Oregon allocated $10 million for the 2024 wildfire season. It cost more than $350 million.

On June 10, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine will have lasted as long as the entire First World War. Putin threw Russia, its allies, and every Western bootlicker he could find into this war, and Ukraine is still standing while Russia sustains daily strikes on its own territory.

NEW: We’re seeing what the Voting Rights Act had been protecting the nation against: aggressive GOP gerrymanders drawn to silence Black voters. But as the effects of SCOTUS’ catastrophic ruling ripple, voters are meeting this moment ready to fight. In words and photos, this is their response:

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.

Zelensky signed a decree explicitly allowing russia to hold its parade but limiting the ceasefire only to the territory of Red Square. God-level trolling of both Putin and Trump, backed up by Ukraine’s very real military capabilities and strategic autonomy. www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polyt...

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

I had to check and he really did say that lol

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

I love a good road trip, but this is brutally out of touch: a Trump Cabinet member making a documentary about himself while regular families can’t afford road trips anymore, because Trump and his war put gas prices through the roof.

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

The stupidest human being on the planet Earth.

There’s one person squarely to blame for the destruction of the Voting Rights Act and American democracy writ large: Chief Justice John Roberts

Gerrymandering has been a fatal flaw in our democracy for a long, long time but to see it being perused to nakedly and cynically in the last year has been really jarring. Other countries have non-partisan bureaucrats draw maps, but for some dumb reason the US gives that power to elected officials.

Sean Duffy's wife, Rachel-Campos Duffy, on the 7 months her family spent on a roadtrip while Sean was supposed to be working as Transportation Secretary: "I'm gonna be really honest. We live in a PornHub world. This is really wholesome good family stuff."

The Bezos Post is essentially becoming Jeff Bezos’ personal blog to whine about people who criticize the idle rich like him. A hit dog will holler. Imagine arguing that hoarding billions of dollars is the peak of “human potential” with a straight face.

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

i have my own strong opinions about this but curious what you guys think this paragraph is doing in the Virginia Supreme Court's decision to nullify the will of the people

This was one of the or risks of the Big Lie. It convinced one side all bets were off so they went along with breaking the game as “payback” or rebalancing. And now people are getting convinced the game is broken. This is a bad outcome for everyone.

Virginia supreme court's inexplicable ruling against the will of voters on redistricting dramatically raises the urgency for Dems to redistrict in other states before 2028. The stakes in state legislative races this cycle just got more urgent. My piece on that here: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

I suspect that Roberts himself is starting to question whether this time he and his fellow right-wing hacks in robes have, at long last, gone too far. buff.ly/wTE1DWB

It’s pretty humiliating to watch sixty fucking minutes do a glam sympathetic interview with a guy I saw get arrested for beating people in the streets

Ihor "Omelianovych" Shkilnyi, Ukrainian volunteer and founder of the ZAMPOTEKH Charity Foundation, showed a Russian "international" Shahed drone from the inside - revealing numerous foreign-made components from Switzerland, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and China. 📹: omelyanovi4

The more I look at this the crazier it seems. I mean, this is literally what people do with toddlers who won't go to sleep.

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Folks, pls don't share photos godforsaken Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social thieves circulate. Screenshot of a tweet looks like crap. No credit to photographer, a Black man. Support @nashvillebanner.bsky.social! Credit: Martin B. Cherry/Nashville Banner nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

He thinks he sounds tough, and maybe really is unhinged, but this looks like someone afraid of escalation, afraid of looking liking he lost, and desperately hoping bluster is enough to turn things around. It won’t be, not least because the Iranians—along with Gulf states, China, everyone—sees it.

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

"We can fight to stop the ballroom. If this means leaving the area as a destruction site for the rest of Trump’s presidency, so be it. Let its ugliness exemplify the ugliness of the Trump era. Let its rubble symbolize what he's tried to do to the American republic." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

"The Callais decision has been catastrophic in substance and timing. The Roberts Court not only dismantled the country’s most important civil rights law, but put its thumb on the scale of the 2026 elections, turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering arms race" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Russian forces will cease hostilities from May 8 to May 10 due to a truce. However, they will continue to resort to intimidation because they are desperate to hold that pathetic parade.

Recently I opened up Microsoft Teams and was greeted with a deepfaked version of my own face. Here's how we got the Chinese-language software being marketed to scammers, and which can be used on WhatsApp, Zoom, other platforms. This is where fraud is right now More: www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

💔 In Kramatorsk, a mother and child hide under a tree while enemy FPV drones fly over the city. And at the end, three more KABs fly right over their heads… Video by Yan Dobronosov

The Bible is very clear that we should make and worship golden idols, I support this

Bottom line: Every single factoid you'll hear about agriculture is curated by the farm lobby & PR firms, & fed to you to make you panic & feel like you have to give farmers money. Or else. Just... keep that in mind when you see panicky headlines.

Time’s up for bad landlords Karan Singh & Rajmattie Persaud.

This dropped around the same time as this interview - Neil Gorsuch on Megyn Kelly’s show. He was talking about how “young conservatives must have courage to stand by their beliefs.” Sounds apolitical to me!

BREAKING: Health officials are monitoring people in at least three U.S. states for potential hantavirus exposure linked to a suspected outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship, per Reuters

We're in the Ranking Pedophiles phase of rationalization.

can not imagine how americans got that impression john

Where does the Constitution say "major questions" gives the Supreme Court more power as determined by the Court? Why didn't anyone notice it for 224 years? Where does the Constitution say "official acts" make a president immune to legal consequence for crime. Why didn't anyone notice for 235 years?

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

The breadth of Flock’s surveillance network amplifies the risk of breaches of sensitive data. Officers have repeatedly been caught using the network to stalk romantic partners and Flock cameras have been used to spy on No Kings Day protesters.