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Corporate media gave a lot of time to people who were supposedly angry about their tax dollars funding student loan forgiveness. I wonder if they'll cover a giant slush fund for Jan 6 insurrectionists with the same intensity. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

BREAKING: It’s now past 5pm ET and no word from the Supreme Court. This means the 5th Circuit’s ruling restricting telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone is now in effect. However the Supreme Court could act and change this at any time.

Truly one of the weirdest creeps on the planet

Democrats get a gerrymander in Virginia approved by a referendum, and it falls. Republicans in other states manage to gut the Voting Rights Act to enact partisan gerrymanders with no signoff from voters, and they stand. The game really does feel rigged, doesn't it?

Personally? I’m gonna make a better world so help me god

The decision marks a significant and terrifying moment in our democracy as the court allowed an election to be cancelled after its completion.

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Billionaires are getting richer while normal people are doing installment plans for their doordash and these guys couldn't be more pleased

Outrageous

The Fifth Circuit has ordered a halt to the mailing of abortion pills, cutting off the primary way that thousands of women have obtained safe abortions in the years since Dobbs and raising grave public health risks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

When Republicans deny health care to millions of Americans, the NY Times blames “Congress” rather than Republicans.

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Passed in 1965 with overwhelming bipartisan support, and re-authorized repeatedly, the Voting Rights Act has long and widely been regarded as one of the signal achievements in US political history. Now an activist conservative super-majority of Court has taken it down with a brutal 1-2 attack.

SCOTUS rules that intentional discrimination required to find race discrimination under VRA, which is nearly impossible to prove. This will weaken VRA to point of irrelevance. Though Alito wrote majority opinion John Roberts has been trying to gut VRA for 40+ years since he worked in Reagan DOJ

None of us should ever forgive Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema.

I thought calling Trump a wannabe king was seditious hate speech

Two years ago, Trump posted a video of Biden hog-tied in the back of a truck.

Impeaching Brendan Carr would be a good thing for Dems to do after winning back Congress.

The Trump DOJ lied about the SPLC's role in Charlottesville. Using informant-provided info, the SPLC handed the FBI a 45-page "Event Alert," including names, photos, associates and criminal histories of the rallygoers—and their "weapons of choice," per a new filing. Background buff.ly/AwMBRNa

Great day for democracy. Congratulations, Hungary.

ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues. He had just asked to call his wife. They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw. Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Sen. Elissa Slotkin is one of the former military/intel lawmakers who infuriated Trump last year by making a video urging U.S. service members to refuse illegal orders. Today, as Trump vows genocide in Iran, Slotkin says that video was made for "moments like these." www.huffpost.com/entry/elissa...

When Trump is at The Hague, his lawyers will claim he’s not competent to stand trial, and tonight’s speech will be exhibit A for the prosecution and the defense.

He sounds 106 years old.

Sauer just had to say that slaves had an "intent to remain" in the US. Motherfucker WHAT??

Israel's crimes in Lebanon are barely registering here, and won't meet resistance from our own regime of war criminals. European leaders need to step up fast. www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

What Trump has been doing to Cuba is unconscionable. He's singlehandedly forced the island into a humanitarian crisis over recent weeks. An American president can’t be given carte blanche to threaten hostile takeovers of other nations and sow mass chaos around the world. (1/2)

NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

Imagine apologizing for using the word 'apartheid' a week before Israel implements a death penalty designed to only apply to Palestinians. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Her grin knowing how this arrest looks (Published in The Atlantic today)

Stop calling ICE Nazis what?

Thank you for making No Kings 3 the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen. #NoKings

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

Gorgeous look at the #NoKings demonstration in Savannah via @savindivisible.bsky.social

No Kings in the City of Angels. #NoKings

#NoKings at San Francisco’s ocean beach — protesters joined to form a human banner saying Trump must go now.

No Kings #TwinCities

Thousands in Harrisburg, PA; so many groups are tabling, a student led group is selling brownies to fundraise for the unhoused. People from the stage are shouting out groups and telling people how to get more involved with them. This is the point.

The Philly #NoKings march has no end.

Washington, DC #NoKings Main event begins soon: freedcproject.org/event-list/n...

The Villages have fallen to the No Kings forces

Atlanta is showing up to say no ICE, no war, No Kings. #NoKings

Arlington, VA! #NoKings

Look who I ran into on my early morning overpass No Kings Protest. That Science Guy Bill Nye, pocket constitution in hand, along with other constitution, democracy supporting patriots. No Kings!

I love Trump's choice to put his signature on paper money as inflation skyrockets toward near-post-COVID levels because of his own idiotic policies. "Why is this dollar getting me less than it used to? Oh, it says right here." Next he should watermark his face on all receipt paper.

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