Just so we're clear, when he talks about "the most violent thing" he's ever seen in politics, he's *not* talking about those who violently attacked the Capitol in his name, while violently clashing with police officers. He's instead talking about efforts to hold them and their allies accountable.

Functionally indistinguishable from the way Putin talks about Ukraine & Xi talks about Taiwan.

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

Reminder: The Associated Press, NPR, and ProPublica are all nonprofit/not-for-profit outlets, and I think it'd be hard to argue that they're…irrelevant. Heck, AP is literally how many people decide when elections are called. (Also, you know, @rns.org is a nonprofit too.)

I recall discussing Jan. 6 with "very serious people" in the immediate aftermath. I said it was a moral imperative & critical to the survival of our constitutional republic that Trump be impeached, convicted & barred from office. I was told I was being hysterical (rare insult for a straight man).

Two people just shot up a mosque. Look at this three days ago:

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. (Or. The. Magazines).

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

Kramer is a perfect example of what's wrong with news in general and 24H news networks specifically: He's constantly wrong, but he's an over-the-top character who draws ratings. There's no journalistic reason for him to still be on the air, and yet here we are.

It's kind of ironic that Democrats think they're acting responsibly by tamping down this kind of justified anger instead of channeling it, but it's really the opposite. Leads to disaffection, radicalization

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Jared Polis (@colorado.gov) is the weakest, most spineless, most pathetic waste of a man in the Democratic Party, and that includes John Fetterman. Commuting Tina Peters is fucking pathetic. We deserve better.

It's infuriating when Trump pardons MAGA lawbreakers, but a Democratic governor? Christ. Just the worst, most feckless, pathetic kind of Democrat.

Gov. Polis’ commutation of Tina Peters’ sentence is wrong.  She is in prison because she broke the law and was given an appropriate sentence.  As Governor, I will always stand up for the rule of law and fight for election integrity--and never give in to the bullying of the Trump Administration.

Jared Polis is so completely full of shit. His commutation of Tina Peters' sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech. What a joke. What an insult to the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. What an assault on free and fair elections. An embarrassing profile in cowardice.

Curious: how many non violent offenders are in Colorado prisons for non violent offenses? Do they get pardons too?

What’s the point of electing democrats who do shit like this

Though Trump has repeatedly claimed that millions of noncitizens vote, data shows there are few such cases. Of these, most involve people like Estelle, who register in error. “It is a needle in the haystack,” a former DHS lawyer said.

It is remarkable how many establishment Dems simply do not understand they are in the middle of an existential war against MAGA politics, and that there’s no co-existence possible here.

What a pathetic coward.

Trump wants to use taxpayers' money to reward the foot soldiers of his last putsch attempt, presumably to encourage them to take to the streets - or the Capitol - the next time he asks.

I have been told several times by NYT reporters that they *include this crediting* in drafts and have it removed by editors.

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

NEW: Just 10 days before the primary election, SCOTUS eliminated a Black-majority district. But in 2022, that same court said it was too close to an election to give Black voters a fairer map. These decisions reveal the same pattern: urgency for white voters, and white voters only.

Explicit admission that the GOP is a neo-Confederate party who exist in part to enforce racial discrimination.

Of course it was him.

Don't know why they are couching this as "Van Hollen Accuses Patel" of making false statements. It is objectively a fact that Patel lied! Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not, as Patel said, a "convicted gang-banging rapist."

"We asked Spencer if he has ever lived in the trailer, and he said no, adding, 'I have never told anyone I lived there.' However, in the campaign ad, he says squarely, "This is where I live" as he stood in front of the trailer." TMZ doing politics is good actually

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Utter insanity.

Your regular reminder that when Biden left office, inflation was at about 3%, so this administration did not inherit "the highest inflation in 40 years." And inflation is now 3.8%.

Well, I think Elon and Trump have been on the same flight logs before

Mike Johnson defends egregiously gerrymandered maps like the new one in Tennessee, but then in the very next breath claims the Virginia map that was struck down "was a hastily drawn gerrymander that was unconstitutional"

IN WHAT CONTEXT COULD IT POSSIBLY MEAN ANYTHING ELSE

Bari Weiss Let Netanyahu Pick His Own 60 Minutes Interviewer The Israeli prime minister ensured he wouldn’t face tough questions on CBS’s flagship news program. ...

Well put. 🔽

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Days after a trans University of Washington student was killed in off-campus student housing, the UW chapter of Turning Point USA is hosting ex-trans activist Chloe Cole. Students are organizing at counter protest outside Kane Hall at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 5/13

Who's they?

This is profoundly embarrassing stuff. The man is the Director of the FBI and it's actually important that his credibility not be in tatters.

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

In my experience this is way beyond any particular circle or bubble. The only people who like AI have a financial investment in AI and/or are objectively, unequivocally dumb as a brick.

This guy is going to be the last person to realize that he’s a conservative.

"Democratic governors and state legislators need to realize that this is no longer about fairness; it’s about fighting back so that they are not engineered out of the House forever. And I get that Dems don’t have the stomach for this kind of warfare--- find it."