This is very much an under-appreciated story that Republicans hope no one notices. We finally won a state constitutional right for abortion coverage and they’re immediately trying to take it away.

"Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today is a good day to revisit *this* autopsy.

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

the press decides to cover trump's age less & is like 'huh, wonder why its less covered?'

A reminder: 2 of the 9 seats on the Georgia supreme court are contested on the ballot in *6 days*. The candidates there told @boltsmag.org they expected Callais to put voting rights on the ballot, & make state courts even more important: boltsmag.org/georgia-supr... Yup, here we go.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I posted this right about the contrast between Virginia and Florida's supreme courts on Friday. Just as relevant now, with SCOTUS blocking the court order against the Texas gerrymander because it's too close, but now basically allowing Louisiana and Alabama to cancel next week's elections.

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

Next year, Virginia Democrats will replace the justice who wrote last week's 4–3 SCOVA decision blocking the state's duly enacted congressional map. The new majority can then follow the example set by the North Carolina Supreme Court's Republicans—reverse the previous decision and approve the map.

Republicans on SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act using wrong DOJ data from tRump’s Justice Dept. Alito claimed Black turnout now beats white turnout—by counting non-citizens & felons in the math! GOP’s desperate voter suppression playbook exposed. mcsp.short.gy/gbi6

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

Our poll: two-thirds of Americans support term limits for SCOTUS justices, and a slight majority favors expanding the bench from 9 to 13 justices www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

Made this for TikTok to try to get the younger people to see why a military draft pushed by a major military contractor is corruption, Palantir showing the exact opposite of what the military teaches about leadership.

fuuuuuuck

While federal laws and the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause place constraints on what property-related tools states and localities can use to push back on ICE actions, this report explains that they still have some avenues for ensuring the federal government and its contractors do not overreach.

There's a war on for your mind. theonion.info

Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should. I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...

Two things are true: 1. It is wild how easily the press will ask Dem politicians tough questions and simply back off of Republican ones. 2. Gallego isn't ready for primetime and if he runs for President, he's just wasting donor money

On a more serious note, this does show the necessity of a big-tent single-issue pro-democracy coalition. Autocrats lose when anti-authoritarianism is the opposition-uniting priority, and win when they can play divide and conquer on lesser issues.

There are numerous organizations supporting cash assistance in Gaza. They also verify that they're giving the money to real families in need and do so more reliably than a random scammer DM'ing you. www.unicefusa.org/stories/unic...

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped x.com/KaihatsuYT/s...

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

NEW: Donald Trump is underwater with registered voters in **135** GOP-held House and Senate seats. His approval is <45% in 44, including 10 senators. Should be a warning for Republicans in Congress weighing electoral cost of Trump's war and crazy tweets. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-07...

Never forget that the Republicans could’ve voted to impeach Trump twice, & let him slip. Then SCOTUS bestowed on him kingly powers We are in this situation bc of utter institutional failures & cowardice by the leaders of those institutions The political, business & media elites failed the country

If you really want to game out the confrontation, taking this last point seriously is how Congress can force a president from office even if supermajorities are unobtainable. The power of the purse is the ultimate power. Not one dime for a tyrant, demand he resign or else *nothing* gets funded.

Kentucky’s Supreme Court blocked Republican lawmakers from removing a judge from office solely because they disagreed with her rulings. The court said this didn’t meet the constitutional requirement of a “misdemeanor in office” and letting lawmakers remove judges on that basis would be “tyrannical”

Yes. The Supreme Court's excuse for not enforcing other parts of the Constitution, such as Congress's war-making power, is that Congress can just cut off funding. But now whether Congress votes to fund something or not does not matter.

The six big events that have dragged down Donald Trump's approval rating www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-03...

Charted Trump's job approval in Quantus Insights, among the most pro-Trump pollsters out there. How do you say "not winning"!!!!!!

Trump benefits generally from the idea that politics is more corrupt than it actually is. Pre-Trump presidents aren't calling up county DAs to demand revenge prosecutions, members of Congress aren't day trading between votes. But people think that!

This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation

New polls show that the ridiculous, illegal war has started doing meaningful damage to Trump's standing and the GOP's electoral prospects. New analysis 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-war-is...

Yes and this extends beyond MAGA. Rather than understanding humans as social creatures, driven by belonging & grand stories that provide origins to our pains & promises for our futures, centrist operatives assume voters act on polled issue preferences.

100% of the people who claim to be “defending Western civilization” think Western civilization is Christian ethnonationalism

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

BREAKING: Democrats just flipped the Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago. Yes, Donald Trump is going to be represented by a Democrat. Our complete recap -->

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

Some of us academics have argued that the transition to autocracy has occurred, but the consolidation has not. One reason is federalism; another is public opinion. Both are attacked in the Save Act.

The killing of Khamenei fuels the Russian leader’s paranoia.

“Trump is basically calling up every journalist in his phone to workshop different timelines and goals for his war,” reported The Economist’s Gregg Carlstrom. Carlstrom noted that Trump had offered four remarkably different responses to America’s major media companies. trib.al/6PAOXkM

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

This is why you can't really collaborate with the feds under any circumstances. If your policy is "we will only collaborate with them when it's unrelated to civil immigration enforcement" then the Trump administration will just lie about what they're doing!

A planned change to Amazon means that if people buy items on your wishlist, it could expose your address. Definitely a threat to people who have public wishlists. www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...