The DNC "autopsy" omits the biggest reason Democrats lost in 2024: inflation and anti-incumbent sentiment. In doing so, it fails to incentivize party actors to think about how they will overcome the same negative forces in 2030 and 2032 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

i often think about this review

LUCE: “I would love to think that billion-dollar ballrooms, .. overt patterns of insider trading and $1.8bn slush funds for January 6 thugs is what is driving the US public’s seemingly decisive move against Trump. But I’m pretty sure it is about the state of the economy.” www.ft.com/content/2051...

A very good, digestible thread about the historic prosecutorial misconduct it was revealed Kat and her fellow protesters were put through, and what to expect next.

These prosecutors who made my family’s life hell for a year are criminals. I want justice and we’ll seek it. This can’t happen again.

her closing point here is why i think normal media should stop engaging in the culture wars at all. just don't cover these chuds or their views. it's not helping anything, it's not changing anyone's mind, it's simply dragging the mud into spaces and lives it doesn't need to touch.

This was a great bit, and Colbert is such a joy to listen to

"This administration does things like this because they thought they could silence us but they didn't and we fought back and won." - @katmabu.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jmet...

Even after being ordered to turn over the grand jury transcript, it turns out that the government was like "oh ha ha ha no, we didn't think you wanted ALL of it"

The attorney leading the case at this point became aware of the misconduct almost a month ago, but instead of immediately dismissing the case, spent that month harrying and harassing the defendants. bsky.app/profile/jons...

To keep people up to date: six people who exercised their first amendment rights had their lives overturned and were forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees because of clear prosecutorial misconduct.

Chicago’s top federal prosecutor Thursday dropped the case against the remaining “Broadview Six” defendants in a stunning hearing that revealed apparent misconduct before a grand jury — of which he said he recently learned. Quick take via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Fuck yeah

We really need to be able to hold recall elections for senators and representatives

good lord

Jeff Bezos paid $0.00 in income taxes in 2007 and 2011, years when his net worth was $4 billion and $18 billion respectively. Otherwise, he pays an income tax rate of about 1%. More people should know this! www.propublica.org/article/the-...

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

anyway i hope he decides to burn the whole party on his way out

i don’t like massie and i have never liked massie, and i think him losing his primary provides a lot of supporting evidence that the party’s just a personality cult now, because he absolutely stuck to his principles, almost all of which every republican claims to share save one

Any opposition party worth a shit would immediately condemn this and call for all of these guys to be primaried

“An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.” Excuse me?

Need to revisit this list because I am unfamiliar with a surprising amount of it, but the albums I do know give me faith in the folks who compiled it

I will vote for anyone who promises to cancel all SpaceX government contracts

I'm sorry it didn't sell better, but I'm glad it sold well enough to be a success. Titanium Court is incredibly clever and great.

the real story here I think is that Mossad has lost its marbles www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

the Republican Party wants the American taxpayer to foot the legal bill for various pedophiles who attacked the Capitol on January 6th

Some relevant reading from today

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...

<<taps sign>> This an illegal and unconstitutional impoundment, it's what got Trump impeached the first time around, and in any sane world he'd be impeached and removed for it before noon tomorrow.

The Republicans are The Party of Trump, they literally say it every day and if you're trying to "work" with Republicans you're a Trump fan. Simple as.

recession indicator: blood-dimmed tide loose

Latest: A U.S. citizen is suing DJS after he was detaining twice during raids on private construction sites. He just got detained again for a third time reason.com/2026/05/12/a...

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

They’re doing this now because they plan on doing something come November

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

Texas Children's caved and ended care under pressure in April 2022, over four years ago and they still got targeted by DOJ and Paxton. NYU caved and they still got served with a grand jury subpoena. Caving and abandoning will not save you. You have to fight these bastards or they will destroy you.

Begging the question is a great argumentative fallacy whose meaning is diluted by this common usage, and I will always support picking this particular nit to preserve that meaning of begging the question.

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

a hint of which way the wind is blowing

How in May 2026 is it journalism to treat this like a good-faith "investigation," writing a straight-news lead when all objective evidence is to the contrary — as covered by your own publication? Embarrassing shit, @washingtonpost.com.

I do want to know what the funniest or most appropriate song for him to play at a high school dance in 1996 would be. Does Marty go back and play a classic numetal song like "Freak on a Leash"? I kinda love the idea of it being that or "Paranoid Android"

If Back to the Future came out today, Marty McFly would be traveling back to 1996.

Trans people are being forced to flee red states and for the most part, the press has ignored this story.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

It's insane to me that so few people remember how the ***much more competent and normie Republican*** Trump 1 administration broke parts of government and fucked things up in major and noticeable ways. We have yet to see the extent to which they've broken normal government that mostly worked.

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Utter insanity.

This has all the legal force of an angry toddler’s rant.

I encourage states to review the text of Fuck You v. Make Me