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...

Roberts is now the most effective white supremacist leader in over a century, with Trump in sec. The two of them show how how conservative leaders have been this way for decades (actually centuries). Trump is new in style but not substance. Same old white supremacy.

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

FYI MPSA folks! On Friday at 3:20 the Pol Pties & IGs section is hosting "Parties, Public Opinion, and Political Behavior in the US: The Intellectual, Professional, & Personal Impact of Ted Carmines," featuring Margie Hershey, Geoff Layman, Jeff Mondak, Eric Schmidt, Paul Sniderman, & Mike Wagner.

Now say this to Putin

"we can't let a country blackmail or extort the world" says man with no self-awareness.

Trump: "We don't use the strait. We don't need the strait."

Donald Trump: he‘s just like us (losing his mind at the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions and posting his way through the emotional turmoil)

Polymarket: 99-1 odds against the president praising Allah on Easter. Trump:

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Iowa State's WBB team has 10 players enter the portal, including maybe the best player in the school's history. This is after we closed the women's gymnastics team because of internal conflicts. Our AD has some answering to do. www.nytimes.com/athletic/716...

Just a reminder that the land for this library was “donated” by a MAGA panel of Miami-Dade College, an under-funded community college. This is not just a grift, it is theft from the working class.

The Democratic position should be that any defense supplemental must be offset by DHS's concentration camp slush fund from the OBBB, and must include restrictions on any future military actions by this administration.

Markwayne Mullin served in Congress for 13 years. After all that time his *advocates* are telling us he's pretty dumb about public policy. It would be great if members of Congress spent less time generating content and raising money, and actually learned something about their jobs.

Worst. President. Ever.

"We are, however, still two weeks away from *determining* the core objectives."

Iran's sovereign wealth fund is at $161 billion. Jared will be so excited! www.swfinstitute.org/profile/598c...

1000% of tautology-lovers love tautologies.

Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans

The strait would be open if only Mike Pence had the courage.

180 years ago these guys would have been roaming the streets of Boston to round up Irish refugee.

Calling it a “strict“ voter ID bill that “stiffens” voting rules plays right into the disenfranchisers’ narrative. It would “block” voting, it would ”impose obstacles” to voting, it would “disenfranchise“ millions. It’s “partisan.” It‘s a “voter suppression” bill.

ADMIRAL Jared Kushner, leading a flotilla of billionaire yachts.

how would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

“We want to change the rules of the next election so Democrats don’t win anymore”

The Kushner brand is basically: I'm hear to offer peace deals and get money, and I'm all out of peace deals

Ok but Trump’s odds of winning the First Annual FIFA War Prize are shooting up

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

James Fishback likely will not be the next governor of Florida. But he represents a rise of antisemitism and racism that started as trolling for trolling's sake to sincere beliefs among young men on the right. Good @michellegoldberg.bsky.social piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...

Transport by cross country skiers