Trump's frequent trips to Walter Reed raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

As you read about Trump stealing $1.8 billion in our money to pay off terrorists who tried to overthrow the government, consider that 3 million Americans have already lost ACA healthcare coverage & 19 million more are paying thru the nose to keep theirs. charlesgaba.substack.com/p/new-series...

If this stands, you'll never convince me our "founding fathers" were not idiots

If only we had a congress

So does the rest of the world call what we're doing to the Cubans genocide?

Disenfranchising Black voters and screwing them out of representation while securing a $1.7 billion slush fund of our tax dollars for reparations to convicted white nationalist J6 traitors and those who feel aggrieved by the consequences of their own actions. All in the same week. The Republican way

Was Epstein's island a freedom city?

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

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...

So long, bridges

Maybe we should try immigration to pump up the population numbers

Well they are going to need more slave states to overturn the 13th

"Tested" = it's not happening but we need you to pretend it is Oil profits tests democracy Genocide tests cease-fire Trump tests ethics

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

A lot can and will happen between now and November

I'm grossed out that the only possible solution against gerrymandering is more gerrymandering. The billionaires have reduced us to neofeudalism newrepublic.com/article/2098...

"Republicans are no longer wedded to electoral outcomes or committed to liberal democracy." Electing fascists ends elections

Democracy in America (2026)

would be a mistake to think of this and the other Memphis-related news item as completely separate stories

Any chance I get to promote this, the greatest of the Republicans' crimes Hurts so bad that nobody cares

"The young man who grew up in a town made safe for whites only, who attended an almost entirely white private high school, has helped birth an illegitimate ruling (eviscerating the Voting Rights Act) that will significantly bleach out Congress." @thelisagraves.bsky.social & @davedaley.bsky.social

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

No good billionaires You cross that line, all you've proven is you're more interested in taking than giving Dick

I'm starting to think we need a strong nation discussion on what exactly actually is democracy

The person in politics who sounds most like a normal person is Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama personally intervened to ensure he was not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.

I get that we can't care about kids in cages, civilizations being obliterated, magnitudes of grift, non-billionaires, an overheating atmosphere, the preservation of democracy, the women, the trans folk, the PoC, a functioning public sector, immigrants, the Constitution... ...but bison? Really?

Really sums up a favorite right wing grievance: what's offensive here aren't my actions, but your accurate descriptions of them

So it's a Republican court Angry Louisiana voters could do the funniest thing www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Republicans walking the plank on taxpayer funding for the ballroom while people are furious about gas prices and the cost of living. Ultimate “let them eat cake” moment…

Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.

This is so not the way

Serious question What happens if he *fails* the cognitive test?

The Republicans have trashed the economy to protect their pedo billionaires but to win the next election they're going to disenfranchise as many non-whites as possible Do I understand correctly?

This is the rocket that will get NASA astronauts to the moon in (checks notes) two years www.cbc.ca/news/science...

God almighty, Uzbekistan wasn’t the last stop. This ICE flight continued on to Pakistan via this circuitous route. Migrant passengers onboard will have been shackled for at least 43 hours.

Giggling so hard here

If only people understood that, proportionally, the donors are the winners here, by a long shot the politicians get rich but the donors hooooo boy

“[I]f Democrats never draw a hard-line against the bad faith of their opposition, they will resign themselves to governing under the current rules, fully rigged for the GOP.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social

It's true, we're just so blasé are these days about just a million deaths nbd

The grift is prime, always

Almost as if SCOTUS planned it 🤔

Janai Nelson: I didn't mince words before the Supreme Court. I'm not going to mince words before you tonight. We have a battle ahead. We lost something absolutely precious, something so many of us didn't even know was the glue holding our multiracial democracy together, the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Well, this is unsettling.

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

An official adviser for the First Lady is on television urging a private company to fire an employee over what he said, then yes, it is absolutely a free speech issue. But if "half the country disagrees with them, they should be shut down" is the new standard, let's talk Fox News and the rest.

Across the country, ICE is converting warehouses into immigrant detention centers. This story is a great look at how locals are using environmental regulations and land use restrictions to stop them. boltsmag.org/ice-warehous...

Oh wow really