If only the framers of the Constitution created a “first among equals” that could exercise authority over this waste of OUR MONEY and abuse of presidential alleged power.

ICE has targeted & detained a CT high school student, who entered legally & has no criminal record. His father, Zia, was an interpreter for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Lets get this guy out? Anyone knows anymore info? We need stronger actions against ICE.

Liberals have built large majorities on the supreme courts of the three “Blue Wall” swing states that play an outsized role in presidential elections: 5-2 in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and 6-1 in Michigan.

Evergreen. (H/t Sarah Kendzior)

REMINDER: Saudi Arabia does not want the war in Iran to end before there is regime change. The Saudis are paying a top U.S. negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions annually. The negotiations just ended without a deal, exactly what the Saudis wanted.

"I don’t know that things were better in the 90s. It’s not like we didn’t have a president who flew on Epstein’s plane & couldn’t keep it in his pants. What I do know is, things were more chill. Hormuz, you say? In the 90s, the only straits that were dire were the guys who sang 'Money For Nothing.'”

"Even if Trump ordered U.S. forces to cease fire tomorrow, Iran could continue blocking the strait, hurting the global economy and humiliating the U.S. while demanding war reparations. This is not like business, where he can declare bankruptcy and walk away."

My Jewish grandmothers, one from Tunisia, one from Iraq, both did it at every celebration I ever had. It’s called ululation. It’s ancient and it’s joyful. When someone tells you “this is my culture,” that’s the moment you choose grace or dismissal. Sabrina Carpenter chose dismissal.

It is an insane dereliction of duty for any president or Secretary of State-even Trump and Marco Rubio-that they’re at a UFC fight instead of monitoring inept liar JD Vance, untrained real estate developer Steve Witkoff and serial grifter Jared Kushner as they tried-and failed-to negotiate with Iran

“At least seven prominent law professors.” As I suggested on Monday, this is just like Justice Gorsuch’s “battle of law reviews.” It’s not about the frickin’ scoreboard: www.stevevladeck.com/p/219-drunks...

mississippi had the best vaccine compliance rates in the country. rfk jr's allies spent years dismantling that. a baby is dead. this is the policy working as designed.

Abortion is Healthcare.

They are allowed to throw flash bangs and tear gas into crowds of people exercising their rights. They are committing crimes against humanity every day. We get 9 million protesters. It's not near enough, and not often enough.

JUST IN: Liberals have won a decisive victory for the Wisconsin supreme court race tonight. Chris Taylor will join the supreme court, flipping a conservative-held seat. This expands liberals' majority on the court to 5-2. Why it matters: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

What a result: A Democratic-backed candidate has won the mayoral election in Waukesha, the biggest city in the notoriously conservative Waukesha County. Alicia Halvensleben will be the next mayor. She defeated a GOP state lawmaker.

Another Dem win in Wisconsin: In traditionally red WOOD COUNTY, voters reelected a county judge who was appointed by Democratic Governor Tony Evers. Emily Nolan-Plutchak, the winner, is a longtime public defender. She defeated a Republican DA.

BREAKING: Democrat Alison Page has defeated longtime Republican incumbent Dan Toland in the River Falls, Wisconsin mayoral race, flipping the seat from red to blue. Toland had held the office since 2012.

It's a blowout victory for the Democrat in the statewide Supreme Court vote in Wisconsin, a state Trump won in 2024.

It's happened: Wisconsin Republicans' mighty suburban WOW wall is now breached. Chris Taylor, the liberal candidate for supreme court, actually carried Ozaukee County today. (Flashback to last decade: Romney won here by 30%.)

If it weren’t for me, Israel wouldn’t exist. Is this old man completely delusional?

NEW: Even by national standards, Pennsylvania has a sky-high rate of people serving life without parole. That's bc it mandates anyone convicted of 2nd-degree murder serve that sentence. The state supreme court just declared that to be cruel—a major ruling written by the Dem chief justice.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed several bills aimed at protecting immigrants last week. The reforms ban local partnerships with ICE and require federal agents to show their faces and provide ID before making an arrest.

Michael Banks, the Chief of US Border Patrol who was appointed by Donald Trump in January 2025, has been credibly accused by multiple Border Patrol insiders of bragging about his frequent "sex tourism" travels to countries like Thailand and Colombia, preying on impoverished, vulnerable sex workers.

What CPAC really stands for. And the only truth they’ve ever uttered. (from 2023 convention)

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

True in 2016. Tragically true and worse ten years later.

LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ? TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged LANDERS: It wasn't though TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know? LANDERS: Your own AG said it TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter LANDERS: Where's the evidence?

JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House. Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports. (Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.) This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.

TDS stands more aptly for Transgender Derangement Syndrome. That MAGA is so obseesed with so tiny a percentage of our population who just want the right to live their lives in peace is evil and sick AF. #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation. Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it. Haiti TPS is safe for now.

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state. Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

Trump is Putin’s puppet.

@welch.senate.gov This is the guy you're calling "competent" and "honest"? Shame on you and @democrats.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov if you vote to confirm another anti-Democratic, warmongering, Trump sycophant. Oppose every last Trump-MAGA nominee. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Thank you @hennepinatty.bsky.social DHS is wrong. And fed officers can be sued civilly too. Qualified immunity only protects them from $ damages in certain cases. Accountability matters. apnews.com/article/bovi...

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social Seriously?! You were doing so well with the rational and moral choices. NOW you decide to play politics?! (BTW ask how the WMDs and Iraq war vote turned out for Hillary.)

"After reclassifying immigrants’ dependent US-born children as part of the immigrant population, we found that immigrants and their children still use less welfare per person than native-born American adults and their dependent children." - @AlexNowrasteh www.cato.org/blog/immigra...

“The Iranian operation in 2020 was designed to help Donald Trump get elected.”

apnews.com/article/chil... sue Trump administration over changes to childhood vaccine recommendations

My newsletter tomorrow will explain how Donald Trump is plotting to use his attacks on Iran and Venezuela to justify an unconstitutional power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now to receive. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Most cash-transfer programs have failed to produce health gains in the U.S.—except for SNAP, Aaron Richterman and Harsha Thirumurthy argue. They examine the conditions that make SNAP work, and how it may provide a road map for other programs:

Still cannot believe anyone trusts anything this ghoul and criminal ever says

If Khamenei is dead - and presumably has been dead potentially all day, the fact that the Iranian military has been continuing to launch strikes (and is reportedly launching more as I type this) should give anyone thinking otherwise pause about how likely his death is to lead to regime collapse.

War is Peace. Orwell would be proud of this.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.

The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com

@senlindseygraham.bsky.social A craven, morally bankrupt ghoul. Someday, someone will uncover the reason (kompromat) Lindsey Graham did a “180” on Trump, culminating in that infamous 2017 golf cart ride.

This aged well. Note the author.