I don't talk to any MAGA but if I did the first question I would ask is: "When Donald Trump says something -- anything at all -- do you . . . believe him?" And then (most likely) just burst out laughing before they even respond.

For anyone who defends centrist bullshit or votes for a D who "works across the aisle," your head is in your ass. Stop listening to shitheads at the big papers and pubs who tell you it's fine. If it looks fucked up, it's probably fucked up! They're paid to tell you otherwise. Take that into account

as the husband of a paralegal I get real into court and law stuff just by proxy. this shit is fucking wild. abc7chicago.com/post/broadvi... @kenwhite.bsky.social and @lizdye.bsky.social have also been talking about this as has much of lawSky. worth a read if this is at all interesting to you.

A fed. appellate ct. vacated a landmark ruling that ordered EPA to address the health risks of fluoride in drinking water [finding] a dist. ct. judge “commandeered” the case & abused his discretion by postponing judgment & demanding new evidence & a 2nd bench trial. 🧪 www.eenews.net/articles/cou...

The Judiciary Act of 1789 should be embraced by Democrats in this sphere of the 250 year celebration: the election of the House Speaker in the Antebellum period would sometimes take months. Washington State had a Speaker; Massachusetts; Louisiana has one now. Either the states are equal or not.

Looks like AIPAC wasn't loyal to her. She'll probably get trounced. How do you feel about court expansion now? Was choosing who you want no matter what dopey Dem voters wanted the right way to go?

I CAN'T believe Trump would lie about something important like that.

The Broadview case against people protesting ICE outside Chicago is yet another example of the Trump regime running roughshod over the law. Charges were dropped today when major prosecutorial misconduct was revealed. The judge was extremely ticked off, as Josh's thread demonstrates.

The current situation is radical and dangerous. We're just trying to get back to the quiet yet ineffective days of Joe Biden.

Every part of President Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund “is an affront to the Constitution,” the congressman Jamie Raskin writes. “It usurps both the exclusive power of Congress to legislate programs and spend money and the power of the courts to decide specific cases and controversies.”

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: "I was ready to dismiss on the spot." But "It’s important to have trials. They bring clarity." @seamushughes.bsky.social: "Now the depositions from that case are being used in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI." 🤣

The fact that this is a coin flip is terrifying. Don't trust any Dem for president who doesn't make court expansion the main and only issue. You simply can't do anything else until this gets done.

Of the 8 state voter file cases DOJ has lost, 4 were before judges appointed by Donald Trump.

Democrats need 3 seats to flip Congress, stop Trump, and hold that criminal megalomaniac accountable. But with MAGA and the far-right Supreme Court doing EVERYTHING they can to stop Democrats from winning… every seat counts!!

Judges in Wisconsin and Maine dismissed two separate Department of Justice cases seeking to access the state's voter rolls.

They'll all be hanging judges.

Stephen Colbert has ended his run as host of The Late Show on CBS. His program’s cancellation removes one of Trump’s most vocal critics from the airwaves and comes after Colbert criticized his own employer for agreeing to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump.

Go, go, go The global mass decentralization of clean energy continues apace apnews.com/article/sola...

I wish they would make these plug in solar panels legal in the United States.

Listening to Fenian now. Lovely www.npr.org/2026/05/01/n...

Behold: a small yet noble strive toward Ecotopia in Stockholm, Sweden www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

Javier Bardem says condemning the Gaza genocide has led to more work www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

'A hidden blood pump': How chewing more boosts your brain www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Philadelphia congressional candidate Chris Rabb is candid about his democratic socialist politics, saying, “Socialists need to expose the role of both parties in our crisis and point toward a future where the working class holds power.”

After successfully challenging deportation orders in court last year, Palestinian student activists Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi are facing renewed attacks from the Trump administration. Their persecution is meant to chill political speech broadly.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s deputy mayor for economic justice, Julie Su, speaks to Jacobin about her plans: “For too long, city hall policies have benefited the few but not the many in New York City.”

