crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

Trump should hire Obama to close a deal with Iran.

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

This might help you make summer plans. blackpowerwarroom.com/freedom-summ...

'Since the war began in 2014, and especially since the full-scale invasion of 2022, book publication has been self-defense. Russia targets Ukrainian publishing houses, archives, libraries, and museums, and in occupied zones Russians collect and burn Ukrainian books.' Resist. Persist. 💙

'American president ever elected returned to Walter Reed for his third “annual” physical in 13 months.'

A YouGov poll has the percentage of US adults who identify as MAGA as just 18% of citizens. However they account for 57% of Republicans. Both percentages are much lower than you would expect from the noise they make.

"anti-dviersity" so nice "his racism and misogyny" is more accurate, but unmentionable.

Indiana told the public it gave less than $1 million in data center subsidies in 2025. The real number? $655 million. And $561 million of that went to a single company: Amazon. While Hoosiers pay sales tax on groceries, Amazon paid nothing. This isn’t economic development. It’s a heist.

'this is a common European task. No one can be lost.'

In a VERY disrespectful manor.

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

'At Lawfare, we have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that has not yet been deleted but probably will be, given its thematic relationship to the material that was 86ed.'

Part of the reason we're stuck in neutral on the Iran negotiations is because there isn't enough trust to hold real peace talks. Because we attacked Iran during peace talks twice.

Obama had a team of highly intelligent experts and diplomats who worked for two years with Iran to complete the JCPOA. It was working, no one died, and the Strait of Hormuz was open.

Rubio says that US-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine "were not fruitful." Not fruitful? ​Let’s look at facts: your negotiators visited Russia seven times, and Ukraine zero times. You demanded concessions from Ukraine before negotiations even began, and throughout the entire process.

"Direct File was not brought down by runaway costs or technical fiascoes. It was murdered for no good reason at all, a victim of reactionary ideology and corporate self-interest." defector.com/free-easy-de...

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

www.theatlantic.com/photography/... An uplifting way to understand the week. 💙

Our government is for sale to the highest bidders at home and abroad. The US government is an active, ongoing, organized criminal enterprise. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

“Assuming courts will save us absolves our political leaders of both responsibility and accountability for allowing this kind of mischief to continue, and it absolves all of us of our responsibility to refuse to tolerate those who would just as quickly shrug their shoulders and move on.” My latest:

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If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

You love to see it. Thank you Greenland. ‘Within hours, the Times reported, he got nothing but cold shoulders and dismissals.’

‘Days later, Team Trump extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments, making Bessent look quite foolish. This week, it happened again.’ SO frustrating!

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

It’s not that the president has some mysterious ability to “do whatever he wants” It’s that Senators are choosing not to stop him, even though they could

The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

"settles" is absolutely the wrong word, he fucking grifted US taxpayers, the corrupt shit-stain on humanity did, that's a more accurate description @joshgerstein.bsky.social . At some point journalists need to tell it like it is rather than acting as if it's not 1930s Germany redux.

BREAKING: Minnesota has INDICTED ICE officer Christian Castro in the non-fatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. 4 counts of assault & 1 count of lying. This is the SECOND ICE officer charged by the Hennepin County DA. No charges yet for the murders of Good and Pretti. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Insurrectionists are going to get paid for being punished for trying to overthrow the government. Meanwhile black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved aren't entitled to reparations, and also having their representation taken away by this SCOTUS. Racism in America hasn't ended. It has evolved.

Outrageous abuse of power. Where is impeachment?

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... Brutal AND whimsical.

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

‘These weapons typically use compact turbojet engines, carry a relatively small warhead (estimated at 50–100 kg), and can be launched from both ground-based platforms and aircraft. Their design makes them harder to intercept by enemy air defenses.’ Thanks, Jeroen!

Weapons of mass disinformation.

Comey ignored standard procedures by revealing the investigation of one candidate and keeping silence on the other, more serious national security, investigation. He is accustomed to deference like many, many, millions of men given power.

Chinese citizens are calling Trump an "attention-seeking" influencer. Xi sat him in a shorter chair. Experts are calling it one of the worst summits in modern history. Ben has the full breakdown.

Thank you Adam! ‘Republicans are the party of the deficit, and Democrats need to say it out loud.’

For the umpteenth time: The most corrupt president in American history.

Trump's Naked Corruption Is on a Scale We've Never Seen open.substack.com/pub/rawstory...

This always amazes me. In a very reprehensible way...how these men went from making these statements to complicit enablers. They could have and should have been better.

The GOP is doing that thing again where they pretend the JCPOA (Obama nuclear deal) wasn’t working, despite our intelligence community, the IAEA, and our allies all confirming that it was. And the fact that all Iran’s significant enrichment happened after Trump pulled out. 🤷‍♂️

‘Eatherly shot someone in the Nashville suburb of Clarksville, according to police, apparently after the man punched him. Eatherly also shot himself during the incident’