Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

Pay attention to language: when Trump says he needs a "ballroom", he means the belowground part - the bunker. The aboveground section, with gold drapes and fancy tiles, he called that the "ballroom section of the ballroom". What he's urgently demanding is a bunker. That would cost $1B dollars.

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

War is peace

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.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

Exactly 💯

Of course, It was all planned

The fact that the world is passing irreversible thresholds while the reality of climate change is still being "debated" by those who have the power to do anything about it is the world's most effective statement on GREED.

sir, you did so good on the dementia test they want you to take it every month!

Yes but to be fair we’re all seeing the benefits of their trickle down. 🙄

Still kind of stunned that they just paved over the Rose Garden. Not that I have such a massive nostalgia/respect for the Kennedy era. But it's wild. Also a strong indication of how we should treat all of Trump's work. Destroy it, replace it, never mention it again.

Under Obama, the National Park Service conducted a major renovation of the reflecting pool, which included tiniting the bottom of the pool to improve reflection. Trump Pools R'Us LLC is currently painting over that tint with non-reflective paint, which will probably cause another algae bloom.

We went from "armed gunman mere seconds away from shooting the president is killed by Secret Service" to "guy with a shotgun falls down on a different floor well outside the entrance of the ballroom and we can't find the bullets because that just happens sometimes" awfully fast.

🎯💯 Check out the comments thread… so descriptive of what it is like to live here. Sadly.

It seems to me the people of Washington, DC are going through a much more deranged version of the Trump Presidency than the rest of us

Adversaries fear a strong EU. That is why they target EU unity and lobby against its regulations. With a common rulebook and a single voice, Europe is impossible to bully. Without them, the continent becomes a playground for foreign interests. Regulation is sovereignty

Data centers are shaking up US politics, bringing unlikely allies together. “We’ve been foes for a long time ... but when it comes down to our backyards, we realized we are really just the same people.” @stavernise.bsky.social

Make billionaires millionaires again

History will view Trump as the primary accelerator of the end of US hegemony. His chaotic foreign policy has perfectly paved the way for the rise of China and a new multipolar reality. He is actively dismantling American global influence

In just over a year, Trump has made the US weaker, poorer, less respected, and dangerously overstretched. It will take decades to rebuild the standing he has completely destroyed

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that mifepristone (the pill used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States) must once again be dispensed in person, ending the ability of patients nationwide to obtain it through telehealth and mail.

BREAKING: A conservative court packed with Trump-appointed judges just ruled to ROLL BACK access to the abortion pill. This is a page straight out of extremist Republicans’ anti-abortion playbook. Let me be clear: the abortion pill is safe and effective. We must fight back.

Another really long day. I am doing everything I can to spread the word about the threats to democracy and how to fight back. You can help me by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free and sharing its content. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Whether he knows it or not.

Why are people surprised? It's a rigged game. www.ms.now/news/news-an...

Very few people realize the true scale of the war in Ukraine. In the first 100 days alone, more people potentially died in the siege of Mariupol than during the entire war in Gaza. Understanding this grim reality is crucial to grasping what is actually at stake

Ukraine’s total casualties are about two to three times lower than Russia’s, but its civilian casualties are dozens of times higher. That stark contrast tells you everything you need to know about the nature of this war and who is in the wrong

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

Words matter!

The best part of Orbán losing power is what comes next. For 16 years, he used the state to cover his tracks while selling out Hungary to Putin. Without the government apparatus to protect him, we are finally going to uncover the true depths of his corruption and treason

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An “era of extreme gerrymandering” just began out of nowhere.

“The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama

Jeffries says everything is on the table legislatively to deal with the Supreme Court: In the new Congress, we’re going to have to do something about this Supreme Court, and let me be very clear: everything is on the table.

Warnock on SCOTUS: No one elected this Court—to decide what kind of remedies we need in this moment. It’s really not up to the Supreme Court to say, “Well, we have reached the threshold where this issue around race and inclusion is no longer necessary.” That is not the job of the Court.

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

we are told that it’s Europe that has a problem with free speech

As embarrassing as it is we would do well to grasp that even abroad good journalists are shaking their heads in disbelief The shameful collaboration of the #WHCA is not lost on good journalists anywhere in the world.

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

🚨GOP going wild on ICE - $140 Billion more they want to add to the amount they want for Detention Centers they want!!!! youtube.com/shorts/EtrGA...

Your Number For The Day: 124 That's the number of researchers left in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development, which studies vital public health issues. More than 1,500 worked there a year ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

Oh you have got... to... be... fucking... kidding... me. Like we don't have enough to be embarrassed about when we go abroad.

A sort of haze of unreality pervades America. People cannot believe what is happening, but they also don’t know what to do. We are trapped in a sinister clown house. There is no escape.

Someone needs to remind Acting ̶H̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶B̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶ Attorney General Blanche that Richard Nixon didn't go to prison over the Watergate scandal. But his attorney general, John Mitchell, did - for almost two years.

thanks for literally nothing