Really cool project that @jbowden.bsky.social , @alicjahagopian.bsky.social and I worked on for the last month: Trump set off a nuclear war on redistricting, with Democrats pledging to fight fire with fire. So how would the map look if both sides go nuclear? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

As Texas House Republicans passed their map, Democrats in California plan to counterstrike. Here's what the congressional map might look like, and what actions Democratic governors can (and can't take). via me and @jbowden.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here's Karoline Leavitt truly not knowing what she is talking about:

uhhhhhhhhh

epic re-frame here

I talked to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social about the Senate race in Michigan and the lessons 2024 should teach the Democratic Party: "These people made a calculated decision about who they needed and who they didn't. And it turns out that that decision was way off.”

Let’s just take a moment to thank Donald Jr for his clear eyed, and steadfast determination to get answers with Epstein. He says to ask ourselves DAILY what SCUM would be against disclosure and truth? Hmmm….

Any Democrat who can answer a question without 50 words of focus group-speak stands out rn

Shane Gillis, hosting the ESPYS: “Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here but I guess it got deleted. Must have probably deleted itself right? Probably never existed, actually. Let’s move on as a country and ignore that.”

Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" English is the official language of Liberia...

Riley Gaines spinning coming 5th in a college swim meet into a career as a political commentator says a lot about the dynamics of right-wing punditry.

Trump's dig at Tucker over audience size was very telling. He's leaning back into pro-war Fox News as the "manosphere" and paleoconservatives react with horror to the prospect of another war in the Middle East: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

For our next very expensive study we'll be asking those monkeys with the typewriters if they really understood the theme of Macbeth or not

Does this qualify as waste, fraud, abuse, or all three?

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

Trump is, by all accounts, inching the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran. By doing so, he's "angrily hemorrhaging" his own voting coalition, one of his supporters wrote on Tuesday. www.independent.co.uk/news/trump-i...

to be clear: when they write "Democrats" they actually mean Third Way and a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago

I don't think anybody's quite gotten to the full Mike Lee story. He rarely talks in hallways, now posts conspiratorial stuff regularly, went from 2016 warning against Trump to working with members of his team ahead of 1/6/21. Lately a cheerleader for nixing NATO, Fed, impeaching judges, etc.

3 months. He's been sitting on this reply for 3 months.

We've got to find better terms than "baseless" for this stuff. Unhinged, Cult belief, there's plenty terms out there the press could use to inform if they didn't think informing you was biased

NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors." The man's lawyer plans to demand his return. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

That common thing where you accidentally refer to yourself as divorced on national TV

Ah yes, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, Americans may enjoy free speech as long as it’s in sync with what the administration is trying to accomplish

JUST IN: Trump's ban on foreign Harvard students halted by judge while lawsuit proceeds

Aaaaand I think we're done here #TACO

NEW: According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.

Also can we stop saying stuff like this? This is not a conflict between Harvard and the government, it is a government attack on Harvard. The article, which is generally not bad, lists 14 actions taken by the government against the school, none in the other direction www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Yesterday's State Department briefing featured a moment in which press secretary Tammy Bruce appeared unaware of a three-month-long Israeli blockade of food aid and tried to blame Cindy McCain for it: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

WaPo is memory-holing the Hillary campaign (again)

President Trump pardoned a man sentenced for tax crimes after his mother went to a $1 million-per-plate dinner at Mar-a-Lago. His pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.

My piece from yesterday, on Trump finally hearing the music:

PSA: there is no way to call yourself a "storyteller" that does not sound extremely pretentious!

No he doesn’t. And that doesn’t make it right.

I'm expecting a breathless press release from the 'Fauci killed beagles' folk any minute now

New from 404 Media: authors are getting caught leaving AI prompts in their novels, telling the AI to follow someone else's style. We bought a copy to confirm. www.404media.co/authors-are-...

Again: This is not about conning voters, who do not notice or care about CBO scores but will notice closing hospitals, reduced benefits, etc. It’s about conning themselves, especially congressional Republicans.

Preview of Rules with @jbowden.bsky.social: -SALT Caucus seems to be close to accepting whatever leadership offers them -Chip Roy of the Freedom Caucus ripped the 1:00 AM vote: "I don't think that's the right way to do business" -Still far apart on Medicaid www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Maybe I'm biased because I'm the one who writes the articles but I think if you're an editor and something like this makes it on to your site you should never work in journalism ever again?

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not. @chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

Will Cain, who organized the campaign of Fox News employees pushing back on allegations that Pete Hegseth was drunk on the job during the confirmation, is essentially serving as Hegseth's publicist today with this latest Fox News "interview."

Tudor Dixon following Biden's cancer diagnosis: "And praying for them? Come on, give me a break. This is total evil. These are people who wanted control, they wanted power -- this is not a time for prayer. This is a time for investigation. This is not a poor man being picked on!"

confirming: at Bolts, our traffic from BlueSky last month was much higher than our traffic via X twelve or twenty-four months ago. And it's way way way higher than the cratered traffic we get from X now.

You almost have to marvel at how unseriously she takes this job

Kamala Harris saw her investment in Philadelphia end in tears, with her campaign trading insults with a city party chair after the election. Democrats in Pittsburgh, meanwhile, say that their party should look west for an example of grassroots power. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

Shot ---> Chaser