I really think Trump II is going to rock up 20th century dictator bodycount when all is said and done and all accounted for, Leopold in the Congo kinda stuff here. Just wildly evil.

Oligarchs are robbing America blind, and the IRS is powerless to stop them

“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the U.S., or any of them.” [i.e. state govs]

FBI Director Patel referred to Abgrego as a “gang banger and human trafficker and wife beater” etc in Congressional testimony etc as recently as a week ago.

Todd Blanche should be impeached not only because of the $1.776 billion insurrection fund but also because of the many ways he has destroyed any presumption of justice at his DOJ.

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I think @stevevladeck.bsky.social is absolutely right that the way to defeat the Terrorist Slush Fund is via politics. But I think you START impeachment w/Blanche. 25 GOP Senators spoke up (in private) yesterday. 25+47-Fetterman = 71. Better yet, INCLUDE the dismissal of the Sedition verdicts NOW.

Zohran got more votes than 50 sitting U.S. Senators did.

I wonder what this internally logical change would do to the answers here www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

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one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

Well worth the time to read in full:

It is also my personal opinion (unrelated to my job) that every lawyer involved with this is committing a crime, and every person who will be involved with this fund once it is stood up will also be committing a crime.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Hi Democrats, sorry for the inconvenience, but you are going to need to stand up against this grossly unconstitutional thing Trump is trying to do. If you don't impeach over this, you have no business being in office.

“neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.”

A federal judge also ruled that federal funding was withheld to coerce a pardon for Peters.

“Whiteness is a drug. Only the addict can choose to be free of it.… Among Democrats, the current trend is to accuse Donald Trump of breaking his promise to America. However, that doesn't help break the addiction. It affirms it.… We should not enable addiction.”

Join me as I fill out my Financial Disclosure Report, an annual report required by Congress to help keep lawmakers honest and accountable. Mine was fast — no stocks, no corporate interests. disclosures-clerk.house.gov/FinancialDis...

Dementia care can be difficult but it shouldn’t cost anyone a billion dollars

Jamie Lee Curtis as M and Jamie Foxx as 007 give new life to the rom-com genre in “Jamies Bond”.

ICE flights. Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (Yes, that is a Myanmar deportation. Those people were very likely tortured on arrival.)

Good article on a study examining whether college pays off (in Texas), incorporating the opportunity cost of lost workforce years & heterogeneity in type of degree, college, & major Answer: Payoff is v variable but strongly positive for BAs of all kinds, most AAs, & fairly few certificate programs

“We aren’t playing politics. We’re trying to keep this thing from coming apart. The people who gutted the Voting Rights Act are playing politics. We’re doing the unglamorous work of making sure their game doesn’t end the country.”

Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff struck student protesters with his car. This is why.

All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...

Literally a heist from government coffers and/or de jure instead of de facto impunity for tax crimes. We fought a revolution to not be ruled by a king.

If the President can successfully order the IRS to hand over billions of dollars to his personal bank account, the Constitution is dead and no longer operative. I'm not kidding. We've crossed a kind of Rubicon and the social contract is null and void.

“Those people who are supposed to be defending our interest … are actually actively facilitating the exploitation of these natural resources for the benefit of very, very few.”

Moderate Democrat Ruben Gallego comes out in support of packing the Court. Also popular with a plurality of Americans, including independents, according to our Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io polling: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

I find this sort of means-testing to be strikingly anti-family. People lose their minds about the estate tax with a multimillion dollar exemption, but then apply high implicit taxes on the modest intra-family transfers of poor people

Requiring the parent of a SNAP recipient to provide a written statement clarifying that a birthday money transfer was not recurring support is so dystopian.

”Moderates” willingness to compromise with white supremacists bent on destroying Black political power destroyed Reconstruction and led to a century of Jim Crow. Democrats need to play hardball, not compromise with segregationists.

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

Now is a good time to start understanding proportional representation, because it is the only way we escape this madness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s not polarization, it’s White supremacy all the way down.

One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

Do what Ohio Republicans did: keep drafting maps that the state supreme court rejects until you can get a federal court to step in and say there’s not enough time left before the election to comply with the state court’s rulings.

Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.

SCOTUS Legal Glossary: pro bono pro forma pro hac vice pro jim crow pro se …

Anyone who believed what Roberts says here would be strongly in favor of ‘court packing’. Because it would restore the trust of those who - wrongly! - suspect partisanship. And it would cause no harm. Because Justices on the SC are above partisanship. So who cares if there are a few more?

The agents who are doing this are afraid they'll lose their jobs if they don't. Which is why every potential Dem POTUS candidate should get on the record, TODAY, saying that they will fire anyone who DOES do this. Quit w honor or get fired in disgrace. Make those the ONLY two choices. NOW.

I knew I recognized this guy from somewhere.

The fact that most of us can't name a policy advanced by the Right that has improved a majority of people's lives to me is telling. It suggests that when you hear some people say that a "strong" GOP is needed, that they are full of shit or complicit in making people's lives more awful.

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science