Nearly 800,000 Louisianians voted yesterday and won, rejecting all five state constitutional amendments put forward by Gov. Jeff Landry...

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Today is Endangered Species Day. The Trump administration has rolled back protections for: —Wolverines —Sea turtles —Monarch butterflies —Bison —Polar bears —Rice's whales —Alligator snapping turtles —Saltmarsh sparrows —Florida panthers

America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.

I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “Good Trouble Mass Call: Solidarity with the South” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Translating: The Trump administration is considering settling a lawsuit that Trump filed against the Trump administration (to get a huge payout straight out o from US coffers).

💜 The Boss!!!!

A haze of flowering saxifrage... The magic of an Irish rainforest.🌍

Really, really excited to share our new deep-dive polling on affordability and the economy -- what it means for Americans across the country (and, yes, what the potential political ramifications are.) Main story here: www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/p...

"The Trump administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program..." www.huffpost.com/entry/expert...

“She is, by her own admission, working on policy that will likely directly impact her own financial interests. And they’re not even trying to hide it..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The House is in such bad legislative shape that Republicans have canceled all votes planned for today. DHS funding / Farm Bill / FISA still stuck without a clear path forward.

We now live in a world where Americans are being lectured because of their inept leader by the Pope and King Charles.

Australia is proposing to tax digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters.

About 6 in 10 U.S adults say they actively try to avoid news stories about President Donald Trump “often” or “sometimes,” a new AP-NORC survey finds.

I thought Alito was history’s worst supreme court justice. But Thomas has outdone him. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/supreme-court-judges-alito-thomas

Pope Leo XIV vowed to keep working to overcome differences with the worldwide Anglican Communion during a meeting with its first female leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally.

City councilors will consider a proposed expansion of Portland's buffer zone between entertainment venues. https://www.mainepublic.org/business-and-economy/2026-04-27/portland-set-to-consider-land-use-changes-that-could-derail-live-nation-music-venue

As Americans continue to speak truth to power in our schools, demand our workplaces refuse to comply with injustices, and defy modern day slave patrols in our streets, #AllOfUs who believe in equality over erasure will march and rally as one on July 27th.

The $2B a day we've spent on Trump's Iran War could have saved 87 million lives, according to an estimate from the UN. Instead of helping save lives, Trump is ending them. The “peace president.”

The 3-1 vote came after months of pressure from local residents and activists. www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...

The historic midnight ride of Paul Revere is set to be reenacted Monday but with some modern-day tweaks: It will be run in the middle of the day, and the horse and rider will have a police escort.

Hubble marks its 36th anniversary with a shimmering close-up of star-formation in the Trifid Nebula! Tiny, actively forming stars are eating and spewing material all around. (One at top left in brown, and two fiery red jets.) Explore it all: https://news.stsci.edu/4cvi5jL

"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..." www.eenews.net/articles/oil...

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

This argument was largely based on the work of French philosopher Montesquieu, who argued that without separation of powers, there is no liberty. This principle is also used to criticize the concentration of power in administrative agencies that act as law-maker, enforcer, and judge. As in...

Institutionalization of Social Murder creates Social Inequality. This Social Inequality creates Oligarchy that swiftly turns into Tyranny.

I feel like people are not understanding that the checks and balances that prevent misuse of power are gone when one party controls all three branches

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Link to the ruling. I am not sure I’ve seen a judicial opinion with this many tweet screenshots in it before storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The days of health insurance companies eating before our families do have got to END. We need Medicare for All. 📍Westland, MI

Bore da! It's a sunny Sunday. Here's a Welsh mountain stream from a walk yesterday 💙 Have a lovely day 😎🌼

Democrats this weekend: Obama, Mamdani, Jon Ossoff, Pete Buttigieg, and Xavier Becerra. Republicans: drunk Kash Patel joins Kegseth as part of senile felon's Liquor Cabinet. We are definitely not the same.

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

The prediction that Iran will be America’s next Vietnam is already in general circulation among Americans—and at this point, that “sounds less like a curse than like a relatively optimistic scenario for all involved,” @gcaw.bsky.social argues:

Pope Leo “may not be Trump’s greatest opponent, as some of the president’s critics had hoped,” Francis X. Rocca argues. “But neither is he the quiet bystander that the president’s supporters might have wished him to be.”

This morning, I posted two important stories based on insider information from the FBI and SCOTUS, published in @theatlantic.com and @nytimes.com respectively. This doesn’t happen by accident. The source(s) have to know they’ll be protected, even if the reporters are threatened with jail.

I wish I enjoyed Dave Matthews Band music as much as their politics. But one outta two ain’t bad

The President of the United States calling NATO a paper tiger is Soviet propaganda and I hope someone is writing all this shit down for later

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said Saturday that two gunboats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran said it has reimposed restrictions on the vital waterway. Follow AP's live updates.

French president Emmanuel Macron said one soldier was killed and three others were injured on Saturday morning during an attack against UNIFIL, the multinational U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.

The British military says a cargo vessel was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, damaging containers on board.

The reporter defends her reporting as you’d expect but also makes the most important point: why are people leaking at a moment when leadership is polygraphing agents to find leakers? Because they’re scared of what might happen if Patel stays in charge. youtu.be/QpOD12q81cY?...

I Completely Support This Petition….

In Portland Maine, Museum of Art