The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

Want a blaring RED SIREN? Trump's hand picked general counsel at the Treasury Dept has resigned rather than be anywhere near Trump's $1.7b theft of tax dollars to pay allies. He knows this is corrupt as hell and is trying to preserve his career by getting far away. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

Any scholar of insurgency / paramilitarism will tell you that access to funds is the most important foundational piece to secure

In addition to fighting back against GOP gerrymandering, here’s another reason why state-level races so important in 2026: if Dems win trifectas in combo of MI, PA, WI, NV & AZ they can put National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over 270 electoral votes & elect next president with popular vote

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Republican Supreme Court “Justices”: Red states are free to gerrymander, even without voter consent. Blue states are not allowed to gerrymander, even with voter consent. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pretty good way to pay and incentivize foot soldiers to do your bidding, even if it crosses lines. This is basically how warlords control territory in the absence of a functioning law and order state.

Remigration is a white nationalist idea: immigrants of color voluntarily leave America for their native countries,making America whiter. That the State Department and White House are openly promoting it is an obvious tell - as if another one was needed - about the Trump regime’s goal.

Bonus points if you can name this one.

The Roberts Court previously treated the “Purcell Principle” (can’t change electoral rules close to an election) as important. But that was in instances doing so advantaged Republicans. Faced with a situation where Republicans want to change rules while voting is already underway, the Court says OK.

The Supreme Court are just lawyers for the RNC at this point. It's egregious, dangerous, and shameful. In the end, the forces of democracy will still prevail over these abuses; and Roberts will go down as the Chief who triggered Court reform by destroying its reputation. Umpires my ass.

A devastating indictment of the Court’s naked partisanship. Not new, but @stevevladeck.bsky.social brings the receipts. No doubt if Alito read it he’d give some speech to Republican donors during which he’d smugly mock Vladeck but the real mockery here is that Sam Alito was ever allowed in robes.

“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"

Don't miss @nicollewallace.bsky.social @ianbassin.bsky.social and @radiofreetom.bsky.social reacting to Trump's obsession with his $400 million ballroom from today's show! WATCH NOW ON YOUTUBE:

With the awful Supreme Court decision yesterday further gutting voting rights, we're about to see more craven gerrymandering. Its absurd and enough. The only way to keep voters in control is to move to proportional representation and end gerrymandering for good. protectdemocracy.org/work/proport...

As Brendan Carr asserts his role as Trump's top censor in violation of the First Amendment, we @protectdemocracy.org filed a mandamus petition in federal court on behalf of a bipartisan group of former FCC leaders to repeal the dangerous policy sword Carr is rattling against a free press.

I agree with this 1,000%. This is an administration recognizing its own impotence and panicking in just about every direction.

Between turning a Truth Social post into a legal motion and indicting someone the president doesn't like over a picture of seashells, the sinking Trump ship has now entered the stage of farce. These are the desperate and pathetic moves of a project that is plummeting into the abyss of history.

This is such a disastrous own goal. Trump is driving our strategic allies into the arms of our enemies. His presidency is an utter disaster for America. Turns out narcissism, corruption, hubris and incompetence aren’t good qualities in a president. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

“Oh, my name, it ain't nothin', my age, it means less The country I come from is called the Midwest I's taught and brought up there, the laws to abide And that the land that I live in has God on its side” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

BREAKING: A coalition of 1,000+ stars & film pros just jumped into the fight to support state AG's investigating the Paramount-Warners merger Not a done deal! We @democracydefendersfund.org @filmcoalition.bsky.social @1acommittee.bsky.social & other GREAT partners r proud to help #BlockTheMerger

Your vote matters.

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

In a “you can’t fire me, I quit” or “you’re not dumping me, I’m dumping you!” move, Trump Plans to ‘Blockade’ Strait He Insisted Must Open. He’s literally going to say “Iran didnt close the strait, I did!” Just wait for it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Bang-up job by JD Vance this weekend. Sent to Hungary to bolster Orbán and instead contributes to his shellacking. Sent to negotiate with Iran and is told to pound sand because Iran knows the Admin is now playing the weaker hand. At home, he’s likely toast as a future candidate. Well deserved.

