Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/m...

Roosevelt would never have gotten the New Deal off the ground if he’d spent his time worrying about what Republicans had to say. When I’m Governor, we will pass universal childcare with or without them. #mepolitics

A whole lot of men believe this and I have to tell you after having to hear this shit over and over again over a lifetime from men dumber than me it's a goddamned miracle I'm not in jail.

Frederick Douglass knew. "If left to their own devices," he said in 1866, "white Southerners, by unfriendly legislation, could make our liberty a delusion, a mockery." @sifill.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @esglaude.bsky.social

US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany. It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.

Happy May Day!

To those who have been troubled by Graham Platner's rise in the Maine Senate race, this podcast with Jon Stewart should give some peace. (As a 2nd district Mainer, I have been impressed with his ability to connect with all types of Mainers.) youtu.be/-itNjgCJDxU?...

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

Sitting in the catbird seat.

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation. She represents us and the rage we feel.

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

You know, there are a lot of other Democrats running for governor of California who *haven't* demonstrated a clear patten of abusing their public office for personal gratification

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

I have a mid-October pub date for DON'T BREATHE. It's a near-past alt hist, imagining COVID to have a 10-15% fatality rate. I wrote it during the Biden interregnum, so it's more optimistic than it might be if I started it today. Preorders help! Thanks! www.amazon.com/DONT-BREATHE...

All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This…..

Important recent point from @joshtpm.bsky.social at @talkingpointsmemo.com. He notes it seems obvious, but may not be: Only INDIE media orgs can NOT be puppeteered by Trump, his stooges or big corp owners kissing up to Trump! SUPPORT your faves! (Including TPM! talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships)

Elizabeth Banks

"The Chinese government has the full, un-redacted Epstein files." "Anonymous has the full, un-redacted Epstein files." That's nice. I'll care about it when they're released publicly online. Until then, it's all just meaningless, shameless engagement bait.

Never has, never will, fully incapable of empathy at all

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

This would disturb me more if I thought that American consumers, other than Costco shoppers, would ever see a nickel of that money even if it were refunded.

Support journalism that is unbossed and unbought.

I knew we were going authoritarian when Trump won 16 months ago I had no idea how fast we'd become North Korea

Graham Platner says he shuns DC consultants. His spending tells a different story. www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/26/g...

WOW

Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫

Make no mistake, Biden was a superior president & superior human being, hands down, best economy in the world when he left, would have voted for him again if he decided to stay in race, but he couldn’t hold off Mother Nature, he simply got too old in office, & current situation is declining rapidly…

To be resumed when we can celebrate decency in the presidency…

So much this. So much.

Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016: “come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

Bro, your ICE guys wear literal masks to cover their faces, let’s not talk about IDs.

It’s time to tap into your internal lesbian anger! Even if you’re straight. Now is the time to fight for your 1st Amendment rights! Let’s go!

For the record, the history is still there. It cannot and will never go away.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Will you be withholding unanimous consent and forcing votes and the longest feasible time to debate every single action? Blocking every nomination? Seeking to remove your own innefective leadership? You are suggesting something you can't do while not doing what you can

I think you can make a case that a city would be better off being invaded by Tren De Aragua than being invaded by Border Control. 1) Residents could legally defend themselves 2) local law enforcement would protect residents (at least possibly)

This is extraordinary. I can’t think of a single Fed statement this defiant — ever. The Fed works through open consensus building and when it must, quiet, patient resistance. I cannot stress how bad things are that Jay Powell is saying these things out loud.

Spotted:

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

This needs to be investigated.

That's ... incredibly cheap. Let the children have their testicles. Give them their dolls and their pencils and their testicles you weird testicle-hoarding freaks.

Migration is the American dream.

Oh, wow! Down to 42 already! Y'all are amazing! If we can get this done today, I can just focus on, you know, my work for the rest of the year!

Love this question! 🗃️

I come bearing good news. Well, a little good news. www.unchartedblue.com/maga-is-crac...

Art speaking truth.

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)