A Purple Heart recipient, Sae Joon Park is among a number of noncitizen US military veterans who have self-deported or been expelled from the country they fought for. https://cnn.it/4nEf2et

Dems running for president in 2028 should consider pledging to replace Trump's ballroom with a museum devoted to American democracy and all our struggles over it. For good measure, let's throw in an exhibit about Jan 6. END newrepublic.com/article/2101...

This is good (way better than the VA Speaker of the House conceding to the court).

“We moved 4.5 million people off SNAP” is a crazy way to say you took food away from 4.5 million people, mostly needy families. And also crazy to think this works for them politically!

This, among other reasons, is why VA Dems can’t throw up their hands and wait til next year. Dems everywhere have tragically underweighted the importance of insisting on one set of rules for years. But now the GOP is enforcing double standards at gun point. Accept that passively, and it’s all over.

👀 “Article VI, Section 9, of the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature unlimited authority to set the retirement age for judges.” Virginia law provides VA Dems a simple solution to overturn the state’s rogue scotus’s redistricting ruling - retire it - and then appoint a new one.

Again, you might have to live in DC to have a visceral sense of how vulgar, cruel, corrupt, and destructive this is. But great story in @nytimes.com about latest MAGA assault on decency: Mar-a-Lago-ization of the Reflecting Pool, in front of Lincoln Memorial. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Courtney Barnett rocked at the National! #RVA

if you live in Virginia you've got to call your state legislators and tell them to force the issue. do it for those of us who can't.

The most important reason why Democrats should refuse to capitulate to these illegal and illegitimate acts like what just took place in Virginia is because capitulation only reinforces the belief that politics is futile, which in turn increases the probability that people will turn to violence.

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

RFK Jr. is trying to kill people.

Wrote and said this elsewhere, but Virginia Dems need to pack the state Supreme Court and should’ve leveled the threat as soon as the first Republican judge ruled against the map the Virginia public voted for.

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

More wizards in robes rejecting the will of voters. Virginia Supreme Court strikes down redistricting referendum share.google/ExdG77Z1GUbk...

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

This is how Trump responded to a Black female reporter who asked him a legitimate question about his obsession with DC pet projects. "You probably don't see dirt but I do."

Just over a year into his second term, the economic landscape is littered with victims mangled by Trump’s agenda. Corporate bankruptcies last year rose to their highest level in over a decade. @crampell.bsky.social takes a look at the ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard.

NEVER FORGET, none of this is acceptable. Ever. Thanks @atrupar.com for continually, perpetually, faithfully bearing witness and posting reminders.

Every second of this is abnormal and psychotic

This is another threat to annihilate an entire country via nuclear attack. He should have been impeached the first time he made the threat. (Among other things he should have been impeached for.)

wow -- Trump appears to call Rachel Scott a "bitch" as he finishes taking questions from reporters

Operation Schrodinger's Cat. It's both a war and not a war.

War is peace

I've been thinking about this famous quote from John Adams a bit lately. It suggests a different arc of history picture than the main two others in popular circulation: the cyclical one of weak men making hard times, etc. & the (impossibly resilient) narrative of endless, irresistible Progress.

Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results

They also have pencil marks on the door jamb to show how tall he’s grown

“Millions” of people.

A competent leader of the FBI would not have to polygraph subordinates.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Out over his skis by a mile.

Every journalist should be asking what the hell is going on with this guy's health that they aren't telling us.

Ka$h is about to lose. his. shit.

“More blue districts” is not the same as protecting Black voting power - this is something that must be made clear as the VRA is demolished and redistricting wars continue to escalate

Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime.

The Trump Administration has spent $72 billion in two months on the Iran War. Its 2027 budget for the Department of Education is $76.5 billion. IOW, they've spent about six times as much bombing schools and making children homeless in Iran as they will spend educating children in the US.

Well, no wonder Sam Alito was so sympathetic towards him

thank god we didn't get a low-energy president

To me, if 6 out of 9 two-time Trump voters who have now turned against him also believe the WHCD shooting was faked, it suggests that the Trump voters most likely to desert him may be the most paranoid ones, not the most reasonable. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

In a normal administration, this sort of thing would be a gigantic scandal. In this administration, though, it's just an ordinary Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

RIP John Sterling, legendary Yankees broadcaster, dies at age 87 - The Athletic share.google/g4qR3TbsAb0v...

Senior echelons at the Pentagon worried that Hegseth, through sheer gross incompetence, is steering the US military to a humiliating defeat in the Gulf. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The orange-ish days are ones he's been at MAL; the dots indicate days he's played golf. www.pbump.com/projects/gol...

The next 20 years of US history is going to be an endless series of 59-day wars with Iran. Veteran talking in 2032: “Ahh yes, I deployed to the Middle East with the Air Force for Iran War VII through Iran War XXIII.”

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Funny, last week I was told by many high-ranking government officials that heated rhetoric was inspiring political violence against President Trump and his allies and that everyone (but mostly Democrats, as they are the ones espousing that rhetoric) needed to tone their rhetoric down

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...