My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

I don’t trade stocks, don’t take corporate PAC money, and publish my official schedule for all to see. Americans deserve transparency and accountability. I’m fighting to make this the standard in Washington, so there’s never any doubt your leaders are working for you.

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Thank you to the families for standing with us through all of this. The court has to end this useless delay so we can pay them. “It just seems like the courts are enabling an abuser to continue to abuse,” said Robbie Parker, who lost his 6-year old daughter Emilie Parker in the Sandy Hook shooting.

In 1994, a man crashed his small plane into the White House. Clinton did not build a ballroom because of it. In fact he barely mentioned it. And he definitely did not say that no one can criticize him anymore.

As a former politics reporter who won multiple awards for this shit, let me just say, a plague on every single one of these useless morons cosplaying as journalists.

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.”

Tonight was a repudiation of overreach from this admin and Congress. On the only two redistricting efforts that went to the people, and not powered through a rigged legislature, people voted for fairness. Virginia voters turned out to protect our democracy. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Journalists planning to honor Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner have a choice: A. Party with the dictator, wear fancy clothes and network to boost their careers. B. Stand up for democracy by staying home. They’re going to choose A. It looks terrible now. It will look worse to history.

👇🎯 Jake Tapper will have a very nice pocket square, though Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question: When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.

🧵Bombshell reporting on leaked SCOTUS memos that reveal how the "shadow docket" began with Chief Justice Roberts' rush to halt Obama's efforts to regulate power plant emissions of greenhouse gases - he feared the harm to industry. No one feared the harm to the Earth, apparently.

An investigation has been opened by House Democrats into criminal slumlord Jared Kushner for falsely operating as a negotiator whilst corruptly securing billions of dollars in dark monry investments for himself. Good, finally.

@wired.com bringing the news again. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

Iran Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh: The U.S. is trying to sabotage the path of the diplomatic effort through this diplomatic circus that they are adopting…Trump talks too much. He says contradictory things within the same statement

Wow. This is the FBI Director. Several officials say Kash Patel’s drinking has been a recurring concern across the government. At the FBI, it’s called reasonable suspicion. That’s enough to trigger testing or administrative action. So what are we waiting for? 🧵

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment. By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Xavier Becerra campaign numbers have tripled in a few weeks! Let’s get this done California! Keep it Blue!

"Wasserman Schultz told me that when she says the Everglades detention center is a 'monument to cruelty' and that the 'cruelty is the point,' she wants to underscore that she sees the facility as a means to an end." lnk.thebulwark.com/4tcXUOE

“Projections show that Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border could drop low enough this year that it stops producing hydroelectric power at the Glen Canyon Dam. If it drops even lower, the dam is in danger of structural failure.”

This is for all the journalists out there who think Twitter impacts their traffic.

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point

People forget that Amazon Prime has broadcast some of the greatest moments in NBA history.

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

every time i see this sports guy on the left here he is standing up at his desk looking like a little kid who needs to go to the bathroom

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military. The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

NYT: “.. A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane statements capped by his “a whole civilization will die tonight” threat .. have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

I am asking Christians — Protestant, Catholic, doesn’t matter — to say out loud what you know to be true in your hearts. For the simple, irreducible truth that Jesus Christ is not a meme. His image is not a political tool. His name is not a brand. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Hardly his worst sin, but Donald Trump attacking Pope Leo by name is fucking ridiculous. All because the Catholic Church continues to speak out against this illegal and immoral war in Iraq. He’s an unhinged, disturbed individual who needs to be removed immediately.

This is what it looks like when you sell your soul for ambition as the realization sets in that you boarded a sinking ship that is taking you down with it.

🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Opposition leader Péter Magyar WINS the election for prime minister of Hungary, defeating Putin and Trump’s ally Viktor Orbán. 🇭🇺

Friends of California The stakes are high Can't see you electing Hilton or Bianco as Governor You don't want trump's agenda in California..!! Please take a moment to listen and share Check out Xavier Becerra Xavier has a winning record against trump ! go to: xavierbecerra.com

As California AG, Xavier Becerra filed over 120 lawsuits against the Trump administration—more than any other state official in U.S. history! From healthcare to the environment, he turned his office into a powerhouse of legal opposition against this regime! #ImWithBacerra #CAGovJunglePrimary

I’ve been checking out Xavier Becerra… and I like what I’m hearing. Serious experience. Solid on the issues. Not just talk. And he’s hitting the issues the right way. Feels like someone who actually understands what California needs. Let’s keep eyes on him together.

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

As a former California resident of 15 years, let me just make this abundantly clear. Katie porter and Tom Steyer will lose the governors race. If people don’t rally behind Xavier Becerra, that governors mansion is gone. Quit fucking around

BECERRA. FOR GOD'S SAKE, XAVIER BECERRA.

I like Xavier Becerra fine and I hope the Becerra caucus in my mentions succeeds in lighting the fire