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Almost time for this important House Oversight field hearing on the Epstein Files with a critical focus on the survivors who continue to demand justice and accountability.

She reported Epstein, Maxwell, and other of their co-conspirators more than 30 years ago in 1996 to her local NYC precinct and nothing was done. She then reported it to the FBI. The FBI failed to do anything.

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

Trump Thinks the Supreme Court Works for Him newrepublic.com/article/2102... via @newrepublic.com

It’s so depressing how predictably this has all played out www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

"respecting people as people means being willing to tell them that they're wrong" is a forgotten truth in this whole "you gotta respect maga voters' frustration!!" debate

"Higher taxes on second homes already exist in conservative strongholds like South Carolina and Montana, but if Mamdani adopts them in New York, the ultrarich argue, we might as well be in Soviet Russia." Appreciate this reality check on the push to get zillionaires to pay their fair share:

“.. The use of terms related to ‘American decline’ in official Chinese sources nearly doubled in 2025 ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

How long will the Republican Party and corporate media pretend that Donald Trump is not a deranged monster who endangers us all? Their failure to act is a crime against humanity.

"The idea that Trump would negotiate AI guardrails with China is as real as a chatbot’s hallucination. AI’s ace card with Trump is that its valuations fuel the stock market. There is thus a near-zero chance that he will permit serious regulation as president." My column. as.ft.com/r/c634b2eb-a...

The hits keep coming open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

“What has me worried — what we all need to focus on — is that something important in our democracy broke last week, and we are only beginning to see the fallout. The winners will be a Republican Party that is hostile to democracy.” @democracydocket.com newsletters.democracydocket.com/the-gop-lit-...

Good shirt tbh (benefits @psabortionfund.bsky.social)

Note how this isn't some off-the-cuff misstatement or exaggeration. He has an entire dishonest chain of reasoning built on misrepresenting VAERS data and dubious extrapolation from the Harvard Pilgrim study. This is a planned lie that would not survive any scrutiny; he knows he won't get any.

Suffs Broadway show pro-shot on PBS Great Performances tonight @ 9pm! It’s a thrilling and wonderful show. Relevant like whoa. PSA & FYI.

The New Jim Crow open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

I'm not a legal expert, maybe Virginia's redistricting case was complicated, but Florida's case is not: Voters passed a referendum that said no partisan redistricting, DeSantis and the Legislature said fuck you we're doing it anyway, and nobody seems to think the all-Republican court will stop them.

The System Is Rigged open.substack.com/pub/truthand...

A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.

I am begging a democrat to run for president saying word for word “these people are fucking freaks and my cabinet will be made up of normal fucking people”

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

BREAKING: ABC has accused Trump's FCC of violating its free speech rights — arguing that regulators had a "chilling effect" on free speech by trying to punish political content they disagreed with.

This administration ended work from home policies that caused many federal employees who can't afford DC price to leave government. In the meantime, Cabinet Secretaries treat their jobs like a side hustle to their brand building.

Billionaires threatening to leave NYC because of Mamdani’s pied a terre tax:

“It’s huge. There are state parks that are smaller than that ranch.” (Yes, Zorro Ranch.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

"Patel has walled himself off from some senior bureau leaders this week in the wake of multiple media reports that raised red flags about his leadership, according to three people familiar with his recent actions."

Memphis is where MLK, in the last speech of his life, spoke of realizing the full promise of inclusive and representative democracy. Now, that promise is under attack, as Tennessee Republicans propose to gerrymander Democratic Memphis into three pro-GOP districts. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

All right, this just came across my radar, and it is *brilliant*. You won't find a better or more compact explanation for [waves hands] all of this. This is the skeleton key.

And I implore everyone on BlueSky and beyond to understand the FBI’s refusal to investigate—at all—Renee Good’s death should be understood as racialized mechanism to police white allies of Black and Brown people. You have to see a name a Redeemer Project.

the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

what's great about this photo is it captures a truism of life in 2026: everything's very expensive and deeply concerning with no real path toward it getting better but also the memes are usually pretty good

Alito flew multiple flags tied to Jan 6 insurrectionists. Thomas just gave a speech on how "progressivism" is destroying the country — plus his wife was involved in the Jan 6 plot. And Roberts has pushed "shadow docket" cases where justices make decisions without explaining themselves. Please.

Obsessed www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/tit...

“The move disqualifies loans for those studying for careers as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, social workers, counseling and mental health practitioners,..” www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Unreal. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Here is today's motion: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Here was their April 30 response to the Callais plaintiffs' request for immediate issuance of the judgment. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

NEW: The Robinson plaintiffs in the original Voting Rights Act case that led to the order creating a second opportunity district in Louisiana filed a motion at SCOTUS asking the Supreme Court to recall the Callais mandate b/c Monday's order, they say, was based on an inaccurate claim.

A new poll found that most Americans say they believe President Trump is mentally and physically unfit to serve as commander in chief.