Philly fights on: “The fact that the federal government would ignore the hell of slavery for the victim but highlight the president’s ‘discomfort,’” Coard said. “What kind of nonsense is that?” share.inquirer.com/tu6b77

🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s administration installed overnight a new exhibit at the site of George Washington’s Philadelphia home instead of the memorial to the 9 people kept in bondage at the nation’s first White House. National Park Service dismantled the original slavery exhibit in January. 🎁 🔗

The techinque of courts calling immigrant kids into court for "wellness" check-ins -- more hearings, can't miss them. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Here is a gift link to the story unpacking everything you need to know about what went down today so far in the President’s House litigation saga: share.inquirer.com/ZuCz6M My @inquirer.com colleagues on Independence Mall and I will updated you on any new development in court or on the ground.

An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗

President Trump’s new plane comes with a constant reminder of the Reflecting Pool built in. 🦆🔵 🟢 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Columbus Dispatch: "Fox News released a poll showing Trump-endorsed candidates trailing Democrats in the races for governor and Senate. And now, all of a sudden, one of Ohio's major get-out-the-vote groups finds Trump agents at their door and in their house..." www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

🚨 BREAKING: 3rd Circuit allows Trump to replace slavery exhibits it removed from George Washington's Philadelphia mansion ahead of July 4. The new panels say Washington's slaves had more "autonomy" and "even attend the theater, with Washington buying the tickets." w/ @fallonroth.bsky.social 🎁🔗

I am literally not a sports fan of any way, shape or form. That said, I think it makes total sense that the Knicks won last night thanks to the player whose name sounds like a Jedi Knight. Congrats to OG Anunoby and the team! May the Force Be With them in Game 5.

Brooklyn erupts.

I was honored to join Rachel Maddow to discuss my new book, The Fix. youtu.be/3hZB5NY8J_0?...

And here it is in chart form. According to the Kansas Democrats, they're contesting 103 out of 125 districts, that's the most they've had in more than three decades! They didn't really miss out on any winnable ones either (outside of a Trump+4 seat in Wichita)

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

A+ for brazen in Louisiana: “I purposely put more Democrats into District 2 to make the remaining districts better performing for Republicans." www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Rohan has answered the call ✊️🐴 Turns out, when you mess with people's voting rights, you awaken a sleeping giant. So very proud of South Carolina! 🌴

BOOM 💥 NEW: South Carolina Republicans saw the insane lines and slammed the brakes on another gerrymandering circus targeting Black voters and Jim Clyburn. S Carolina Dems made it clear: changing maps after voting already started is crazy work!

Ona Judge gets her day. share.inquirer.com/RVE20I

Brutal review of Trump's slush fund, from Philly: "[H]ow is this scam related to the struggle and principles commonly associated with 1776, the country’s founding year? Only in that the president has taken corruption to a truly revolutionary level." share.inquirer.com/DWb59F

Today in AI: -General rebellion against it; -Someone is dreaming up a big new data center for Alaska's North Slope; -Mark Zuckerberg goes colossal on rural Louisiana; -Raising the temperature 4 degrees in Arizona neighborhoods. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

BIG STORY: ICE arrested, shackled and separated Israel and Max Makoka as they were about to board their school bus in Diamondhead, Miss. While one brother endured confinement and pressure to self-deport in a Louisiana prison, the other was sent to a youth home in Texas. Now, they tell their story.

Tennessee’s Republican House speaker has barred all 24 House Democrats from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for decorum violations, including locking arms on the floor in protest of a redrawn congressional map, writes Sam Stockard: tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/13/t...

An updated lawsuit from the NAACP sites voter confusion and campaign chaos as reasons to halt the use of Tennessee’s redrawn congressional map in the 2026 U.S. House election, @cstephenson.bsky.social reports: tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/13/v...

This chart says "Alert! Alert!" >The last 30-year Treasury to carry a 5% interest rate was sold in 2007, on the brink of the global financial crisis and US economic recession. Gift link from Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Data centers, Washington State: The "transmission lines over Quintero’s front yard will be ... on 100-foot-tall thick, steel poles, carrying enough electricity to produce an audible crackle." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Commentary: "I love my home state fiercely, but years of witnessing discrimination and a lack of willingness by lawmakers focus on basic necessities like healthcare and education has broken my heart," writes @jhollymc.bsky.social. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/11/e...

OMB updated one of ICE’s detention-related funding accounts on April 30. The overall amount of money did not change. Instead, OMB shifted more than $26 million into 3rd quarter availability while reducing both expected carryover balances and 4th quarter authority.

South Carolina elections director on new maps: “We can start sending out a notice, but at this point, a large number of people will have voted in good faith on the congressional ballot. . . . Just the fact that we’re here today will cause voter confusion.” scdailygazette.com/2026/05/08/s...

Biden-era funds to prop up public transit that floundered during Covid is running out and some cities have cut back on bus service. For people without cars, that puts them at even greater risk for food insecurity. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Since Reconstruction, Louisiana has elected four Black members of Congress. All of them are seated at this table. www.nola.com/news/politic...

Autopen much, DOGE? “McDonald’s signature appeared on the letter that canceled grants, but it was placed there by DOGE.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"We thought we were rebuilding, however haltingly and imperfectly, the multiracial regime lost after Reconstruction. But Alabama is still Alabama. And self-serving, self-justifying power is the state’s only civic virtue." alabamareflector.com/2026/05/04/w...

National Guard deployed in D.C., still happening. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask...

Love your neighbor: >>About 45,000 Haitians in Ohio are waiting nervously as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a Trump-admin move to force them back to their homeland. A new assessment says that conditions in Haiti are about as bad as anywhere in the world. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/05/c...

An excellent edition, throughout. Two thumbs up.

Holy guacamole, this @mwhitler.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com chronology of how long the Minneapolis Public Schools finance department irregularities have been known and how little the district has been willing to say about them is... just wow. 1/

Proposed data center could swallow sun. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/30/e...

Watching Republicans like Steve Scalise rewrite recent history on gas prices is exasperating. Watching Republicans like Tim Scott rewrite the present is worse. I mean, really, who looks at this and decides to tell a national audience, “Gas prices continue to come down”? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Who's paying for the border wall? Oh. "In AZ, construction crews ran heavy machinery through and destroyed a roughly 60-to-70-foot swath of an intaglio, a more than 200-foot-long ground etching that looks like a fish and is thought to be at least 1,000 years old" wapo.st/49jZ7M2

BREAKING: Israel and Max Makoka, the brothers ICE arrested on April 21 while they were getting on their school bus, are free after their community rallied to their defense. Mississippi's Republican U.S. senators, Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker, helped secure their release. Nick Judin reports:

Amazing. In Paris, school streets "with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets."

Great 🧵of responses, by state, to the Supreme Court ruling yesterday on the Voting Rights Act and congressional districts.

Two major Tennessee gubernatorial candidates are pushing for a special legislative session to redraw congressional maps just over three months before the primary. At least one legislative leader says that's a no for him. @friedmanadam5.bsky.social reports.

Update on these flights: The first continued on to Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon--both "host" third-country nationals (ie, detain them until they are pressured to return to the home countries they fled). The second turned out to be the regular Wed. Venezuela deportation taking an unusual route.

Fascinating fight playing out in GOP politics right now, over gerrymandered congressional maps. Call it "Trump vs Indiana Republicans Who Said No." indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/30/t...

Following Supreme Court decision, La. Republicans weigh canceling US House primary elections #lalege #lagov