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Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."

This lawyer represents New Jersey Democrats and national Democratic Party. He cheers using militarized state troopers to crush protesters as a *strategic move* to protect residents from being brutalized by different cops. The Democratic establishment will walk us off a cliff.

Seems irresponsible to highlight Vance’s “anti-fraud work” without any context whatsoever about the unprecedented fraud taking place in the administration he serves, and to frame the paragraph based on what Vance told the crowd in a partisan speech, including using the word “fester.”

Folks, these are the rantings of a crazy person. Note how Trump resorts to attacking the wives of men he doesn’t like. The president is a lunatic.

This is all utter bullshit. No credible doctor believes handshakes can cause such bruises. Multiple pictures have shown no scarring on his ear. What else are they lying about?

Republicans Are Extremist Weirdos and Democrats Should Say That Every Day (new post) nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/05/repu...

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

One thing I’m gonna say about this nazi salute is that it does not “resemble” a nazi salute, it is a nazi salute. May we all dispense with this coy “resembles” language in all cases.

I take 2 lessons from this. We still have coordination problems to solve for the pro-democracy coalition. And Sen. Booker and Biden's policy alumni are not the leaders to solve them.

It seems to me the “Project 2029” we need would be full of powerfullý transformative ways to reverse the cataclysmic effects of Trumpism on our democracy, our government, and our role in the world. Not vague poll-driven talking points. But maybe that’s just me. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

That's how you do it. Make it so no one can look at Paxton without thinking, "He sure loves child rape."

Wow. David Frum does NOT like James Talarico. Love to know why.

Of course no one actually believes that Talarico eating a potato and egg taco has any meaning. They simply realize that they can transform any claim into truth by endlessly bouncing it off the walls of their echo chamber, including for themselves. Eventually everyone is saying it. It feels true.

Trump threatened to “blow up” one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East today and I couldn’t find it about it on the homepage of the Times, Journal, or Post

All this. Don’t allow this attack to be sanitized like earlier ones.

I am tired of Democratic senators warning me that all of Trump’s judges will dangerous “MAGA loyalists,” and then dutifully voting to confirm some of them anyway. Completely unserious people. Do your jobs or stop talking about it.

FINALLY!!! SO MUCH WASTED TIME.

When I was in Congress, I realized how absurd the way people frame this is. Voters make one choice every two years and these powerful officials are making dozens of decisions on a daily basis with huge consequences. You vote for people to reflect your values in those decisions.

got into this a long time ago theweek.com/articles/534...

Democrats will "act in fullness" and continue to exist, or will fail to act and disappear. This, from Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social : www.offmessage.net/p/filibuster...

From @brianbeutler.bsky.social, a 2029 agenda: "We should all be court reformers now. We should be statehood advocates, because without new states, even a filibuster-free Senate, with courts in check, would leave Rs at an intolerable representational advantage" www.offmessage.net/p/filibuster...

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

One of my biggest takeaways from the DNC autopsy is that @democrats.org & @kenmartin.bsky.social need to consult with subject matter experts, political scientists who study American elections & voting behavior, much more than they are.

I'm calling it. The cocktail of Summer 2026 is... the Mezcal Sour. And summer starts...right now 😉. cc @nymag.com

He's not planning on leaving. That's what the ballroom bunker equipped with drones is for. It's why he's calling for Thune to fire the parliamentarian who's refusing to allow the $1B for the ballroom in the reconciliation bill. It's why he's paying the insurrectionists with his slush fund.

Now that we know Trump's "settlement" with IRS will nix audits, potentially saving him millions, Jamie Raskin's push to force Repubicans to vote on this whole fiasco looks more urgent. Make Rs defend this with Trump 31 points underwater on the economy: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

I hope we realize that if a future president tries to use the Supreme Court's "the president is king" ruling in Trump v. U.S. to toss out the Justice Department's ban on prosecuting Trump and his family, the Court will declare that presidents aren't really kings so fast it'll make your head spin.

We're all just pretending that this person is not clinically insane

Sure sounds like Trump is trying to make the White House into a fortress for when he refuses to leave office.

Trump made 3,700 trades in a single quarter. Every one with billions riding on decisions his administration makes. We must put a stop to this. Ban stock trading for the President, Vice President, Cabinet, and every member of Congress. No loopholes. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

I worked for Long Island's newspaper, Newsday, and then NY Newsday for a decade. No one ever called the LIRR "the lurr." This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/n...

This is a headline justifying murder. There’s no other way to read it.

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

Today Trump "negotiated" with his private criminal defense lawyer—a man he made AG for this corrupt purpose—the theft of $1.8B in taxpayer money so that it could be given to far-right terrorists in open rebellion against America. It's the most corrupt act by a POTUS in history.

Not a “rededication,” really. It’s one more part of the revolutionary assault on the modern American republic that’s existed since the 70s. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Supreme Racism. A political cartoon by Bob Whitmore about the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In which the Watertown School Board continues learning about the Streisand Effect. Watertown Wind Symphony to Play Banned Song at the Minocqua Brewing Company open.substack.com/pub/minocqua...

NYT with Trump-friendly framing and stenography “compensate” [corruptly reward]

Sad as it is, this is entirely inevitable. If you are a progressive in American politics today, you simply have to price in the relentless opposition of the oligarch media.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

I honestly hope at least 90% of currently elected Democrats lose their jobs the next available chance in favor of people who actually believe power can be used to shape needed change for the people they're allegedly meant to represent. It's our only hope.

Even the Initially Hesitant Southern States Have Now Joined GOP Race to Eliminate Black Political Representation talkingpointsmemo.com/the-franchis...

When a Democrat is president, the press only cares about the swing voters who oppose him. When a Republican is president, the press only cares about the conservative voters who support him.

This is really the heart of my argument, and I hope it resonates widely. With shoutouts to Althusser, Machiavelli, @profmsinha.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social

All the talk about the racist gutting of the VRA boosting turnout feels like wishcasting to me. People lock their doors to keep other people out, not to inspire them or make them more determined to get in. SCOTUS & redneck legislatures are locking the doors in a way that disappears votes & voters.

Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social writes: "Too much coverage treats this extraordinary and consequential display of racism and societal regression as if it were just an ordinary political battle." It’s Black disenfranchisement, not ‘partisan warfare’: presswatchers.org/2026/05/its-...

Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social writes: "Too much coverage treats this extraordinary and consequential display of racism and societal regression as if it were just an ordinary political battle." It’s Black disenfranchisement, not ‘partisan warfare’: presswatchers.org/2026/05/its-...