"But we shouldn’t try to unsee what we’ve just seen. There’s an element of yada yada yada here, where we assume that a Republican judiciary that just picked a side in a political redistricting fight won’t pick the same side when Republicans ask them to steal House control more directly..."

A ballroom he promised taxpayers wouldn't pay for. A wall he promised Mexico would. And now a no-bid contract for a favored pool contractor costing taxpayers millions more. Trump's art of the deal is, and always will be, a scam.

BREAKING: Reporter: “To what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal? [with Iran]” Trump: “Not even a little bit…. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation”

He stated as a fact that Van Hollen was drinking margaritas with a felon, when none of that was true, so yes, he made provably false statements to the Senate.

This 👇🏾

“…the forces that stand today against …political representation for Black people won’t stop there…They seek a one party political system ruled by authoritarians. The political oppression of Black people is not the end. It is the conduit.”

I keep sort of waving my hands and saying: the Voting Rights Act was applied everywhere for every American (including white ones) to manage an elite pressure to create an anti-democratic society. Sam Alito is coming for us all.

Once again, I didn't have to watch to know he was addressing a woman.

VAN HOLLEN: Are you willing to take the audit test that members of the military take to determine whether they have a drinking problem KASH PATEL: I'll take any test you're willing to take. VAN HOLLEN: I'll take it. You ready? PATEL: Let's go. Side by side.

VAN HOLLEN: Have you ordered polygraph tests of members of your team to determine how that story came about? KASH PATEL: The FBI conducts polygraph tests all the time VAN HOLLEN: I'll take that as a yes

this is absolutely BONKERS behavior from the director of the FBI. it's a disgrace to his position and the entire US government.

these guys can’t even announced their forced resignations in private text messages that Trump later posts publicly without doing some Biden whataboutism

brutal meme via the official Democratic Party X account

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

My message to Pete Hegseth on Trump's $1.5 trillion war budget: “Every gun made... every rocket fired signifies... a theft from those who hunger and are not fed... This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the hopes of its children.”

I wrote about the Washington Post's embarrassing wave of badly-written editorials trying to protect billionaires from paying their fair share of taxes

how did Bill Hader survive this?

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??

“On day one, I will end inflation and slash prices.”

Trump/GOP will be remembered for 5 things, its: (1) VIOLENCE/CRUELTY/human rights ABUSES; (2) SKYROCKETING COSTS for Americans; (3) INCOMPETENCE; (4) CORRUPTION; & (5) CHAOS & DESTRUCTION of American civil society & democracy! Inflation is on the rise faster than wages! We all pay for Trump/GOP!!!

Secretary Duffy, his wife and nine kids took a "Great American Road Trip" to celebrate America's 250th. They say no taxpayers funded the project. But a nonprofit with transport-related sponsors did. n.pr/4uDPBf1

DHS says: “Activist Biden judge releases ... illegal alien wanted for murder.” But leaves out 3 facts. 1. Judge never knew of existence of homicide warrant ... 2. because AUSA never told her ... 3. *because ICE instructed AUSA not to tell her.* My deep dive: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/dhs-...

going to put this great @drewmagary.bsky.social piece here again. no it doesn't excuse or remove blame, but it does explain. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Hard to imagine a better illustration of the mendacious logic of Sam Alito's opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act than this South Carolina congressman explicitly arguing that Jim Clyburn's district isn't "conservative" enough because, uh, 47 percent of its residents are Black

When you watch all this madness, you can sense something dark underneath it: All these sycophants are plainly aware that Trump is going to be passing from the scene very soon. And it’s very hard to see who's going to fill the vacuum. trib.al/9SoGzRj

Love to have a political party in a constitutional democracy that treats the legislature as a vestigial organ of state, like an appendix.

Hegseth gets performatively indignant instead of answering Chris Coons's straightforward question about what the military's plan is for reopening the Strait of Hormuz (It's pretty clear there is no plan ... )

The inevitable implication of this, and what's effectively their position, is that the president has all of the power to start a war whenever he wants and Congress has no say in the matter and can't do anything about it.

Here's the report: The Price of Non-Prosecution oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

House Oversight's Robert Garcia says Dems will release a new report May 12 that he says will detail, from bank records, how the sweetheart deal that Alex Acosta helped further enrich Jeffrey Epstein and expand the network of sexual abuse of adolescent girls. "This report is just the beginning."

Senate Democrats cool to Trump’s gas tax suspension idea. Shaheen says it’d save “peanuts” compared to ending the Iran war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Tim Kaine: “You’re going to start a war, raise people’s prices by $1.50 gallon and, oh here, let me give you a peanut.”

A majority wanted *dominant whiteness* even though *dominant whiteness* always wrecks the economy. No one is saying a majority wanted it both ways: dominant whiteness plus a thriving economy. And no one is saying this is they're mad. The thing they didn't want came from the thing they did want.

BREAKING: watchdog group is suing the Trump administration for allegedly using the president’s “Freedom 250” organization to divert $100 million in taxpayer funds to his vanity projects without congressional oversight. trib.al/OoLVLTP

Remember the "Trump Mobile" golden smartphone? Over a half million people paid a collective $59M+ in deposits to get one — and a year later not a single phone has shipped. Yet another Trump grift. https://popular.info/p/we-were-promised-a-gold-plated-trump

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

For the first time in three years, Americans' wages are no longer outpacing inflation, further compounding affordability concerns. cnn.it/42uMxWF

my goodness -- Trump's hands looked cadaver-like tonight (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

Remember when Joe Biden's son was excoriated for using his family name to get a simple seat on a board of directors in a foreign country? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Every single photo of Nigel Farage looks like Tim Curry starred in the Black Hole Sun video. Or maybe a catfish gasping for air in a fishing boat.

The Supreme KKKourt rears its racist head again!

What about the ships coming in by hear?

Trump describes the White House as a "shit house" when he moved in and then adds, "the big thing is we're building a ballroom in the back"

That noise you just heard was the collective howl of rage from every woman on planet Earth.