Boy that seems like a total misread of the situation on the GOPs part. This court is in "Roger Taney" territory. the Supreme Court is seen as openly ideological and partisan in a way it wasn't even 4 years ago. They cram down some 35 yo Alito and judicial reform moves to the top of the list.

Stop calling them “conservative.”

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

There is an ongoing lawsuit against this, which is effectively Trump deciding that he wants to seize a public DC golf course that is much beloved if a bit rundown at the heels like many National Parks Service properties, and turn it into a Trump golf course.

A woman in Arkansas was seeking care for a life-threatening miscarriage. Under the state’s strict abortion ban, no doctor would treat her. “Our hands are tied behind our backs,” one doctor told her. “Tell your friends to vote differently.”

We must destroy this corrupt Supreme Court. They're making the case easier and easier with each decision.

So much failure. So much to redo

This is so bad.

Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.

Remember: The Republican Congress Is Also Responsible for the Reflecting Pool Debacle (and Everything Else) rudepundit.blogspot.com/2026/06/reme...

When people get arrested not because they did anything wrong but because their arrest is politically useful to the regime, that means you’re living in a dictatorship.

@profmmurray.bsky.social Your book, U.S. Constitution, is brilliant and much needed. I hope it receives widespread approval and distribution throughout the country.

This is BIG. After spending over $1 BILLION on the purchase of multiple commercial warehouses that ICE planned to convert into the largest jails/prisons in the nation, ICE is now largely abandoning the idea and will aim to sell off multiple warehouses at a loss.

Pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White was born #OTD in 1904. * 1st American female war #photojournalist * 1st staff photographer at Fortune magazine * 1st female photojournalist at LIFE & its first-ever cover photo was hers Pic: 61st floor of the Chrysler Building, NYC #photography

“Trump Parties While America Surrenders”

Not talking about or shuffling off to adjunct composition instructors to solve.

Starting to get a vague sense that Bari Weiss is just an incredibly shitty human being.

The Man In The White Castle

Besides being exceedingly dreamy (I first fell in love with him in the 1980s British TV ads for Gold Blend coffee) he could belt too. Here he is in Rocky Horror: youtu.be/IKgVln8XmuE

At the time when our party is failing to meet the moment, no one is clamoring for more corporate establishment Democrats in Congress. That's why I'm running in this primary. I'm campaigning on a 30-year record of standing with my neighbors to beat back wealthy special interests.

I'm old enough to remember @hillaryclinton.bsky.social's "3am phone call" ad during the 2008 presidential primary season

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

Just imagine the two dozen cars that we could have parked here

But her emails! But his laptop!

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This image is a shocker and a horror but the court news is so good.

Cartwheel, cartwheel, cartwheel, cartwheel, cartwheel, cartwheel, cartwheel, cartwheel, cartwheel, cartwheel!

Trump threatened to “blow up” one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East today and I couldn’t find it about it on the homepage of the Times, Journal, or Post

Thoughtful argument.

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

Paging Ben Wickler.

NEW: You've asked for the text of my $8.647 million dollar claim to Todd Blanche pursuant to the $1.7B slush fund so you can write your own. Here it is: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ive-fi...

The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. But in 2024, a @propublica.org @nytimes.com investigation found that a long-running audit involved Trump allegedly claiming the same huge write-off twice on a Chicago tower. That audit could've led to a tax bill of $100M for Trump. (From May 2024)

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

It has to be repeated over and over and over and over...: we are not well served by our corporate media. Democracy is not well served.

Savvy assessment.

This is absolutely true. The presidents we would have previously held up as examples of corruption have been repeatedly lapped by Donald Trump.

it didn't even recoup its marketing budget

Just a reminder that the IRS leak of almost half a million returns happened under the Trump administration. To summarize, Trump sued the second Trump administration for something that happened under the first Trump administration.

This is right. The government didn’t “settle” this case. Trump brought a frivolous case and voluntarily withdrew it, and then the Justice Department said they’d agreed to set up this insane slush fund for him. It has no legal connection to the case, and there’s no legal authorization for it at all.

“now Trump is the most explicitly corrupt leader in today’s world. After all, Vladimir Putin has obviously stolen billions, but never this brazenly. Even Third World dictators normally try to mask their corruption.”- @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump regime’s tax payer funded $1.776 billion slush fund.

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

This is corruption framed as a fight for tickets. UFC says it will lose $30 million despite ringside seats selling for $1 million as the White House won't say where that money goes. There are *five* reporters on this byline ignoring blatant corruption. Absolutely pathetic.

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

Ban stock trading by the President. Ban stock trading by the Vice President. Ban stock trading by members of Congress. End the corruption.

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

I wrote about academic freedom and democracy for the Pittsburgh Review of Books, but I didn't say the usual things you would expect a person to say about academic freedom and democracy. I said other things instead. Hence the title of the essay! tinyurl.com/2skc3aum Thanks to Ed Simon for the gig.