We murdered two more people in a boat today. One survived the strike.

The architecture boat tour is just an amazing way to see the city. And you’ll learn new stuff every time.

Sharyn Alfonsi can leave with her head held high and her integrity intact. Anyone left at Trump's state media risks that not being the case. CBS News to Cut Ties With ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi After Feud Over CECOT Segment | Report sg.news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-cut...

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

Remember how ruthlessly they mocked Duffy's predecessor Pete Buttigieg for taking a little paternity leave for his medically complicated twins?

So the war was quite literally pointless. All around the world they're rationing energy, there are food shortages, people are suffering and dying, all for absolutely fucking nothing.

Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right?

From the terrific new book Undue Process by NBC immigration reporter Julia Ainsley: How the Trump administration fired a DHS press person because she refused to call undocumented immigrants "scumbags" in a press release.

he’s gonna get grok reprogrammed again

Narcissus’s next project

ABC fighting back against Trump regulators trying to manage firm's First Amendment rights: "The filing, made public on Friday, is the most aggressive defense from any television network since President Trump kicked off an extended campaign last year to bring media organizations to heel." Via NYT

Now that it has been directed at me, I denounce the MAGA racism that rewarded and amplified me back when I claimed it didn't exist.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

People who hold power shouldn’t plaster their names and faces across government buildings and infrastructure. Trump’s moves to do so deserve emphatic public repudiation. [Dan Greenberg]

FOX NEWS: How many deportations do we need to set this country's population back to where it's actually a country of legal citizens? TOM HOMAN: Millions. I think there are well over 20 million illegal aliens in the country. We're gonna do everything we can to arrest as many people as we can.

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

"In Trump’s world, the only civil rights worth protecting are those of aggrieved white men. The problem is that while there is no shortage of angry white guys, there’s nothing to investigate unless they have suffered some sort of harm. Enter Stephen Miller's firm, America First Legal."

The party of local control has decided that "local" means wherever they have control www.texastribune.org/2026/05/08/a...

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Ohio Republicans overruled their state Supreme Court to implement their gerrymander anyway: Time for Virginia Democrats to do the same.

Jesus

Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/huKmBtq

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

Yeah. Just to be clear: The right's embrace of challenge coins is weird and anonymous. Gluing them to doors in the West Wing is . . . grandpa-let's-get-you-to-bed behavior.

Trump has apparently been gluing challenge coins to the doors of the West Wing. Fascinating how the challenge coin thing has been embraced by right-wingers with no military or law enforcement experience as a sort of currency of valor. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Donald Trump's administration has eroded the principles of our republic. They've dismantled the very institutions intended to check their corruption and overreach. Justice must be delivered to the Illinoisans who were subjected to a military-style assault by the President.

Latinos have been a majority in Whittier for decades, but they've rarely had representation in city government — until now. A groundswell of political engagement & immigrant activism sparked by ICE raids last year has ousted 3 conservatives and elected Whittier's first ever majority-Latino council

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

BREAKING: Under pressure from Trump’s White House, state Republicans rushed to create a more favorable U.S. House map for the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterm. Multiple lawsuits are expected to be filed by the end of the day.

But it should hold up in court, even under existing law! They would have to show that a reasonable person thinks the masking is necessary to the federal office! (If there's an official fed rule requiring masking that's different.)

Prosecute them under state law. Make the DOJ remove the cases to federal court. Make a federal judge write an opinion defending letting federal agents commit the sort of violence we've seen while shielding their identities from the public.

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.

This state's legislature has always been an embarrassment. But this is shameful. Nashville birthed the civil rights movement. Now it's the site of a bunch of sapheads in the thralls of a dimwitted personality cult, joyfully walking it back.

This is the scene at the Tennessee Capitol as we get closer to a final vote.

Seems to be conflicting reporting on the origin of the investigation/raid on Louise Lucas. WSJ vs. MS Now

What??

Protestors are entirely peaceful, but the rotunda is literally filled with troopers as Tennessee Republicans pass their racist 9-0 maps stripping majority Black Memphis of representation. @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

NEW, for @nysfocus.com: Last month, we obtained hours of body-cam from Oswego County. It showed sheriff's deputies pulling over drivers — and if the drivers didn't speak English, the deputies called Border Patrol. Some drivers were held for 30+ min while BP responded. nysfocus.com/2026/05/07/o...

With Trump's name all over it

ICE’s FY2026 287(g) salary reimbursement apportionments have now surpassed $1 billion, according to OpenOMB records. The funding helps pay individual officer salaries for state and local agencies participating in ICE immigration enforcement partnerships.

I'm literally writing about a set of Tennessee segregationists in the 1960s at the moment. I swear to God, they were not *this* comically and overtly racist.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

Glad to see this is happening. There was absolutely no reason for CBP to collect DNA from protesters at all, let alone on flimsy charges or no charges at all.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright over a Fox News graphic showing the national average gas price at $4.55: "This is an administration all about lowering energy prices, and an incredibly successful record in doing that"

Does your dog bite? No, he blesses.. 😅

“The move disqualifies loans for those studying for careers as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, social workers, counseling and mental health practitioners,..” www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

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

I was in the USA for a week last month, and several people assured me that London was "run by Muslims" "under Sharia law" and/or "had no go zones" and I really had to work hard to disabuse a few individuals of this nonsense.