Great villain of history does not want to be seen as a racist and destroyer of Supreme Court legitimacy. Shocked.

On the new SubwayTakes, Kareem Rahma and leader of the UK Green Party, Zack Polanski, discuss making dark money in politics more visible by giving a nod to one of George Carlin's best takes. If only we could make this a reality! #SheShed

⚖️ Jack Smith: "We have a Department of Justice today that targets people for criminal prosecution simply because the president doesn’t like them.. fails to move on cases because they might uncover facts inconvenient to narratives the president would like to press" 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Where does Congress go from here on enforcing voting rights, if Dems retake power but still have to get through a hostile SCOTUS? Ideas from Justin Levitt and Brennan's Kareem Crayton: boltsmag.org/scotus-calla...

Standing before the White House to demand we close the concentration camps where roughly 70K people are now forced to endure horrific conditions by virtue of who they are, not anything they've done. #CloseTheCamps #BringThemHome

In a packed Capitol Hill room, survivors, family members of Virginia Giuffre and their allies demand accountability, systemic reform and an end to the silence that has long protected powerful perpetrators. msmagazine.com/2026/05/06/c...

Terms like "eviscerated the Voting Rights Act" are too coded and generous. Let's just say the Supreme Court authorized extreme racism.

NEW: We've got the first polling on how Americans feel about the Voting Rights Act—and SCOTUS' decision to gut it—since Callais was handed down. The bottom line: They think we still need the VRA. Complete data at the link.

I want my two thousand dollars!

Today we not only get news from the New York Times that the Trump Administration stopped the publication of a study showing the shingles vaccine is safe, but there’s another study showing that vaccine may offer some protection against dementia.

lol they're literally installing this shit like supply chain malicious bloatware it's like the fucking search bars that would keep installing themselves and placing themselves under your browser address bar but automatically served by Google on purpose

42,000 Louisianians voted absentee before Gov. Landry suspended US House primaries #lalege #lagov

The South is a gerrymandered place. Has been for decades. There are people of color who live in the south, there are progressives, there are centrists, & yes there are racists. The racists were in charge for Too Many Years. What I’m saying is don’t write the South off. Fight for every vote.

Politico: President Trump has offered Fetterman his patented total and complete endorsement plus a financial windfall to the Pennsylvanian if he becomes a Republican, should be a bigger story, Pennsylvania Democrats voted for a democrat not a republican

33% of people who answered this poll still like DJT. I'm old enough to remember 2016 & I don't give polls a huge amount of credibility. Our work is cut out for us no matter what. Keep defending democracy everywhere.

The broader point: contracts, MOUs, oversight documents, and law enforcement records are producible. Local collaboration with ICE is rarely invisible, it leaves a paper trail if you know where to look and are willing to be persistent about getting it.

When I dare to visit FB…..someone’s MAGA text meme bashing “No Kings” included the following ==> "Chuck Schumer has been in the Senate for 46 years, longer than Stalin was in office." “They don’t hate kings, they hate kings that aren’t theirs.” Yikes.

Here is the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) bill: www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u... And here is Senate Judiciary bill: www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/do... Remember, reconciliation bills only need a majority vote in the Senate and can't be filibustered.

sure enough it's not. In OBBBA, they gave ICE enough money to run at around double capacity through the end of Trump even if it never got another cent Now they're giving ICE $42 billion more, w/ enough to run at 4-5 times capacity, w/ no oversight. Very scary stuff. Hard to fathom what that can do.

The key takeaway which I've said twice but can't be said enough: there is almost no oversight for this money. DHS funds already have limited oversight, but this money gets far, far less than typical annual funds for DHS do. These are tens of billions for DHS w/ almost no oversight or accountability.

If you have a Republican representative, call and tell them you don’t want any more of your tax dollars going to ICE and Border Patrol: indivisible.org/actions/gop-... If you have a GOP senator, call and demand the same: indivisible.org/actions/gop-...

Republicans already voted to pump $170 billion into these unaccountable agencies last year. As the cost of living skyrockets, Americans want Congress to work on solutions — not waste more money funding the regime’s concentration camps and militarized deployments to US cities.

Since the bill can pass without Democratic support, voting no on this reconciliation legislation isn’t enough. Real opposition will look like publicly campaigning against this bill. Democrats should go to GOP districts and talk about the GOP shoveling billions more dollars to Trump’s secret police.

