Republicans Redrew His District. Now This Democratic Stalwart Is Out.

While the U.S. was distracted by endless Middle East wars, China was "laser focused" on dominating the Pacific and building the world's largest navy, says former NSC official Mira Rapp-Hooper. Now Trump may be handing Beijing exactly what it wants —Taiwan. #Velshi

“The Republicans and their Supreme Court are waging revolution by demolishing the institutions and rules of American liberty. Democrats who stand on procedure and pontificate about exercising caution and restraint are catastrophically out of step with events. Virginia must implement the map anyway.”

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

China signals tariff cuts, advances in farm market access after Trump-Xi summit

In other words, the US has won every battle but is losing the war. It’s not like that has never happened before.

Always hate when that happens. /s

MAGA Masochists

When I arrived in Colombo in 1999, on my first trip, I arrived at the Oberoi Hotel to a huge banner indicating the symposium on "Human ‐ Elephant Conflict Resolution."

Look at that headline and then remind yourself it’s all self inflicted. So stupid. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Can people please stop pretending a ceasefire is still in place when one side is still bombing?

There is no ally Trump won't throw under the bus in order to win the temporary approval of a dictator he admires. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/w...

@deadder.bsky.social strikes again

Thinking a bit more about current political turbulence there are at least 5 explanations and unfortunately the answer is all: Slow growth / cost of living, negative social media vibes, bad public service delivery, immigration, political parties stuck in a previous era

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A good photographer is worth his weight in gold

tRump’s approval rating has COLLAPSED to 34% — a new second-term low. Pew, NBC, Reuters all confirm: Americans are furious over his tanking economy, $6 gas, & endless Iran war. Even his base is bailing. Promises broken, lives harder. This is what failure looks like. mcsp.short.gy/9pKm

Did the Nazis have a word for "gaslighting?"

Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds gizmodo.com/students-are...

Make America Grovel Again

Trump's war in Iran is exacerbating global inequality, forcing poor countries to absorb higher food and fuel costs that they simply can't afford. And the returns are going straight to big oil. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/eight-week...

Beijing will be happy with Trump comments on Taiwan "Xi probably liked you haven't approved weapons to Taiwan." Trump: "'like' is maybe too strong of a word…China's a very, very big country. That's a very small island. It's 59 miles away. We're 9,500 miles away…[Taiwan] stole our chip industry."

Didn't the Nazis do this, too? (Yes. Yes, they did. Any art that didn't glorify the Fatherland, Christianity, and/or Aryanism was considered "degenerate")

Donald the China Hawk, Donald the China Dove.

From Nazi Roman salutes, to Lenin's Fist. Anything but democracy for these guys...

Imagine if Oba... (Shouldn't even need to say it)

This is exponentially more important when Republicans are willing to tell any lies, as often as possible, to convince voters that everything is awful whenever Dems are governing. Dis- and misinformation is how Republicans win now.

In a move designed to lay the foundation for a Russian invasion and occupation of Moldova, Putin signed a decree simplifying Russian citizenship for residents of Transnistria. The move follows Russia’s adoption of a law allowing the army to be used to “protect Russians” abroad.

In case you need reminding: we already own, operate and maintain at taxpayer expense a giant ballroom and event center a block from the White House built by Congress 9 years ago. You are being lied to. Go see for yourself. Andrew Mellon Auditorium.

Episode 2: We test whether AI can predict compatibility - and how it influences decision making youtu.be/zKzZAtmhnEQ?...

With Trump, flattery will get you everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

He's got to go. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Many people in America are beginning to realize how fragile rights can be. Black and Indigenous folks have known this for a long time. Censorship rarely stops with one group.

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

Trump suffering from some serious dictator envy over in China

21 century liberals have been slow to grapple with the exercise of power. Now, at long last, someone has explained the stakes.

Trump will probably be the first person ever to bankrupt a presidential library.

The richest punishment that can meted out to self-styled revolutionaries and insurgents is electing them, so that they can discover that actually governing is hard, tedious and thankless. Shame it has consequences for the rest of us.

BREAKING: A new outbreak of the highly contagious Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo’s eastern Ituri province, Africa’s top public health body said. There have been 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far.

CIA chief makes historic trip to Cuba as US blockade chokes island's energy supplies

President Trump met with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, at a secretive Beijing compound that few outsiders ever enter.

#BBCNews - Record global temperatures possible as chance of a 'super El Niño' grows www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

This is *bonkers* on a massive scale

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Has any journalist asked Trump if he believes White people are superior to Black people?

For the Republicans and this Jim Crow Supreme Court, I don't think ending the Voting Rights Act will be enough for them. If we let them, they would bring back the three-fifths rule.