Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

🚨LOCATION UPDATE🚨 We will now be located on the north grounds of the Statehouse. Swipe for a map. Don't get quiet. Don't back down. South Carolina lawmakers are *still* pushing to rig our election maps. Join us outside Statehouse on the north grounds TODAY at 2:30p.m. @ACLU_SC

Connect the dots.

The power of MAGAnomics!

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

Minnesota senators voted to prohibit federal agents from concealing their faces and to allow individuals who had their constitutional rights violated to sue. It now heads to the tied Minnesota House where it faces dim prospects.

Immediate PTSD

the government coerces people daily by either jailing them pre-trial and/or by making it extremely expensive for folks to fight their cases.

People in this country have ZERO idea about the criminal punishment system. I see it daily. Just no clue.

People have absolutely no idea how much it costs to do these cases well. None. Zero. If you want people to fight this shitty government, it takes money. You can't just show up and say "Hi judge this case sucks, please dismiss it." Believe me, I wish I could.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Hey so as someone actually representing people arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE and doing it pro bono, if you think @katmabu.bsky.social is exaggerating about the cost, you have absolutely no idea. I literally maxed out every credit card I have just on expenses. And that's for STATE court.

Definitely not the Antichrist, constantly accompanied by plagues

Fun fact! Even when the government dismisses a charge (or all charges), your lawyer still did a bunch of work to get that to happen! And when you have two people who have been under indictment for 6+ months, it costs a shit ton of money — it’s part of why the government does this. Hope that helps.

really peeved me off how some people downplayed the impact of federal charges from doing this work during the surge

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

Do read this 🧵 from Melissa —>

My sincerest apologies to my queen @profmmurray.bsky.social, but I originally scrolled past this as a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social post ("Those silly goose... lol"). Then heard the vinyl scratch and scrolled back up. tf.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

IMPORTANT: Trump is openly calling for states to cancel active elections to push through new gerrymandered maps before November. His words: "If they have to vote twice, so be it." www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-n...

When a congressman is facing allegations of raping a staffer, leaving her bruised and bleeding, and of drugging and raping another woman, the problem is not a "horny-ness epidemic." www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

Ordinary Americans are facing soaring costs on groceries and gas and everything in between, while the most corrupt president in American history continues to line his own pockets with taxpayer money, and now he wants another billion for his golden ballroom. Please, Democrats, this is a lay up.

"We should probably do some oversight..." www.notus.org/congress/kri...

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

"Brenda" a mother of two, works in the strawberries. "I harvest strawberries and it's a very hard job. I work in the rain, heat, cold, to earn enough take care of my family. I work very hard to earn enough for rent, food & whatever else is needed." #WeFeedYou

Trump assures the world that Iran isn't shooting at ships, except for the ships they're shooting at

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

FWIW this is why, in The Originalism Trap, I say it's imperative for us to reject the idea that the Court has a monopoly on constitutional interpretation we can push for an emancipatory vision of the Constitution instead of the Supreme Court's neoconfederate nonsense bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Director David Frankel tapped artist Alexis Franklin to hand-paint an AI Meryl Streep meme that appeared in the film.

🍾 🥂 ⚰️ 🪦 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social

Seems like a lovely fellow

I read a very compelling argument that when this weasel chewed through a cable and unexpectedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile particle accelerator in April 2016, that’s when our reality went haywire. I have yet to hear a more persuasive explanation. Not even really joking.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Over 28,000 young people signed on for a Seattle Public Library card, which enables access to e-books even if they don't live in Seattle. The program was started by Brooklyn Public Library to expand service in communities impacted by censorship.

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

Q: How will you prove intent when Comey said he didn't associate '86' with doing harm and he took it down promptly, saying it was political speech? BLANCHE: How do you prove intent in any case? With witnesses, documents, with the defendants himself, and that's how we'll do it in this case

The Comey case doesn’t even hold up in the press pool

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

Nominee for best headline of the year.

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens? RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind? BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth

"If we treated animals like this, we'd all be arrested" Congresswoman Adelita Grijelva Arizona describes horrific conditions at ICE camp

Time to stop saying "Trump's base is rock solid," because that doesn't tell us anything real. The better question is what's happening with the 2024 coalition that elected him. Look at these abysmal numbers among noncollege whites, rural, white men, young, Latino: newrepublic.com/article/2094...

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

But do treat yourself to the depo transcript where Loomer explained that she *really did* think Marjorie Taylor Greene got divorced because she put a roast beef sandwich in her pants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

These agents "don't know how to operate in these situations,” said former DOJ attorney Christy Lopez. Their behavior “is on par with the worst protest policing and just law enforcement that I've seen from any department, even in their worst days." With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

At a time of declining support among Democrats and Republicans, the State of Israel receives high praise from President Trump on Truth Social.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Feeling like this is indicative of a real normal democracy right here.

When the Bush administration tried to monkeywrench the 4th Amendment in the name of national security, the FBI director, Bob Mueller, told Bush he'd quit in protest. Trump's Justice Department shouldn't get away with this.

BREAKING: An ICE charter landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo minutes ago following third-country deportation deal with the Trump administration. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...