This is a good piece. Vought's secret weapon is that he is strategically boring. If you ever see him being interviewed, he is the human equivalent of faded taupe wallpaper. By being boring, the press largely ignores him. That's what makes him lethally dangerous.

RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

What always impresses about the Americans is just how many different police forces they have willing to beat the shite out of you.

I know there is a lot going on right now, but I think this is necessary reading. Your right to assemble, your right to link arms, your right to share a post about a demonstration - those things are no longer a given.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell sued UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. on Friday, accusing the insurer of misclassifying the conditions of elderly members and defrauding MassHealth of at least $100 million. on.nbcboston.com/D5ma3mP

my confidence that these people are going to lose is rising and my estimate of the amount of damage they are going to do on the way out, especially as they realize they're losing, is also rising

Now is the time for Dems to start talking about how we make sure that the Nazis don't take their stolen wealth to Argentina, too

I know what hell has ready on the menu for Greg Gutfield, when he arrives

You joke, but spend enough time monitoring the far right and you'll find a lot of guys just flat out telling you that one of the primary jobs of the government should be securing them fuckmaids

MAHA doctors had a robust support network in medicine, the media, and academia that legitimized their COVID disinformation and promised they would restore trust at the NIH and FDA. I disagreed. Time for an update. My latest.

One thing I’m gonna say about this nazi salute is that it does not “resemble” a nazi salute, it is a nazi salute. May we all dispense with this coy “resembles” language in all cases.

👀 Paulina Mangubat of The Democrats: “I want Katie Miller to know her husband is an ugly fuck. I stand by calling him an ugly fuck.” (From @acyn.bsky.social )

i hate to pull this, but as a jew we're pretty far down the then they came for chain rn. they're coming for latinos with ice and black people with resegregation. what we need to be doing is standing with those groups so they'll stand with us and that means supporting platner to beat collins

i think this is correct on the merits of the race but to the extent that we can nationalize Paxton v Talarico and thereby tar other Republicans we want to do it because Paxton really is that bad.

Everyone who ever spread the lie that Assad didn’t use chemical weapons on his own people is a lying Putin-humping ghoul.

Stephen Miller is not, in fact an ugly fuck, because that would require him to be fuckable. He's an ugly unfuck.

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

This is funny. Katie Pavlich has literally never listened to Martina McBride's Independence Day. It's a song about spousal abuse, not the 4th of July.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE x FIGHT THE POWER ✊🏾

even the Post can't make either of them look bad here

Correct

Thread of Delaney Hall stories and articles – Friday, 29 May (Not chrono order. Pls look at timestamps and dates. ) Tonight's NYT story on the State of New Jersey negotiating to get ICE agents away from their daily and nightly skirmishes where agents attack protesters, press and onlookers.

This headline isn't quite right. Judge Williams has not granted the motion to reopen the case. She has ordered Plaintiffs (the Trumps) to file a response "detailing their position on the matters set forth in the Motion." It's more than I expected originally, but the case is not reopened yet.

one of you should figure this out ! name him in filings! @repbonnie.bsky.social @replamonica.bsky.social @repnellie.bsky.social @analiliafornj.bsky.social @senbooker25hrs.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social fightbackbetter.com/who-he-5-28-...

For your evening commute from your soulless job to your desolate home.

So everyone should read this because it lays out exactly why a lot of people think the Democrats are the same as the Republicans - a lot of them don’t want to do a fucking thing to help normal people. Show this to all your shitbrain lib friends and relatives. newrepublic.com/article/2108...

Setting aside the legality problems (many), the logistics of this are insanely impossible. This is just scare-tactic nonsense.

Also “special government employee” has a particular connotation in this administration…

"The effort to recover those final victims of the worst industrial accident Washington state has seen in a century could be slow and challenging, Matt Amos, Longview Fire battalion chief, said Friday."

"He was a family man. Mindful of her needs. Not long ago, Ammons said she was laid out after some dental work. Jared took over the cooking, handled her medication schedule and even set alarms on his phone to make sure she replenished the ice packs on her face." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

When a government gives up on state autonomy in favor of total state capture, is that a MiniMax solution?

CASE DISMISSED

I’ve posted a video of the pretrial hearing that resulted in the default judgment against Alex Jones in my Texas lawsuits. I think this is an interesting document of how this case resolved and how discovery works in court. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUSF...

I’m hearing rumors that Trump was able to name six different animals in order when asked whether he has regular bowel movements

"Like, we weren't told this would be... partisan and shit. And that's not brutal. Like at all." "Yeah, the Americans politicals system is bullshits." "Yeah, so we're like... not doing it."

Using the state police to create a clear area to protect an ICE gulag is unacceptable, @mikiesherrill.bsky.social. If you're using the state police at an ICE site, get a search warrant for the facility and make sure they're complying with state law concerning the treatment of people in custody.

THIRD RECONSTRUCTION

Consider supporting this effort.

Dude wishes he was the Duke of Windsor, but he’s a washed up temu fascist.

this part. laws aren't real. they are expressions of power in a social context: what people stop you from doing is forbidden, what people let you do is allowed

the only (small!) tweak I would offer to this is that laws aren't real unless you make them real as I see it, the legal system operates under Tinkerbell rules, which is to say, the performance of belief can affect reality

one and only one New Jersey Democrat is missing from this letter: Josh Gottheimer

yes!! prospect.org/2026/05/20/e...

🎧 Reporter Kelly Garcia is a guest on today's episode of City Cast Chicago, discussing her latest story about how Cook County prosecutors are asking judges to issue warrants for people who were no-shows in traffic court — because they had already been deported. buff.ly/HnUOBvk

JUST IN: Judge wants more explanation from prosecutors before ruling on dismissal of convictions against Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack/conspiracy. "The government’s motion here is insufficiently detailed," Judge Amit Mehta (Obama/DC) writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Here’s my full report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/federal-ju...

i’ll admit i did not think the retired judges’ motion to re-open the Trump v. IRS case would succeed. but now that is has…lfg? at a minimum, DOJ will be forced to justify its conduct in writing

Sadly, in its most recent election, Cook County voters chose a conventional DA over a reform choice. Reactionary centrists like to paint reformers as "soft," which is wrong across the board, but esp misses that reformers are often much tougher than "tough on crime" types for POLICE lawlessness.

My new @liberalism.org article on "Liberalism's Uneasy Relationship with Democracy" addresses interlinked problems of voter ignorance, tyranny of the majority, and illiberal/anti-democrtic movements coming to power through elections, and what to do about them: www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism...