The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

Democrats: Eat the rich! Republicans: Kill the poor! (people, these aren’t the same thing)

most Republican talking points are wasteful. You don’t even have to dig deep to find the waste.

Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year. As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

seems like hegseth is more interested in his white supremacist ideological project than actually building an effective military

The U.S. Postal Service's governing board has named David Steiner, a board member of USPS competitor FedEx, to be the next postmaster general following the controversial term of Louis DeJoy.

His new executive order directs the government to roll back the use of “disparate impact” liability a standard that’s helped expose policies that disproportionately harm minority groups, even without explicit intent.

Armed masked agents roaming the streets attacking our neighbors makes us all less safe.

NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:

Great, so Senate Democrats can come out refreshed with the hot new battle plan of trying to be watered-down polite Republicans then blaming progressives and the left when this fails to rally the Dem base, fails to pick up swing voters, and gets laughed at by GOP voters.

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

If the courts cannot pretty rapidly step in and stop this obvious abuse of public funds to settle political scores, they won’t do a whole lot else to hold against an authoritarian state

the story all but says it but hegseth is very clearly trying to purge the leadership of the military of black people and women

Aetna announced it plans to exit the health insurance exchange in 17 states. 1 million people could lose their health coverage. “This decision is... to focus the company’s portfolio,” Aetna’s parent company CVS said. CVS' revenue was up 7% last quarter.

the president’s policies will carpet bomb the economy and ruin millions of lives but don’t worry, he and his failchildren will come away from everything as rich as ever

NEW YORK (AP) - ProPublica wins 2025 Pulitzer for Public Service for reports on deaths of pregnant women in abortion-restricted states.

it will never stop being crazy that conservatives have brain poisoned people to the extent that we now have to care deeply about the results of school board elections in places where we don’t live

Talk about a horse with blinders on. Sitting back and waiting for the: Raising black boys in America, Raising black girls in America, Raising brown boys in America, Raising brown girls in America, editions to drop. They are going to be 🔥 🙄 jfc

The word “journey” used to mean a single day’s travels, and the French word for day, jour, is packed neatly inside it, like a single pair of shoes in a very small case. Maybe all journeys should be imagined as a single day, short as a trip to the corner or long as a life in its ninth decade.

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Thelma & Louis

dude, where’s my AR

If Biden, who is actually Catholic, posted a picture of himself as Pope there would be a thousand op-eds and cable news hits for months about how it was the most blasphemous thing an American president has ever done and we’d assume he had gone insane.

NIOSH: “Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators”

get the fucking vaccine and you likely won’t need treatment at all, you addled fruit leather

Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.

Trump and Kennedy are killing children. Right in front of our eyes.

Please read/share if you love your national parks! New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service. They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...

"'Newark airport cannot handle the number of planes that are scheduled to operate there in the weeks and months ahead', Kirby said in a message posted on United’s website." It is also reported that United accounts for 75% of the traffic at Newark (EWR). The costs of the Trump presidency keep rising.

What did the five fingers say to the face? “Slap!” — Chappelle Show

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the Perkins Coie law firm — the first of several such orders — is unconstitutional and, accordingly, "null and void." Background at Law Dork on the original TRO in the case: www.lawdork.com/p/perkins-co...

More of this, y'all. Have a goddamn spine

We're honored to be a Scripps Howard Journalism Awards finalist for "The Year After a Denied Abortion," our story about a woman forced to continue a life-threatening pregnancy following Tennessee's abortion ban. Read the story (published Feb. 2024):

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

One crony to rule them all, One crony to find them…

Probably an upcoming Chuck Schumer post: And when your egg prices skyrocket during the NBA Playoffs, don’t say you weren’t warned!

To say legacy media is not built for this moment is a gross understatement. The people destroying this country are being treated with respect.

this is legitimately evil

I was among the people interview for this piece. Glad to see 60 Minutes standing behind it.

We truly live in the dumbest of times, but watching Gerdes stumble and try to avoid admitting that he's a complete dumbass under questioning from @jamestalarico.bsky.social is pretty impressive. The video leaves out Talarico later pointing out that this is "a manufactured, debunked smear campaign"

Data centers are the new sacrifice zones

in nearly all cases, whenever you use a new app, platform, or a website and see “privacy,” best practice is to just replace it in your head pontypool-style with the word “surveillance”

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

I'd like to remind @washingtonpost.com that US citizens cannot, by definition, be deported. In this case, they were kidnapped or trafficked.

“It’s very chilling,” a Labor Department employee who requested anonymity for fear of retribution told ProPublica. “It’s never a good look when you’re telling people to never talk about what you’re doing.”