RESULTS from Texas: The school district of Grapevine Colleyville, near Fort Worth, drew national attention after conservatives running on an explicitly Christian message took over the board (archive: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...). Voters just ousted 3 conservative incumbents tonight.

Vivek is trying to lie and buy his way into the governor’s seat. Unfit for any public office.

Renewable Energy Milestone: For the first time, global renewable energy growth has scaled fast enough to meet all new electricity demand, effectively beginning the structural decline of fossil fuel power.

Scientists Unveil Hemp Alternative to Plastic That Can Withstand Boiling Water and Stretch to 1,600% its Size www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-u... #Science #Sustainability #Innovation #GoodNews

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

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

whY WoN’t DeMoCRATs tONe doWn The RhEtorIC

For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.

The people who promised to fix everything on day 1 are still out here blaming Joe Biden on day 467.

I think it was an open secret that Russia laundered conservative propaganda cash through Hungary to Euro and US conservative groups and media.

Who is asking for this, exactly?

Gee, I wonder why nobody wants to attend this PGA tournament, besides the fact that Trump is a POS.

Truth!

This take is inarguably correct and people say truly, truly insane things in response.

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

this is a great piece and i'm also somewhat annoyed because it means i have to rework the piece i was writing for next week www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

“The Supreme Court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America and they betrayed our democracy.” -Barack Obama

Tonight LAPD officers arrested @westonrowland.bsky.social, an attorney involved in the L.A. Press Club lawsuit against the LAPD for violating press rights. @lataco.bsky.social

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says Bill McKibben.

A wonderful news! Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk defeated “neutral” russian Mirra Andreeva and won the WTA tournament in Madrid. She became the first Ukrainian tennis player to reach the finals of all WTA tournament categories in a single season.

Political corruption is even worse than you think. To build a functioning one-person-one-vote system where oligarchs don’t pull the strings, we need to make anti-corruption the central focus of our politics. @davidsirota.com explains why.

Carlson said in an interview with the New York Times that prominent Israeli supporters Rupert Murdoch and Miriam Adelson convinced Trump to go to war with Iran.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Gerrymandering can be difficult to understand, but this graphic helps illustrate how it can be used to pervert the intentions of voters. Say Team Blue wins 60%. Depending on who’s drawing the map, that could mean winning all 5 seats or winning only 2 of 5.

So weird how this keeps happening

Trump is putting his name on currency, building a triumphal arch, and demanding taxpayers fund a $400 million ballroom. Only 28% of Americans support it. His cost of living approval just hit net -40. He is not on the ballot in November. Every Republican who is will answer for it.

Republicans did this. Their illegal war closed the Strait of Hormuz, jacked up fuel prices and caused Spirit Airlines to shut down, throwing 17,000 people out of work.

But we won. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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.

The US is an unreliable and deceitful ally now, and is doing its best to help Putin’s dictatorship commit unspeakable war crimes against a European democracy. It is a good thing if the US pulls out of Europe and stops pretending.

Corruption at its finest.

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.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky is working on a strategy for negotiating with Russia without US help, - Politico He has become more cautious about future US involvement and now hopes that Turkey will hold the next round of talks with Russia.

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

76 days of Republicans’ disarray and confusion led to accepting the offer Senate Democrats made on Day 1. First, after much delay, Republican Senators agreed unanimously; then the House Republicans, after more delay, ultimately also agreed. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Activists sailed to Gaza to deliver aid, but were met with drone attacks and imprisonment. An exclusive look at the Global Sumud Flotilla. From our colleagues at @revealnews.org:

👉🏼 wanted to segregate the population based on vaccine status 👉🏼 wanted to establish a national COVID-19 registry 👉🏼served on Ohio’s COVID response team and then paid to have it scrubbed from Wikipedia Ohioans need to know the truth about this guy. apnews.com/article/elec...

Vivek Ramaswamy is a shameless scammer. While he has spent his entire campaign attacking Dr. Acton and Gov. DeWine for their response to the pandemic, it turns out Vivek himself—a biotech billionaire— 👉🏼 made millions on the COVID vaccine 1/

The Trump administration is FULL of liars. Spirit Airlines says the spike in fuel costs directly associated with Donald Trump's stupid war with Iran was the nail in their coffin. Not Joe Biden. Not Pete Buttigieg.

My thoughts are that this prediction is not looking great.

A liberal lawyer running for Georgia’s supreme court says the court is essential for protecting voting rights in the state. “People are going to have to start bringing more and more of these challenges to the state’s court system.”

That's $8.6 billion in fast-tracked arms sales—without congressional review

"Does the NYT's habit of writing misleading headlines cause death in children? Editors' Mamdani fixation raises the question."

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

I don’t know if the president can do basic math but that’s not the point here. The point is that pretending this is how percent change works has become the party line, a challenge to ‘norms’, and so he’s going to stick to it & underlings will have to as well to signal loyalty

🔥 @votegloriaj.bsky.social : “We got official word from @GovBillLee — there will be a white power rally at the Tennessee legislature next week on May 5th… that is what this is. They want to take away that seat from MEMPHIS. This is white supremacy. We need you in Nashville making noise.”

“‘Lines are going to change’: Trump DOJ confirms it will target minority voters nationwide after Supreme Court ruling” electionlawblog.org?p=155854

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.