"A Platner victory over Collins would be huge — starting with the possibility that Republicans could lose their Senate majority and thus their ability to confirm countless additional Trump-picked judges to federal courts and maybe a couple of Supreme Court justices as well."

Watch this awesome interview with @hcrichardson.bsky.social with Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin. And then phone bank to GOTV!! www.mobilize.us/georgiademoc...

The FCC has been quietly investigating “The View” for months. The show’s network, ABC, has accused the government of violating its free speech rights. The clash could lead to a high-stakes legal battle over free expression. nyti.ms/49mhe46

“It’s going to take a really strong push by the public to get a Congress that’s willing to reform voting rights,” says a redistricting expert. “And while we’re there, there’s an awful lot that could be done on court reform.”

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

Agreed with Greg, except I think make it a civil rights museum called the Rosa Parks Center. Two reasons: 1) We can't let the media get their heads turned by bad faith about wasting money. Use it, don't destroy it. 2) If Trump is still alive, watching Obama dedicate this center will kill him.

State power is the key to recover democracy in blue states, at least. Red states are doubling down on authoritarian rule.

"those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

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

The Trump admin said they were committed to ending the opioid epidemic. Now, they’re doing the opposite by cutting access to tools, like test strips, that help prevent overdose. They must reverse course: we should use every tool at our disposal to save lives.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has temporarily restored mail-order access to the abortion drug mifepristone, after a federal appeals court curtailed access to the drug.

No lie detected.

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

We live in an era when the most powerful person in the world governs via shitposting and has been given complete immunity by the SCOTUS for any action he might take...Congress, the representatives of "the people," has been reduced to a non-entity. Our "public sphere" of X is a chaotic hellhole.

Shame on DoorDash for participating in Trump’s “no taxes on tips” scam. Aside from their D.C. DoorDash “Grandma” being a GOP operative from Arkansas, it’s mathematically impossible for her to have saved $11,000 in taxes this year as a result of Trump’s bullshit bill.

If the president forces Republicans to vote for a budget that cuts health care and vital services to fund this unconstitutional war, that would be a political extinction-level event for Republicans in Congress.

Convicted healthcare fraudster Rick Scott describes what government means to him.

We want to help you host actions in defense of immigrants in your community. Join us, @detentionwatchnetwork.org, and more partners for today’s training as we build momentum for the national day of action on April 25 to oppose Trump’s mass detention agenda.

Whether it’s the horrific stories tied to Jeffrey Epstein or today’s articles regarding resigning congressmen, it’s important to always shed light on the horrors and perpetrators of sexual assault; the actions to prevent sexual assault; and the support services available to survivors #MEpolitics

Me: "I never ever wanted to run for Congress or anything .... And I can't be a 30-year congressman. I'm not a career guy; it's not what I'm about. "I want to get in and get out after a couple terms: one to get rid of the moth— ... guy, and the next term to … help with the legal reconstruction"

Lost in the news the past few days is the Trump administration proposing to weaken rules that limit how coal companies handle toxic waste that can reach groundwater. The new rule would let states grant exemptions from standards that keep contaminants like mercury & lead away from your water supply.

Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"

Breaking News: War in the Middle East has upended the global economy, the International Monetary Fund warned in a report, raising the possibility of a worldwide recession.

A recent study estimated that another 9 million-plus people, including 2.5 million children, could die as a result of cuts in aid.

Good morning to readers. Oil prices are at $111 per barrel (+47% compared to pre-war). The Strait of Hormuz has turned into a trap at sea. Mohamed receives desperate pleas to repatriate stranded crew caught in the crisis.

Xavier Becerra addresses single-payer healthcare in California in a way I can appreciate. He talks about the logistics of making it happen. He says it won’t be easy, but it can be done. I respect that. Too many politicians make it sound easy, then drop it once they’re elected. Becerra gets it.

Just pathetic.

NEW: “Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025. But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

A conservation group has listed a major river in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area as the third most endangered river in the country on its annual list of threatened waterways.

In an open letter to American psychologists, Iranian psychologists called for an assessment of the mental health of the US political leaders in the interest of world peace.

Russ Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, was an architect of Project 2025 before being hired by Trump.

ProPublica reports that OMB Director Russell Vought has become the ideological architect of Trump’s second term, wielding unprecedented behind-the-scenes power to gut federal agencies, zurl.co/UsOb2

David Kurtz makes a perhaps obvious, but nevertheless very important point: Trump isn’t a normal president getting upended by business cycles and trends outside his control. All the challenges/crises facing the US economy today are unequivocally the results of Trumps actions. This is all on him.

One year ago, Peter Navarro touted 90 trade deals in 90 days

Congress is about to vote on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Originally meant to monitor foreigners overseas, it’s been abused to surveil Americans. This is a chance to finally protect Americans’ privacy. bit.ly/4tASUmW

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

All this because Donald Trump couldn't abide the idea of a Black president having a success. This war may have been triggered by his desire to distract from Epstein...but his tearing up the JCPOA (like his Nobel Prize obsession) is driven by his profound and unyielding racism.

The worst case scenario here is that Trump effectively cedes the Presidio to tech oligarchs so they can build the first "freedom city", which are essentially factory towns exempt from federal regulations: www.wired.com/story/startu...

This podcast is sooo good. One thing we learn is that Reagan's 1976 primary campaign comeback was masterminded by a far right eugenicist named Tom Ellis in NC & by appealing to George Wallace voters in Texas...an idea hatched by Arthur Finkelstein. Recognize that name? www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1...

Among the many awful aspects of Orban’s government and the many good things about its defeat: Its targeting of universities to push right-wing politics and policy was the Heritage Foundation’s explicit model here. And for JD Vance when he said “the professors are the enemy.”

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Congratulatory messages have been coming in for Hungary's new leader, Peter Magyar, including from EU chiefs. A huge sigh of relief in Brussels, but also for millions of normal, decent people, not least the younger generation in Budapest.

In competitive authoritarianism, leaders abuse state power to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, manipulate the media environment and minimize opposition voices, maybe even steal close elections by lying about fraud. But they usually can't overcome a large majority voting against them.

CBS: American soldiers who survived the attacked that killed 6 say Hegseth is lying. They were left “unprepared” and exposed. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

Yes. This is nicely put. One thing I try to get at in this piece is that having Trump threaten genocide and civilizational erasure, and the discovery that we are largely powerless to stop a madman president, takes an immense dispiriting toll on the *American people,* too.

Funniest (?) option: the leaker was Trump and he doesn’t remember because his brain is pudding.