It's not fashionable to say this, but basically Schumer, Jeffries and the Democratic Caucuses forced Trump, Johnson and Thune to tap out. They didn't give an inch and now Republicans are going to have to go through the meat grinder that is a SECOND reconciliation bill.

Johnson and Thune agree to Trump's plan to do a dual-track funding plan on Homeland Security via appropriations and reconciliation. Trump called for a bill to be on his desk by June 1 It's hard to read this as anything but the Democrats won the DHS funding fight.

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

A lot of SCOTUS decisions are dumb, badly reasoned, even dangerous, but merit compliance out of respect for the rule of law and the Court's position under Article III. A decision denying birthright citizenship is a challenge to the constitutional order and should be understood as such.

Gulley wins on first ballot for SD65 DFL endorsement — 61.88%. Lundy received 32.33% and Raeisha Williams got 3.64%

The @seiumn.bsky.social endorsed candidate for US Senate!!

If Mars can do it, so can we. Sporting my @mikeduncan.bsky.social Revolutions T-Shirt to the #NoKings Rally in St. Paul, MN

Some of the @seiumn crew about march to the #NoKings rally in St. Paul

NO KINGS! Join fellow union members, workers and allies as we march to the MN #NoKings rally. We'll leave Harriet Island shortly after Noon. Join us! Live music on the island starting at 11am. #UNIONSTRONG More info --> www.mobilize.us/mnaflcio/eve...

Devastating.

Iran took out a fucking E-3 Sentry AWACS parked on the ground. that's the literal definition of high-value asset. great job Pete, your war is going awesome.

Trump: ICE agents are real men, not like these blue-haired liberal commies in the streets Blue-haired liberal commies in the streets: we're willing to risk our lives for our neighbors, it's the right thing to do Head of ICE: call an ambulance, this desk job is giving me anxiety

Could never figure out why Lee didn't replace Jackson w Stuart. He was already outgrowing cavalry. Had commanded key artillery at Antietam and the II Corps at Cville after Jackson went down. Best personality match for II Corps

It's Lobby Day for members of @seiumn.bsky.social and members are sharing our support for the bill.

The most predictable failure possible.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Clever. These are popping up all across the USA.

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Attn: Any Iranian considering lifting a finger to help Trump

They’ve found another immigrant tragically dead on the street after being released from ICE custody. My latest piece for Substack: substack.com/@katiephang/...

🚨 BREAKING: WE MADE HISTORY! The VA legislature just passed collective bargaining for home care & public sector workers! After 20 years, our persistence paid off. Thank you @ssurovell & @KathyKLTran for your leadership. Now: let’s fund the budget & win those raises! ✊🏾

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

Like the only military contingency more planned for than the Fulda Gap

The average price of gas in California has surged to $5.20 a gallon. Donald Trump dragged the country into an illegal war with Iran, and working families are paying the price.

So Lindsey wants to make a new NATO with the guys who attacked us on 9/11?

It'd be cool if we had a non-profit whose mission is to print out and mail endless copies of this headline to the League of Minnesota Cities so they can feel bad as they lobby the legislature to maintain local control of zoning.

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside." Read every word.

Syria’s Kurds are warning their Iranian counterparts not to align with the US, saying Washington will eventually betray them and citing their own experience in the last few months as proof.

Reminds me of the end of Stephen King's Under The Dome - which so perfectly predicted the evil of Trump and his minions.

In other words Trump-Netanyahu have effectively carried out massive uncontained poison gas attacks on Tehran and its people.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.

Yes, sorry should have named it. A child died of it last year from an infection she contracted when she was too young to be vaccinated. I don't think it's extreme to say anti-vaxxers killed her

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

If it's OK to attack countries that give crazy people nuclear weapons, I better start digging a shelter.

As I was saying: A great night to consider running for office.

Agree with this take. Sotomayor was clear and correct: "Until defendants try to obtain relief from New York’s highest court, this Court cannot and should not act." SCOTUS' opinion is a legal nullity. About as binding as shouting, "I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!"

To me, the NY redistricting case feels like a constitutional crisis in miniature. The Supreme Court is issuing orders it "cannot" issue, Sotomayor explains in her dissent. Yet it did so anyway. So how should the NY courts react to an order that should never have issued?

My union @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social is proud to support. Workers need more housing close to jobs.

Must read for any Iranian dissident who thinks they can believe anything the Trump Admin promises

I would remiss if I did not adequately amplify @cherylrofer.bsky.social's concise, clear, and unassailable summary of why one of the Trump administration's main rationales for its illegal war is bullshit.

At least 115 people, most of them likely children, were killed in a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran on Saturday, health officials and state media said. It was not immediately clear which country hit the school. Our reporters are trying to confirm details of the attack. trib.al/HxXybV9

Why is an Iranian tyranny our enemy but a Saudi one is our friend? How can we claim to support freedom when our firmest allies in the region oppress their own people? That is a sin of both Democrats & Republicans, & all of us bear complicity. Trump is worse than usual, but he is not an anomaly.