Met Gala loses its luster under new ownership. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A few words on legacy media. Conference on World Affairs University of Colorado Boulder April 15th, 2026

Cartoon by John Deering 💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯

This decision is an unacceptable step backward that threatens access to care for women across the country. Reproductive healthcare decisions belong between a woman and her doctor. I will keep fighting to protect that fundamental right.

NEW: Since the enactment of the VRA, the number of Black U.S. representatives rose from less than 10 to more than 60. Those elected from the South — where roughly half of America’s Black citizens reside — went from zero to nearly 30. Now, those seats are at risk. https://bit.ly/4dh6y9g

Whatever unelected faction is running our government isn’t even telling Donald Trump the details anymore.

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

Bill Bramhall/New York Daily News Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Thursday, April 30, 2026.

“It’s a corruption story, the Trump administration.”

Do the laws not apply to the rich and wealthy? Kleptocracy? Quid pro quo. Bribery. You name it. All of this is wrong and illegal. Shameful.

I still hear media refer to “the shooting” at the WHCD, which seems misleading if the only shots fired were from the cops and Secret Service.

51 hours. Shackled. 51 hours.

No lie detected.

Matt Wuerker, Politico

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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...

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.

Please I beg you to take a half hour & watch @elienyc.bsky.social explain the devastation that happened this week. & while you’re at it, read everything he writes. He explains it better than anyone out there.

7. Put another way, agents of the government want to prosecute Cole Allen for a "shooting" that appears to have been committed by agents of the government.

This is still infuriating, still an obvious example of why this hateful man never belonged near the levers of power.

Kash Patel spent 10 months investigating a seashell photo before making an arrest. He has spent more than a year refusing to arrest a single Epstein client named in the files. That is the choice. That is the priority.

Remember not long ago Alito said you couldn't make changes on the "eve" of an election when it was like a year away. Now an election has already started but suddenly that doctrine doesn't apply. #CorruptCourt #CriminalAlito talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republi...

What does "shooting suspect" mean when all the evidence so far suggests that the suspect did not fire a shot? What does it mean when the government changes its mind? First, it said a federal officer was shot. Then it dropped all mention of it.

i don't know man i think congress has granted approval to wars before

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Our country’s national debt now exceeds 100% of our GDP. We’re told there’s “no money for food assistance, no money for our vets, no money for the environment, for healthcare, for education, for science or medical research.” But somehow, some-fucking-how, we have $400M for a goddamn ballroom?

The Supreme Court is playing a central role in the overthrow of the Second Reconstruction - just as it did in the overthrow of the first. Color blindness has been used to excuse and justify both. 1/

NEW: Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling in a key voting rights case will diminish minority representation in the coming years. But the most immediate impact may be felt in the 2026 midterms as GOP states rush to redraw congressional lines to their advantage. Here are the ones spurring into action👇

Let’s be crystal clear: reparenting is the Troubled Teen Industry. It comes DIRECTLY out of the corruption of Reactive Attachment Disorder that is where the Satanic Panic/Recovered Memory practitioners pivoted after 1991-1993. It’s using tax money to abuse kids with mental & emotional injuries.

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"Disney must stand up to Carr and Trump this time – not just to save themselves from more public pushback and the loss of subscription revenue," writes @sulliview.bsky.social. "But because what’s at stake is nothing short of the constitutionally protected right of free speech."

SCOTUS defenders insist the court is nonpartisan. But on Wednesday, the GOP appointees literally ruled that helping your political party trumps the rights of Black and brown citizens. It’s hard to imagine a more precise representation of this court’s agenda. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Donald Trump cares more about prosecuting James Comey than his own war in Iran www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Rh...

KELLY: This is a mile away from a school. This thing is spewing out 12 tons of lead every single year. Can I commitment from you to fix this? ZELDIN: I receive and transmit KELLY: But your job is to look out for the health of the American people ZELDIN: Just following the statute

“The Supreme Court has done it again. They’ve once again intervened to pull us back towards the policies of Jim Crow,” @chrislhayes.bsky.social says of the ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act. Civil rights scholar Sherrilyn Ifill weighs in.

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: The first six Americans killed in Trump's war died because Hegseth left them defenseless www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrw_...

We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.

Federal agents “took off his pants and shirt, handcuffed him, and drove him 65 kilometers to the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he was fingerprinted, photographed, and jailed.” Sounds… fascist.

High school teens are repairing used cars to donate to single moms A Virginia community is coming together to help moms in need, one car at a time.

The USDA rejected four women farmers selected by state orgs to serve on the United Soybean Board, replacing them with male appointees. The decision breaks with longstanding practice. The board oversees millions in checkoff funds that directly influence commodity prices, research investment...

This episode is full of bangers like this. Another: "The moral, intellectual, emotional collapse of the GOP is in a way a bigger story than Trump...what makes him able to do this is the submissiveness of his party...he has led America into one of our worst strategic defeats in our history."

Eddie Glaude and Marc Elias were both gloriously 🔥🔥🔥🔥on Nicole Wallace’s MS NOW today about the Supreme Court and Voting Rights.

the opportunity is presenting itself again

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

So the shotgun was never fired, apparently. The indictment is a lie. And three days later they still won’t say how the Secret Service officer was shot. (But they did indict Comey for his seashells.) Trust much? www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Jason Crow just killing Whiskey Pete on Tim Parlatore. Whiskey Pete claims he doesn't know whether Parlatore has an office at Pentagon or security clearance. Claims he doesn't know if Parlatore reps foreign govts.

BOOM! The Second Circuit refuses to rehear Trump's appeal of the $83 million Carroll verdict. The jury said he defamed her. Two courts said the jury was right. The cavalry is not coming. He owes her the money.

Blanche straight-up admits the suspect has been charged with the crime without vital evidence. Not to say that bringing guns to the scene and the written statements themselves are not proof of a crime, but literally, Blanche expresses uncertainty about the validity of the charges already filed.