An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to undermine Medicare for All even before Democrats regain power. Candidates like Graham Platner and Abdul El-Sayed are rejecting the ploy.

In Wisconsin, the birthplace of “sewer socialism,” socialists are again building their forces and making a bid for the governor’s seat. Juliana Bennett, running in the 76th District in Madison, hopes to join the growing socialist caucus in the state house.

Economists often take money for granted, ignoring the role it plays in constraining the distribution of resources. A new book by economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev sets out to overturn the dogmatic assumptions of their profession.

Florida’s 25th Congressional District is currently represented by Jared Moskowitz, one of the most conservative members of the Democratic caucus. Socialist candidate Oliver Larkin is hoping to change that.

In 1949, Paul Robeson performed the “Song of the Jewish Partisans” in Moscow, in the Yiddish original. At a time of rising Stalinist antisemitism, Robeson’s act of solidarity made clear his stand against any form of racism.

The US Postal Service promises to deliver mail to rural areas where private carriers won’t extend service because it isn’t profitable. Now Amazon is taking advantage of that publicly built infrastructure for its own gain — at rural mail carriers’ expense.

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, the spirit of socialism showed up in everything from snowplows to poetry. Writer Dan Chiasson tells the story of these years from the unique vantage point of his own experience growing up in Bernie’s Burlington.

A new study reveals that employers are spending big to maintain their dictatorial control over the workplace and crush unions. It’s a daunting amount of money, but it’s not impossible to overcome if workers can act with clarity, unity, and strategy.

The recent highly publicized arrest of France Insoumise lawmaker Rima Hassan was the latest step in a campaign to vilify her. She spoke to Jacobin about the criminalization of Palestine solidarity.

I never use the term “Dad Rock.” And I certainly reject the term “Mom Rock.” Both terms are sneeringly dismissive of previous generations’ tastes in music & lump music of good, bad, & indifferent quality together in a way that closes down conversations. Open your ears! There’s cool music everywhere.

Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee policeman who spent five weeks in jail after posting an anti-Trump Facebook meme, was awarded $835,000 in a settlement that dismissed his lawsuit against county officials.

Let’s not waste any time debating the legality of Trump’s IRS “settlement.” The deal is very illegal. The only question is whether Congress and the courts can move quickly to stop Trump’s theft—if they can, we’re a nation of laws. If they can’t, we’re a banana republic. trib.al/XF1nJFx

Lawfare did a good explainer on Trump's Terrorist Slush Fund. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The president launched a furious tirade against the Supreme Court as he braces for a potential blow over his bid to end birthright citizenship for millions of Americans.

JUST IN: Judge Lance Walker (Trump/ME) throws out DOJ's suit seeking Maine's voter rolls storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Also, it's a political winner for dems. "We expanded the court and approved the salaries to get your rights back. The Republicans expanded the court and spent YOUR tax dollars to take your votes away again. No money from rebs for healthcare. But there's always money to take rights away."

After Plessy v Ferguson it was 58 years before we got a court willing to overturn it. I don’t think Black people who want to vote and women who want to have rights to their bodies and trans people who want to EXIST should have to wait that long because it offends your sense of propriety.

@elienyc.bsky.social Elie - most people think "expanding SCOTUS" only means adding Justices. They should watch your video with @bradlander.bsky.social where you explain how we can (and must!) expand SCOTUS in a way that is STABLE, & ends partisan, political rulings. substack.com/@elienyc/not...

Three week trial and Elon Musk loses in 2 hours. :)

Trump has set up a white grievance reparations fund for insurrectionists. Fine. Fine. But now he's set the precedent for how we're going to compensate the victims of his cruelty when we get the chance. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Watched Knicks (great job, Knicks). Then I check the Mets recap and… we gave up an inside the park grand slam? We gave up an INSIDE THE PARK grand slam??

All right, let’s keep the pretentious train going: Everything once in a while, read a book from somebody you disagree with. You will: A: learn better how your enemy thinks B: Be more equipped to intellectually defeat them C: (my favorite) Feel better about yourself knowing your enemy is trash.

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.