No, Tina Peters should not have had her sentence commuted. She broke Colorado laws and was convicted by a jury of her peers. Here’s my statement:

MIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

This does remind me of the most terrifying legal "hack" in our Constitution. The president can simply say he will pardon anyone who kills senators, judges, and house members who oppose him. The only "legal" solution is to hope 2/3rd of Senators can get to the chamber to impeach before murdered.

so, they serve for life, are the sole authority on the law, and substantially choose their successors. tip of my tongue

what i think is interesting is how this is, in some ways, a genuinely familiar definition of the rule of law... but one that has wrapped around entirely into "the rule of law ACTUALLY means these seven assholes have absolute power"

Exactly. It’s a $12 a month “fee”. If it was based on how much water you used, it would be a “rate”. So a struggling family of five will pay the same $12/mo fee as a couple of million tinks in the west hills even though they use considerably less water.

This is unironically why pointing out Trump's age and mental decline is such a power line of attack. Gives people a mental out. I didn't vote for an idiot, I voted for someone who became senile and is no longer who I voted for.

Greater harms would come later but the entire reason for being of the Biden Administration was to 1) prevent Trump from getting a second term and 2) punish him for the harm and corruption of the first one, and it was such a failure on that front that now this is happening x.com/KFaulders/st...

This is the definition of political chutzpah. #Portland city council is in charge of PDX water and failed to do oversight. Mitch this month just voted to raise water rates! Demands governor come up with plan to lower Portland water rates that he just made higher. www.kgw.com/article/news...

Narrative violation in progress. www.kpbs.org/news/nationa...

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

“.. the programme has not provided a single dollar of cover.” @financialtimes.com #Hormuz www.ft.com/content/eaba...

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Kash Patel's "VIP Snorkel" with 9 guests, accompanied by Navy Seals, over the tomb of 900 sailors at Pearl Harbor: "[A]s disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

I feel like prominent journalists being massive conspiracy theorists isn’t good for society.

The simple answer is you shouldn't. Trump would be stupid to not raid the treasury even more and continue to take bribes for the next 2 years. Chances of consequences are < 1%

Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.

Trump is literally setting up a tax payer slush fund to reward violent right wing terrorists that back him.

Trump on saying he doesn't think about Americans' financial situation: "It's a perfect statement. I'll make it again. Everybody agrees."

It's infuriating when Trump pardons MAGA lawbreakers, but a Democratic governor? Christ. Just the worst, most feckless, pathetic kind of Democrat.

This is also basically how Tiktok tuned everything during 2024 as they went all out to stop Harris. Tiktok was even more aggressive at helping Trump.

right. people think if twitter were propagandizing to them it would be serving them "Trump is good!" posts when that's a very naive way to work it. Instead it would do things like identify muslim users (again, trivial to do) and serve them "Democrats love Israel" posts bsky.app/profile/chic...

Even most leftists spend all of the Biden years complaining about the price of their burrito taxis and not talking about how great it was for low end wages were rising. Sadly elected Dems got the message.

At some point some reporter needs to ask the Speaker of the House why he never knows anything that's going on in the government

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

You are the little man all you MAGA voters. He is mocking you for needing to fill up your trucks.

Trump complains he can't brag about the Iran War because of the "little man with the $4 gasoline": "I don't want to say we're making a fortune ... because if I say it, they're going to say, 'He forgets about the little man with the $4 gasoline.'"

today in Bari Weiss being very bad at the nuts and bolts and day to day workings of her job she doesn’t know what she’s doing and has clearly pushed aside anyone who does

In theory it should be insanely difficult to start a war for any reason but the imperial US president can just be like "hello yes I would like to commence an offensive war of choice" like he's ordering a fucking pizza. And if you object to this people treat you like a fringe weirdo! Madness

It’s giving geriatric band that won’t retire.

Don't know why top public officials here in Portland can't help themselves when it comes to taking part in minor scam like behavior. These are usually well paying gigs.

The irony is China likely already peaked in relevants/power or will very soon. Their birth rate has been terrible and growing worse. This is a meeting of two powers in decline run by old men.

I see #Portland replacing the worst possible local government design (commission system) with the second worst possible design (even number multi member districts with no tie breaker and weak mayor) has produce the expect hatred for the new council. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

this also has very fun implications for primaries and honestly makes me wonder how much of the Zohran turnout surge was actually inevitable.

This would make it so Jim Clyburn would be the only Black Democrat to ever represent South Carolina in the House of Representatives. One guy ever.

Nothing more confirms to me that Zohran Mamdani has a reality warping political persona than that response to him releasing his budget. A good by very standard blue city budget, like many other cities (No real cuts, no of this big promises though, and mostly thanks to state money saving the day)

Serious question where is the limit? If President Trump can sue his own DOJ and then tell his DOJ to settle with him why stop at $10 Billion? Why not Trillion? Why not sue the federal government for all gov property/money to make him defacto owner of the nation? www.thedailybeast.com/doj-plots-gi...

Trump and his allies are doing everything they possibly can to strengthen the forces in the center-left that are urging Dems to embrace procedural Total War. Trump and the GOP are doing this to our country. Every last shred of damage that results from escalation is their fault.

Q: Should the final bill explicitly rule out funding for the ballroom itself? MIKE JOHNSON: The president is excited about building a ballroom with private funding, not taxpayer funding, but the Secret Service says we have to think differently about security. Congress has a role in funding that.

Yeah he and everyone in his family should be arrested day one Jan 2029 for this.

BREAKING: Wholesale prices jump 6% as energy prices soar, raising pressure on U.S. companies to pass along costs to consumers.

Big redistricting news: New Jersey's Senate leader just said Dems may put an amendment on the 2026 ballot to redraw the congressional map for 2028 to counter GOP gerrymanders. Dems could draw an 11-1 map to target two GOP seats (Dems could flip one this fall but could still make it much bluer)

Wild to think they are planning to do this brazen theft BEFORE the midterms. Just total lack of restraint.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

So as best I can tell we are in a stand off with the Strait to see which deranged leader can let their people suffer the longest. Obviously the blockade in Iran is causing way more suffering there but the USA public has zero buy-in to accept suffering for Trump. Of course Trump simply doesn't care.

i think wilson and kotek have both handled this poorly, but setting that aside for a moment, this is yet another example of why funding specific programs by ballot initiative is a terrible idea; this program shouldn’t *have* this much money to try to grab

My most radical position is I think we should let any country in the western hemisphere choose to have a referendum (free and fair one) on joining the United States.

Dem in 2029 should send Trump to prison for this. Partly because it is nicely symbolic but more because it is just clear cut corruption. Stop trying to make big cases against the Trump criminal gang. Get them for everything. Start with the easy stuff first.

On the flip side politicians and pundits completely marinating in Nazi bar slop seems to have led the GOP into behaving in a way that is incredibly unpopular with voters. It's kinda like the safety regulators got removed and they don't even know they are heading to sub 30% support.

As others have noted, it's good that Trump is normalizing the idea of adding new states with these insane posts, as it'll just soften the ground for Democrats to make DC and PR states.