every now and then i feel the need to remind folks that The Daily doesn’t fact check

ok I know everyone is saying exactly the same thing at once but christ on cracker this is the president of the United States bragging that a fellow crook 'kept me out of jail for years.'

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

These remarks feature most of Roberts’ usual talking points but one quote stood out to me—that justices are “not simply part of the political process.” At a minimum, constitutional interpretation is absolutely part of the *political* process & always has been. To say otherwise is deeply unserious.

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You can't teach young people how the government works when it doesn't.

Interesting how it seems common wisdom that Trump actually has dementia and yet he is still the President.

North Koreans are told daily how "Dear Leader" loves them, as they sit down to a dinner of grass and dirty water.

This is a stupid, knee-jerk policy reaction. (But it also kinda makes sense from a Texan. Have you seen that place?!)

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Yay! I won't get laid off! www.portlandmercury.com/news/portlan...

Why do police (unions, departments) protect the bad apples rather than just kicking them out to save the rest of the barrel?

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There’s lots of reasons the White House doesn’t have a ballroom, and the founding image of the US as a democratic, anti-monarchical nation is one of them. My take on Trump’s demand for a party room with @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Words no other U.S. president has ever had to utter

The technological gap is widening rapidly. While the US government wastes billions funding endless wars for the Zionist regime, China is unveiling revolutionary EV batteries that charge to 100 percent in just ten minutes. The West is completely being left behind. #cdnpoli

Update: It appears they don’t like it.

I kinda wish someone had asked "so he'll be grabbing women by the p*ssy?" It would grab ears and probably shock a lot of younger voters who have never heard of the Access Hollywood tapes.

The car's impact on quality of life: - The owner: 🙂 (maybe) - Everyone else: 😫

u never see this on a tradlife mood board

Feels like this should be a story the press covers.

Reading the pseudoscience in the replies is fun/disturbing.

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

Castle doctrine for a vehicle that can kill anyone near it if operated improperly is so funny, how does this website keep coming up with such incredible takes. I’m dying.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Exactly one year ago today:

Three months after Ottawa removed its automatic safety cameras, the share of drivers following the speed limit plunged from 87% to 41%(!). "High-end speeding" is up 10x. Automatic enforcement saves lives. If you remove it, people will die.

This report hits on many important issues & identifies important problems that could be addressed. But it fails by writing about the problem of trust, from the outset, without even mentioning the decades of concerted attacks & lies coming from the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

Talking about Donald Trump having dementia just gives a sympathetic excuse for inexcusable preexisting conditions. Donald has *always* been a mean, self-centered, incoherent fool who says stupid and ignorant things.

Should be part of his next test.

These people took the wrong lesson from The Handmaid's Tale!

EZRA KLEIN: “Hasan Piker is not the enemy… he isn’t a “Jew hater.” — He’s an anti-Zionist… The Israel young people know is not the Israel that older people remember.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

i think people have forgotten that vance is quite possibly the least experienced person to *ever* serve as vice president of the united states

Quality bike lanes can magically create new cyclists out of thin air. "The installation of protected and buffered bicycle lanes was consistently and significantly associated with increased bicycle commuting." doi.org/10.1177/0361...

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

Concerned about urban heat islands? Ban cars.

the team were able to show how vehicles can measurably raise temperatures in cities and influence how heat moves between roads, buildings and the surrounding air. Study, published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

You have to be a next level asshole to drive up to a road closed sign/barricade, stop, get out of your car, push the barricade aside and then drive onto a landslide-damaged road. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

If Iran had started the war by seizing control of the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. military retaliation might have been justified. Instead, the U.S. started the war, prompting Iran to retaliate by seizing the strait. And now the U.S. is accepting it. That’s what Trump calls “winning.”

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war. This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does. It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

Trump has done more damage to our country than Iran could possibly ever do.

And to think, all this because Trump wanted to stay out of jail.