Donald Trump has repeatedly said he does not care about American's financial situation. As a fair-minded reporter, it's my job to paraphrase his words in a way that's less repelling to voters.

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I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

As Democrats discuss how to respond to Supreme Court rulings undermining voting rights and fair elections, Republican states have already set the precedents. After Utah courts overturned the GOP’s House gerrymander, they packed their Supreme Court and stripped its jurisdiction to hear certain cases

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

Talk about judicial activism! Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

I can’t stress enough that deciding a law is “no longer needed” is so far outside the realm of what any court should be doing

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Jonathan Chait: Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence, and Trump is, objectively assessed, a tyrant. Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Democrats' fight on gerrymandering needs to be a model for abolishing the filibuster and reforming the corrupt Supreme Court - the two reforms that make a civic democractic future possible talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...

Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer. Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul. Oh well. Good job Virginia!!

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

Trump said Direct File was too expensive to operate. This feels like an indictment of our willingness to build things. Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, had *more lobbyists* than the Direct File team had employees. The cost of Direct File is a fraction of the tax breaks given to Intuit.

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

“If I dangle you over the edge of a building and then pull you back up, I didn't save your life. I almost killed you. And that is what Trump just did to the entire world.” - Anonymous

The more I think about the 70,000 ICE incarcerated without due process the more I think we are underreacting. People are literally trapped inside for profit prisons. We need to do something.

Literally a hole in the ground countries and corporations can throw bribes into

For whatever reason, I decided to read American Psycho last week. Imagine my surprise to find that the lead sociopathic character, Patrick Bateman, idolizes Donald Trump. The book mentions Trump dozens of times. It was published in 1991.

no offense to the hungarian people but i’m sorry, the idea that hungary is some last bastion of “western civilization” is absurd. can’t overstate how much this post-liberal, national conservative nonsense makes you sound like a putz

One thing ICE keeps proving over and over again is how there must not be any undocumented immigrants who pose any threat whatsoever. Obviously if there were any such people, ICE would be going after them, not this college student who has been here since she was a toddler and has no criminal record.

The 25th Amendment process isn't for "crazy." It's for "comatose." And it's not easier than impeachment. It's harder.

He’s not saying anything more complicated than this, nor is the birthright citizenship case about anything else www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump used the Presidential Records Act to defend himself against charges alleging that he stole classified documents. Now his Justice Department—which is currently being run by his former criminal defense lawyer—says the PRA is unconstitutional.

Priorities. Universal pre-K costs about $190 B a year. The Big Beautiful Bill contained $4.5 trillion in tax cuts.

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.

Amazing. But it seems that the US is *assuming* that Iran will emerge from the war vastly stronger. able to either dictate or seriously contest sovereignty over the strait, exact tolls, etc.

My interest here is political. I want these ghouls to suffer. But if that isn't high-minded enough for liberal elites, they should keep in mind that the question of whether America can heal itself already looms VERY large, and will cabin the next Dem president. www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all...

It was about upholding white supremacy and power.

Just days ago, Witkoff told us on @cnbc.com that Putin said he WASN'T sharing intel and that we had to "take him at his word."

Let me be clear: claims of widespread noncitizen voting are false. Incidents of noncitizens actually voting are so rare that when Utah conducted a full investigation, it found none. Zero. @democracydocket.com

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Ivan Ehlers The trump mantra : DAMN THE CONSEQUENCES!

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

It's been obvious for years if not decades the US military never had a plan to reopen Hormuz Strait! It was analyzed for decades and the best they came up with was "don't attack the Islamic Republic!" That's why no other president attacked the Islamic Republic!

The average price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. did hit $4.84 in June 2022, but by Election Day in 2024 that was down to $2.94. It's now up to $3.36. www.macrotrends.net/datasets/359...

When my colleague David Bier at a Senate hearing yesterday defended his statement that DHS has promoted ethnic cleansing, some conservatives reacted with anger. But Stephen Miller's deportation plan does indeed fit the description of ethnic cleansing, argues Kyle Varner at @theunpopulist.net. /1