On FTN, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) raises an eyebrow at Trump's relationship with Putin. "One of the concerns that many of us have when it comes to this administration ... they're very critical of Europe, they're critical of the EU, they're critical of NATO ... and you never hear 'em criticize Russia."

Extremely funny to watch the right coalesce around “I’m in a bubble of morons, so this is impossible!” as an explanation for the LA mayoral results.

The first thing I noticed in the video of 9th Circuit Judge Ryan Douglas Nelson attacking a dude and breaking his glasses is that Judge Ryan Douglas Nelson parks like an entitled asshole. The second thing is that he picks fights in parking lots which will get him killed. /1

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

Genuinely think we should treat her like Goebbels and Streicher.

somehow we have computers that can have conversations with you but if you try to delete too many tiny files at once in Windows, it'll take all night

So many men's supposed principles have been revealed to be nothing but plain misogyny, and it's been dispiriting if not surprising.

1. Smells desperate. Bluesky is a vibrant community we love, but it appears the current path will never be profitable. 2. I'd try ads before shifting away from the core user experience. What they're describing, I won't use. 3. Comparing yourself to X is dumb, as most X accounts are fake.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

It is a problem for society that healthy employment scares investors. Not surprising. But a problem.

Hunh. The Trump administration's big play to auction off Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to fossil fuel companies ... was a total bust. No major companies bid. Only 72,000 acres out of 689,000 were sold. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Thinking, once again, for no reason, how leftist spaces in the past were almost always undone by misogyny and creepy (or worse) behavior towards women

Even Jim Crow is colorblind now under the Roberts courts' application of the law. But colorblindness is a lie designed to make people with my skin tone feel comfortable with the advantages we gain in a racist society. A lie that enables modern-day Jim Crow. My latest at @mississippifreepress.org:

The National Park Service ordered the removal of three quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston after visitor complained to staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, according to people familiar with the matter.

Now that Todd Blanche has confirmed Trump will still enjoy immunity from IRS audits, Dems must find every way they can to force Rs to vote on this. Rep Jamie Raskin tells me Dems will push the issue in coming days. Let's turn this into a political fiasco for GOP: newrepublic.com/article/2112...

Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

Most incredible Colin Robinson vibes from this guy.

I drove 30 mins out of town this weekend to do canvassing of immigrant businesses and once again few things make racial capitalism as visceral as driving around failed midwestern suburbs where latinos are being hunted for the crime of keeping these communities alive with their labor and lives

This is a big deal - could be a sea change in how states are thinking about data centers: apnews.com/article/arti...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill's mishandling of protests outside the Newark ICE detention center, with violent state troopers running amok, is a national embarrassment To make it worse, Sherrill invoked the vile "outside agitator" trope of 1960s segregationists My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...

Zohran Mamdani really said “if Politicians really wanted to they would, allow me to demonstrate” and it’s driving the press absolutely insane.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Every headline about Trump’s flailing foreign policy is “What if pigs could fly?” And the then subheading continues “if pigs could fly everything would change!” And then the lead is “everything we know about pigs is that they cannot fly and will never fly… but can they fly just once?”

hope you brought urine!

people went out in the middle of a pandemic to vote for joe biden. the very least he could have done was fire the guy who fucked up the mail. and he didnt.

was firing dejoy a top priority for biden? no. but its indicative of democrats simply not using their power, once elected, to do the shit that people asked them to. the party is too secure in its whole "whoops guess we cant do things" approach, and the people who reflexively defend them enable it.

The cage match tickets cost $1.5 million dollars?? And Trump gets part of it?? So… he gets the venue and security and publicity paid for by us, the taxpayers, and he pockets the profits? I know everything is unbelievable, but this is beyond unbelievable. Absolute joke and outrage.

Trump is an infantile megalomaniac. That's not surprising. What remains surprising—even after all these years—is how elites, such as GOP leaders and business people (Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, etc.) accept this & embrace him. I know they're all doing it for reasons of self-interest. Still, it's bonkers.

I think Democrats are not calling him out because he got it covered up and apologized. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Lying about Democrats is a foundational part of being a legacy news outlet. “And as we all remember the Democrats were crazy about XYZ things. Just as crazy as Republicans — worse in fact.”

Believe Platner supporters when they tell you who they are.

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

Did you see this??? An entire 50 PERCENT of Democratic voters under 30 want the party to MOVE TO THE LEFT on transgender issues. Comparing with other issues polled, it's second only to healthcare as an issue younger voters want to see the party move left on.

Seems like there might be evidence in here tending to support a motion to dismiss the indictment of SPLC. I also wonder if this information was presented to the grand jury. CC: @barbmcquade.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @rgoodlaw.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-pro...

Perennial

President Trump was months late in disclosing tens of millions of dollars in stock trading, according to his latest investment filings, pushing the legal limits of a financial practice Americans have largely opposed from their elected officials.

i have to console myself somehow in these dark times and one way i do it is by noting that literally every picture taken of marco rubio now he looks like he wants to die

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Democrats need to press the case against Trump's corruption if only to counter the bullshit they're spewing about Democrats' corruption. They have to own this issue.

Ending Reconstruction before hanging every Confederate was a mistake

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

"Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S. One of the settlement terms under review is for the I.R.S. to drop any audits of the president, his family members and businesses." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

RADDATZ: But it was 50 days ago that Trump posted a warning saying Iran had 48 hours to fully open, without threat, the strait. 50 days ago. Nothing happened, and the strait is still closed WALTZ: Well, I think we should take a step back. 50 days to deal with a 50 year old problem

When Larnee Satchell arrived to monitor the polls at a Hinds County precinct for the March 2024 primaries as part of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Election Protection Program, she found an empty field instead—another example of the problems with Mississippi's elections database.

I can tell you from experience that of people actually read and shared stories about Trump and crypto, more people would know. The stories are written. And ignored.

The parents of an 18-year-old US citizen who has terminal colon cancer have been reunited with their son a day after they were released from a Department of Homeland Security detention facility in Arizona: https://cnn.it/3QZ0Gcc