"Neither former President Barack Obama nor Joe Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office..." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

this would be an excellent time for donald trump to *not* have installed the host of a youtube show called "erection connection!" as the person charge of infectious disease policy for the united states of america. www.statnews.com/2026/05/17/e...

"A scale of family separations that far eclipses that of the first Trump administration’s 'zero tolerance' policy in 2018, when about 5,500 children were removed from their parents..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

"She had envisioned the end of her senior year as a celebration. Instead, she has spent months waging a stubborn campaign against the planned ICE detention center near her school..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

"The town's lawsuit says that the price ICE paid for the Social, Circle, Georgia warehouse was more than five times the property’s previously assessed value..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“That does not, to me, sound like a charitable purpose...” www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

Indiana: www.wane.com/top-stories/...

Connecticut, Wednesday May 20 ctnewsjunkie.com/2026/05/18/p...

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

The Republican Taliban are not done with Mifepristone. They are nowhere near done reducing American women & girls to state-owned breeding livestock.

What we can learn about the mifepristone struggle from what has happened so far? Reva Siegel and I shared our thoughts in Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol...

oh my holy bananas where do they find these people www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

🧐 @rbreich.bsky.social Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale that we need to make true. 👍 👇👇😉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Zs...

We spent days along the roadways in Hilo, to get our governor to sign the bill (SB2471)

You were instrumental in making it happen in Hawaii! @indivisiblehawaii.bsky.social said it started with you!

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

Conservatives: “Mail-in ballots can’t be trusted because the USPS is too unreliable and corrupt.” Also conservatives: “Yeah mailing handguns sounds fine actually.”

"The Trump Administration ran the same play against much larger companies. They capitulated. We didn’t. "Now, after nearly a year of litigation, they relented and agreed to a practically unprecedented settlement in our favor..." www.ms.now/opinion/medi...

also lol:

"There is a big difference between giving credit, taking credit and demanding gratitude..." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

To hell with passive voice headlines. Driver kills 80-year old crossing guard and injures 3 kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/n...

This is the bizarro world the Supreme Court has created with its latest voting rights decision. Thank you Jon Stewart and & @thedailyshow.com You can watch my entire conversation with Jon here: youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

Much appreciation to Snopes for work like this — www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

The simplified version of "how a bill becomes a law" that I learned in high school civics class in no way prepared me for the 50 idiosyncratic Rube Goldberg machines that constitute state legislative processes.

WATCH: Last night I had the chance to sit down for an extended conversation with Jon Stewart to talk about the state of voting rights & democracy in this country. Class was very much in session! Thank you @thedailyshow youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

Hotels warn World Cup bookings are far below expectations www.npr.org/2026/05/04/n...

More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

@weeknightmsnow.bsky.social Instead of asking why T isn't behaving like a president, we need to pivot and say that maybe he didn't want to be president. He only ran to keep himself out of prison and enrich himself. Billionaires enabled it for profits and Rs are ball-less suckers

"Clergy with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization Monday withdrew $1 million from an account with Citizens Bank as it urged the institution to cut ties with two companies that finance and operate immigrant detention centers..." www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

Mandatory detention was originally sold to the courts as short-term detention. In reality, many immigrants are being jailed for months or years while fighting their cases. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Gas prices went up more than 30 cents a gallon last week. How high could they go? www.npr.org/2026/05/03/n...

A powerful look and incredible insight from @elizabeth goitein www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Brennan Center's Elizabeth Goitein breaks down how a president could use five laws to deploy the military for mass deportations. Here's what’s possible, what’s not, and where legal challenges could arise. Read:

Fool’s Gold: Speaker Johnson’s Section 702 proposal would place no limits on backdoor searches By Elizabeth Goitein and Hannah James (@lizagoitein.bsky.social and @hannahajames.bsky.social)

"State legislative races—which already attract too little attention—just got a lot more important..." newrepublic.com/article/2098...

The current poll numbers in Maine are not looking good for the "pearl clutcher" 👇😂

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Gutting the Voting Rights Act isn't just a Black rights issue. NHJ explains why the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act is not just a blow to Black representation. It’s a blow to democracy itself www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

@urbanviewradio.bsky.social immigration stories to watch: 1. DOJ easing deportations for DACA students 2. A high-stakes Supreme Court case Wednesday 3. Legal immigration restrictions threatening U.S. population growth - All the same question: who controls America’s immigration future?

Chatting with New York’s Rebecca Traister about Graham Platner’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary, and the next phase in this blockbuster senate race.

I’ve been talking to @amylittlefield.bsky.social about this book for years and today it’s out. Killers of Roe, available here (or your local bookstore): bookshop.org/p/books/kill...

This book is a must-read, with deep insight into some of the most important--and often unknown--players in the story of the fall of Roe. Congrats to @amylittlefield.bsky.social on an important book!