Republicans make shit up to justify authoritarian rule. Democrats, do you finally get it?

Standby power — stuff left plugged in doing nothing — can be up to 10% of your electricity bill. A smart power strip on a schedule costs $25 and pays back in weeks. Wrote up the full hierarchy: 🧛

Liberation Day = 🍊 liberating your money from your pocket. 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️😡

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

Very normal stuff. "Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful... "At one point Trump mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor... www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

When the only way you can “win” is by denying the opposition entry into the process, that’s not winning.

CBS "News" to Cut Ties With ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi After She Outed Meddling By Right-Wing Hack Bari Weiss sg.news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-cut...

Opinion | Our enemy Iran has elections but then negates the people's will via an unelected, unaccountable ruling body. Here's why Virginia voters can't amend their own state's constitution if conservative judges don't want them to.

One old senile guy (Trump) just got duped by another old but not senile guy (Netanyahu) to do what he's wanted to do for 40 years, and that was to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.

Pete Buttigieg took a brief leave when his son was in the ICU and Republicans still attack him for it to this day. But Duffy goes on an extended vacation to shoot a reality show while there are all sorts of pressing problems with air travel and Fox News thinks it's awesome. Beyond parody.

New 2026 House maps have shifted Trump's median seat margin from +3.1 to +4.4. He won nationally by 1.5. But it may get worse for 2026—AL, LA, MS, & SC may target 2-6 more Dems & shift it to T+4.9 or T+7.4. In 2028, GA & IN could add 4 & shift it to T+9.1. Dems must respond with new maps by 2028

I’ve heard a number of democratic representatives indicate they understand that new safeguards must be put in place.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Anthony Hopkins as James Bond? tv.apple.com/us/clip/when...

Gas is $4.56 a gallon Let's check in on what the president is working on today:

You know how it’s a cult? Imagine their reaction if Obama was pulling this shit.

Tax is your army that protects you from domestic billionaires, says Gary Stevenson. Our conversation is out now. links.profgmedia.com/49kYnGB

Soon as they sell their family farms to big Ag… 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️😡

Oh…

One of the biggest lies Americans believe is their vote doesn't matter because if that was really true they wouldn't be trying to stop you from doing it

Sarah Fitzpatrick of The Atlantic just broke this news about Kash Patel and his personalized whiskey on the same day MS Now reported the FBI was launching a leak investigation into the last damning piece she reported about Patel.

They are the ONLY ones with BALLS enough to tell the truth! Journalists... not so much.

Happiness and contentment is always just-out-of-reach for this guy. 😔🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤣#TenTrillionReasonsToCry

I’m so glad I got the shingles vaccine a few years ago. Approximately one in three people in the US will get shingles in their lifetime. It’s painful, miserable, and lasts for weeks. RFK Jr. wants you to suffer.

Totally normal when someone is accused of campaign finance fraud, right?

Today we’re launching the inaugural episode of our new #WITHPod Series, The AI Endgame with @dkthomp.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

I'm thrilled to share some news: Academy-Award winning actress and producer Octavia Spencer will join me and Nancy Pelosi for our June 1 virtual event, Unfinished Business, to help elect women and other Democrats running for office this year. Can't wait to see you there. www.bit.ly/ubjune1

All of the evidence says trump with a nuke is more dangerous than Iran with a nuke. Remember kids, it wasn't Iran that carried out 9/11; it was trump's buddies in Saudi Arabia.

Friends — The AI job apocalypse s already happening. Here's what Democrats should be doing about it. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-can-the-stock-market-be-soaring

If they can’t make money off them, they cut off their food and evict them. MAGA to the core. 😡

Pretty simple choice America: Do you want to live in West Germany (liberal democracy) or East Germany (authoritarian surveillance state)? Because that’s what MAGA is building: East Germany on AI steroids.

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America First, brought to you by Viktor Orban & Putin. Because these two assholes just LOVE America, right?

Reminder: Steyer is spending millions in pursuit of billions.

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Interesting thread and commentary......

The comments to OP are gold. Link in comments

Rule of law? Thats only when Democrats are in charge. Two sets of rules.

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Imagine the ancestral shame people are going to feel decades from now, as they go through a deceased relative's attic and discover a taboo MAGA hat.

As my colleague David Rosnick puts it: the Roberts Court is just calling the balls and strikes. The problem is that they do it before the pitch is thrown.

WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️ If you needed any more proof that the Voting Rights Act is still necessary, just look at what’s happening right now: red states rushing to wipe out Black representation the second SCOTUS gutted it. What went down this week is going to have devastating consequences. 🧵

For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.

He’s laughing at us. All of us. You included MAGA. FFS.

This is the energy we all need to have. No more playing nice in the face of lies. 🔥👇🔥

Worth a read.

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things

You’d think that the business guys who support Republicans would have enough data like this on-hand to remind them that Republicans are actually bad for business… but it’s really just about individual income tax cuts.

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...