The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

reminder that one of the most promising emerging treatments for glioblastoma, the most lethal of all cancers, is customized MRNA vaccines, which HHS under Trump now refuses to fund: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Big win for actual Democrats in New Jersey, Melham was one of a few Democratic Mayors to back Jack Ciattarelli in 2025. This was a town that backed Mikie Sherrill by 26 points (after backing Harris by 4) and now Melham is losing by 17 points. bsky.app/profile/regi...

Early results in the West Virginia Supreme Court race: Flanigan, a GOP lawmaker, is leading a GOP-appointed justice by a wide margin for now. Who is Flanigan? He has spoken up *against* some of the GOP’s culture wars recently. My brief write-up (boltsmag.org/your-state-b...):

All politics is local. If you live in Illinois you should push your legislators, coworkers, neighbors, friends, hair dresser, park parents, grandparents and baristas to support the BUILD plan. bsky.app/profile/stev...

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently endorsed Democratic candidates in the two-way contest for Secretary of State and in the most crowded race for a seat in the state Legislature ahead of the June 2 primary election.

The South Carolina Senate has rejected extending the legislative session for redistricting. Unless Gov. McMaster calls a special session, the current congressional map, including Rep. Clyburn’s Democratic-leaning district, will remain in place.

Wow - following floor speech by SC Sen Majority Leader Massey (R) against the redistricting effort, the amendment fails with five Republican defections. First GOP resistance to Trump's pressure for maximalist redraws we've seen since Callais. Massey had spoken to Trump but still opposed redrawing

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Trump: "Americans' financial situation -- I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all."

#NJ07 GOP Rep. Tom Kean has not been seen since MARCH 5TH, purportedly due to an undisclosed medical issue. He has not voted on any bills, nor has he campaigned for his toss-up House seat. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Disgusting racism. I’m sick and tired of Republicans getting away with blatant racism. This rhetoric should be unequivocally condemned, not ignored by GOP leadership that’s too afraid to condemn bigotry.  Rep. Kiggans must resign.

You can tell that Trump is getting more and more panicked about the midterms and starting to vacillate wildly towards anything he thinks will save him bc he's randomly come back to trying to fearmonger about trans ppl. Wont work when gas is about $4.60/gallon & rising, asshole!

Super useful info via @the-downballot.com which shows which Dem primaries the GOP is meddling in to get their preferred candidate. They've tried-and-failed in 3 races thus far, but more attempts are coming in #CA22, #TX35, and others. Strategy means paying attention to what your opponent wants.

a BIG deal in New Mexico, as the state's attorney general has been trying to block people from release in violation of a 2023 law

Mikie Sherrill has announced the outcome of the survey to find 'quick fixes' for NJ Transit. Sadly a proper map of NJ Transit buses does not seem to be one of the planned fixes. Instead it's a 'new' NJ Transit app, wifi on some buses, maybe, and a bit more cleaning. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

DSA posting better raw and net favorables with Dem voters than the local congressman and both of the Brooklyn-based Democratic leaders, who are all polling at "would lose a primary here" numbers. insane

My best guess is that they're overstating things slightly, like the D +14 from AtlasIntel, but I think there's also a huge amount of caution in pollsters right now that's making them massage their numbers lower - see Beacon & Shaw, etc.

The lower quality polls (that likely do a lot less massaging and just sort of roll with whatever interviews they have) are really seeing huge swings towards the Dems right now.

Just wanted to emphasize that yeah crosstab diving is pointless most of the time and topline numbers matters the most Dems leading by 14 means 270 House seats, 55-56 Senate seats, and 32 governorships

Moderate Democrat Ruben Gallego comes out in support of packing the Court. Also popular with a plurality of Americans, including independents, according to our Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io polling: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

The White House says they will “identify and neutralise” political groups that are anti-American, “radically pro-transgender” and anarchist. (www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...)

You can already hear the right wing talking points to cut every single thing we need “if only the rich pay taxes, doesn’t it make sense that they should be able to say what those taxes pay for? It’s their money, not yours!”

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

82% of Illinoisans think the state should intervene to address the high cost of housing

re: BUILD plan… I feel like state legislators right now are deferring to mayors who don’t want to or can’t do anything about high housing prices, rather than to their voters who need them to step in and do something

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

Germany's Neo Nazi AfD, boosted strongly by Trump, JD Vance, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, finds its sweet spot... by sharply criticizing Trump, JD Vance, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. www.ft.com/content/de3a...

Based on prior years, nearly half of primary voters still haven't voted yet, so these numbers could still change a lot. Republicans won the final 4 days of early voting, plus the rest of mail ballots, by just over 43,000 votes in 2022.

Simple chart today. Taking a look at the daily margin for Democrats in 2026 vs 2022. Republicans won 12 of the first 15 days of early voting in 2022. Avg margin was 4,523 votes. Democrats have won 14 of the first 15 days of early voting in 2026. Avg margin is 3,833 votes

“What Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago." - Ken Griffin, worth $50.3 billion, triggered

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“.. CPI food at home (essentially grocery prices) jumped by 0.68% m/m in April ... largest increase since August 2022 ..” - Schwab

wHy dO pEoPlE tHiNK tHEy aRe poliTICaL???

I think a fundamental misunderstanding people have on here with saying why logically things that Dems want or benefit Dems can’t/didn’t/won’t happen is voters have been hearing that for decades and are rightfully pretty over it You see the GOP get away with murder time and again and that’s fair?

ICYMI: Former Montana state Sen. Jen Gross said she was the person who lodged a harassment complaint that began a 2018 investigation into Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy. By @mddrew.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2026/05/08/f... #mtnews #mtpol #montana

Justice Alito has extended his administrative stay of the 5th Circuit ruling against mifepristone. Mifepristone remains available via telemedicine and mail, for now. New deadline is Thursday.

1st female Kentucky Derby-winning trainer celebrated by Louisville mayor

These are all obvious and everyone already is aware of these and supports these solutions, just not for their city/suburb/town. “That works for (insert somewhere else), I need my car”. Its the same stupid debate over and over

you should still do this, and make it clear your vote in the next primary rests on it

NEW: Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

Gay men, bisexuals, and lesbians need to stand up for our trans siblings because it is the right thing to do and because THE BIGOTS ARE COMING FOR US NEXT.

A proposed new U.S. House map was distributed Thursday on the South Carolina House floor, where members huddled around desks to review it. The proposal would take Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn out of the 6th District he has represented since 1992.

I hate Gavin Newsom. He said that we should have compulsory service and praised Trump's actions in Venezuela and Iran, and he signed a digital surveillance bill. I hope he doesn't run but I don't know why the heck he seems to want to. He is a "Fetterman" on the presidential level but it's not hidden

This is one reason why Republican justices make the decisions they do -- they expect Dems to obey the rules while they unilaterally change them.

If this lawsuit succeeds, it may compel Democrats to "unpack" Illinois' majority-minority congressional districts—a process that could eliminate the state's three remaining Republican seats by spreading out Democratic voters more efficiently. Seems strategically dumb.

ALERT: #GasPrices appear to be rising to $4.79/gal in #Tucson today. This is a price cycle to an elevated amount due to the Iran situation pushing oil prices higher.