As always, every conservative accusation is a confession. The renewed interest in claiming "weaponization" by Biden is because Trump is ramping up his weaponization of DOJ.

Primanti’s (Pittsburgh) is terrible and I will eat gross food. Fries on the sandwich place. It just doesn’t taste good.

I left my evangelical church (reformed) about 8 years ago because I could no longer hold the archaic religious teachings with my own beliefs about race, gender, immigration, etc. but I have a lot of friends still in the church. These voices for Dems are really important even if I no longer “believe”

Fuck this demented bigot and fuck everyone who supports or apologizes for him

lol the boos for this will be unimaginable. The makeup of NBA fans - in New York City of all places - is not NASCAR or college football.

Breaking News: A judge dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last year.

A big point in my Founders in American memory class is that the visual culture of the 19th century whitewashed the era of the revolution out of recognition. I ask students if there were Black soldiers at Yorktown and if anything they describe back the Trumbull painting.

also worth pointing out that the Republican senate budget disaster was engineered by Democrats, who refused to vote for ICE funding.

NEWS --> Rep Raskin just introduced his new legislation blocking Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund, which we reported yesterday was in the works. Here's the text, backstory below: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

the fuck it will

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

New #KSSen Democratic contender Rev. Adam Hamilton raised $1M in the first week of his campaign...which was more than GOP Sen. Roger Marshall raised in all of Q1. Keep an eye on this race. kansasreflector.com/briefs/democ...

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

This is part of the larger phenomenon of “savvy makes you stupid.” Yes, politicians have always spun, exaggerated, cherry picked. But constant fabrication utterly unmoored from reality? No, not really. Insisting Trump is nothing new is ignorance masquerading as worldliness.

some wild lyrics in the new drake albums

Trump complains he can't brag about the Iran War because of the "little man with the $4 gasoline": "I don't want to say we're making a fortune ... because if I say it, they're going to say, 'He forgets about the little man with the $4 gasoline.'"

Really concerned for the safety of whoever the Parliamentarian is when Trump accuses them of treason in a couple of hours after he’s done being pantsed by Xi Jingping.

The Politco article seems very confident that this would lock in a 7-0 Republican majority but this also seems like a real possibility for a dummymander. Black voters will be outraged and 10-14 point swings are possible in this type of environment. 2018 was +10.

A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project. He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. He thought it was good for the environment. Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized. These people have power over your life.

Juxtapose this comment with his own DOJ paying him millions in a settlement.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Literally making it as easy as possible for Dems to run against him this fall. Generational opportunity for a midterm. We should be winning the Great Plains state this fall. I want a senate seat in Mississippi. Let’s fucking go.

The safest the city’s been in its 400-year history. Universal childcare on the way. More public restrooms! And every big business CEO and big-name VC fought against this tooth & nail.

Doing a @mtsw.bsky.social on this but if Biden had said he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation in any context it would be the driving narrative for days (if not weeks) with second and third order stories along with being the only thing other elected Dems were asked about

Gotta think that they know drawing out Clyburn would be too bad of a look even for Republicans. A quarter of the state is black.

All of us were on X for over a decade while the country went into the shitter. No one was listening to us then and they sure as hell wouldn't be listening to us now. Folks really, really need to stop overstating how much non-elite discourse matters and assign proper agency to the actual evil people.

Indivisible and No Kings will be mobilizing this weekend for All Roads Lead to the South Republicans are ripping away representation from Black communities and we will not stand by JOIN US: blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

The president shared a scripted slop video about a Black doordasher stealing fried chicken.

An emboldened Democratic majority must immediately pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, fight the far-right's redistricting scheme with every power we can summon, and expand the Supreme Court. We need Democrats who are ready for this battle. (2/2)

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

They could not be clearer. Their goal is the restoration of white supremacy and the disenfranchisement of voters of color, a return to the days before the VRA and the entrenchment of permanent Republican dominance.

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

So Virginia, where voters affirmed a desire to redistrict, is stopped from making new maps. In the South, they are literally canceling votes already cast.

This is the second time in a week the Supreme Court has sidestepped process in a way that helps GOP adopt new maps to maximize partisan advantage even as election season is underway.

in some ways the bigger problem with the VA court retirement age plan is that you have to fire the 3 good people on the court, also. it was an exciting thought but there are good arguments against and it probably doesn't make very much difference to this cycle anyway (1-2 House seats)

The framing in this is so absurd. Of course Democrats are pissed off that they got screwed over. It sounds like they had discussions about other possibilities. Democrats must always be in disarray.

So yesterday, the president's allies unveiled a 22-foot-tall golden statue of him that they prayed around, and then the president confused Iran and Iraq, seemed clueless about his FDA commissioner getting fired, and called a reporter a bitch? Cool. Cool cool cool.

"Coming off their 2024 triumph, Pennsylvania Republicans continued to make gains in statewide voter registrations through the spring and summer of 2025. But last October, the tide suddenly began to turn and now Democrats are beginning to pick up ground" penncapital-star.com/commentary/p...

This would be a great way to punish the court that just rejected the will of Virginia’s voters.

Remember all the shit MAGA gave Pete Buttigeg because he took parental leave when his twins were in the NICU?

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

Even at R+9 net seat gain, Dems are still winning the House in a say D+4 national environment. Maybe even D+3 with strong recruitment

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Why the hell did they even permit the referendum then? What bullshit.

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

Virginia's Supreme Court overturns Virginia's gerrymander Meanwhile... Florida's lap dog Supreme Court has already refused to enforce the state's explicit ban on partisan gerrymandering regarding the current map and We'll see if Louisiana's Supreme Court allows the governor to cancel elections

Patel: the story is not true and also we need to polygraph the people who leaked the story