Louisianians voted absentee before Gov. Jeff Landry suspended primaries for the state’s six U.S. House races

The U.S. government, from the president on down, is loudly signaling “we really don’t want more major combat, you should capitulate now.” That’s likely received by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as “we don’t have the stomach for this and desperately want out, hold firm and you’ll succeed.”

When I came out of law school in 2006, DOJ's prestige was such that liberal and conservative graduates alike would have gladly stepped over their friends' dead bodies to get a position there. Trump has ruined it now to the point they're having to bribe new graduates to apply.

The aim of the war is no longer regime change. The aim of the war is now to convince people this wasn't a mistake in the first place.

Terrific opportunity for those who want to • subpoena pediatric records of minors prescribed gender dysphoria drugs • send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to • help detain noncitizens without bond even if they’ve worked here productively for yrs & have no arrest records

The president has insisted his vanity ballroom project would be funded by wealthy donors.

New in PN: How Dems can avenge the demise of the VRA "Trump’s extreme unpopularity has another effect: it supercharges opposition. Democratic voters are demanding their leaders fight as if the fascists are at the gate (which they are). And Dem leaders have, after some hesitation, begun to respond."

GOLDMAN: “.. three key ways in which AI is boosting consumer prices. First, .. key electronics inputs, .. “.. upward pressure on software prices .. “.. increasing electricity prices in some US regions, and we expect it to continue boosting inflation over the next couple of years.”

My university uses Google products and these same aggressive prompts bombard me and my students every minute as we try to use our unique human brains…what I had foolishly thought was the entire point of “education.”

Trump asked Sean Hannity to serve as his intermediary in getting John Fetterman to switch parties, according to Politico. Hannity then conveyed Trump's offer of "more money than he ever dreamed of" to Fetterman the next day on his podcast. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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If you're a young leftist looking for an inspirational model for politics and can't come up with anyone better than Stalin or Mao I'm going to encourage you to read a second book.

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