Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

> @reuters.com

Man, there are some crazy “labor vs. capital” charts, lately. @ianbremmer.com

this is absolutely BONKERS behavior from the director of the FBI. it's a disgrace to his position and the entire US government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u... Gift link

According to 404 Media, ICE officials have admitted that Palantir has helped build a database of 20 million people for the agency to use for raids and arrests. Yet another reason why Palantir is America's most dangerous corporation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88

“The Reflecting Pools in Washington, D.C. were designed for one purpose: reflection. They are supposed to mirror the beauty, dignity, and symbolism of the monuments around them. They were never intended to look like a chlorinated Olympic swimming pool where you can count pennies on the bottom.”

House Oversight's Robert Garcia says Dems will release a new report May 12 that he says will detail, from bank records, how the sweetheart deal that Alex Acosta helped further enrich Jeffrey Epstein and expand the network of sexual abuse of adolescent girls. "This report is just the beginning."

Is that using the database that DHS told congress doesn’t exist?

This supports what we found about how ICE is using Palantir's ELITE tool. It finds not just a particular person, but neighborhoods that DHS have said are "target rich." ICE go to one place, then find they can arrest the neighbor too www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

The Palantir ICM + BI2 + Mobile Fortify pipeline is a staggering thing. Similar tools between Palantir and the FBI are also in the works. This level of surveillance transcends the current immigration focus.

Palantir’s merch serves no tactical purpose for “warfighters,” but is a new way for the laptop class to signal brand alignment. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/92802...

In five days last week, Republicans gained maybe 10 seats in Congress. And not a single citizen voted. That’s not just bad for the Democrats, it’s bad for democracy. This can’t be accepted as normal. trib.al/rj4cNHB

Latest inflation report just dropped, and it came in hot, and slightly hotter than most folks expected.

Alabama’s AG announces he’s launched his own investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center, following the federal criminal indictment. But it looks an awful lot like a witch hunt for donors. www.alabamaag.gov/wp-content/u...

Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst said the estimate increased “because of updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost.”

Trump's approval on the economy: 30%. On inflation: 25%. 77% of Americans — including a majority of Republicans — say his policies have raised the cost of living in their own community. The wave is forming. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

It’s primary day in Nebraska, and this might be one of the strangest senate races seen in a while. “Nobody really knows who's gonna win,” our Jack Blanchard said on today's Playbook Podcast. “The whole thing's a complete mess.” 🎧 politi.co/4tZap0G

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

“.. CHART OF THE DAY: Yes, ⛽️ gasoline; but also 🥩 beef. .. The cost of a pound of ground chuck has risen to near $7 .. up ~91% since Trump's 1st inauguration).” @javierblas.bsky.social

its very funny to say “i was the hunted now im the hunter” at a mid-day meeting where you fell asleep at your desk

This is a primary reason (in addition to cognitive decline making it harder for him to hide his racism).

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

As of Monday, the average national gas price was $4.52 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club, 50% higher than the average price of just under $3 a gallon before Trump began the war against Iran.

Any questions about why the GOP is desperately trying to cheat before the midterms?

The president shared a scripted slop video about a Black doordasher stealing fried chicken.

“.. CPI food at home (essentially grocery prices) jumped by 0.68% m/m in April ... largest increase since August 2022 ..” - Schwab

Completely avoidable suffering that's happening only because one old man is bored and button mashing. The entire midterms campaign should be about removing him from office

Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The blatantly partisan U.S. Supreme Court rulings to steal Black political power and empower the dictator are legal too. But that doesn’t make them right, and they won’t survive the real justice that is coming.

To hell with that. Win every damned one of them anyway: secure.actblue.com/donate/house...

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“What Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago." - Ken Griffin, worth $50.3 billion, triggered

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

Justice Alito has extended his administrative stay of the 5th Circuit ruling against mifepristone. Mifepristone remains available via telemedicine and mail, for now. New deadline is Thursday.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

BTW, the cost to repair the reflecting pool went from $1.8 million to $7 million and now it's $13.1 million. A reminder that not a single soul asked for this project.

FOX NEWS' JOHN ROBERTS: When I talked to the president this morning, he kinda surprised me bc he said, 'John, I'm very serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state.' WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON ANNA KELLY: This is a president who is famous for never accepting the status quo

Oh, nothing to see here. Just a Democratic Senator laughing and cheering on Trump for saying "quiet, piggy" to a female reporter. www.mediaite.com/politics/bil...

If you want to understand the political process that ended Reconstruction and led to a century of racial terrorism in the South, check out this response to Dems losing four House seats.

Buckle up, folks. This likely means they expect prices to get much worse. Also: it would add an estimated $2.5 billion to the national debt every month.

Clarence Thomas's more than 34-year tenure on the Supreme Court has included votes that have helped dismantle affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. bit.ly/42Ql6qg

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

is there any one fuckin person in this administration even remotely competent jesus fuckin christ

In 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court's Democratic majority banned partisan gerrymandering under the state constitution. Republicans then won control of the court and spontaneously reversed that decision, re-legalizing gerrymandering. I suspect this is the model Virginia Democrats will follow.

"With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished. ...

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...