Absolute banger from @davekarpf.bsky.social today. Given the fines Musk would have been subject to, it was cheaper for him to buy the government (to the record-breaking tune of $290 million) than face the law. So much corruption. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/a-story-of...

My two non-negotiables in character creation are: 1) every space captain must resemble Avery Brooks 2) where possible, I play as a gnome So I couldn't FemShep.

The highway system will collapse, but your gas will drop from $6.59/gallon to $6.41/gallon. Sounds like a deal.

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

Tesla’s stock price is so absurd. flat revenue and declining profits for two years and the P/E ratio is over 400. valued like a startup despite zero growth. this is 40-50% of Musk’s wealth and it’s entirely fictional finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA

the current state of gerrymandering returns the republicans to a +3.7% median district bias, similar to 2018's +3.9% median district bias, and 7 points lower than the Brennan Center's predicted +11% median district bias

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

i think the Republicans are going to live to regret mostly redistricting out the very elderly black centrists who were most skeptical of the procedural radicalism which would have diminished their structural power.

the way to think about North Jersey is that NYC has a de facto city the size of Los Angeles and the density of Baltimore casually parked next to it and nobody realizes it's there because it's splintered into hundreds of municipalities that all have ferocious parochialism complexes

Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.

the fast food chain white castle is older than italian unification

Was there literally no better way for the secretary of transportation, in the middle of an FAA staffing shortage and at the onset of an energy crisis, to spend his time?

Pete Buttigieg took a brief leave when his son was in the ICU and Republicans still attack him for it to this day. But Duffy goes on an extended vacation to shoot a reality show while there are all sorts of pressing problems with air travel and Fox News thinks it's awesome. Beyond parody.

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

The next Democratic president is going to have so much to do in such a short time period that they should probably just lock Congress in the Capitol building Can't waste time if you can't go wine and dine and snort coke with lobbyists on the DC restaurant circuit

Let's see if the Chief Justice Roberts rushes to protect the energy companies again, like he did when Obama suggested they need to reduce the harm they cause.

Not to be a stickler but the Civil Rights movement was Reconstruction 2. So we need to start thinking in trilogies.

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

Hell yeah

Mass deportations make us less safe!

you kid but a version of the odyssey where someone gets lost as shit trying to drive back home through boston while having various adventures could be great

it's because vance positioned himself as one as soon as it became clear to him that the war was lost. and then undercut his boss by leaking repeatedly to the press that he was skeptical

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

The Wellness industry has the same greed as the biomedical industry but nothing it sells you actually works

The model for red states, going forward, are red state dictatorships. As the republican party goes into decline for a cycle (or two, or three), they will retrench themselves in states where the government has been carved into fiefdoms for the GOP. That’s the model they want to generalize, long term.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

This is outrageous. FDA officials “have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles… The studies, which cost millions of dollars in public funds… found serious side effects to be very rare” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

i just can't stress enough how getting your foot in the door at DOJ used to be a knife fight against the best knife fighters in the country and now they're begging people to join

very funny that this guy is literally like “tax the rich? that is the n word to me, personally” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

lol cue the “He’s running” siren🚨 (cc @daveweigel.bsky.social )

A reminder www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I’m pitching GPT Images some taglines

Jeff Bezos could’ve done what several other wealthy newspaper owners have done — turn the Post into a nonprofit and provide it a sizable endowment. Instead he did shit like this ⤵️

chief legal and political correspondent for CBS and editor of SCOTUSblog, respectively, in case anyone is interested

And I keep coming back to this but everything getting culture warred through DC's prism has made it a geographic focal point for political violence of every stripe. January 6, the Guard shootings, ICE raids, the WHCA gunman all catching 700,000 people with no representation in the literal crossfire.

Candide.

“Dhillon reposted a conservative lawyer’s social media comment last month that it was a good time to graduate from law school “if you are remotely rightwing” because “you can go straight . . . into DOJ”. She added: “We are hiring, y’all!” They can’t fill the openings with competent lawyers.

"No one could stop the US raiding modern shipping, but it doesn't because it knows it benefits far more from unmolested maritime trade than any potential piracy spoils", used to be my go-to example illustrating how international law works. Will need to update with a "fucking idiot" caveat.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. Sports Night Paranoia Agent Star Trek: DS9 Ghost in the Shell: SAC Firefly Avatar TLA Only Murders in the Building Futurama Andor It's Always Sunny in Philly Taskmaster SNL Arrested Development Bojack Horseman The Good Place Parks and Rec

"why won't democrats elect corpses," say people who don't wonder why the Democrats lost the Supreme Court, presidency, Judiciary Committee, and Obama's Senate supermajority due to gerontocrats' refusal to retire over the last twenty years

Excellent🧵on the big 3 and EVs. Worth noting that automakers wanted to be incentivized to develop EVs for global competitiveness reasons, and Trump's petro-fealty has totally screwed that.

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

those loser Dems tried to fix the system but were outdone by those savvy Republicans note how this framing completely erases any sense of Republican agency from the equation

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

BREAKING: Jerome Powell says he'll remain on the Fed board as a governor — at least until the resolution of legal challenges Trump has mounted against the central bank. Powell's term allows him to remain at the Fed until 2028, but for decades, chairs have left when their successor is installed.

I realize it's way down the list on the Items of National Disgrace and Humiliation Project that the admin's working on but it's impressive how zero cabinet secretaries testifying before congress can behave like a fucking adult for two seconds

The Post analyzed the video. A security officer fired on Cole Allen four times. He missed each time. The video does not show Allen firing. Assessing other video evidence, an expert told the Post that there were six shots in all. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...