People just make this shit up. These are projections by one set of elites onto another set of elites. It's a tedious from of intra-elite signaling. It has no connection whatsoever to the experience of the vast bulk of US colleges or college students.

Today in Congress, @raskin.house.gov says he supports term limits for Supreme Court justices, and notes it’s constitutional for Congress to pass such a law. It’s popular too. He’s right on all counts. 1/

Good start. More please. Like, get rid of him altogether!

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

Springsteen knows the score

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

“We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis” -Bruce Springsteen

“The first guy in America to have lost a show because the President can’t take a joke” -Bruce Springsteen on Stephen Colbert

The American people do not want this

For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks. Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals. (Published May 2024)

People are sure to love this

I really appreciate that @djrothkopf.bsky.social feels uncomfortable when he hosts a “manel” and takes pains to ensure it is an unusual occurrence. More of this please.

And Colbert was a political fire

It was a political hire. She had zero experience in broadcast news, and one no today tries to say otherwise. So there must be some other reason she was given the keys to CBS News. And for me it makes sense only as a kind of political appointment. Dylan Byers of @puck.news:

I think the Pod boys (who thought this was an overreaction) are wrong and are underestimating the level of our rage.

To say Republicans have failed this country you would first have to presume they meant to serve it.

having billions of dollars is basically like walking around with a nuclear bomb, politically speaking, and there's a reason we do not let individuals have nuclear bombs to set off entirely at their own whims

Our government is funding domestic terrorism — and I don’t just mean ICE

Accurate summary

Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.

These people are so f*cking weird

Nice going, Jared Polis.

I think it’s going to have to be The Hague

This should be the headline and lead of every story about this

AI will never eat half a case of mini chocolate chip muffins and that's why it will never write good

lol wtaf? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

Cowardly journalists treat Trump as if he’s a political maverick “upending norms.” No, he’s an old-time mafia-style crook who somehow got into the White House. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

I just don’t really understand the idea that the President can just direct the government to give our money to whomever he chooses

If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money. That's how you can tell. Another brilliant entry in taking on this regime of the bullies for the billionaires. Bravo @samforstag.bsky.social C'mon Montana! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHia...

Use Trump math. The tax is 1776%.

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

Impeach

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

@palewi.re has created an index of all the FiveThirtyEight articles that are preserved on the Internet Archive. Very useful: fivethirtyeightindex.com

Running the country like he did the Trump Foundation

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Consistent excellence

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Trump being underwater on every issue, even immigration, is good news for John McCain. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

daaaamn london

If the Confederacy just chose to not do slavery, then there would be no need for the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, and 13th Amendement.

As with a lot of what I have to day these days, the key point is just to recognize that the crisis is already here, is already underway

Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.

This happened 11 days after Kent State.

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Alice Weidel: "I personally consider the war waged by Ukraine to be high security risk for Germany. You can’t keep poking big bear in the eye with hot iron, like drone attack deep into Russia, and expect nothing to happen." What a vile Russian shill.

the services sought for detransition are quite literally the same ones sought for transition. detransitioners work in tandem with us on advocacy. there aren't enough people to keep a detransition-only clinic busy. this should clue you in that this clinic will not be used for consenting detransition

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President