Orban called Magyar to congratulate Magyar - and admitted defeat to his supporters. It's over. Peter Magyar and his Tisza Party wins with such an overwhelming victory that he has two-thirds of the seats in the parliament and can undo Orban's autocratic legalism!

Orban concedes. And in that lies a lesson for those rightfully worried Trump will try to deny midterm results: deliver a rebuke so overwhelming there’s no way to deny it. Congratulations to the people of Hungary!

As we await Hungary's election both for the liberation of its people and as portent for our own, let us recall the role that ridicule, resistance and refusal has played. Yes, elections can be turning points but only if movements make them so.

Solidarity with the people of Hungary right now and all those around the world who want nothing more than freedom and democracy. This era of corrupt autocratic hateful strongmen must come to an end. It’s up to us to end it.

Viktor Orbán has ruled Hungary corruptly for most of the past 28 years. He’s packed the courts, crushed a free press, and bent election systems in his favor. Trump and Putin are both intervening to help him. And the Hungarian people still have the power to take their country back from him.

Those of us, @protectdemocracy.org included, who warned of what Trump would do and were called alarmist for it have largely been correct and our critics have largely been wrong. I wish we were wrong. But it's an important lesson to take the warnings of democracy advocates more seriously.

Trump and Hegseth instigated a war with Iran that now has Iran attempting cyberattacks against U.S. infrastructure. And now we learn that the most powerful cybersecurity defense tool in the world is made by the one company Trump and Hegseth stupidly cut off from the U.S. being able to use. Unreal.

It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.

Republicans have put our military in an unfair position trapped between their oath and an unhinged president. They sooth themselves by believing they’re more effective behind the scenes than exercising the powers the founders gave them, indicting not only their judgment but their moral character.

This is really good as well. So far Ted Lieu, Chris Murphy, and Elissa Slotkin making this point with crystal clarity. More Dems need to do this.

The President just threatened genocide. The Joint Chiefs of Staff must disregard any such military orders that violate federal and international law. Republicans in Congress can't hide anymore: we must consider all options – including impeachment – to stop Trump.

“When pressed on Monday about a new threat by Trump to expand targets to civilian sites, Secretary of State Rubio argued that the president prefers diplomacy, but that American leaders are ‘lunatics.’ ‘They are insane,’ he said. ‘They are religious zealots.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

I had so much fun listening to this episode *as a listener*! Ian & Elora are such great experts and it was a treat to get to listen to them share their expertise.

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

This week @ianbassin.bsky.social is absolutely looking around corners to the midterms and then beyond. Nobody as clear-eyed about the challenges and the path as the team at Protect Democracy.

“When you see brave actors willing to not engage in anticipatory obedience...then the cloud of fear lifts and people inside institutions feel that they can actually do their jobs." @ianbassin.bsky.social on reversing the vicious authoritarian spiral and more on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

Let me get this straight. Republicans want to take health insurance away from hundreds of thousands more Americans to pay for a war Congress never authorized. They want to gut Medicaid and raise your premiums to write a $200B check for a conflict Trump started without asking. This is insanity.

The danger grows each time ICE is used in ways it’s not supposed to be. Video: xcancel.com/rpsagainst.....

The Chair of the FCC bragging about the removal of media outlets and voices from the marketplace (and essentially claiming credit for it as a regulator) is about as unamerican as you can get. The man wouldn’t know the constitution if it smacked him in the face.

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

This is absolutely outrageous and also absolutely wild. ICE had basically completely mislead their own attorneys at DOJ who are now totally throwing them under the bus. Courts can't trust DOJ anymore. As @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org famously coined: Malevolence tempered by incompetence

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

Jesus. Entirely deserved but whoa.