The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per the Social Security Administration's estimates.

Attempts by elected officials and the courts to undermine our right to vote fly in the face of the principles of American democracy. Equal access to the ballot is fundamental to our nation.

Cyclists get mad that drivers are killing and injuring people and are treated as hysterical meanies Drivers throw a fit over losing 4 parking spots and are treated as people with serious concerns over how our streets should be designed

“At age 19, after two failed attempts to reach the US via Honduras and Mexico, he succeeded. He received a work permit under the Temporary Protected Status program for refugees, worked as a janitor and at a UPS warehouse. He became a US citizen in 2006..." www.wvgazettemail.com/life/religio...

"Fidelity and Vanguard funds acted before any legal or judicial process had played out..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/b...

"The program, which provides HIV testing, counseling and support services — will sunset June 30, according to the Indiana state Department of Health. The decision follows a $6.7 million reduction in federal funding that had supported the program..." indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/30/i...

Two buses, three hours and 13 miles: how Americans in ‘transit deserts’ get groceries

ICYMI: Voters in Louisiana are suing the state after the governor suspended an active election, warning that the state’s actions threaten to disenfranchise voters and undermine the integrity of the election. Experts call the situation unprecedented.

To be fair, maybe they actually *meant* "Untied States"? www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

Her comic strip starring wise-cracking, cigarette-smoking, cat-loving, middle-aged freelance writer ran in newspapers around the country for more than three decades.

The GOP's Louisiana is basically Orban's Hungary. apnews.com/article/new-...

🔥 @timmiller.bsky.social : “You can’t tell me it’s a real democracy if by exec order the governor can nullify your vote… in Tennessee — the idea that NASHVILLE & MEMPHIS would not have representation? How is that democracy? That’s preposterous.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

⛽ Average U.S. gas prices per gallon on May 2, per AAA ⛽ • Regular: $4.43 (⬆️ $1.45 since war in Iran began on Feb. 28) • Premium: $5.29 (⬆️ $1.43 since war began) • Diesel: $5.63 (⬆️ $1.87 since war began)

The plural of RBI should be RsBI

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You're buying Spirit airlines and running it as an ad supported business where you can't turn off the seat back screens???

Trump is flying into the local airport today to speak at The Villages. The last time he flew here, his cultists were lining the road in front of the airport before dawn. It was over a 1000 of them. I drove by the airport today and there was not a single Trump supporter out there.

What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

NEWS: Trump is trying to shut down the January 6 lawsuits just as a judge sets a court date for James Comey in a case many believe is doomed—showing forward movement in one case and a desperate attempt to block the truth in another. He doesn’t want discovery because that’s where evidence comes out.

⛽ Average U.S. gas prices per gallon on May 1, per AAA ⛽ • Regular: $4.39 (⬆️ $0.09 from yesterday, ⬆️ $1.41 since war in Iran began on Feb. 28) • Premium: $5.24 (⬆️ $1.38 since war began) • Diesel: $5.57 (⬆️ $1.81 since war began)

Republican states are rushing to change their maps months before an election in a way that will wipe out Black majority districts in the South. One declared a state of emergency to stop voting in a primary, This is entirely predictable because we say the same response after the Shelby decision.

Black political power created by the VRA translated directly into Black economic progress by opening up previously barred avenues, like public employment. This helped to partially close the wage gap between Blacks and Whites. www.nber.org/system/files...

This graph shows how registration rates between Black and White voters varied in Louisiana since Reconstruction. In a single image, it tells the story of political power and discrimination. Black voters had power, briefly, then it was taken from them. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

Folks, these are the stakes. Black Americans spent a century fighting and dying for the VRA. It is no more. It falls to all of us to pick the work back up, and carry on. Lament. Rage. Cry. Scream. I've done all these and more this week. But it will take our demanding it for it to happen

But as of April 29, 2026, there is no federal statute in the United States of America that can stop racially discriminatory voting laws from going into effect, or can be used to litigate against them once on the books.

