Ossoff: "It makes a difference who represents us. When you sent me and Sen. Warnock to the Senate, we capped the cost of insulin at $35. And when Donald Trump and his allies took power again, they threw hundreds of thousands of Georgians off their health insurance. The contrast could not be clearer"

This is exactly right from @edwardluce.bsky.social and may not be just a sign of the strategic incoherence and incompetence of Trump and Putin (and Bibi). It may also augur a major geopolitical shift with long-term implications.

Robert Garcia on Dems preparing investigations if they retake the House: “We’ve got a team on Epstein, we have a team on [Trump] family corruption, we have a team on DHS & ICE — those teams are actively working on preparation, letters, & research”

We owe all that we have to the selfless Americans, in our own generation and back through time to the Founding, who gave their lives defending our nation.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Data centers heating up on “how to stop Erin Brockovich?”

Tillis: "To call Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He's gonna be an anchor on our caucus"

🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

Good job, Hawaii. Many people in my home state felt that ubiquitous and apocalyptic “free gender reassignment surgery for prisoners” ads from outside groups turned the tide against Harris. Citizens United must be banned everywhere.

When JD Vance and Marco Rubio eventually battle for the 2028 GOP nomination, never forget how both of them shamelessly abandoned Ukraine and worked hard to hand Putin a victory. Ukraine defeating Russia on the battlefield will be the ultimate repudiation of these two cowardly traitors.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

🌰 🥜 🔩

I didn’t know Greenland had entered a teen beauty pageant.

🎯

It’s amazing the difference between how some Republicans speak 5 minutes after their political careers are over compared to the time when they wanted the cult leader to love them.

No, we really don't have to.

NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.

Diminish a book slightly: The Middle-Aged Man and The Pond

You'd think that someone this rich wouldn't feel the need to lie for money. But you would be wrong.

Massie unfettered should be interesting to behold. The Epstein class should be very concerned.

It’s not every day a democracy sets aside a 2 billion dollar slush fund to bail out insurrectionists who tried violently overturning that democracy.

NC Republicans know they’ll never win another statewide race so this is what they do. (They only have legislative power because of gerrymandering. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

A Democratic candidate who ran on MaCWA — Make the Constitution Work Again — would get my attention. Especially if they promised a Cabinet-level Department to move fast and reverse the creeping rot that enabled the last 16 months.

The New York Times knows that the Justice Department and Trump are the same thing — that it’s outrageous self-dealing. But the Times pretends otherwise, in disservice to its readers and the country.

Bezos is plenty smart enough to sense that simmering resentment of billionaires is ready to boil over. But he's also arrogant enough to think decades-old anti-tax rhetoric still has power. Even mentioning teachers in the same breath as his wealth just pisses off ordinary Americans.

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

Corruption and Jan 6 are both absolutely toxic among independents, and right now, Dems are leading among independents in the generic House matchup by 18 points. So good luck defending this, Republicans!

The vice president of the United States is just standing up here saying people should feel sorry for domestic terrorists who were given free and fair trials and were then convicted in a court of law. Absolutely despicable.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

this would be an excellent time for donald trump to *not* have installed the host of a youtube show called "erection connection!" as the person charge of infectious disease policy for the united states of america. www.statnews.com/2026/05/17/e...

JD Vance calls for Trump to be put in jail for fraud

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

BREAKING: Minnesota has INDICTED ICE officer Christian Castro in the non-fatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. 4 counts of assault & 1 count of lying. This is the SECOND ICE officer charged by the Hennepin County DA. No charges yet for the murders of Good and Pretti. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Look, I’m not a theological expert by any means, but as a 3-decade pastor and student of the Bible, I feel fairly confident in saying that if the Hell Conservative Evangelicals promise does exist, Franklin Graham is a slam dunk. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/franklin-g...

Why are taxpayers paying to fly J. Edgar Boozer’s girlfriend around in a private jet? WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE!

It’s VERY IMPORTANT that corporate media NOT frame this as a judicial settlement. Trump DROPPED the suit this morning. There is no lawsuit, and therefore, no settlement. you can’t settle a suit that doesn’t exist. This is just pure theft.

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.

To graduating college students who boo commencement speakers for praising AI: We are very proud of you. Well done.

NOTE: The Devil is going to be in the details of this voluntary dismissal of his lawsuit...a case that was bullshit from the get-go. I'm waiting for the news to drop confirming the $1.7 BILLION slush fund to help his buddies, cronies, and fellow insurrectionists. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social with @brotherjones.bsky.social in Alabama…

What’s fun is thinking about the politicians on both sides of the aisle who will be mightily irritated by this cartoon.

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

So AI steals our language and then uses our electricity and water to make other people even richer?

No one in this regime will face federal criminal accountability unless we reform the Supreme Court first. That's what folks should be running on. That should be the lesson of the Jack Smith prosecutions: it doesn't matter who the AG is.

I also saw that some tech bros pushing an all-AI-all-the-time future got roundly booed by graduates. I don’t care what people say. Gen Z may just get it a lot more than we think.