Anyone remember the Purcell doctrine, saying courts shouldn't change electoral districts too close to the election because it might cause confusion? Remember how SCOTUS applied it six months ago to say it was already too late to invalidate the Texas districts? Funny how that didn't happen in Callais

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

Trump repeatedly bragging about being asked to take the dementia screener is like a work colleague bragging about having to take daily court-ordered drug tests.

🚨 "Don Jr.-Backed Drone Parts Manufacturer Inks $5M Deal With Don Jr.-Backed Drone Manufacturer, Citing Don Sr.’s Iran War" Wrote this up earlier today for @publiccitizen.bsky.social's new Substack

Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

A grim example from @propublica.org: The Trump admin plans to punish people with disabilities living with their parents by reducing their SSI benefits. They are also going to drown them in administrative burdens, including for people w intellectual disabilities. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump: I’m not a king. Official White House account:

/4 DoJ recruits selectively, trains fairly intensively, and demands a high level of writing. So to see DoJ product that looks like a YouTube comment is freakish and shocking. Even if all of that was a pretense (and I think it’s more complicated than that), abandonment of the pretense is horrifying.

Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC, Sen. Katie Britt R-AL, and Sen. Eric Schmidt R-MO unveil plans to authorize $400 million in taxpayer funds to pay for a new White House ballroom.

Two women pulled guns on Gerald Ford IN THE SAME MONTH. Gerald Ford! Nobody hated Gerald Ford!

Why are these details important? Because if the criminal charges are brought against Comey, Brennan, or others, the defense will almost certainly cite diGenova’s own account of his hiring in a motion to dismiss for selective or vindictive prosecution. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

“They are among more than 1,500 biologists, chemists and other experts at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development who have been laid off, reassigned or pressured to retire. Today, only 124 researchers remain,“ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.

I'd just like to note that JD Vance and RFK jr. compared Trump to Hitler

Step 1. Unequivocally condemn political violence and those urging violent actions. Step 2. Recognize that if you fail to unequivocally condemn Trump’s routine employment of violent rhetoric, no one is taking your histrionics against Democrats seriously right now.

People who have described President Trump as "fascist" include individuals who served in his first term as his White House chief of staff, defense secretary (x2), and chairman of the joint chiefs. It's not name-calling -- it's a warning. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...

Nothing to see here, folks. Just a billionaire hosting a private party for the President and Acting Attorney General while his massive media merger is under review at the Justice Department, it's not a REAL scandal like Hunter Biden selling some of his paintings. 🙄

Trump officially submits plans to paint the historic Eisenhower Building blinding white, snarling 'Gray is for funerals,' despite a preservation lawsuit.

President Trump privately advocated for painting the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, located next to the White House, with a “magic paint with silicate." A panel of experts is warning the so-called magic paint could be incompatible with the ornate federal office building's granite exterior.

Fuck this shit. And he's going to paint the Eisenhower office building, which is made of granite. Who paints stone???

“Now we have a nice, clean surface on which we’re putting an industrial grade swimming pool topping. They said, ‘What color would you like, sir? It’s called American flag blue. I said, ‘That’s the color I want; I want American flag blue.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

The president's son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in congress will say nothing about and do no oversight. bsky.app/profile/atru...

New: Feds allege soldier made $400,000 on Polymarket w/ classified info on timing of Nicolás Maduro capture by US military

Here’s something I wrote about how ICE flights are getting longer and the shackling crueler: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

No one does street name trolling quite like Prague

Republicans in Congress & on SCOTUS blocked Dems from ending gerrymandering nationwide multiple times since 2019. Dems redrawing maps in response to GOP gerrymanders is the only way to make a pro-reform House majority possible or convince the GOP that gerrymandering no longer serves their interests

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

yiiiikes

Oh God…

Bianco setting the stage for seizing ballots for his own election. Also there needs to be an effort to recall this judge. His podcast interview alone shows his bias.

Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should. I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...

“Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.” 🎸

The Al Khayyat family--Syria natives now based in Qatar--have secured at least $12 billion in deals to help rebuild Syria, which is recovering from more than a decade of civil war. But the Khayyats needed the U.S. to repeal sanctions on Syria for these projects to move ahead.

As President Trump supported sanctions repeal effort last year, the Al-Khayyat family negotiated with Mr. Kushner to help him finance a multibillion Mediterranean resort in Albania. Here is Ivanka Trump with Ramez Al-Khayatt in Albania in Jan 2026 in baseball cap. Prime minister of Albania on left

The Trump Organization has said no such Syria golf course is under consideration. But the golf course plan became part of the sanctions repeal lobbying effort, The Times investigation found.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

So Roberts and his team of hack partisans have essentially usurped the powers and roles of the other branches because they are ideologically committed to right wing causes. There is no legal reasoning here--just an exertion of power. So much for Roberts as institutionalist (that was already dead)

Trump’s pardons of white-collar criminals are draining money from a fund that helps victims of violent crime. At least $113 million in forgiven penalties would have gone into the Crime Victims Fund absent a Trump pardon, a Trace analysis found. Read more: thetr.ac/Wy2SQ

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Trumpist Law Professors: John Eastman advocates for you being disenfranchised if you voted for the wrong party and shot by the army if you protest it. If you disagree, you’re INTOLERANT

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.

The same people who argue with climate scientists about who knows more about climate are naturally going to argue with the Pope about who knows more about Jesus.

Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, a long-term study shows. The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80. The results contradict RFK Jr. statements.

GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ... www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.