The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

I'm sorry... dry heat??? DC is ridiculously humid in the summer. These guys are just straight-up compulsive liars.

Molten Velveeta fritters. Deep-fried Nerds clusters. Schnitzel of tobacco leaf. Diesel donuts. Chicken-fried existential angst.

Last year my team and I built a high-powered model to predict legislative results in Texas. We just updated the model and now we're estimating a 5% chance that Democrats take the State House in 2026, and an additional 4% chance of a 75-75 tie. Small numbers, sure, but non-zero. #txleg #txpol

Now that's a fine Leamington tomato

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Caved and ordered it. amzn.to/4oOhMGI

Trump wants to create a national database of every registered voter in the country. Then, he and the GOP want to decide who gets to stay on it. “It’s a way of essentially taking over the voter registration process,” Marc Elias says, “or, more precisely, taking over the results.”

True giant www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/a...

"The story of Juneteenth survived because Black families carried it forward, year after year, while the broader culture looked away or invented comforting fictions in its place. Acknowledging that debt matters." kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/juneteenth...

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

After spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are peeling off and floating to the surface

44k people currently watching them build the scaffolding. bet that triples when the letters actually start being pried off the building.

“We’re living in a world where the food industry completely self-regulates, and they are not doing a good job of it when it comes to our safety” www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

“What’s more, the church teaches that once a perpetrator is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing — including the victim — can be accused of harboring an unforgiving heart.“ These guys really elevate DARVO to an art. www.propublica.org/article/old-...

17) Dismantling USAID also led to ending of a program to monitor flesh-eating screwworms in Central America, which are now back on U.S. soil for the first time since 1966. (The screwworms are typically found in warmer climates, but may now be moving further north due to climate change.)

Your Next Attorney General is Todd Blanche Mike Luckovich

“There is a cat, for instance, who dances with a MetroCard, and if you don’t understand the stanza about the “railway train,” you are … look, sometimes a cat has a MetroCard.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 154 Active Redistricting Cases: 44 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 76 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 73 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 28 www.democracydocket.com

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Starting at 10:30 this morning, come through! Demand more for our public libraries.

“Why did we ever give this game of telephone up? Like the kids are learning to say, call me anytime.” www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

The absolute bare minimum effort we *should* be seeing from electeds anywhere. “I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that’s when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls — as well as using the pepper spray — and were tackling people."

Trump can’t make payments only to those prosecuted by Dems—or AT ALL We called it within minutes, this is absurd & a violation of the Constitution We @democracydefendersaction.org & pro-democracy partners are fighting to stop even $1 being paid from this unpalatable & ILLEGAL fund👇 -TN

“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

This is more useful than I expected it to be! (I expected fun guilty pleasure. But it's v. thorough and v. useful.) www.readrps.com?r=9h5

DONT FORGET TO TURN OFF YOUR ALARMS YALL.

Almost needless to say but I’ll keep saying it: in the presidential primary you should support the candidate you like, not the candidate you think will appeal to some mythological swing voter. More people liking the candidate you like is what makes them electable, not a resume.

This isn’t even about AI - this is just straight-up misogyny.

i have my beef with ai but this ain’t an ai problem. this is decidedly a human one.

I learn so much from this podcast, every time. (And I'm grateful to Jena Friedman and Elise Hu for doing it!) www.patreon.com/cw/EpsteinFi...

An idea:

“Just in terms of sheer dollars, this is the most corrupt action in American history…” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...

we all thought we’d live in a Ridley Scott future but it turns out we live in a Paul Verhoeven future

"The entire exercise is an elaborate troll, right down to the $1.776 billion price tag, a figure which supposedly represents 'the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims' — and, *no*, they will not be showing their math." — @lizdye.bsky.social

We're all gonna die.

Damn. May his memory be a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Was it worth it, Bill? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

Cars are weapons and need to be treated that way. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/n...

Q: Do you agree with Trump's position that Americans' financial situations should not be a consideration in the Iran war? Vance: Well, I don't think the president said that

Fuck off Google. I keep removing this from my Login Items, and AGI keeps adding it back.

The three most politically vulnerable Senate Republicans this fall are Susan Collins (Maine), Dan Sullivan (Alaska) and Jon Husted (Ohio). None of them are saying whether they support putting $1 billion in taxpayer money toward the White House ballroom. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

the pitch deck to sponsor sec. of transportation sean duffy's family road trip reality show (obtained by POLITICO) is as stupid and corrupt as you'd expect: static.politico.com/74/6e/5da7a1...

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