The Republican position is to refuse to accept or acknowledge any result of voting that they don’t like, and use obstruction and violence to enforce their position.

So the two DOGE staffers who used ChatGPT to cut all those grants and programs and who struggled to define DEI in that viral deposition footage have a new startup: DOGE for the public sector. I wrote about them and the myth of the “builder” as a disguise for something more insidious

The richest man in the world is doing everything he can to encourage violent racist pogroms within an ally’s territory. Here to explain how your response to that is cringe or excessive are @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com.

What The Broadview Six Case Reveals About the Corrupt Trump DOJ

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

It's true that people will buy a shirt that costs 4 1998 dollars and complain that's not as good as a shirt that cost 100 dollars in 1998, so you do have to keep cross-comparisons fair. But yes, the textile industry significant improved the diversity and quality of options at equivalent pricing.

Weird how JD Vance keeps looking so principled and vindicated in these fly-on-the-wall stories about issues (Iran and Epstein) that are pushing away key right-wing influencers. What a brave and heterodox leader!

Yeah, this is the point I'm making in other threads. I think Dems are rapidly giving up (or have utterly given up) on the "high ground," and their primary voters are the ones driving it. I think you ignore that at your peril as an elected official.

That’s called a bribe.

Wait, we are making civil immigration detainees do forced labor??? For a private for-profit firm? For no pay? Jfc this is evil and unlawful.

They’re right to worry. Hegseth is clearly resegregating the military by race and sex.

In my experience, the kind of professional women being derided as "HR ladies" are more intelligent, more competent, & more decent than any given 50 of the pissant manbabies out there deriding them to impress one another.

there should be a thing where you can nominate someone deserving to knock one of the letters off

Something I think to point at is how heavily overindexing to 2024 everything the GOP is doing right now is. This chart, if nothing else, demonstrates how stupid it is. If we're using 2020 numbers, the current map is even!

Completely agree with @rickhasen.bsky.social. After tonight’s decision, it isn’t just impossible to win a Voting Rights Act claim—it’s also impossible to win a *constitutional* claim against egregiously racist gerrymandering. The supermajority massively expanded Callais. electionlawblog.org?p=156541

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

Like the dems don't even have to do anything complicated in 2028. Kill the fillibuster and inform SCOTUS that their court will now be held in bumfuck Kentucky and their entire budget is zeroed. You don't even have to pack the court.

The low-hanging fruit is Blanche and maybe half a dozen others involved with the "fund." You campaign on putting them in prison, no one will stop you. "Intent to defraud," "two billion of your money to insurrectionists, crooks..." No one dares. That's how you get people used to the idea.

DOJ backing down from $1.8B fund doesn't end the story. The Deputy Attorney General's tax immunity order - and those who brought it about - may have violated criminal laws barring interference in audits and in tax administration. Two tax experts weigh in, as well as on what Congress can now do.

This is fact. The rest of France does not deserve the reputation Paris Metro gives it 😁

Trump makes the same corrupt authoritarian pitch to CA voters that he made to Hungarians: I will send lots of US taxpayer dollars to you if you vote for my guy.

🧵Spotted at a Secondhand Bookfair in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (5?) with a cloth bag FULL of books is stomp-marching through puddles in bright yellow gumboots*. Bellowing a uproarious, victorious song. She has all the books. She has all the puddles, And she is VERY happy. (1)

Trump's appalling corruption here is ripe for congressional intervention. Raskin suggests a legislative overhaul that would bar such slush funds going forward. Importantly, Raskin casts the stakes here as very high, as a matter of Congress taking back its power. newrepublic.com/article/2106...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

I’m excited to share that @ksavin.bsky.social, @calliefreitag.bsky.social, and I have a new piece out summarizing our research on how the Trump admin’s attack on the public sector have made it harder to get and maintain disability benefits—which were already quite difficult to navigate.

Using this as the headline on every piece I file from now on

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‘My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin. My family celebrated by dancing in the street’

Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...

The president of the United States—elected by the GOP voters—is hosting a cage fight at the White House for personal profit. He’s just YOLO doing it, doesn’t care that we know. GOP folks, how can you live with this as the head of your party?

Trump administration threatens outspoken critics by way of far-fetched notions of criminal liability, part umpteen @davidjbier.bsky.social

After defense officials got a request to push through a deal with a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr., Pentagon staff moved at an unusually rapid pace. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

As for the UK and France “doing it differently” oh boi. There are gates closing in front of any child that didn’t get into an Elite private boarding school/lycée at age 12 as we speak.

It is in fact to an extent what the meritocracy ppl always preach we should do here. Them’s the standards, and if you can’t cut it you can’t cut it and your intrinsic challenges do not matter. Maybe your children will become doctors. We could do that here too. Just be honest about the trade-offs.

I am a product of this system. It creates an academic underclass made up of immigrants and poor people. Yes you can :technically: move between tracks, but in reality if you have the type of parents able to successfully navigate that bureaucracy you would not be on that track to begin with.

Somebody needs to tell Mike Lee that the evangelicals who think mainliners are heretics generally aren't too crazy about Mormons either.

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

Unreliable and underperforming antibodies are a longstanding problem, so while the reveal of apparently manipulated antibody data in Thermo Fisher's catalog was a shock, the frustration it sparked among many researchers is perhaps no surprise. My reporting:

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

The threat isn’t what you or I would call a threat. To him, it means someone who could weaken conservative Christians’ monopoly on defining public Christianity.

NEW: Trump's gross Aliens.gov site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.

Disney viewing the current situation and deciding their best course of action is to flip Carr off is.. meaningful.

Interesting AI story abovethelaw.com/2026/05/judi...

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

It's OK if you don't want to be friends with people who voted for this.

Vance isn’t aware that the military can boo without making a sound.

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Remember Omaha Beach, which was taken by terrified kids who looked around and said, "I don't want to die here. Follow me."