And this week, they came for the vote DILUTION powers of Section 2. By making it virtually impossible to prove that racial vote dilution has occurred, SCOTUS has done to Section 2's powers against vote dilution that they did to Section 5 and Section 2 vis a vis vote denial in 2021

In a 2021 case called Brnovich v. DNC, SCOTUS effectively ended the ability to use Section 2 to strike down "vote denial" laws -- you'll recall that these are the sorts of laws that make CASTING a ballot more difficult. Since 2021, NO Section 2 lawsuit against a vote denial law has been successful

When the Roberts Court suspended preclearance in 2013, however, they made us a promise. "Section 2 is permanent," they wrote.

But that's not all. It has also led to widespread racial vote dilution, especially at the local level. Municipalities once covered by Section 5 have been "bleaching" their population, annexing whiter areas and driving down the share of the electorate that is minority

The shield was shattered, and the effects are still with us. Since 2013, the racial turnout gap has exploded in places once subject to preclearance. It has grown especially quickly in places where the DOJ blocked a discriminatory law from going into effect www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

It had immediate impacts. Within minutes -- literally less than 20 minutes -- Texas announced it would be enforcing a law that the federal government had already determined was racially discriminatory TWICE

🚨 NEWS: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit just rolled back nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone—BLOCKING telehealth prescriptions and mail delivery allowed under a 2023 Food and Drug Administration policy.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry declared a state of emergency, not for a natural disaster, but to redraw district lines and erase a historically Black seat. This is what election manipulation looks like, and they're doing it in plain sight.

Look. Scalise and Johnson have to go back to Louisiana and help Landry figure out if New Orleans gets divided up into 3 Congressional districts. Or 4.

So Presidential.

On a call today, the CEO of Exxon said gas prices are going to go even higher. Talking about the Iran War, he said "the market hasn't seen the full impact of that yet." And when the war ends, he said it'll take 3-5 years to get back up to speed in some countries, like Qatar.

In 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified, declaring that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It also gave Congress the power to enforce the Amendment "by appropriate legislation"

Reuters: US APPEALS COURT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS MAIL-ORDER ACCESS TO ABORTION DRUG MIFEPRISTONE

I just signed Boston’s Transfer Fee Home Rule Petition, a proposal to place a 2% fee on real estate transactions over $2 million (with the first $2 million exempt to limit impacts on middle-class homeowners). Transfer Fee revenue would fund the creation and preservation of affordable housing.

BREAKING: We're suing Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. On the heels of a Supreme Court decision that eviscerated protections for voters of color, elected officials jumped at the chance to disenfranchise people — we won't allow it.

US lawmakers vote to cut science spending—but reject Trump’s sweeping reductions www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A document obtained by MPR News shows that dozens of Minneapolis police officers have worked with a previously undisclosed Homeland Security Task Force, which city leaders say is investigating criminal, and not immigration, violations. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This is a First Amendment violation. This is very illegal! A politician using the power of his office to silence criticism is EXACTLY what the First Amendment was designed to prevent. I hope Kimmel sues the hell out of Trump and wins a ton of money. Yes, it’s a real tweet: x.com/whitehouse/s...

Elon Musk was paid $158 billion by Tesla last year. That is double the entire budget of the U.S. Department of Education.

“The Supreme Court saw that Louisiana had two whole Black congressmen and they were like, ‘Whoa, what is this, “Showtime at the Apollo?” Let’s dial this back.’” — Josh Johnson

“The name of [an ICE] officer accused of strangling a man in Fitchburg during an immigration arrest has been revealed in court, despite the federal government’s attempts to keep his identity a secret. The officer’s name is David Jackson, an acting supervisory detention and deportation officer.”

Chucklehead says what?

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

He stole millions of YOUR TAX MONEY to fix up a luxury jet Qatar given to him that he’s taking with him when he leaves. He wants to use OUR MONEY for his ballroom and a monster arch. He’s a common crook.