There's nothing like a desert sunset with a saguaro on the horizon. No other state has a symbol quite like it. Happy Cactus Day, Arizona.

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🔥 @marcelias.bsky.social : “HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING? Has the broader legal community not learned that when you do this to Black voters it turns out bad for democracy for everybody?” 🇺🇸

I’m not saying the person on the right deserves the same fate as the person on the left, but maybe you are?

The Epstein class is age old Christian hegemony. Stop letting it hide behind trendy names.

AOC: “What’s funny is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that — my ambition is to change this country. Presidents come & go, elected officials come & go, single payer healthcare is forever” 🔥

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Masked federal agents tear gassing & pepper spraying children is a feature, not a bug, of Trump's America. Devastating @propublica.org report about the harm ICE has inflicted on kids. Sickening stuff. You can't reform an agency this evil or violent, you must abolish it.

Republicans are trying to make it illegal for Democrats to win federal elections. Democrats really, really shouldn’t play along.

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

Roberts whining about judicial precedent after gutting 100 years of Montana precedent for Citizen’s United is rich. He can go kick rocks. What are we even doing? #MTPol

Hey Montana- Virginia is another reminder to find and sign your local petition on keeping our nonpartisan judicial races. The MT GOP wants to make our judges partisan hacks and let Gianforte appoint them. Enough. #MTPol

Here are 400 people who appear in photographs in the Epstein files and who deserve to be much better known.

Republicans investigated Benghazi for years and years and years. What Trump has done—and let happen—to America over the last year in Iran may *literally* be 100 times worse. If past were precedent, Democrats would investigate the Iran War for *decades*.

Standing before the White House to demand we close the concentration camps where roughly 70K people are now forced to endure horrific conditions by virtue of who they are, not anything they've done. #CloseTheCamps #BringThemHome

Maria Bartiromo, during interview with Chris Wright, obliviously details how Trump's Truth Social posts are manipulating markets in real time

. Another from my walk along the Missouri River. Finally Friday! Hope y'all made it in one piece! #EastCoastKin #photography #monochrome #Montana #blackandwhitephotography #Scape

Success=To laugh often; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the respect of honest critics; to leave the world a bit better; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.-Ralph Waldo Emerson #voterizer #sheshed

I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

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Lambert: The Strait of Hormuz is going to be open and we’re going to control it. Mockler: In two weeks? Lambert: It doesn’t matter if it’s two weeks or two months. Mockler: It does actually matter because economists are saying if it's closed for a few more months, we're going into a recession

Of course.

If leaders break the law and face no consequences, the law becomes meaningless. Accountability is not extremism. Impunity is. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! #NeverAgainIsNow app.sosha.ai/s/5sxf6IVd

Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

and they're loud

Huge respect to Kacey Musgraves for bringing the Mariachi Brothers to open for her after their release from wrongful detention - drawing attention to ICE abuses. Kacey has a long history of standing up for what’s right. Enjoy this gorgeous cover: m.youtube.com/watch?v=UgKm...

According to PBS, Dump has paid up to $2 billion to cancel offshore wind farms on both coasts. He actually spent taxpayer money to shelve economically viable private company projects which would have provided electricity to Americans at a fraction of the current average price

sure enough it's not. In OBBBA, they gave ICE enough money to run at around double capacity through the end of Trump even if it never got another cent Now they're giving ICE $42 billion more, w/ enough to run at 4-5 times capacity, w/ no oversight. Very scary stuff. Hard to fathom what that can do.

Text of Judiciary part of the reconciliation package is out. This is the filibuster-proof bill where Republicans are planning to give around $70 billion more to ICE and CBP. Will go through it here.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump told her that people at Mar-a-Lago would be hurt by the release of the Epstein files. Greene: Trump said his friends would get hurt if we release the Epstein files. He said, “Marjorie, these are good people. These are people you know at Mar-a-Lago”

NEW. The Senate Judiciary and HSGAC reconciliation bills are out. They would fund, mostly through September 2029: - $38.2 billion for ICE - $26.1 billion for CBP - $5 billion for a DHS deportation slush fund. - $1.5 billion for DOJ criminal enforcement - $1 billion for Secret Service ballroom work

Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx

Refutations to Anti-Vaccine Memes Originally this cartoon was about Covid vaccination, but it's just as relevant to measles, pertussis, and all the other vaccine-preventable diseases.

I’m sorry I don’t want to hear the phrase “left-wing‘s tolerance for political violence“ when the right wing currently holding power is starting wars, doing extrajudicial killings, and sending masked soldiers into our communities

NASA just released more than 12,000 images from their recent 10-day trip around the moon and back, collecting photographs taken by the four astronauts aboard and automated systems on the Orion spacecraft. See via The Atlantic Photo:

One thing this regime has taught us is that a president can do whatever the fuck they want if no one stops him. All that bullshit about "Don't worry, he can't do that because constitution" is being proven to be the lie it is. We are allowing our country to be dismantled by a mad man and his cult.

Iran’s proposal

The Middle East erupts in chaos and is back on the brink of full-blown war following Trump's moves surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, Pam Bondi's latest moves in her Epstein cover-up, and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET/5p PT! www.youtube.com/live/EQ0TI2R...

#StayReadyCrew I’m gently reminding you to check your supplies and see what you need. Nothing is going to get cheaper for the foreseeable future. There’s no need to hoard or panic but NOW is a good time to start planning for the rest of the year. www.businessinsider.com/inflation-ec...

This line in particular makes me feel ill: "The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." SCOTUS' Republican majority has long required elections to be held under illegal maps—when it hurts Dems.

At the rate Trump keeps bragging about his doctors repeatedly making him take the dementia screener, it's only a matter of time before he starts bragging about other oddities. "The thickest blood they'd ever seen. Direct quote. The thickest!"

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is calling on Chair James Comer to record and make public the testimony of Pam Bondi when the committee grills her about the release of the Epstein files this month.

Western MT peeps- time to choose. We can win this one. PS @danhallmt.bsky.social - a wee bit proud of this particular writer. flatheadbeacon.com/2026/05/04/w... #MTPol #MT01 #BlueWave

Well now I’m bummed out about the Chinese Paddlefish

Sen. Mazie Hirono Says Hegseth’s “Overt Misogyny Is an Insult” After He Refuses to Rule Out Reversing Women in Combat Policy at Senate Hearing Source: Combat Rated share.newsbreak.com/ib6jvpq6?s=i16

Reminder: The Epstein files weren’t “released” Parts of them were forced out by public pressure, heavily redacted, and now…paused. 🧵

Trump wants Kimmel fired. Anyone else who doesn’t give a sh*t what Donald Trump wants?

This is AWFUL and should get national press.