this is correct except that the political crisis started back in 2000 when Bush stole the election and the "heads in the sand vs we should fight" dynamic has been the major split inside the Dem party since then

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it

What? Absolutely not. These are the actions of a wildly unpopular administration that should be mocked, not feared. Don’t give these yutzes more than they deserve by making them powerful or scary in your head.

Background: a month ago I predicted the scum pond they've made will delaminate in ~5 years. That turned out to be ~5 years too optimistic, and here's why (I think). 2/x bsky.app/profile/mona...

Jokes are just a way of expressing ideas. If you say something objectionable in a way that makes people laugh, you still said something objectionable.

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

[You're not dunking; you're spreading their frame.]

U.S. Navy in 1944: we will island hop across the entire Pacific Ocean and destroy the Japanese Air Force 5 times over U.S. Navy in 2026: please pay for VIP pass so we may escort you maybe

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

That’s called a bribe.

There really is a tweet for everything

President Trump, a native New Yorker, was greeted by thunderous boos as he appeared in a suite at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals. https://wapo.st/4e9ZcUb

If you have never heard of Nithya Raman then you just don’t follow LA politics. She was the first person to oust an incumbent Councilmember in 17 years when she beat David Ryu. The biggest scandal in recent LA political history was about an attempt to redistrict her out of her seat.

As it looks like Steyer isn't going to make it, @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social's race is the most important race in California by far. Most of California's housing crisis is driven by LA being awful and it'd be a massive victory if suddenly they weren't.

HAHAHAHAHAHA Nithya Raman will be in and Pratt is toast in #LAMayor

LOS ANGELES UPDATE: An excellent update for Nithya Raman. She wins today's batch of roughly 60K ballots over Spencer Pratt by almost 21%, which is well over what she needs. Pratt's lead over Raman (for the 2nd runoff spot) goes down from 5.9% to 3.4%.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

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

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

That’s a shame.

if someone does a coverup, that's consciousness of guilt and so Objective Journalists have an alibi for critical coverage. but if you just shoot someone in broad daylight, Peter Baker's hands are tied

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

State prosecutors in Minnesota have charged ICE agent. Federal agents are not absolutely immune from state prosecution if their conduct is not necessary and proper. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

wherever i go, whoever i talk to, people care about the price of eggs... but they care even more about accountability for these fucking people looting our country. some remarks, on how we might get there. oh, and we don't have to wait until 2029 www.liberalcurrents.com/prosecute-th...

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

there are a lot of trump voters we aren’t ever going to convert and what we need to do is make them feel like the suckers they are and withdraw from electoral politics entirely

Jeffries: "We're gonna win back the House ... the ghost of the Confederacy has afflicted the Supreme Court majority, & is invading & haunting the nation right now, & we take that seriously. Which is why Democrats are committed to launching a decisive and overwhelming response in advance of 2028."

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

I think I just got served one of the best videos on parenting ever youtube.com/shorts/1iNWA...

this is one of the very smart things about how the right wing messaging machine works — they test out messages both positive and negative to see what works then, once they land on something, repeat it endlessly until it's driven home.

First, Trump’s district is repped by a Democrat, and now JK Rowling is repped by a trans person? Fabulous!! 💙💕🎊🏳️‍⚧️

the reason democracy works so well is that we settle issues via the ballot box. once that avenue dries up because one party wants to entrench themselves in power forever, people start looking for alternatives

identity has substantially realigned around consumption rather than production

apparently relevant again

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

The Box is the correct shape for most buildings to be

we're gonna find out that the entire formidable Daily Wire audience was just a product of 1) a contiunous flow of oligarch money into buying algorithmic promotion for its content 2) conservatives inside meta, X and google pressuring the algorithm into promoting their content

SCOTUS is telling us that there's no choice left but to pack the court. Congress can pass whatever laws they want to, but the Gang of Six will veto them if they think it'll help Republicans cling to power.

it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

Just leaving this right here. #25thAmendment

I think that we should simply run on prosecuting the rich for their crimes instead of creating a low trust society that will sow the seeds for further fascism

(2029) GOP: noooo you can't send the DOJ and IRS after our groups THAT'S CHEATING 😭 Dems: Ha-ha! indictments machine goes brrrrrrr

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

Jim Jordan is commenting on Eric Swalwell's sexual misconduct allegations. Jordan was assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State while team doctor Richard Strauss sexually abused at least 177 athletes. Multiple wrestlers testified under oath they told Jordan. He did nothing. He was never charged.