I know that it's Calvinball now but saying you're going to dismantle a district because it's 47% African American sure seems like the intentional racial discrimination that's still banned

It’s cold comfort to say “no villain is pulling all the strings, this is what the system looks like and has looked like” particularly when we have excellent villains, all ready for the camera slash handcuffs. What I find is people with less experience with the the system assume particular malice,

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

Trump is about to hit REM sleep on camera in the Oval

two things. 1. when the trump administration says that something is “illegal DEI” they are saying “you don’t deserve this” 2. the practical effect of destroying the VRA is to make it nearly futile for these americans to get relief from congress

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

If you don't already pay for @talkingpointsmemo.com, today's a great day to start.

damn

“It’s still a ceasefire if you just don’t count all the firing by all sides!”

This is an amazing memo and wish I’d had it for my UFO book!

This scale of loss makes me think of two things: money laundering, and a return on investment that’s not measured in monetary profits, but policy outcomes.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Y’all, this is important.

"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention."

Just last night, I was listening to a discussion on Bloomberg about how Iranian negotiators are deeply distrustful of the United States specifically because we have attacked them twice during previous negotiations during this conflict. Make that three times ...

Kash is just a bad, paranoid mess. Never should’ve been given that job. What a disaster he is.

It strikes me that John Roberts will likely be remembered as the first white supremacist to have a winning record since Reconstruction. Every other segregationist has been fighting rear-guard losing actions: Orval Fabus, Bull Connor, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, James Eastland. Roberts wins.

My “I’m not panicking about which close staffer leaked the stories that are definitely certainly not true at all” t-shirt is raising questions already clearly answered by said t-shirt.

BREAKING MS NOW: Kash Patel has ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail and other staff and has been described as in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team, according to two people briefed on the development.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

The ODNI has become so thoroughly corrupt in service of Trump. I’m trying to think of another example of the ODNi targeting an American politician (a former president even) with propaganda like this and can’t think of any. The U.S. government will have to be rebuilt - brick by brick.

This is an atrocity and it ought to push skeptical legislators in MD to eliminate the GOP’s one remaining seat

This is going to be met with a bunch of "that will never hold up in court" responses. Ok. So do it anyway. Force this administration to make its preposterous masking arguments in front of federal judges. Make them defend secret police on the record. Go on the offensive.

A funny thing happened on the way to launch day. The @nytimes.com wrote about Platypus Economics. Brian O'Keefe asked tons of questions, interviewed all sorts of folks, and produced something I'm a little stunned by. nytimes.com/2026/05/06/b... (gift link)

Trump posts on his meeting with the Brazilian president but doesn't explain why a press event that was scheduled for more than 3 hours ago never happened

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

If this was happening in any other country pundits would see it for what it was.

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

These people are exactly who they’ve told you they are:

Jim Crow 2.0

This is my favorite science writer — and was a huge influence in my writing about the history of life in UFO — go get this:

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

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic hardship, .. a finding that appears to raise new questions about President Donald Trump’s optimism on ending the war.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Thread from a Washington Post national security reporter:

It really seems like these people are trying to get us killed.

An underappreciated driver of the rise of the far-right in the 1980s was the collapse of American agriculture. And now….

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

To be fair, Trump is the most likely president of modern times to end up in a fight with an eight-year-old boy….

Oh no, he's only a quarter of the way there

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is only a big deal if you’re into food.

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

"When Britain invaded Egypt in 1956, the result was a definitive strategic, diplomatic, financial, and moral collapse. The humiliation was so absolute that, as Peter Beck analyzed in The English Historical Review, successive governments adopted a policy of "the less said about Suez the better.""

Kash Patel has now launched a "criminal leak investigation" into those allegations about his partying and drinking that definitely certainly weren't true. If all the allegations weren't true, then .... there was nothing to leak? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

SCOTUS is hell bent on permanent minority GOP rule

There have been very very very few positive "media moguls" in all of American history, people who have left the industry and the world better than they found it. Ted Turner was one of those very very very few: www.wsj.com/business/med...

“Siri, is there any downside to Americans finding it necessary to finance their day to day expenses on credit cards?!”

“Commissioners in Palm Beach County, Fla., approved a trademark and licensing agreement with President Trump’s family business on Tuesday, a step required to rename Palm Beach International Airport as President Donald J. Trump International Airport.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...