I see folks like Todd Blanche, Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham on Sunday shows. There's plenty of evidence that they use such platforms to lie constantly. Giving them a megaphone to spread their lies is the opposite of journalism which is about seeking the truth. It's irresponsible & damaging.

AOC: “It is time for the North to pull up to the South and let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant they just awakened. What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo”

He did say before the presidential election, “Vote for me this one time Christians and you’ll never have to vote again, we’re going to fix it so you’ll never have to vote again” Am I the only one who remembers this??

I always have people reaching out to ask what I think about some politician who’s saying the right things and my answer is always that they’re going to have to earn my trust over time. Anyone seeking power deserves our suspicion and they need to do a hell of a lot more than just say the right things

Rather than conclude that democrats are bad because people like Fetterman and Polis are democrats, I prefer to conclude that people like Fetterman and Polis are not democrats and they need to get the hell out of our party.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

NEW: President Donald Trump bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors including Nvidia and Palantir. Some of those trades overlapped with regulatory decisions that were favorable to these companies. www.notus.org/money/donald...

I wrote this for you—yes you: Bluesky, where a lot of people whine that we cannot win because the media isn’t our friend. The media isn’t our friend, it’s true. Let’s win anyway.

32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

this entire country right now is like a guy waking up from a bender and realizing that he burned his house down

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This country has suffered an incalculable loss over the decades from the "defanging" that Mr.Nichols celebrates.

"We do not really need more Democratic politicians chastising each other about the best way to massage slogans and flip maybe a handful of Trump voters. What we need, as messaging is absolutely unrelenting demands that Democratic elites use their power in office to crush fascism."

For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad. www.wired.com/story/i-work...

It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

It’s all high school fr and I’m ready to drop out.

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

I really don't think people have fully realized how far down the road of balkanization we are and how much needs to be done to reverse it

You’ll be hard pressed to find a democratizing movement in the US that *didn’t* play constitutional hardball & *didn’t* break unjust laws. That’s literally what democratization is, though it makes some people uncomfortable. If you want a democracy, you have to break the undemocratic system.

Liberals say that an election where one party wins the popular vote in the House by 6 points but fails to take the House has no place in a democracy. They're wrong—an election where one party wins the popular vote in the House by 6 points but fails to take the House has no place in a republic.

Thoughts on this, @ssurovell.bsky.social @donscott757.bsky.social etc? bluevirginia.us/2026/05/give...

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

A celebration of life and a solemn reminder that one should always be ready to protect it. Like Ukraine does today, with the support from our allies — against russia that will celebrate war and its repetition tomorrow. Never forget the price of victory and why it's so precious.

Today the world remembers the victory over nazism — the biggest plague of the 20th century. Similar to the one that's trying to spread again across Europe again in a new form. It is a day that reflects both the rejection of wars and readiness to stand against those who start them. 1/2

The Confederates lost the war, but they never stopped fighting the peace. The Roberts court is a scourge on hope for a free and fair future.

What’s fascinating is that “undoing” is the exact phrase that William A. Dunning used in his 1901 Atlantic article, “The Undoing of Reconstruction.”

Today, the Court erected a new standard: Prove the green segment in the below is not part of the yellow circle

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

The conservative impulse: my misery should be shared by all. The fascist impulse: I'm furious that you have not embraced my misery and will punish you for it.

I left Northern Ireland to come here to play soccer in 1981. It was at the height of the troubles. When I left my mates called me a lucky bastard for getting to go live in America. Last month I was home in Ireland for a wedding. The same people told me how sorry they were for me having to live here.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

"The Confederacy rises again: Undoing the 1960s isn't enough. They're even taking aim at the 1860s." - @paulwaldman.bsky.social nails it bluevirginia.us/2026/05/thur...

Saw someone “proving” they’re Gen X by name-checking some old cooking show on Food Network. Excuse me, but there was no Food Network. We were watching Yan Can Cook and Graham Kerr getting shitfaced on cooking sherry on PBS.

Stock up on frozen veg NOW

👋 SEEKING INFORMATION: If anyone has contact with Ukrainian nationals who have been involuntarily returned to Ukraine from the United States, please contact me. bsky.app/profile/jjin...

Goddamn, Aziz Ansari took belt to ass last night on Kash Patel. I’m not even kidding when I say this might be the actual tipping point in Trump firing him.

Today, we announced $270 million of new military support to Ukraine. Ukraine’s fight is our fight. Their cause — freedom, democracy, sovereignty — is our cause. Good to see President Zelenskyy today in Yerevan. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

‼️ Air-raid warnings issued in 18 Russian regions, including areas 2,000 km from Ukraine

Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...

The first Asian American mayor of NYC recently rode 40 miles on a bike across the five boroughs wearing a suit and tie and is skipping the Met Gala and instead using his platform to celebrate union leaders and immigrant rights activists in the fashion industry. Nice.

I am a nyc teacher and it is teacher appreciation week. I would love to fund a laptop. Please repost. thanks www.donorschoose.org/sl/6pqu4SbVWq

sir, you did so good on the dementia test they want you to take it every month!

The hard truth: the only real safeguards the US government has against what we're going through right now is electing and appointing men and women who take their oath to uphold the Constitution seriously. A government built on the honor system crumbles when dishonorable people are in charge.

⬇️This whole damn thread. ⬇️

All union men, all strong Dems bc that’s how you got in in that town. Union strong and Democrat. And racist as fuck. That shit didn’t disappear when they began to vote Republican. It was WHY they did. And it won’t magically transform by getting them to vote Democrat bc they won’t. Unless

The people saying that gutting the Voting Rights Act has nothing to do with racism are the same people who say overturning Roe v Wade had nothing to do with women