A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Tonight is the last show for Stephen Colbert. Let's all watch to give him the biggest ratings ever. CBS will die tonight after his final show. You know what to do.

Ukraine Liberates Settlements in Kharkiv Region, Pushing Russian Troops Toward Border Ukrainian forces have pushed Russian troops back toward the state border in parts of the Kharkiv region, with Moscow’s forces losing two settlements united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Tonight. Colbert’s last show all because of a small, petty, convicted felon of a President whose ego is so fragile that he can’t take a joke. Make CBS hurt. They bent the knee, let’s amputate it. Never watch them again after tonight. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks #SheShed

Oil refineries are currently burning all over Russia. He who sows the wind will reap a fiery storm… 🔥

EXCELLENT news this morning: Officers Dunn and Hodges sue to dissolve the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that will most certainly be used to fund further insurrectionist activity www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

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Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

White House evangelicals saying Trump knows the bible better than the Pope tells you everything you need to know about the state of Christianity in America.

Diane Nash was only 22 when she helped lead the Nashville sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and the fight for voting rights in Selma. Threats, arrests, and violence did not silence her. She understood that courage is what moves history forward. #SheShed

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

Your Saturday FYI: Russia is getting its ass handed to it, by Ukraine. Ukraine has “the cards.” Slava Ukrainii

Destany Pete researched an Indigenous chokecherry recipe and achieved promising “in vitro” results on cancer cells. Her science project gained international recognition for combining traditional knowledge with modern laboratory experimentation.

Poseidon sends his regards

Because REPUBLICANS. They own this. Every sordid, vile, cruel part of this. Inhumane monsters. Enabling the biggest monster of them all, Donald Trump. #RememberInNovember

Katie Phang and Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky visit a new exhibition space in Tribeca where the Epstein files are bound in 3,237 physical volumes. “To see the person who scheduled me, who is still not behind bars—her name is here.”

Hear, hear! Congrats, @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

Bernie “Castro did good things in Cuba” never stood a chance of winning in my state of Florida. In fact, his butting into our gubernatorial campaign in 2018 & endorsing Andrew Gillum cost us the governor race where Gwen Graham had been leading & could’ve defeated DeSantis.

Robert’s needs to STFU! He thinks we are stupid and don’t see what he and his conservative cohorts are doing on SCOTUS. They annihilated affirmative action and decimated women’s, civil, workers’, and environmental rights! We see you, Roberts!

I'm hearing that the brown recluse spider drove himself across state lines to protect local businesses before biting Kyle Rittenhouse.

THANK YOU to all the hard-working nurses and teachers out there. No jobs are more important. We appreciate all that you do. #NationalNursesDay #TeacherAppreciationWeek

Today, Elias Law Group attorneys, in partnership with the National Redistricting Foundation, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Equal Ground Education Fund and 18 Florida voters to challenge the State’s newly enacted 2026 congressional map. elias.law/press-releas...

I'm going to post this song every day until that man is dead and gone. youtube.com/shorts/w4iBD...

The addled felon scared👇🏽 Jeffries lays out more targets for gerrymanders in response to GOP’s renewed push The House minority leader said Democrats will continue to be aggressive in their gerrymandering counterefforts after the Supreme Court opened the door to more Republican redraws.

🚨BREAKING: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) Monday unveiled a new gerrymandered congressional map that seeks to carve out four additional GOP-friendly seats in the Sunshine State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... My promise: If Florida enacts this, it will be sued.

I am seeking the appointment of a Special Master to assist in getting the DOJ to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. It's time that the lawyers in the Trump Regime actually follow the law.

The DOJ violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the daily. So I'm suing Todd Blanche. As a journalist, I cannot report accurately on the Epstein Files if I cannot even read them. I am represented by @brendanballou.bsky.social & we seek to hold the DOJ accountable for its noncompliance.

This is amazing: A new rapid-response network just launched to alert people to ICE prison camps in their area. GTFOice.org Sign up. Tell ICE to "GTFO"! (and thanks to @milestaylor.bsky.social and @defiance.org for this initiative!)

I’m seeing single-issue voters asking whether California governor candidates will send funding to Israel. Let’s be clear: the governor of California does not appropriate U.S. foreign aid to Israel. Military aid and foreign assistance are federal, handled by Congress and the president.

Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

NBC projects that YES will win in Virginia.

I'm struck by the bravery of this student and the fantastic way the union handled this allegation. What a model for all of us to follow in terms of how to show up for our members.

Happy Dogs 😊

Commonwealth Club asked why @xavierbecerra.bsky.social why he accepted President Joe Biden’s offer to be HHS Secretary (he’d been offered him a few other positions that he turned down) “HHS, intrigued me.”

The Power Catholics/Leonard Leo/Bannon/Alito/Opus Dei Catholics have been trying to take over the church since Francis took the helm. Their version allows for destroying ANYTHING & harming ANYONE if it helps them in their mission (“God’s Plan”). It’s Broligarch Catholicism.

I am proud to say that Democracy Docket does not publish on Substack. www.democracydocket.com

I frankly don't see this administration being capable of doing real diplomacy. You don't just show up, talk for a few hours, and expect real results.

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Holy shit, listen to Springsteen’s opener last night….😘😘

“Russians Go Home”! We should’ve been chanting this in USA since 2017.

Anti-Orban concert in Hungary with the audience chanting “Russians, go home”

I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II. She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet. Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.