We don’t really need a new Constitution & aren’t going to get one. We need extensive multiparty democracy reforms & some of us are talking about those now: newrepublic.com/article/2104... We also need people to fulfill their damn oaths of office. <No constitution> works if this doesn’t happen.

I don’t want to scare anyone, but basically every time I talk to a current or former government lawyer they tell me we are going to need a new Constitution. Because this one is inoperative.

One thing I’m gonna say about this nazi salute is that it does not “resemble” a nazi salute, it is a nazi salute. May we all dispense with this coy “resembles” language in all cases.

Disney viewing the current situation and deciding their best course of action is to flip Carr off is.. meaningful.

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

A rhetorical question, but do we think that if a Democratic administration was openly threatening to try and cripple parts of the commerce/economy of red state cities in revenge for them bucking the presidents priorities the response from our news media institutions would largely be muted?

Antifa...

Reminder: "antifa" is about 99% imaginary.

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

She's not an accuser ffs. She sued and won.

All of it is just people starving

may everyone targeted by the right wing chud brigade receive this treatment from their coworkers, this rules

They made her a cake at work lmao

Wait! I know what will cheer up @joybella.blacksky.app. Did you hear about this? I hope Mamdani seizes all the abandoned buildings in East Harlem and gives them to the community.

This is a really ballsy speech by student reporter Santiago Campos, winner of the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship ($10,000) and worth watching in full.

Amazing work coming out of U Michigan!

was there any one at the january 6th insurrection who wasn’t a registered sex offender

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

i know i know i’ve lived in the country for a while it’s still wild to have a president just this flat out openly racist

just remembered the time, back when I was on twitter, that I said 'originalism is astrology for people who feel bullied by the Civil Rights Movement' and a bunch of people into astrology were like 'how dare you' 😭

I’m not a vegetarian and I take him at his word that he isn’t either but I hate how any left of Pinochet candidate has to do this ridiculous song and dance as if a man eating an above average amount of cauliflower would be a valid excuse to vote for the pedo coddling fascist enabling crook.

conservative pundits (sneering): actually our christianity is more a set of ideological views about race and gender than anything resembling faith or observance everyone else: yes we know, it's not a secret

My most right-coded belief is that market-based capitalism (well-regulated by a democratically elected government) is the best way to organize a large society, because all the alternatives involve central planning of some sort and that way lies much badness.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

Funny story: 13 is the same number of service members who died in the pullout from Afghanistan, for which Biden received brutal bipartisan media coverage for months

This is one of many super common ways that stats are misreported and you should watch out for it.

This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

It's so easy to forget that people, even elected officials, can at any moment simply choose to do the right thing.

he is a cynical, malicious, monstrous black hole of a human being and we’ve been caught in his event horizon for ten years, *of course* we are feeling the effects of that, making everyone feel awful is his superpower

Nonzero possibility that the Pope in part had Tumblr moderation wars in mind writing this paragraph.

What I witnessed and experienced today was shameful. Delaney Hall is a failure; it’s this administration’s failure. The only way to make this right for our communities is to shut it down and make sure the failures we’ve seen never happen again. 4/4

I cannot imagine a more on-the-nose metaphor than tech companies filling their offices with free drugs that supposedly enhance your productivity but are more addictive than heroin. fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

Senator Alex Padilla. Rep. Adelita Grijalva. Senator Andy Kim. Alderperson Jesse Fuentes. Mayor Ross Baraka. huh, I wonder what the pattern is, and also, abouttime some handsome strong white men who expect my vote to step into the firehose of state violence instead of delegating the risk to others

not really related here but one of the more interesting things to think about a "lincoln lives" scenario is his post presidency life and living potentially into the 1890s

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

a disgrace not only to the office of the president but to military families who have lost loved ones

the history of large scale war is very substantially a history of dumbasses doing dumbass things

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

Here are remarks I gave at the Keeping the Republic Conference at Notre Dame. If you’ve followed me over the past decade or so, my skepticism toward the field’s fixation on polarization likely won’t come as much of a surprise. But here they are, for what they’re worth. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Yeah, this is the stuff.

Over a decade of insisting that verifiably restricting Iran's nuclear program was terrible, because unilateral US force would achieve so much more. It hasn't. The JCPOA advocates were always right. Cruz, Graham, FDD, etc. bear responsibility for this disaster (but will likely never acknowledge it).

Following massive backlash over the leaked terms of Trump’s Iran negotiations, Trump is now claiming he told his team not to rush a deal because “time is on our side” — while once again attacking Obama, who actually managed to secure an Iran deal without starting a war or shutting down the Strait.

Obama had 11 attempts on his life. Biden had 5 attempts on his life. Bet you never heard of them. Because MSM never reported on them. Why? The WH asked for them not to, so not to invite copycat scenarios. Trump promotes them.

Epstein files...

the plural of "lived experience" is "graph."

Y’ALL.