Calling Democrats “treasonous” and “human garbage” would’ve been a big deal in any other era. Now it’s just another fucking Saturday.

1/ NEW: Russian forces in April 2026 suffered a net loss of territory controlled in the Ukrainian theater for the first time since Ukraine’s August 2024 incursion into Kursk Oblast. Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar050226

Has this person been asleep for ten years? Trump takes and follows orders from Putin. Full stop. "The United States remains Europe’s strategic shock absorber. It keeps Russia at bay, embeds Germany, reassures France, protects the Eastern front line..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

“I don’t know. I’m not sure, you have to ask the various people involved...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Izzy has 8th grade prom tonight. So i bought #PierogiTheCorgi a dress as well to match her girl. Difficult to get correct corg sizes, lol.

The rising cost of oil is becoming a major political concern for the White House as the war against Iran drags on.

No problem with this framing as long as the spiritual solutions are taxation (spiritual), antitrust (spiritual), making it legal to throw eggs at the supreme court (spiritual) etc etc

i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged

I'm sure they'll give the same level of attention to every other YouTube broadcaster who has five million followers.

Notice how he did not actually answer this question? But he did just talk with Putin in the last couple of days.

Trump: “I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can’t imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

I went to SCOTUS oral argument last week. I sat ~15 feet from the dais. I can confirm it has room for 4+ more chairs.

“[I]t all comes back to Court reform. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption spread into every tissue of American life. The source of the corruption has to be addressed at its source for America to have any kind of democratic rebirth or for civic democracy to have any chance at survival.”

this guy is going to start a fucking podcast, isn't he?

A friendly act of war.

"...it takes years to build large quantities of defensive interceptors and other types of munitions." "...and any such weapons that American arms companies make for other countries mean less for the United States." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/w...

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

Oh good. Another glossy @nytimes.com profile of a conservative media figure. It had been a full five minutes since the last one.

In real time, 60 Minutes highlighted Norah O'Donnell standing up to Trump in reading him the letter about "pedophiles and rapists." In day-after reckoning, CBS and 60 Minutes grossly "sane-washed" the interview to make Trump sound coherent.

I'm still furious that Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg launched this war against Iran.

“Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are.” — Sancho Panza in “Don Quixote” (by Miguel de Cervantes, 1615, translated by Charles Jarvis, 1749)

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

NEW: Iran does not appear to have altered its negotiating position over the management of the Strait of Hormuz and its nuclear program in its latest proposal. Read the full May 2, 2026, Iran Update Special Report: isw.pub/IranUpdate05...

Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

ive watched this part like a dozen times now

Put my thoughts on this into an actual piece, featuring great input from DC architectural historians and preservationists!! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Scalia, may he rest in torment, said that the overwhelming renewal of the VRA was not evidence of Congressional intent, but in fact evidence of the VRA’s *unfairness*, since everyone was too scared to vote against a “racial entitlement.” www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...

If America is so racist, then how come a wealthy white man has been lavishing me with gifts ever since his company started having cases before the Supreme Court, on which I sit? by Clarence Thomas

These people never take responsibility for anything. Spirit has lost over $2.5 billion over the last several years. Joe Biden didn’t cause them to run a shitty, unprofitable airline. Then they got hit with soaring jet fuel costs from Trump’s war. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year

Below, Trump does a different kind of weave. Yesterday evening, at Ocala International Airport in Florida, Trump very gingerly stepped off Marine One and, looking half-asleep, walked unsteadily and in a listless way toward Air Force One. This man is not well. The White House is lying to us.

Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

www.ft.com/content/f87a... Washington has warned European allies, including the UK, Poland, Lithuania and Estonia, to expect long delivery delays for US weapons.

Greg Bovino Calls Minneapolis Protestors ‘Cannon Fodder’ in New Interview talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Your regular reminder that no trade deal with President Trump can be considered permanent, and it might not even last the day.

Donald Trump has nearly tripled his net worth since being elected president a second time. The Trump family is also taking in billions from foreign governments and profiting off of the presidency itself, violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. trib.al/ongt4fe

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"THEY APPEALED TO A VERY PARTICULAR SORT OF FELLOW . . . " MADE IN USA 1941 ANOTHER SUMMER harpers.org/archive/1941...

BREAKING: U.S. gas prices have reached an average $4.45/gal according to GasBuddy- a level only seen for 67 days ever.

The good news is the planes can now be used for Halloween stores

No real leader responds this way to concerns their rhetoric is deeply antisemitic. Hegseth defiantly unapologetic. Doubles down. [Some good background here by the Times of Israel: www.timesofisrael.com/hegseth-comp...

Trump’s racism is increasingly overt

Honestly, if you showed this to someone in 2010 and said "This is the President of the United States", they'd tell you to stop pulling their leg.

Uno is a game where having all the cards means you lost the game

Good morning everyone.