I feel like I have nothing to write. "Genocide is illegal and Trump must be tried for war crimes" feels, somehow, *under*whelming in this moment.

Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?

This is Trump, it is exactly how he thinks. And it is why it was a massive mistake not to hold him accountable immediately for his coup attempt through impeachment which would have prevented him from running again.

Interesting to see Tucker Carlson and Chris Murphy in direct agreement here:

The President is threatening genocide and possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran. It’s clear the President has continued to decline and is not fit to lead. The members of his Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment immediately.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41... -Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users -3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached -Exposed users older, more conservative

It's striking how, despite Trump now having been a prominent/dominant force in US and global politics for 12 years, US media coverage still treats him as a neophyte learning lessons from the previous 48hr news cycle, rather than an unstable man with deeply set cognitive and behavioral patterns.

It says something really ugly and frightening about us as a country that we can have a president spouting deranged threats to commit unambiguous war crimes & it’s just another week; no immediate action to remove him from office.

OG Woke

In the '90s, punks and leftists made absurd images like this to parody American conservatism. I'm not sure you can do that today because there's not even the veneer of Christian virtue to point out the hypocrisy.

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

Now Playing: 'Lonesome Day Blues' by Bob Dylan, from the album _Love & Theft_ (2001): ***** www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OCa...

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Now Playing: 'Is This Sound Okay?' by Coconut Records, from the album _Davy_ (2009): **** www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ1K...

Truly an impressive feat, given how much Americans hated the Biden economy

Your reminder that the FBI looked us dead in the eye and asked us to believe these texts were written by a human person who is also 22 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Last word to @jedshug.bsky.social rightly so

Pope Leo should review this

Only 40% of men, only 41% of white people. Very bad numbers for Trump

We literally threatened to invade a NATO ally THIS YEAR. TWO MONTHS AGO.

NYT is clearly trying to diminish the protests by saying "thousands" across the country for something that was in the millions.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and also the best guarantee we can hold free and fair elections this November. Today, it was shining brightly. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

General strike May 1st. Pass it on

AMAZING human 'No Kings' banner made in Arizona today for the nationwide protest against the war, Trump and the Epstein class!

Today's inspirational message:

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

"It is indeed a beautiful, hopeful day in the United States"

Organizers expect today's No Kings Day rallies — with more than 3,000 events planned across all 50 states — to be the largest single-day protest in American history.

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!

Money is not speech. Money is rivalrous; speech is not. To those who say money is speech: how much money do you have? Okay, and how much speech do you have? Both questions must be answered with similar ease, if they are the same thing. They are not.

They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.

I paid over $4 a gallon for gas today and it felt great. Don't know what all the bitching is about. That's my country I'm paying for. I sprayed some around the parking lot 'cause that's my goddamned right. Jesus died for this price. I drank some.

Walz: What happened in Minnesota and the absolute horrific assault on this state, if this happened in another country, it wasn't that long ago that the US would investigate those things. We're going to do that.

Right-wingers are playing dumb about this, so we must articulate the reason: We don’t want ICE at the polls because Trump is going to use them to arrest people who look like they will vote Democrat to change the outcome of the election.

When I said Trump would deploy ICE at the polls, I was called an alarmist. When I said I did not believe the denials,I was labeled a partisan. Now DOJ officials are endorsing it at rightwing conferences. Stay informed. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

Right-wingers are playing dumb about this, so we must articulate the reason: We don’t want ICE at the polls because Trump is going to use them to arrest people who look like they will vote Democrat to change the outcome of the election. That’s why.

We laugh at how unutterably pathetic he is (me as much as anyone) but if you think Trump won’t sacrifice countless American soldiers’ lives to postpone the public humiliation of his epic failure in Iran, then you really haven’t been paying attention…

Trump wants to willingly send Americans to a foreign country to die and the GOP is panicking by preemptively distancing themselves as if they didn’t spend years amplifying false narratives and the lies that brought us to this moment. They have blood on their hands and always will

In three months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by fast food and delivery companies -Cracked down on bad landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me. Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.

A fascinating quirk of covering Washington is how quickly the talk of “debt” and “offsets” and “how you gonna pay for it” vanishes when it comes to war spending. A select few are consistent about this.

🚨BREAKING: During a norm-shattering appearance at a conservative political conference Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he couldn’t understand why anyone would disagree with a president deploying federal agents to the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...