“All chaps are assless”

Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

1/2 “One city, Chicago, saw the alarm bells long ago, stepping out of the race for 2026. Their former Mayor Rahm Emanuel told The Athletic: “…. do you expect me to treat the Chicago taxpayers as the dumb money at the table? You’ve got to be kidding me!” www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

Donald Trump proposes a 1.776 billion slush fund for terrorists. In my book "On Freedom" I proposed $1776 as guaranteed monthly fixed income for Americans. Each kind of future is possible. We choose.

I'm sure this is nothing to worry about www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. A Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places it at odds with democracy itself. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.

The U.S. Supreme Court erased all doubts about the sweeping nature of its recent voting rights jurisprudence Tuesday night with a shadow docket ruling that effectively reverses the Court’s own decision in the same matter just three years ago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“A Project 2029 that has nothing to say about either the Senate filibuster, or an ideologically captured Supreme Court, or extreme partisan gerrymandering — among other concerns — is not a Project 2029 worth the time or effort.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Fuck me, this is Bill Pulte. The guy who was using mortgage data to launch DOJ investigations against Lisa Cook, Letitia James and Adam Schiff. He is being put in charge of national intelligence because of his track record of being willing to manufacture false allegations to target Trump's enemies.

Much like “orange man bad,” “vote blue no matter who” gets mocked endlessly as politically naive but is entirely and unimpeachably correct in a way that more sophisticated political philosophies never are

Illinois families are footing the bill for Trump's illegal war. They deserve to know where Darren Bailey stands.

The Senate Executive Committee is holding a hearing on their housing affordability package today. We'll be sharing a live 🧵 below. Under consideration is the Senate's version of a housing affordability plan: www.illinoissenatedemocrats.com/caucus-news/...

Part of the problem might be Trump frames any deal as Iran recognizing it has suffered a humiliating defeat from him. We’re so used to Trump framing things this way we don’t even hear it but Iran does. Iran leaders have nationalist constituencies too, and pride.

Gabbard as DNI was very bad, but outdone by… Musk/Rubio: Killed many by illegally ending US aid Musk: Cyberattack on US govt RFK Jr: Death & suffering from ruining public health Vought: Steal power of the purse Hegseth: Murder, war crimes, purges, losing a war in an attempt to perform gender

REMINDER: The Chris Rufo theory of academia, and today’s broader right-wing theory of politics and culture, is that most students—most people, really—crave far right ideas, but get more left-wing ones only because a small cadre of radical leftists captured all institutions and forced it on everyone.

Illinois is facing a housing crisis. It's time to fix it.

The slush fund itself may be taxable to Trump: if it’s characterized as a settlement, it’s income. I suspect someone brought this up an a wonderful solution was devised after a brainstorming session; “ why not ensure he never gets caught if he doesn’t declare it?” and it snowballed

Bezos says that the US has one of the most progressive tax codes. This is true by some measures. But our tax and transfer system reduces inequality far less than countries with broader tax systems. Tax cuts can't help people who don't have an income, but a generous tax financed welfare state can.

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

Trump’s theft of nearly $2 billion from the Treasury raises eyebrows in some liberal circles

Only one way to find out, I guess

recorded this just before news broke that the settlement shields the trump family from IRS audits which is OUTRAGEOUS youtu.be/hraZ4tIuDWA?...

The entire exercise is papering up a theft. It’s using the forms that honest people use but it’s all done as a fraud to hide the theft. It’s as obvious and legal as an invoice for work never done, or a charity that does no charity.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Everyone involved in this corrupt robbery of the US treasury needs to go to jail

1/2 I wouldn’t have buried “Mr. Gallrein has received checks ranging from $250,00 to $1 million, via a high-dollar political action committee funded by three billionaires animated by Mr. Massie’s votes against aid to Israel” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

This This and This ... are not 3 things... they are one thing

"You can't say the cost of a puppy is $200 because that was the adoption fee." The Pentagon's $25B price tag does exactly that — it ignores veterans' care, disability payments, and decades of interest. The true cost of war shows up long after the fighting stops.

A virulent form of misogyny has drawn together an unlikely constellation of pastors, posters, podcasters, and senators, @helenlewis.bsky.social writes. She spoke to some of the most prominent voices in "masculinism": theatln.tc/aECnZzN7 🎨: Liz Hart

Alito: mailing abortion medication violates The Fugitive Womb Act bsky.app/profile/stev...

Eric Trump on a US state visit to China "could raise questions about potential blurred lines between the government and the Trump family’s business interests." What an odd journalistic convention — refusing to state the obvious, instead hiding behind others hypothetically noting a mere possibility.

“White House officials are reviewing is the possibility of the I.R.S. dropping any audits of Mr. Trump, his family members or businesses, according to two of the people.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

“Not even a little bit.” Trump doesn't care if you can afford groceries or gas.

Since we're all talking about dogpiles now, and I had mentioned my own experience dealing with them a few times in the last couple days, I figured I'd write a longer thread explaining my experiences with them and specifically why they're specifically worse than just "a bunch of people being mean"

See if you can spot the effects of the Iran war.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Pritzker isn’t fat anymore. He’s baseline Midwestern

“Siuzdak told me that multiple agents contacted him for legal guidance after Patel began threatening to polygraph and prosecute his staff over the missing bottle.” Strawberries www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The biggest giveaway is that Chief Justice Roberts thinks “political” means doing what’s “popular”. “Political” includes siding with the unpopular minority in cementing minority rule. It’s just not the politics of democracy.

Pretending that Harris is the same as Trump makes you feel better but it’s so obviously not true. It’s 2026. You’re seeing it now if you couldn’t figure it out in 2024 somehow.

Good visual reminder that war not only has large human and economic costs, it can have environmental impacts as well.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

President Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

"Jews and Black people" is how you say "cosmopolitan communists and race hustlers" in English.

As with any sweeping social change, more than one factor is at work, but a growing body of evidence suggests that the anxiety of bringing a child into such an uncertain world may increasingly outweigh the appeal of motherhood. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

Today, the Illinois House Executive Committee is holding a hearing on BUILD: "Addressing Illinois' Housing Shortage: Supply, Affordability, and Access". Watch Room 122 at ilga.gov/House/AudioV...