The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

@eliasisquith.blog I detest and block cowards who post stupid shut and run away by disabling responses.

The deal Trump announced amid the roar, glitz, and ignominy of his UFC spectacle was an American surrender in a war that leaves us with less than we had when it started. This is what defeat looks, feels, and tastes like. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

Again and again, Russia kills the people and destroys the cultural sites it says it went to war to protect. These crimes will end when the US supplies missile defense to Ukraine and enforces sanctions on Russian energy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"we ran 125 million barrels of oil through the Strait" is a classic "large number dummy" trick because under normal circumstances, 20 million barrels passed through the Strait of Hormuz every single day. "we've gotten 125 million barrels through" actually means transport has slowed to a trickle.

This is a perfect example of a writer who is fine with fascism.

OTD in 1940, Nazi troops entered Paris. A reminder that we must always oppose and stop evil before it grows.

@fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social @foxsports.com.web.brid.gy FOX's score bug runs left to right. For US audiences & teams not wearing flag colors, 2 suggestions. 1. List teams on the score bug side they are defending. Switch at half. 2. Put the shirt (pastel) color behind the goal tally. Easy fixes.

The UFC event is a disgrace, what he did to our East Wing, the White House lawn for the UFC event, Reflecting Pool, The Kennedy Center, and Ivana. And what about the "collateral damage" deaths at his fake assassination attempt at Butler, PA? And the Trump execs who died in a helicopter crash?

Prosecutors initially had the blessing of a Trump appointee to move forward with the investigation into Sen. Jim Justice’s companies, but this spring, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General intervened to shut the probe down.

From NCAA national champions to NBA champions. 2016 to 2026.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

This is horrific. Ramsey County Sheriff should resign. White folks you gotta allow Black children to exist in public. This is a sickness. This was Columbia Heights graduation ceremony held in Maplewood Earl this week.

TRUTH

I think every night the scaffolding stays up, some enterprising activists should project some montages, picking a different one each night. Epstein, "loving inflation", Iran agreements, political cartoons, crowds booing Trump. He wants to pretend his name is there, put it there--our way.

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Standing ovation for Rep. Beatty, who sued Trump over the renaming of the Kennedy Center, took him to court, and won!

Imagine taking the few Bible verses on human sexuality and women being silent in church as literal divine commands from God for all society, but minimizing the +2,000 verses calling for a generous economy and redistribution of wealth for the sake of the poor to a personal choice.

OK, I get it: The Kennedy Center operation is proof that it will be a slow and cumbersome process to remove the stain of Donald Trump. But make no mistake, democracy-loving Americans will not be deterred.

A jazz drummer canceled his show because he wouldn't perform under Trump's name. The regime sued him for $1M to destroy him, but a judge just threw it out and ordered the government to pay HIS legal bills: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

Folarin Balogun, born in New York to Nigerian parents. People like JD Vance would say he's not *really* American when, in fact, he's the epitome of American. 🇺🇸

live your life in such a way that the entire world isn’t waiting to see your accursed name pried off every building

@repbeatty.bsky.social isn't letting up Her message to the Kennedy Center board: restore the institution's integrity & respect the rule of law @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG are proud to stand w/ @repbeatty.bsky.social as she takes this fight on -TN

Healthcare? No. Rights? No. Affordable food? No. Jobs? Absolutely not. A slightly more gold horse statue? Coming right up!

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

My Republican colleagues need to listen to veterans. We must pass the Major Richard Star Act to ensure combat-injured veterans receive the benefits they have rightfully earned & deserve—a measure that Senate Republicans have blocked 6 times now. substack.com/home/post/p-...

NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump is waging a three front war on voting: restricting voter registration through proof-of-citizenship laws, controlling who gets to use mail-in voting via the U.S. Postal Service and laying the groundwork for another "stop the count" campaign. youtu.be/b28A7nduT8c?...

NEWS: In a complete reversal, Senate Republicans threw out my bill that would cover IVF for our servicemembers in the next defense bill. They supported it last year. And the year before. But this year, they chose to betray our heroes who dream of having a family. Outrageous.

The Ohio Organizing Collaborative are our friends, allies, and clients, their contributions to democracy so exemplary that we honored them with the Brennan Legacy Award. An attack on the Ohio Organizing Collaborative is an attack on every organization working to protect the right to vote. 3/3

It is an egregious abuse of law enforcement for political ends, and it fits a pattern of federal inquiries targeting voting infrastructure ahead of the midterm elections. 2/3

We’ve learned that federal law enforcement raided offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, as well as homes of employees, board members, and activists. This appears to be an outrageous fishing expedition, an attempt to intimidate people working for democracy in our communities and country. 1/3

There is no deal. A deal with Iran is not imminent. Enough with. legacy media reporting every breathless lie from the pathological liar holding our country (and the globe) hostage to his madness.

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

Oh cool did the guy who helped kill millions by dismantling USAID out of pure uncut racism add another zero to his net worth this morning, that's neat

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

...also, this was more or less literally what Father Coughlin, the Radio Priest, said after Kristalnacht, and then he helped found the Christian Front, a Catholic fascist party. So. This is America.

it would make a great tee-shirt for the great new punk band: "Sleepy Don and the Sycophants."

May 2026. It just keeps getting worse...

@cartoonmovement.com you may appreciate my cartoon today…

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his 1953 "Chance for Peace" speech (also known as the "Cross of Iron" speech).

An example of the difference

Oh.

More than 4,400 Allied troops died on D-Day. They gave their lives to defeat a regime that judged people by race and religion. Let’s not dishonor them by allowing that sickness to spread in or from the government of the United States.

“It is unconscionable that the House would vote to write yet another blank check for ICE and Border Patrol ... Over the past several months we’ve seen these abusive agencies kill our neighbors, harass and racially profile people, and tear thousands of families apart,” said @aclu.org's Kate Voigt.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

*The projected Social Security shortfall reflects decades of upward income redistribution and is significantly smaller than the military spending increase proposed by the Trump administration* Jun 10, 2026 By @deanbaker13.bsky.social #Budget #NationalDebt #SocialSecurity cepr.net/publications...

THIS 👇 HERE TOO......

then why don’t u fuckin open it