happy memorial day

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel's personal merchandise website was taken offline today after it was revealed that hackers had hijacked it to trick visitors into downloading malware. san.com/cc/kash-pate...

This is what frustrates me the most about that line of argument. It's not something trans people, as a whole, were agitating for. It was just... kind of how it was. The reason it's a whole thing now is because *Republicans* made it a thing. The people making this argument are misrepresenting it.

the thing of "trans people just pushed too hard on the sports stuff" is so ahistorical that it makes me mad, when did you hear about trans sports before 2020 outside of the occasinoal human interest story on it

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

FOX NEWS SUB 40 LMAO

A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.

A man who was jailed for more than a month over his Facebook post about Charlie Kirk’s assassination has won an $835,000 settlement

Steyer flubbed this one. As soon as she said “I run WIRED” he should have responded “so you’re management?” and immediately ended the interview to show solidarity with the working class

Bill Cassidy just became the first elected senator to take third place or worse in a primary since 1944. John Cornyn (pictured) avoided that fate, but not Cassidy.

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

behold the most democratic document published in the year of our lord 2026

Breaking: The Texas Supreme Court has refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state in 2025 to block a vote on the congressional map demanded by Trump had vacated their office. It deals a blow to Greg Abbott's efforts to severely punish the Democrats.

🚨New Bright Line Watch report on the rule of law in the US - joint w/@rickhasen.bsky.social's Strengthening Democracy Project at UCLA Law The most comprehensive expert survey to date - 21 federal judges, 113 elite lawyers, and 193 law profs brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t... 🧵 on findings below ⬇️

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

BIG: South Carolina's GOP-dominated state Senate just *rejected* a measure previously passed by the House that would allow the legislature to reconvene this year and redraw the state's lone majority-Black congressional district. It needed a two-thirds vote. x.com/JoeBReporter...

folks, the idea is out there. Virginia Democrats are talking about it. this could happen. gift link to the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...

There is no more powerful argument against remaining on Twitter than seeing these dispatches from leftists you sort of recognize from ten years ago who don't realize they are morphing into Pat Buchanan

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

@michaelehayden.bsky.social You and Jared need to seek this out and drink it on air

Jesus. The fact that they tipped off Fox News seems like a red flag that this is bullshit.

im here you fuckaas bitch

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he's been rushed to johns hopkins landscaping

A GOP ballot initiative to repeal Utah’s ban on gerrymandering has failed to qualify. The new fair House map will last through at least 2028. The GOP only had enough voter signatures in 24 Senate districts & failed because they had previously made initiatives harder by requiring signatures in 26/29

The House has passed a bill that would allow federal food benefits to be used for hot rotisserie chickens

New AP-NORC poll: Trump's approval rating on the economy dropped to 30% in April from 38% in March. A similarly low share of U.S. adults, 32%, approve of Trump's leadership on Iran — unchanged from last month.

Chuck Schumer: - can no longer recruit and cultivate winning Senate candidates - is wildly out of step with Democrats on foreign policy - refused to endorse the most popular Democrat in America, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani There is no reason to keep him as leader. He must go.

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

Basically, the thing to understand why there are so many Tradcath converts in educated conservative circles is that there is intense demand there for a form of right-wing Christianity less embarrassing and low status than fundamentalist Evangelicalism.

This typo from the press release is incredible

I do think this is still noteworthy in that House Democrats' #1 most elusive target is suddenly making scared noises for the first time since at least 2018 if not earlier

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

The whining from the worst Republican you know will be quite delicious

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

This means that HHS can no longer initiate investigations of gender clinics for trans youth based on the Kennedy declaration or try to terminate federal funding through Medicaid and Medicare. This is an unequivocal win for the 22 states that brought this suit to protect access.

I don’t understand why people like this choose to live in New York if they hate diversity and tolerance so much! Move to Oklahoma, bitch!

Q1 Senate Fundraising: 🔵 Talarico (TX) $27M 🔵 Ossoff (GA) $14M 🔵 Cooper (NC) $13.8M 🔵 Brown (OH) $12.5M 🔵 Peltola (AK) $8.9M 🔴 Whatley (NC) $5M 🔵 Platner (ME) $4M 🔵 McMorrow (MI) $3M 🔵 Mills (ME) $2.6M 🔵 El-Sayed (MI) $2.2M 🔴 Cornyn (TX) $1.7M

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

“Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president” electionlawblog.org?p=155426