The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) over allegations of sexual misconduct. Gomez had been spotted kissing an aide, who worked for a different member of Congress, outside a backyard party in 2023. A spokesperson said it was “not true” and the kiss “didn’t happen.”

Shortly after the 2025 elections, I published a list of seven voting laws every blue state should enact. While I stand by all seven, I want to highlight three. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

[tapping earpiece] i'm hearing reports that elections matter

It's not age alone. It's being a nepo baby. It's being degreed but uneducated. It's being Kompromat. It's being a victim of dementia. And for proof that it's not just age. I present to you. Bernie Sanders. He's older, and a hell of a lot more lucid.

📌 IOWA 2024: Trump won by 13 points. 📌 IOWA VOTERS TODAY: “I feel like I’m being shot financially.” Trump is “losing it. I think he’s too old.”

The race has no obvious heir to Newsom. Kamala Harris and Alex Padilla declined to run, Tom Steyer spent more than $200 million of his own money, and Hilton is trying to become the first Republican elected governor of California since Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Maybe in part because Steyer spent so much money attacking Becerra with GOP lies instead of attacking Hilton

@realbarbaraboxer.bsky.social: “The thing about Hilton is he's endorsed by Trump. And you know, we can't forget about it - ...” On Becerra v Hilton “… it’s 60/40, so I think we’re looking good in the Governor’s race.” @cnn.com #TheStoryIs @elexmichaelson.bsky.social

If California elects Republican Hilton....they are idiots.

Greg Laurie’s church covered up sexual misconduct of top pastors, paying one $4 million to sign NDA Senior pastor Greg Laurie didn’t say why two top leaders at his Riverside, California, church left suddenly in the early 2020s. No one acknowledged pastors Jeff Lasseigne and Brad Ormonde’s absences…

It looks as tho it will be Hilton v Becerra in the California Governors race, thankfully the all too close a prospect of two Rapepublicans running for Governor is unlikely to happen. In LA it looks like Bass v some worthless MAGA Pratt. apnews.com/projects/ele...

Gosh, if Steve Hilton turns California Republican, I’m gonna have to flee back to the United Kingdom. Think about the irony of that. Leaving California for the UK just because of a British man.

California prefers their class traitors betray the working class.

The California primary a real picture into how “lesser evil” voters are all just conservatives who want the Democrats to be more conservative.

#California #LosAngeles OMG 😲 DO NOT Elect another Republican Reality TV Star! #PRATT has zero experience ... as Republican he will be hostile to the diversity and cultural history of Los Angeles!

six coddled racists stripping millions of their rights (and btw as @chrisgeidner.bsky.social points out below, so far the State of Alabama has lost on the merits repeatedly so you know this is a conclusion in search of a rationale, however bogus)

[NPR] SUPREME COURT REINSTATES REPUBLICAN-FAVORED ALABAMA CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

Alabama 🤮🤢🫤

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has allowed Alabama Republicans to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district ahead of the midterms.

Breaking news Supreme Court allows Alabama Republicans to use a contested 2023 congressional map via ABC News

“Yet just as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate equally in democracy,” In Sotomayer dissent. 😭😭😭

I can't wait for Scott Pelley to sue the fuck out of Bari Weiss/Ellison/Nick Bilton

Thank you to Scott Pelley for speaking truth to power. 🔥

Loving Scott Pelley more than ever. This is delicious.

Scott Pelley is a hero.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump-backed Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson admitted the Iran war could be a “political liability” if it lasts much longer, according to audio obtained by POLITICO.

Morning Kittens

Top Trump officials set to be grilled by Congress today on ‘slush fund’ and mass deportations: Live updates Marco Rubio, Markwayne Mullin and Todd Blanche face grilling from members of Congress amid Trump’s budget battle

WMLL498 Grifter Donald’s felon slush fund has been slapped out of his hands by his own party. Donald thought he would keep this criminal money faucet running for himself. Too bad they didn’t make that kind of decision 10 years ago. Now Americans are paying for it. What Madness Looks Like 🇺🇸

Fuck off no you can’t have an infinite money pool for your slush fund / terrorist friends / white collar crime cronies / crime organization and friends / family. Go to hell!

MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how even if Donald Trump says that the “slush fund is dead and dead forever, it is now beyond Donald Trump's powers to stop the investigation of his slush fund that two federal judges have undertaken” that could expose Trump to “serious... youtu.be/iaMuZK-3Eps?...

I'm a little unclear why all the headlines are "Trump backs off billion-dollar slush fund" when the reality appears to be "agreed to not steal the money for the next two weeks" with no guarantee beyond that. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

If the slush fund goes, but the audit immunity stays - that’s only half a win. Both are bad.

So t rump is backing away from his slush fund for criminals but is keeping the I am above the law and so are my businesses and my family now and forever? Does anyone notice this?

Trump to Drop $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund After Backlash The Trump administration is appearing to back off plans for its $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization" fund after a judge’s order put it on hold. Democrats called it a “slush fund” for Trump allies but there was also unusually fierce…

Trump is planning to drop his $1.8B slush-fund.

The latest in the “Broadview Six” saga: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Fresh off his star turn in the Broadview Six debacle

This is exactly the same law that was used (unsuccessfully) against the Broadview Six.

Donald Trump has decided to use his DOJ lickspittles to try to intimidate an 82-year-old woman whom he owes $88.3 million after a trial jury found he sexually assaulted her three decades ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

Juliana Stratton joins calls for Chicago's top federal prosecutor to step down amid 'Broadview Six' fallout

“At any point, any of us could have taken a deal… And none of us did.” 'Broadview Six' defendants reflect on a case doomed by apparent misconduct by prosecutors: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The failed case against Chicago’s Broadview Six shows a federal government willing to go to almost any lengths to punish people for showing up for their neighbors. trib.al/qnDRfJA

For those who prefer text, I went deep on the rise and fall of the the Broadview Six case for @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/r.i....

Cool,Cuz We Can't Get Enough Of Mayor Mamdani.......👏🏻

NASA releases new terrifying details as meteor explodes near Massachusetts https://www.europesays.com/uk/997356/ NASA has now confirmed a meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at…

Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.