I know it's a losing rhetorical battle that's been fought before, but we really have to stop calling these people "conservative." They are not "slowly slowly, cautious principle" people, they are aggressively and intentionally trying to drag this country over to the far right and into centuries past

When SCOTUS sides w/ birthright, *please* refrain from "each side gets a little" takes. SCOTUS is wiping away *major* features of the post-Warren-Court legal order, in contravention of pretty clear precedent. Rejecting *the most insane* position the T admin takes does not wash that way.

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

May Associated Press photographer Lindsey Wasson get a raise for this shot:

Mass immigration and culture blending are what made the United States the world's dominant economic and cultural power. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong. If you don't love immigrants and diversity then you don't love America, period.

There's only one rational response to Trump's failed, illegal war and now this ridiculous surrender - Trump should resign, and retire from public life for he is the greatest f-ck up in American history. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Trump's homoerotic exclamations are now a daily thing. The US media is not permitted to remark on this, however.

I fucking love birthright citizenship

Folarin Balogun, born in New York to Nigerian parents. People like JD Vance would say he's not *really* American when, in fact, he's the epitome of American. 🇺🇸

One year ago.

The Pope called it soccer, game set match.

I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity.

Many of the Americans who landed on the beaches on D-Day were immigrants and the children of immigrants. The "America First" xenophobes who supported the Nazis hated them.

In what universe is this not grounds for immediate expulsion

This is a very good podcast. Still, some people believe that college athletes are too young to bear this burden. Here's the thing: A thread.

A pregnant woman from Ghana who entered the U.S. on a valid visa with her son so he could get medical attention has been held for more than a week in a windowless detention room at a Washington airport, her lawyers said in court documents.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

"Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America." - @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas AG Ken Paxton will now face state Rep. James Talarico in the November general election.

I told ICE that they could NOT just plow through a crowd of civilians at Delaney Hall. They didn't care. Here's what happened yesterday.

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

They don’t care that the cast isn’t Greek. They don’t care that the armour is all wrong. They don’t care that Tom Holland in an American accent refers to Odysseus as Dad. They only care about Helen being played by Lupita Nyong'o. I WONDER WHY.

this exchange bw @janainelson.bsky.social & @nhannahjones.bsky.social captures, with precision, why pro-democracy movements will not prevail unless they are self-counsciously and outspokenly anti-racist movements. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...

He’s right — Bezos pays barely any taxes at all right now, so doubling them won’t do much. We’ll need to increase them by at least an order of magnitude.

cooked him like groceries

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

The central issue is if the 14th Amendment is really part of the Constitution. It's the most important and substantive and longest amendment, purchased in blood. It explicitly does a bunch of different things, and they've violated and nullified effectively all of it. Not the first time, of course.

The president is stealing tax dollars from the public treasury to pay off his criminal cronies.

This is outright theft from the U.S. Treasury by MAGA fascist criminals.

Trump couldn’t be bothered to attend. He sent a video. But he couldn’t be bothered to record a new one so they sent an old video he recorded for a previous event.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

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We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

From Alabama I say where is the white outrage? Or shame? Or nagging sense of complicity? I see people counting blue & red districts, but it doesn’t seem enough. Black people are being pushed out of office, denied representation in the cradle of the civil rights movement.

It is not lost on me that a century ago this would be addressing Catholics

Approximately 590,000 people put down a $100 deposit for the Trump Mobile T1 smartphone, collecting roughly $59 million in advance payments. However, as of May 2026, not a single T1 phone has been delivered to customers.

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

Sam Alito, a week ago: "vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South.... '[T]hings have changed dramatically' in the decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act" #SegregationSam #JimCrowJohn

Chris Hayes: “They want a new Jim Crow. They’re very explicit about it. They’re hard at work trying to make it happen, and now they have a blessing from the Supreme Court.”

look, it’s time to embarrass these people. ask them if trump could play quarterback right now for the cowboys, ask them if trump is more mortal or god, ask them if donald trump deserved an oscar for his performance in home alone 2

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

I continue to think that "backlash politics" is the wrong frame. There has been a counter-revolution against the Black freedom movement for generations. It is a FRONTLASH and I think that not thinking of it this way has done a real disservice. It's been PERMANENT WAR.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

I'll just add that charges of corruption were one of the ways that white supremacists discredited Black legislators during Reconstruction. It was part of a broader effort to disenfranchise Black voters and destroy Black political power.

$1 BILLION for ballroom funding? Marie Antoinette would be proud.

Biden (at 40% approval) Media: GET OUT OF TOWN OLD MAN, EVERYONE HATES YOU!!!! Trump (at 34% approval) Media: TELL US MORE ABOUT THE BALLROOM YOU ARE BUILDING, SIR. WE CAN'T GET ENOUGH!!!!