The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

I think we need to talk more openly about how white men in the U.S. benefitted from affirmative action for 200 years (i.e., systematic exclusion of women/minorities). This concept is missing from the national discourse and the public's understanding of the context underlying DEI initiatives.

The Times has defended its personnel processes and vows to defend itself vigorously in court. Notably, despite the Trump EEOC's statements, DEI measures aimed at addressing historic underrepresentation in employment have not been declared wholly unlawful.

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These remarks feature most of Roberts’ usual talking points but one quote stood out to me—that justices are “not simply part of the political process.” At a minimum, constitutional interpretation is absolutely part of the *political* process & always has been. To say otherwise is deeply unserious.

Politically motivated prosecution of protected speech puts it into the realm of a conspiracy against rights or deprivation of rights under the color of law. That's a felony.

What I do know is this: the crisis this book describes is not an accident. It was built—policy by policy, decision by decision, over decades. And what's been built can be dismantled.

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

I would not trade any amount of money generated from AI data centers for my childrens’ drinking water…

MUST READ. I don’t have a disabled adult in my household, but as a taxpayer, I want society (our government) to provide the resources the law requires without requiring recipients to jump thru endlessly changing machinations that further complicate their lives. Playing immoral games is WRONG.

Trump is surrounded by petroleum lobbyists - not automotive lobbyists - and he has decided to declare all-out war on electric vehicles. The Big 3 collectively spent well over $100 billion on EV development that they're now having to write down because of Trump. You think they wanted to do that? 8/x

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

The post-Dobbs Republican pivot to healthcare

My New One at Slate: Justice Alito is a Coward (and Possibly a Liar) slate.com/news-and-pol...

"A vicious cycle perpetuates where local communities are asked to do more and more and more, while state lawmakers do less and less and less." ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/30/o...

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Republicans are also working on another bailout for farmers from taxpayers after Trump screwed them over again with tariffs and increased costs caused by his war. We all have to pay Trump voters (mostly) for Trump’s failed policies while they continue to vote Republican.

Republicans want an astonishing, debt-exploding $1.5 trillion military budget, more for ICE, billions to bail out failing airlines, and $400 million for Trump’s ballroom. They are looting the treasury and fleecing taxpayers to pay for Trump’s endless wars and vanity projects.

In 1994, a man crashed his small plane into the White House. Clinton did not build a ballroom because of it. In fact he barely mentioned it. And he definitely did not say that no one can criticize him anymore.

The local laundromat here does the same. I picked up novel whilst waiting on Sunday morning, haven’t put it down since. 📖🤗

News anchors like Katy Tur keep asking how we can find "common ground" in America. The answer is: You can't. If you believe in democracy, there's no common ground with fascists. You either surrender to them or you fight them.

Meanwhile, there was another US "boat strike" snuff flick today. AKA murder. Little-mentioned in mainstream media or here for that matter. Talk about "normalizing political violence."

This is brilliant

There will be lots of chin-stroking columns about political violence and lowering the temperature that will studiously ignore we're still talking about the guy who had a lynch mob sack the Capitol and try to kill the vice president.

The guy who wants the Nobel Peace Prize says trying to get peace is "too much work". Which has basically been his m.o. his entire life.

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

Michelle Wolf nailed it 8 years ago:

It’s nice to see authoritarian Republicans up shit creek with a turd for a paddle for a change. I could get used to this!

I chose the photo for this story in part because it’s a reminder that the racists have always been semi-literate dopes.

WaPo says that Warsh “promised independence” and “demonstrated seriousness” during his hearing. When asked who won the 2020 election, he basically hid under the table. Promises of independence from someone so cowed and cowardly are less than meaningless.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

but the fact of the matter is that with the notable exception *of* the mid to late 20th century, every major change in our political system and government has been a partisan or ideological political project.

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

We pay taxes. They steal our money and they use the government we pay for to make their rich friends richer. My latest on how Donald Trump is using the federal government as his private ATM Machine. open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Facts.

📌Today I once again hammered the mainstream media with the truth that they are aiding and abetting a known liar by not holding his fat, little feet to the fire. Here is what is REALLY going on with the Strait of Hormuz, and why all the lying in the world won’t get us out of this spiraling mess …

youtube.com/watch?v=vr_u... Lawrence O’Donnell has RFK Jr. on tape saying “every Black kid” needs to be taken from their parents and reparented. I assume he means handed over to the government. RFK Jr. is a disgusting and extremely racist individual. He needs to be removed NOW!

A lawsuit settlement by the Trump regime to pay money directly to Trump would be a looting of the U.S. Treasury.

What the report does not say—but that people like Rufo say very openly—is that the current American right wing aims to use its power in the political sphere to conquer the rest of the seven mountains, of which higher education is one. That's the story—not Yale forgot to teach Edmund Burke.

heres my impression of a newspaper that is fully aware that over a month ago trump said the iran war would take a few days, then a couple weeks, then a couple more weeks, then a couple more weeks: donald trump says iran war “should be cleared up in a couple of weeks”

The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement. But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.

This is a really odd argument because I think at the heart of it, there is a deep misunderstanding about what writing is for. I write to communicate my thoughts and ideas, and to bring people along with me, which AI cannot do for me because it isn't me.

He’s destroying the Kennedy Center b/c he can. Republicans have done nothing to stop Trump’s worst impulses, incl his attacks on the arts, science, justice, healthcare, free speech, a free press & separation of church & state. The only way to stop the destruction: vote them out at all levels of govt