Took me 10 minutes to draw this map with 6 safe Republican seats, each with less than 35% Black voting age population, even though 1 in 3 state residents are Black. According to the Supreme Court, this is fine now, as long as state officials don't admit they're intending to discriminate. Insane!

On a week when Trump took the king-like step of announcing he was printing gold coins with his face on them and putting his signature on all new paper bills, I was glad to join hundreds of people in Nyack’s Memorial Park for #nokings day!

Talk about giving the game away.

I miss living in a world where heavily armed, masked federal agents weren't murdering civilians in cold blood on a regular basis.

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

Couldn’t agree more with my brother! The idea that the President can use the military to seize resources from other countries for his personal use is something kings and emperors do, not leaders of democracies.

Everything happening in Venezuela is insane.

Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China. These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.

TACO proving to be the smartest bet in American politics, once again

Great work by my friend @kenjenkinsny.bsky.social. More public officials should stand up the way Ken has in Westchester.

Americans fought a revolution to break free from a king who trampled on our liberties. The indictment of Attorney General Tish James just 2 weeks after he demanded it, shows that Trump has seized the power to order the prosecution of anyone he wants, a power even King George III never had.

Shame on ABC, and seriously, if you're not appalled by this, please ask yourself if you really want to live in a country where media figures can be forced off the air by the government, because to me that sounds much more like Soviet Russia than any kind of America I've ever known.

In a sane world this would prompt articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.

it really is interesting that they recognize it isn't politically possible to claim the US as a specifically anglo-saxon country and thus have to retroactively include groups of european immigrants — seen, at the time, as interlopers — as "white" people entitled to the same claim on national origins

Quick 🧵. Last night I hit a milestone here; 100,000 followers. This is a humbling moment for me and I want to express my gratitude to those who have followed me and who find my commentary worthwhile. I genuinely appreciate all the kind words people have shared over the years; it is noticed. 1/3

Firing government officials who give him bad news isn’t exactly helping Trump beat the accusation that he wants to be king.

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

I'm jealous of people born after 2008, who do not think "oh man imagine if Michelle Obama said this" every time one of these quotes shoots out. The youth will never understand how furious Fox et al were at the First lady having a healthy food initiative.

I’m going to say this again The president is taxing American consumers to try to do a favor for one of his political allies

If Texas was a Democratic state, does anyone doubt that Trump would be blaming the Governor for the devastating flash flooding?

Just listened to this and the point struck me as a) obvious and b) somehow, completely overlooked. All those able bodied young men playing video games on their mom’s basement, enjoying that sweet free… chemotherapy?

He’s basically a Bond villain at this point, complete with the evil monologues. We all know he would love to build a moat filled with “sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads”

Today on Juneteenth, I attended the rededication of the Bench by the Road in Nyack’s Memorial Park. Originally dedicated by the late Toni Morrison in 2015, the bench honors Cynthia Hesdra, a pioneering figure in Rockland’s Black history. 1/3

They’re cutting food stamps so that Trump can cosplay as a caudillo

I hope, if nothing else, what's going on in LA will remind the nation's young people that true rebelliousness is not saying slurs that HR told you not to say, it's fighting fascists who are using state power to suppress speech & impose violence on marginalized groups.

Apparently the people running our government are more worried about a flock of Canadian ostriches with bird flu getting euthanized than the hundreds of thousands of people in Africa dying of preventable diseases and starvation because Elon Musk illegally cut funding for food aid and medicine.

Sounds like a snowflake to me lol

Our government is for sale!

Unlike our current president, I actually know the meaning of Memorial Day, and it’s not an opportunity to rant about your political opponents. Grateful to the many veterans and community members who attended ceremonies in Rockland County. We always remember the fallen.

I’m sorry this is literally deranged. What does this even mean?!

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

Every antisemite in history has had a story about why THEIR anti-Jewish abuse and violence was justified. If you're doing this today, you're not special and you haven't landed on the one clever case where antisemitism is good; you're just another in a long line of bad people justifying bad things.

The replies to this are full of people yelling at Kat, a Palestinian-American politician, for not supporting the shooting of low-level staffers in DC, which has only had the effect of drawing coverage *away* from the genocide in Gaza & provided a pretext for future suppression of peaceful protests.

Trump and RFK Jr. say today's kids are "the sickest generation in American history." Is that just a feeling? Here are some facts: About 46% of children born in the U.S. in 1800 did not live to see their 5th birthday. In 1900, the figure was 24%. Now it's under 1%.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

There are lots of wrong definitions of habeas one could give, but this is just about the *most* wrong definition possible. Imagine a cabinet member being asked to define freedom of speech and answering that it’s the government’s right to stop you from criticizing them. About the same.

It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.

Just catching up on the news

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Surely if there is any important takeaway from the "Biden old" story, it is that the media should be scrutinizing the current president's mental acuity far more carefully. "We should have done better" rings hollow if you studiously ignore the very obvious, ongoing replay of the same problem.

I am SO excited for my good friend Adal Regis who has just launched a Congressional campaign for an open seat in Chicago and eastern Illinois. He's exactly the type of young, energetic representative who actually knows how regular people live that we need in Congress. www.regisforcongress.com

No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.

Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale." This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other: newrepublic.com/article/1951...

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

I was so impressed with this young man’s testimony at last night’s “Protecting the People” forum in Westchester hosted by NYS Attorney General Tish James with 5 other AGs from around the country. Please watch! He’s only 9 years old but tells the truth about how Trump’s cuts will hurt people.

Would be nice if the President and his propaganda team actually knew what the Library of Congress was. Hint, they aren’t famous for their kids room…

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.