"Judge Had Sex in Chambers in Earshot of Clerks, Panel Says" And I thought they only pounded the gavel in court...

I'll concede that thundershowers can have interesting structures too.

I love a good thunderstorm

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

Imagine that

Isn't interfering with a Congress(person) in the performance of their duties both unconstitutional and illegal, like a felony? Of course DOJ would have to bring charges, but since they've used The Constitution for toilet paper, we shouldn't expect relief. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

“I need a ballroom to be safe.” —Donald Trump Bitch, please! Every weekend, you're riding around in an open golf cart on a course where a sniper supposedly once tried to shoot you. Shut up about your vulgar ballroom already.

@coreyatad "so much effort toward self-moderation has meant a culture of people talking to themselves." Is it "self-moderation" to sit with family for a meal? To join fans of a genre to see a movie in the theatre? To worship at a church? You suggest self-moderation is bad. Tunnel vision is worse.

War comes at a cost and we will be paying it for years to come. The American people have had enough. Let's end this war TODAY.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

I dont know who wrote this, but 🎯

Dune Cat Budget Version

In today's "cats are so graceful" rejects...

I remember when Republicans raised hell on Capital Hill when they mischaracterized a nod that Obama made in the direction of the Saudi king as a bow. Now *this* dear GOPhers IS A BOW. A CAPITULATON. MIGHT AS WELL BE KISSING XI'S SHOES!!!

Yeah! The Supreme Court has dismantled the rule of law. If Spanberger and the leg. let this "decision" control how voters exercise the franchise in VA, they surrender *their* legitimacy. Either the voters determine election outcomes or not.

I feel like this is a good omen...

Justice should be done and should be seen to be done. It’s important that people who are paying income taxes to support things like public infrastructure and the rule of law, which support an environment where investments in eg property grow, see the people who profit from them paying a fair share.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Great campaign slogan.

With 'Israel and Palestine' trending at #1 on Mother's Day, let me say James Baldwin had it exactly right: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." 🧵

"The New York Times Trump Administration Is Considering Pausing the Federal Gas Tax to Lower Prices, Energy Secretary Says" Now just hold on a cotton pickin' minute: I have to pay an additional annual fee (i.e. TAX) to drive my EV because "it isn't fair for me to use the road but not pay gas tax."

This is important and one to keep an eye on.

JFC during the past drought Atlanta drained the Chattahoochee River nearly dry. There will be another drought. If data centers *TAKE* all the water, what's left for people? Dust? We need to be building reservoirs *now* and then think about "data centers".

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

Allow me to revise that headline: "Petrochemical Companies Made $125 Million More This Week Than They Did A Week Ago." #TaxTheRich

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as “collateral,” a type of arrest and detention that’s been challenged in court as an end run around civil rights. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/01/r...

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

"I don't think any prosecutor with white-collar experience would look at this indictment and believe it makes out the elements of a crime," said Kyle Boynton, an attorney who previously worked both as a federal civil rights prosecutor and an FBI agent. "It's not a valid indictment." More in comments

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

"Wondrous is this great blue ship That sails around the mighty sun And joy to everyone Who rides along" 🎶 Sir Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra "Jungle" from the 1977 album "Out Of The Blue" youtu.be/H75ivqdjgCg

None of this is normal.

Audio on please, meep meep. 🔊

@dougforalabama.bsky.social Can we in Alabama get this too, please?

Incompetence at the top of the FBI has devastating consequences.

THIS perfectly describes most of today’s media bias and failure!

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

"Lists of Jews" is a phrase I'd hoped we would never hear again, and especially not the US Government asking for them. It just sounds... ominous. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.bbc.com/news/article... So the gist is that limiting the speech of professionals, in this case therapists, is violating the 1st Amendment, even though the therapy in question has been debunked. Then why allow laws prohibiting doctors from discussing birth control with patients? Hypocrisy. 🤷

Over a 30 year period, Donald Trump has filed over 4,000 lawsuits. That breaks down to a lawsuit every 2.5 days. And never once has he sued someone for calling him a p3dophile. He'll sue you for calling him broke, but not for calling him that. Just thought it was curious.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social If the SAVE act is all about protecting democracy, it needs an amendment whereby convicted felons cannot hold public office or any position of public trust. Someone convicted of violating the law (the public trust) does not have the qualifications to serve.

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

h/t to @adammockler.com for pointing out this gem from 2016.