Text of Judiciary part of the reconciliation package is out. This is the filibuster-proof bill where Republicans are planning to give around $70 billion more to ICE and CBP. Will go through it here.

It all started with McConnell telling Obama “I will not let you fill this seat.” McConnell denied the voters choice.

I’m am becoming increasingly convinced that they are so deeply and criminally corrupt they realize if the GOP loses they’re going to jail.

Who’s the next to get replaced? Hegseth or Kash?

Ten states have their primaries in May. Some Democrats don't want you to vote their corporate servants out of office, and the primaries are when we have a chance to do that. GET UP and Volunteer for a candidate you believe in. 50K volunteers out knocking on doors is what got Mamdani elected.

NEW: Democrat Quentin Wiltz has won the mayoral race in Pearland, Texas, a Republican-leaning suburb of Houston that has consistently voted for Trump since 2016. This is a flip from 🔴 to 🔵.

Tell Shapiro @governor.pa.gov we need to stop the child abuse and call for the immediate and permanent closure of Abraxas Academy. Call: (717) 787-2500 Text: (717) 788-8990 #StopChildAbuse #ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights #Abraxas #TakeAction #Shapiro

Bard College Chief Leon Botstein Steps Down After Probe Finds He Made 25 Visits to Epstein Townhouse Report also noted that Epstein was invited to several Bard-related events & spaces, including possible stays on campus & attendance at student performances. | IBT www.ibtimes.co.uk/bard-college...

I hope Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss received their settlement prior to Giuliani's hospitalization.

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

Last year I had the opportunity to meet and hear the stories of those who marched in the Children’s Crusade in Birmingham in 1963– who had faced dogs, and fire hoses, and jail cells—but who helped changed the course of history and ultimately helped to pass that very same Voting Rights Act. (2/3)

Today is World Press Freedom Day. The US is now ranked 57th in the world for press freedom — and that is rapidly declining as Trump continues to attack journalism. Democracy needs a strong, free press to survive.

———————————————————————————— The Class of 2026 is graduating into a democracy in freefall. Their speakers owe them more than recycled anecdotes.

It's absurd our president doesn't grasp this.

ALERT: I go live in one hour with @katiephang.bsky.social to discuss her first-of-its-kind lawsuit to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. We discuss standing, harm, and her novel legal theory. Join us! www.youtube.com/live/EACi4dq...

RESULT out of Texas. The Lake Travis school district in the Austin area become a focal point for book bans (see this story from 2024: www.kut.org/education/20...) Two conservatives school board members who were integral to that push just lost their reelection bids tonight, and are ousted.

Trump is surrounded by petroleum lobbyists - not automotive lobbyists - and he has decided to declare all-out war on electric vehicles. The Big 3 collectively spent well over $100 billion on EV development that they're now having to write down because of Trump. You think they wanted to do that? 8/x

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

Introducing your 2026 Democratic candidates for the United States Senate!! Watch this video and tell us you AREN’T HYPE for the midterms

Prediction markets have become a hotbed for corruption in this administration & have even become a national security risk. This was the right move to ensure Senators and their staff don't enrich themselves with insider information. White House should follow suit!

This is BS—and a pathetic attempt to skirt Congress' war powers. Trump's illegal war on Iran is still raging despite his self-proclaimed "ceasefire." Iran is seizing ships in the Strait of Hormuz as gas prices soar. It's time to pass a War Powers Resolution and end the war.

Buckle up folks! The powers at be in Montgomery are wasting no time in their efforts to roll back the voting rights and gains fought for by so many. Time to stand up, speak out and VOTE!

Trump just sent letters to Congress claiming he doesn’t need authorization for the Iran war because there’s a ceasefire. The 60-day clock under the War Powers Resolution? He says it stopped when the shooting stopped. That’s not how the law works.

I was pricing books earlier today. Cover price of some paperbacks had gone up $3 since I had received my last order (a week & a half ago).

Even if the strait reopened tomorrow, experts believe it would take a year for gas prices to fall back to pre-war levels. And let’s be clear, the strait was open before the war. Returning to baseline is not a win. #TrumpsGasCrisis

Here is the Dem who is primarying the Dem who refused to let MD consider redistricting.