The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

“.. the show has provoked a public spat with Duffy’s predecessor over high gas prices, and drawn an ethics complaint to the Transportation Department’s internal watchdog.” @wsj.com #$BA www.wsj.com/business/boe...

A new financial disclosure shows Trump has traded millions of dollars worth of stocks in companies that include Nvidia, Palantir, Meta, Disney and more.

Anti-voting group released a sweeping new “model laws” handbook that urges lawmakers and election officials to restrict mail-in voting, eliminate same-day voter registration, conduct mass voter challenges and empower officials to deny/delay certification. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

If you are a corporation or law firm and stopped your DEI initiatives in response to Trump, you are a sap and a sucker.

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

“The discrepancy between the honorable conduct expected of prosecutors and DOJ’s tactics in this case is unsettling... “DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case... “This reckless disregard for the duty of candor owed the court is appalling www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

We unpack what the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment might mean, and how funders and sector leaders are responding — including with a major new sign-on statement. Connie Matthiessen(@cmatthiessen.bsky.social) Reports: tinyurl.com/y7jxr53f #CivilRights #Democracy #Nonprofits #Philanthropy

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Yesterday's 6–3 Supreme Court order ushering in a racist Alabama gerrymander broke two promises that Alito made *12 days earlier* in Callais and shamelessly broke the court's own (bogus) rule against late intervention in an ongoing election. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Copycat Tyranny open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

TONE DEAF & A SLAP IN THE FACE Most Americans can barely afford to fill up their gas tank right now, and somehow, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy thought this was the perfect time to launch a whole-ass reality show about taking his own family on a road trip across America.

The president’s late-night Truth Social spree boosted conspiratorial posts made by several prominent right-wing accounts, which called for the likes of Obama and Biden to be jailed.

The foundation of our democracy is burning to the ground. The conservative Roberts Court did not light the match, but it has repeatedly declared fire hydrants, sprinklers and smoke detectors illegal. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

🚨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/...

Trump shares a post calling for Obama to be immediately incarcerated and tried for treason

Nothing says "not idolatry" like praying over a giant golden statue of the president

A lifeline or ‘dystopian’?: Schools open parking lots for homeless students and families hechingerreport.org/school-parki...

“The announcement comes amid ongoing criticism the president and his family are improperly profiting from his second term in the White House...” Endless corruption. www.mediaite.com/media/news/e...

"Is Sean Duffy just so rich from 'Real World' 30 years ago that that he can fund this huge vacation?... And the answer is no, it's funded by companies like Boeing, companies that are regulated by the Dept. of Transportation." Will Sommer on Duffy's sponsored family vacation.

“.. The use of terms related to ‘American decline’ in official Chinese sources nearly doubled in 2025 ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

A court recently ruled to ban mifepristone (abortion pill) via mail. The ruling has since been suspended, but it's more important than ever women be aware of state abortion laws. Find state laws👉 reproductiverights.org/maps/abortio... Find care near you👉 www.plannedparenthood.org/abortion-access

USAID has $19B to close out agency. Critics push to use funds to save lives thehill.com/policy/inter...

Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst said the estimate increased “because of updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost.”

🔥 “Senator Stevens was DESPERATELY trying to play dumb.” John Oliver clowns 🤡 Senator John Stevens for hilariously trying to pretend he doesn’t know Memphis is a majority-Black city when questioned about the new racist Republican 9-0 map by Sen. @londonlamartn. (From @bluegeorgia.bsky.social )

KALLAS: Putin is in a weaker position than he has ever been before. Russians are losing on the battlefield. Support for Putin's war is going down. There is growing discontent in Russian society. Ukrainian deep strikes have made a real impact. So actually, Putin is not standing that strong.

Who are these ghouls talking to?

They’re used to false facts. How about Citizens United’s “no need to worry about corruption, all the political money we just released is going to be transparent: you’ll know who the donors are”?

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

"The world's richest men are crushing the world's poorest children" @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

“Some inmates who served with Ghislaine Maxwell say they were punished by prison staff for talking about her alleged special treatment. One woman says after speaking to a reporter, she was punished.” Totally normal and not suspicious at all.

Trump is about to hit REM sleep on camera in the Oval

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

The administrative stay in the mifepristone case ends Monday. Unless SCOTUS issues an order regarding whether the injunction should stay in place while the litigation proceeds, the Fifth Circuit’s ban on obtaining the abortion drug via telehealth goes into effect. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Maybe if he wasn’t up all night posting QAnon memes he would be able to stay awake during public events.

SOUTH CAROLINA — @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social: “Why is it when you have a 75% white district that’s not racial, but you have a 45% Black district that is racial? There’s no way the numbers bear this out… I never thought I’d see the day the Supreme Court would be so openly partisan.”

Is anyone going to tell him?

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It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/