Thinking of X as the comments section on Elon Musk's personal blog is a reasonably accurate model.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!

Update to this thread: Race called for Hamaway, currently leading 27.6% to 18.1% with 70% reporting. Nobody else above 10%. That's a significant win in a 13-way race.

The NJ-12 Democratic primary is a *fascinating* race right now. 13 candidates, the CD spans 3 counties - Mercer, Somerset, and Middlesex. 1/

Governor Sherrill needs to camp outside Delaney Hall until they let her in. Human beings are being tortured in her state.

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

It’s important to understand how the right’s obsession with “protect the children” is a smokescreen to push through policies to legislate the existence of all queer people, but particularly targeting trans people. It doesn’t stop when a person turns 18.

If I were a Senator who was tear-gassed by ICE, I would spend every hour of the rest of my time in office figuring out new ways to abolish ICE.

Arrest the ICE agents when?

Moreover the Republican Party today is built on lies and depends on baldly lying to the public, and almost no one knows because Democratic leaders won’t say it

I would vote for a Logan’s Run law in Seattle, even if the age cutoff took me along with these weirdos.

I’d argue governors being denied access to federal law enforcement facilities in their state is part of what I call slow civil war.

Bring in the state police and start arresting them. This is a political and constitutional crisis. Force the issue.

So first the billionaire says ICE agents should be in jail and then he defends trans athletes. If I was in California I’d vote for the billionaire.

Amazing.

Doubling taxes on America’s wealthiest 1% for just one year would raise enough to fund SNAP for 17 years. Or fund Head Start preschool + childcare for roughly 140 years at current funding levels. Or repair every road in the country twice over. And the rich would still be rich.

If she kept up the “brat summer” energy and sustained the attacks that kept the gop on the defensive for weeks I think she could have squeaked it out. Instead she took her foot off the jugular, followed the weak shit consultant playbook and fucking lost.

Not sorry even a little bit: Ken Martin has to resign.

This document is a joke, fire everyone involved and exile them from future roles in Democratic politics.

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...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

My son sent this to me. I'm raising him right.

calvinball-ass "we have the votes and you don't" court wiping their asses with the very idea of rule of law none of these people should ever be allowed to decide what's for lunch again, let alone the law of the nation

Starvation in America, brought to you by the Republican Party

"We do not really need more Democratic politicians chastising each other about the best way to massage slogans and flip maybe a handful of Trump voters. What we need, as messaging is absolutely unrelenting demands that Democratic elites use their power in office to crush fascism."

Not that my word is worth a whole lot but TPM is the only media org I have a paid subscription to. Worth every penny and more. Best in the business.

I propose we just refer to Chief Justice John Roberts as Grand Wizard John Roberts from now on.

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

honestly new litmus test for the California Governor election should be if you support going all the way with a 52-0 map now that John Roberts ruled the VRA is over

it’s so crazy that Virginia voters amended the constitution to allow redistricting while Florida voters amended the constitution to ban gerrymandering… but the Republican hacks on both state supreme courts overturned the will of the voters to ensure that republicans get their preferred outcome

This would be the single most based action in existence

So long as the Wizards In Robes from the far right authoritarian party are going to completely dispense with even the pretense of complying with the law, the Constitution, & the results of elections, this sort of hardball is going to be necessary to restore democracy & the rule of law.

We’ve got Kavanaugh Stops and now Roberts Redistricting. Make it so.

Another one to write off. A whole generation of politicians completely unable to recognize what is happening right in front of their fucking faces. Get rid of all of them, elect 20-somethings and 30-somethings, rebuild from the ground up. These people are worse than useless.

on the topic of what is to be done in response to the Virginia Supreme Court, just noting that in response to a decision they didn't like, Utah Republicans packed the court, made a whole new lower court procedure for constitutional challenges, and then lawfared a justice into resigning

like I genuinely do not care about whether you support Medicare for all vs. a public option. all I care about is are you willing to get your hands dirty to crush the MAGA cult via every possible legal avenue from DC/PR statehood to Supreme Court reform to mass prosecutions/ignoring any trump pardons

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

I am a single issue voter for the foreseeable future and this is my issue.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Cancel your NYT subscription. FFS you can play geoguessr and do the vox crossword.

I just don't think this equilibrium where Republicans arbitrarily redraw districts every six months and Democrats have to wait a few decades for the possibility of a +10 wave to potentially overcome them is particularly stable.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Tapping the sign.

Dems need to learn from the Trump playbook to fight fire with fire and never apologize. You can’t play by the rules when your opponent is throwing the board.

just proceed ahead and fuck the Virginia Supreme Court

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state