This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

this court would authorize all-white primaries if it could find some facially neutral means to do so

New in PN: Republicans go all in on toxic masculinity in Texas "Rather than talk about issues, records, or even personalities, Republicans have simply resorted to bellowing 'WE ARE MEN! THEY NOT MEN! MEN GOOD! NOT MEN BAD!' over and over again in sweaty fugue of bile and bigotry."

Give it up for the American healthcare system!

Me after the Colorado Republican gubernatorial debate on 9 News

New: Gov. Polis is vetoing a bill to ban price surveillance in Colorado, per the bill’s sponsor. The measure would’ve stopped companies from using data collected on individual consumers to set individualized prices & wages. The bill would’ve been the strongest regulation of its kind in the U.S.

"They’re going to have to fire him. No amount of HR speak will have him retract what he said," one CBS staffer just told me, adding: "For an anti-woke crusader, this is pretty woke of [Bari] to accuse Pelley of after firing the entire leadership of his show and two correspondent colleagues."

"Pelley told 60 Minutes colleagues that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said Pelley had created a “hostile work environment” and that Weiss asked him to write an apology letter. Evidently, this is not a request Pelley will comply with."

Watching for the pure entertainment value and I would personally nominate Kyle Clark and Marshall Zelinger to moderate a Presidential debate.

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

@brianphillips.lol I am currently unable to buy concert tickets via AXS.com 'hassle free ticketing' because their system has identified my home computer as a bot for clicking through all the goddamn screens you have to go through to buy concert tickets

Every word of this.

So woman-run Texas news outlet The Barbed Wire shut down this week due to lack of funding but @theatlantic.com has money to pay David Frum's Canadian New York nepo baby son to write a nonsensical article giving "advice" on Texas politics & sports? AYFKM?

The author of this piece is David Frum's son, a nepo baby who clearly has no idea how much Texans resent Yankees telling them what to do.

I’m sorry is this man suggesting that Talarico endear himself to Texas voters by crapping on ARCH MANNING?

Hi, Democrat and Texas Longhorn here: are you and this New York Yankee writer out of your motherfucking minds that crapping on Arch Manning is the way for Talarico to endear himself to Texas voters?

So apparently RFK Jr has been the one holding up funding for GAVI the vaccine alliance which among other things was trying to support testing for new Ebola vaccines for the variant that is now circulating in the DRC. Why RFK Jr is entrusted with influence on this is beyond me. Kick him to the curb.

Hegseth again targeting women and Black military officers to stall their careers www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

@kenwhite.bsky.social fwiw, every now and then I think of the comedy routine you posted when Kegsbreath put the Yemen strike on a group chat to the Atlantic and LOL. It really should have been an SNL skit.

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

💯 Texas has a long ball power hitter named Stewie and she is a joy to watch.

Reporting on how Talarico is reaching new people with his relatively run-of-the-mill mainline Christianity really shows how the media and political dominance of right wing evangelicalism has constrained the American religious imagination.

Remember when Clayton Williams was running against Ann Richards in Texas for Governor and said weather was like rape because if it's inevitable you should just lie back and enjoy it?

I wish the White House press corps had Scott Pelley's balls.

one thing these exchanges capture perfectly is that the people in charge have absolutely no idea the type of people that top-tier investigative journalists are

Wemby should tell him to GTFO in French

Happy Monday from Oliver and his favorite catnip toy. Also I took him to the vet for a check up today and even though he's on diet food he gained weight.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

One of my exes had a gay brother who was a more rabid Patriots fan than he was.

Colorado colleges to expand abortion medication access www.axios.com/local/boulde...

BREAKING AXIOS: The Trump admin plans to drop its controversial $1.8 billion slush fund — at least for now, two senior admin officials told Axios. It's unclear whether this would also kill the IRS settlement that protected Trump and his businesses from being audited.

Searches for Adam Hoffman are skyrocketing as reports go viral of Ken Paxton’s office offering the admitted child molester a one-day jail sentence after serially abusing a young boy.

The only message not voting sends to a politician is that your opinion can be safely ignored because you will never hold them accountable. That's it. You can tell yourself not voting is good for your personal brand or your moral well being, but never pretend it makes a difference in the real world.

There are many reasons I am glad Cory Gardner is gone. This is one of the big ones. Literal treason. Oh, and he lied to Colorado sexual assault survivors to their face before voting for Kavanaugh.

About a month ago, I got into an exchange with a Colorado Trump donor/supporter arguing that the Obama Iran Deal - the one undercut by Sen Cory Gardner, Tom Cotton, & Senate Republicans - negotiated by a woman, Wendy Sherman, was damn good. He tried to say no. How's it look now?

Graham Platner is just the latest manifestation of a desire to re-center White masculinity in the Democratic Party––and he has all the same weaknesses of the other avatars of masculinity consultants have thrown at voters. My two cents here: www.jfassler.com/p/graham-pla...

This is interesting. James Talarico's theological talk is attracting voters who haven't heard Christianity described this way/with this set of values, NYT reports. Dovetails with my reporting (see below) on why Talarico's coalition might be unexpectedly complicated.

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

Bari Weiss is a grifter, not a journalist, whose con is getting rich people to pay her to make them comfortable with their prejudices.

"One of the reasons I'm running for Senate is because your party spends way too much time thinking about other peoples' underwear, which may be why your candidate gave a special deal to a pedophile. Meanwhile Texans are feeling real pain at the grocery store, the gas pump, & their everyday lives."

lmaaoo no way there's just not enough time for this racism bc of all the other racism

Tina Peters herself is making this clear it was not a free speech issue.

Now I am getting angry text messages from writers who promote Graham Platner warning they'll "remember" me. 🙄

This whole article makes Jim Crow 2026 out to be both strategic and complicated. It's neither. It's straight up racism and disempowering Black Americans. And pretending otherwise is both dishonest and dangerous.

“In Christ there is no male or female, because all are one in Christ Jesus.” That’s straight up New Testament, folks.