Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

Last month, California drivers spent $1,736,799,540 more on gas than before trump’s war on Iran. Americans are paying the price for this illegal war.

You have to say it three times for it to come true.

PSA: Any of your friends who’ve done advocacy work for marginalized populations in the US over the past few decades – Black folks, especially – are having a very rough couple of days Hope feels like a cruel tease I don’t know how we fix this. I don’t know if it can be fixed. Be kind, please.

The citizens of Warren, MI are demanding TANKS of GAS not TANKS to ATTACK #TrumpsGasCrisis

Dear @wshcommanders.bsky.social, how about you take over the golf courses and contract to @nationallinkstrust.bsky.social ? Don’t pull another Snyder on us. We’re giving yall a chance.

If you don’t vote in midterm elections because there’s no presidential option on the ballot, you’re missing the plot. This November will be the most consequential midterm election of your life.

Supreme Court expansion. Term limits for justices. A binding code of ethics. John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Defend our democracy.

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

someone make an ad of grandma working in a coal mine

something about how the essential innumeracy of racism has seeped its way into every fucked-up and broken american institution really got me worked up today www.theverge.com/policy/92159...

We great yet?

Blue was so lame today. Connections Puzzle #1054 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

A black girl born today will have fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother.

So are we going to see the No Kings marchers rapid response organize against the VRA act ruling this weekend or….?

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Today, Republicans are working to jam through a budget resolution that hands another $70 BILLION to ICE and CBP on top of the $170 billion they got in the Big Bad Betrayal bill. The same ICE and CBP that killed Americans in the street in MN have terrorized communities across this country. I’m a NO.

This is awful. And true. 🙁

REAL CHANGE!

Honestly, his calendar is lighter than this retiree’s.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED

Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservative court basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans. An absolutely mockery of the law and a stain on the court.

The Trump administration sees administrative burdens as a way to shrink the safety net. He is also overwhelming state govts with burdens and preventing them from using tools to manage these hassles like automatic renewal.

This is nice.

THR: “It seems Trump is OK with his 60 Minutes interview getting edited, just not anyone else’s.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

We know, tho. #friendlyfire

A battering ram on a DAY CARE?????

Kevin O'Leary's new hyperscale data center project in Utah is expected to generate and consume more power than the entire state The project's final vote has been delayed due to major local pushback (via sltrib)

Hello, progressives, this should be the message pounded into the ground. Resurrected and repounded. Also, the Epstein files.

Note: DOJ did NOT charge Allen with 18 USC 111, which they would have if they knew he shot the USSS who was shot. So ... possibly friendly fire.

Remember when Squeaky Fromme got a couple shots off at Gerald Ford and they responded by putting him in one of those giant master wheels? Or when that guy scaled the White House fence in 2014 and they encased Barack Obama in protective carbonate for a year?

Given this argument, I assume it's too dangerous for the President to go golfing anymore, right?

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

Pete Hegseth killed 2 more people today without a trial

This seems right. I agree that it was odd that USSS didn’t immediately motorcade to WH. Maybe they were arguing with Trump saying “the show must go on,” and “Where’s my flag and fist pump moment?” Let’s go, Gramps.

The tone of this article is really weird. The guy bought two guns, a shotgun eight months ago and a pistol two years ago, and they make it sound like an American buying two guns over two years is inherently suspicious or evidence he planned it for a long time. They also call it an “arsenal.”

The question that will be asked: Is it the rhetoric of the right or the left that is most to blame? The question that should be asked: Is it the murder of fisherman, the torture of children in concentration camps, the threat of nuclear war, or the protection of pedophiles that’s most to blame?

PS. Don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s not Trump’s dinner, nor is it his decision, to reschedule…

Hate and anger and dehumanization and calls for violence begets the same. People who do not agree with you are not “scum.”

It’s not a security breach that he didn’t sleep in a sterile area; it just wasn’t the security plan. And the designed security did in fact stop the attack without it. The demand embedded in this piece that it become the plan is exactly how the one way ratchet of a burdensome security state works.

You know you guys fired the photographer who took this photo.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.