Wait until Mike Johnson doesn’t hear about this!

Trump just put him in charge of the FDA. He has no medical background at all. But he does turkey hunt with Don Junior so ok. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I’m so tired of politicians telling us that we, the people have the power to change government but then not fulfilling their part of the basic premise, which is acting on our behalf. The whole point is that they’re supposed to pitch ideas on how to make things happen and we give them power to do so

That was my first thought, too

I love this for those kids, but I also love it because these people have all worked very hard to shelter themselves from what we really think of them, and all their media/internet consumption is just other people who agree with them saying the same shit. but a rescinded invitation is gonna land 😂

I'm so fucking tired of this and I would guess most Americans are too, even his deluded cult followers. But it's going to take a full generation, if not more, to wring this Big Lie out of the discourse. History will record it as one of the greatest acts of propaganda ever recorded.

our system of knowledge production is under attack from an extraordinary array of forces and if the people putatively on the side of maintaining it cannot commit to the most basic standards (not using fake citations, writing your own words, etc) I fear there is no hope

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Atl is not playing like they should, but I’m with Lish on the nonsense of these supposed fouls #wnba

I want the Dream to win but I’m rooting for everybody 🫶 #wnba

Lish don’t block, huh? #wnba

Nobody watches women’s sports. #wnba #atlantadream #lasvegasaces

Never seen that Naz-Rhyne walkout before but I could see it again. #WNBA

Please tell me I’m not the only one annoyed they give the over-under on games. Sponsors or not, it’s ish #WNBA

The idea is tell right wing Trumpers that it’s okay to seize the Capitol. You will be pardoned and hugely compensated. He’s creating an army of violent insurrectionists.

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Just another normal day at DOJ where they have to withdraw a filing in New Hampshire that was intended for Minnesota.

The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.

Librarians literally saved my life

“.. This is an insane amount of trades,” he said, adding that it looks more like something done by “a hedge fund with massive algo trades” that buys and shorts securities than a personal account. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Nothing like doubling down on an appalling statement by a president. Congratulations to the 77M fucking idiots who elected this fuckwit. Hope bankruptcy is chasing you.

I think it's time the left start getting angrily political about routine stuff in TV shows and movies. "It's an *outrage* that Dutton Ranch doesn't have solar panels!" "They cast a man to play Jack Reacher?!?! What?!" "None of the Fast and Furious cars are EVs? NONE? I thought this was America!"

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

President Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars — including large purchases and sales of tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta — in the first three months of 2026, new disclosure forms reveal. Full details: cnb.cx/4wthI2t

Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Zbigniew Ziobro was one of the authors of the attempt to transform Poland into an authoritarian regime. Ziobro is a wanted man with no passport. The Trump White House just went to a good deal of trouble to bring him to the US. snyder.substack.com/p/copycat-ty...

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

6/ Next, beginning in 2027, new federal work reporting and renewal requirements will make it harder for many Californians to keep CalFresh food assistance and Medi-Cal health coverage, even when they still qualify.

👇🎯 The crisis was in 2000, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided not everyone's vote needed to be counted in a presidential election. It's continued in the last ten years, with unprecedented lawless authoritarianism. People now saying major institutional reforms will set off a crisis are in deep denial.

We could have avoided subsequent lockdowns after the first had they implemented guidance for airborne transmission but they failed to do this and they are still failing to take action, leaving us all at risk from airborne infections and another Pandemic. bsky.app/profile/citl...

Masks didn’t work because we had the wrong guidance in place. Gappy surgical masks do not give enough protection from airborne viruses. They don’t seal to the face. bsky.app/profile/safe...

This person is wrong. N95 offers one or more orders of magnitude better source control. Also bacteria can transmit by aerosol — a virus is no problem. Sorry.

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

Fun fact! Land-grant public universities were opposed by the southern states and only happened due to the The Morrill Act of 1862 while they were off being the Confederacy. I WONDER WHY THE MODERN GOP HATES THEM NOW?!?! It is a DEEP MYSTERY!

If electricity prices went up 76% to subsidize the solar industry, people would completely lose their shit. But doing it to subsidize the Slop Industry is apparently kosher.

If there is no accountability, this election denying BS will never end. Dems have learned nothing

The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable men.

He took a sightseeing snorkel to an underwater cemetery. And everyone who let it happen should be fired. They betrayed the solemn responsibility entrusted to them to protect and preserve the dignity of the site and the people in laid to rest there.

Remember the outrage over the "um" quote from the NYT AOC-in-Munich Feb story? I checked it out: just 8 of 36k (!) quotes that day across popular US news included um or ah 🤔 My latest in Storybench shows how I did it & connects to racial/gender news biases www.storybench.org/whose-quotes...

Girlbossing hasn’t changed, even as women’s lives have. Another gem from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (🎁 link)

At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people (Go, Team Science!)

Clarence Thomas was born closer to when the Comstock Act he invoked in tonight’s dissent was passed in 1873 than to today.

One of my favorites...... Pretty timely 😀

Hello…I’m going to🗣️that let’s not forget the impact our SCOTUS has had on making DJT feel comfortable wreaking havoc on anyone, including former Presidents. So, when people say…”How can DJT do what he’s doing🤔?” Well, w/his vision of what “Full Presidential Immunity” means to him…= 0 accountability

Revisited this piece from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com, and holding onto the lesson learned by General Grant in the excerpt at the end Our enemies are afraid of us, and we must continue the fight with that in mind