The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose

"The ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one’s nation, ideology, morality, values. It was Graham who played golf w/Trump, made excuses for him, supported the president even as he slowly destroyed the American alliances that Graham had defended all his life."

Tom the Dancing Bug — A Busy, Busy Fourth of July By @rubenbolling.bsky.social

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

"The conservatives of our times, who, to-day, are making the most ostentatious demonstrations of their veneration for the Declaration, are filled with distress and horror at the thought of 'radicalism'.... Blind, selfish, besotted idolators of the past!" William Lloyd Garrison, #otd, 1854

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

Just here to say ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good as she was driving away. Sue me.

I was really sad to hear about Dave Rohde's passing. Dave was, of course, an incredible scholar. He was also a great advisor and so many of us owe him a debt of gratitude for helping launch our careers. When I'm puzzled by something, I'll often think to myself, what would Dave do. It usually helps.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

My newest book, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders," hits bookshelves today. If you want to understand the modern GOP, and especially how it saw nominating Trump for a third consecutive time in 2024 as a good idea, this is the book for you. (1/6)

The White House is directing $352 million in Secret Service recruitment and training money to fund the ballroom they promised would be privately funded through public bribes.

First poll that I’ve seen with Dems matching Republicans in Florida.

Wealth concentration was already way off the rails before Musk became a trillionaire. The wealthiest megabillionaires in the country have basically been doubling their wealth annually in recent years. Feels near impossible to maintain a liberal democracy in this kind of situation.

When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon

Honestly I’m surprised RFKjr hasn’t already been swimming laps in the Reflecting Pool (wearing jeans, of course).

What a snowflake.

I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Found the perfect metaphor for America250 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/n...

My action hero would be “The Speaker” and my kill line would be, “the time of the gentleman from Hell has expired.”

Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim.

Good figure from Matt Bruenig. And even this understates American exceptionalism on inequality. The 99-1 and especially 99.9-0.1 and above ratios in the US are even farther from the rest of the world’s

Here's a list of crimes we know or suspect Trump may have committed that would seemingly be covered by this attempted pardon.

"Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses."

If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money. That's how you can tell. Another brilliant entry in taking on this regime of the bullies for the billionaires. Bravo @samforstag.bsky.social C'mon Montana! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHia...

ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.com/Politics/jud...

Meanwhile Chief Justice Roberts opined that it’s okay to criticize opinions but not appropriate for the public to criticize judges. I believe his opinion is bad, and I believe he’s bad.

If this isn't called MeatCute I'm going to be very disappointed. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/w...

In December SCOTUS claimed it was too close to election to block Texas gerrymander but now allowing Southern states to straight up cancel elections to resurrect Jim Crow

It gets harder when they ask, "Who won the 2020 U.S. Presidential election?"

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

America will get proportional representation one day. And sometime far in the future, we will look back and think: why did it take us so long? Now let’s go make that history happen, sooner rather than never. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

Happy May Day, everyone! Workers of the world unite.

"What do you call this ideology?" "The Libertarians!"

Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.

“Who could have guessed it was a scam?” asked one investor who spent the last 40 years in a coma.

Lmfao the FSU soccer team got a White House invite & exactly 2 players showed up

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

We can't keep doing "maximum warfare" forever on congressional maps. At some point we need to restore the faith of the American people that their votes matter. The solution remains obvious: proportional representation www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The US is off the regressions line: an extremely high income country where residents think politics need big changes www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!

Had a blast joining the Science of Politics podcast to discuss my forthcoming book: Rural Pain, Republican Gain. Thank you @mattgrossmann.bsky.social for the invite!

Fact check: Katie Miller first had a long career as a DC operative before she started having children at 30.

Can confirm

Are they “shameless extroverts” who associate with “known thespians”? #redpepper

Concentration camps