Chad Bianco’s candidacy went up in 🔥 tonight. ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA: “You’re an Oath Keeper. We all know that.” CHAD BIANCO: “I’m very proud of it. I don’t think you know what an Oath Keeper is.” For the record: the Oath Keepers is a far-right extremist white supremacist militia group.

The Vatican released a historic report today criticizing conversion therapy and featuring gay Catholic testimony. It proposes a new methodology for addressing controversial issues, calling for listening and relationships. Read my report: religionnews.com/2026/05/05/v...

Profoundly short-sighted. Marco may talk a smoother game than his boss or the Veep. But he is responsible for one disaster after another and needs to be held accountable.

94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. 85% of teachers are working second jobs during the school year, often just to keep up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Something has gone terribly wrong.

Randy Villegas has drawn a clear line by rejecting corporate cash while Jasmeet Bains shares nearly 60 corporate donors with the Republican incumbent. Democratic voters have been crystal clear they want money out of politics - it's time for the DCCC to listen. www.commondreams.org/news/randy-v...

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

Disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

Fucking rubbish. Daughter of a psychiatrist and I am not ashamed to say I take an antidepressant. Force people off needed medication and there will be horrific consequences. We need to be as angry about this as we are about MAGA & voting rights. Lives are at stake.

Minnesota charged white supremacist Jake Lang with felony property damage after he vandalized a “Prosecute ICE” sculpture at the state Capitol. It’s a state case, so no presidential pardon is coming to bail him out this time.

Yes Congressional Rs are really trying to give Trump $1b for his ballroom!

A policy wonk smarter than me should take these numbers and do a line-by-line of what a competent Dem administration + Congress could do with the money instead. Then let Dem candidates run on parts or all of it plus an anti-corruption, anti-racism message in the fall.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Video from Gaza City shows flames rising after an Israeli attack targeted a group of Palestinian civilians near Al-Jalaa Roundabout in the Al-Oyoun area in northern Gaza City.

A hard NO on Khanna who has a history of inexplicable and bad choices like pandering to Elon Musk www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Man, it’s almost as if this SCOTUS Republicans stole is wholly a part of the conservative project to permanently install Jim Crow into law.

there has never been a better time to make the case for court expansion

*raises hand* Sorry, just a point of clarification. When Trump illegally blew up a third of the White House, he had the debris dumped … on a public golf course?

The worst case fears about what vaccines/fluoridation/video games/social media are doing to our children are nowhere near as bad as stuff like this actually is

if you ever feel constrained by the dictum not to speak of ill of the dead, this is a great moment to share your memories of what an abomination Rudy Giuliani is — as in this reminder of his consumate awfulness long before he made himself an absolute grotesque for Trump

A must-follow election that’s happening in 2 days in the form of a local ballot measure in Ohio:

Un-paywalled version at: www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon, satellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions. Israel’s defense minister said the approach was modeled on tactics its military used in Gaza.

If Comey had only made his message from a collection of handguns, instead of seashells, he would have been protected by the Second Amendment. Todd Blanche

May 3rd is the birthday of Hind Rajab. She would be 8-years-old. She called for help. She loved pretending to play doctor. She was kind. She should still be alive ❤️‍🩹 Happy birthday, Hind 🎈 We remember you. Thinking of your mom, may all of the kindness and beautiful memories of you seek her heart 💛

On World Press Freedom Day, we recognize the vital role of a free and independent press in upholding truth, accountability, and democracy. Journalism remains a cornerstone of informed societies and a voice for transparency, justice, and human rights.

See: USAID, 700,000+ dead.

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman. Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

good thread. I’d add that Trump also fucked over the Big 3’s initial moves toward electrification back in his first term, it’s a major reason why BYD caught them so flat footed

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

The MAGA Supreme Court is the product of a 40-year plan to capture the courts. When Democrats win the majority, we can’t just turn back the clock to 2024 — we must demand fundamental reforms.

NEW: Last spring, MAGA Catholic Congressman Riley Moore flew to El Salvador and gave two thumbs up inside Bukele’s CECOT prison, with rows of shaved-headed deportees crowded behind him. On Friday, Pope Leo XIV named a Salvadoran refugee bishop of his diocese in West Virginia.

Forcing states to accept animal torture even after they’ve voted against it. I’m nauseated

A reminder that the mainstream media willfully refuses to explain what is really going on when it comes to the crusade against abortion: presswatchers.org/2022/06/mass...

Legal expert Elie Mystal shares the pain of knowing that because of the GOP Supreme Court's decision gutting the Voting Rights Act that his children will grow up with less voting rights than he had. youtu.be/Dj269QQUulA?...

NEWS: MAGA influencer Craig Long has been arrested in a human trafficking and prostitution sting in Florida, along with Ryan Yates, a Trump supporter who pleaded guilty in Feb 2024 for his involvement in January 6. Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. just a few weeks ago.

“What the Roberts Court is making possible,” @adamserwer.bsky.social argues, “is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white.” He examines what to expect following the Voting Rights Act ruling:

Great read. Trump is a tasteless boor.

America is being run like a casino, by people who were banned from casinos.

Democrats really should sue CBS for big bucks, as @brianbeutler.bsky.social proposed here. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

No G-D bottom with these ghouls.

curious how Trump decided to attack NATO right after his long phone call with Putin

After 'Shelby County' 13 years ago, I wrote that John Roberts was on track to displace Roger 'Dred Scott' Taney as the Chief Justice who would live in infamy. It's no contest any more. Alito is a worse partisan hack, but he never pretended to be anything else. Roberts wanted to be "respected."

It's called "constitutional collapse"

So Eric Trump is now threatening to sue MeidasTouch because our editor-in-chief simply reported on the massive amounts of money he and Don Jr. are making off government contracts. File the lawsuit Eric. We’d love to put you under oath. Our message: www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-fami...

“Labor law is completely captured by corporations, backed by the courts and with the full support of the Republican Party.”