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New Interview: I talked to Nate Cohn about the state of the gerrymandering wars and what they mean for 2026 and 2028. Https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-the-gerrymandering-wars-mean-for-the-midterms-and-2028

Some of the identified individuals the US killed in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific showed "no indication of involvement with drug trafficking." And even if they were traffickers, they'd be low level. Killing them would make virtually no impact on the cartels or drug trafficking into the US.

This is really important from four of my law school colleagues who helped draft U of M’s institutional neutrality policy. www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Pleased to speak with @theguardian.com about the US boat strikes and this important investigation into the identities of the victims. “I think this was in part a military spectacle to give the illusion of the administration doing something ‘macho’ about drugs.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh geez, it looks like Politico badly mangled this story, which seems to really be a county screw up and the corresponding official communicating about it incompetently. Super sloppy of them. A local journalist explains:

BREAKING: Richard Glossip is granted bail. Lawyer Donald Knight: "For the first time in 29 years of being incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, during which he faced 9 execution dates and ate 3 last meals, Mr. Glossip now has the chance to taste freedom ...."

We had both, but now you have to choose. Why? Because they're fucking dumb.

as first reported by the seattle gay news: www.sgn.org/story/166221...

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

The Reflecting Pool is a bright blue money pit.

The death penalty is too good for all of those responsible.

Several replies to this post argue that PR would still allow a Reform/Tory coalition. The problem is that tactically voting based on where you live, or measuring the supposed impact of your vote based on how such a district feels about a party is a terrible way to vote, whether in UK, US or Canada.

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-...

As Democrats discuss how to respond to Supreme Court rulings undermining voting rights and fair elections, Republican states have already set the precedents. After Utah courts overturned the GOP’s House gerrymander, they packed their Supreme Court and stripped its jurisdiction to hear certain cases

A lot going on in this episode... But Knicks and Rangers owner James Dolan effectively banished an autism service puppy from MSG, sources tell us, after models sitting near him noticed how cute the unofficial Rangers mascot was. youtu.be/o6mCtaW_69M?...

When the terrorists have taken over the government:

WHERE ARE THE TEARS FOR AVA CORDERO? You may have heard about the young trans woman who was raped by Jeffrey Epstein and then sued him. But you don't know what happened to her afterward. I do and her story appears in my latest column for Pride Source. pridesource.com/article/ava-...

How the press silenced a trans woman who tried to stop Jeffrey Epstein pridesource.com/arti... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The Speaker of the House in Alabama calls on the courts to “overturn the 14th Amendment.” This is the same legislative body, a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps in the Milligan case. x.com/austinpratt_...

Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Nobody said it, but the true answer here is Prey (2006)

"I am not a socialist of any flavor but a free-marketeer. Yet I can say this: some of the greatest freedom champions we have had have been democratic socialists. Orwell, for one. If you’d like another name: Sidney Hook. (I recommend his memoirs: Out of Step.)" open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...

Unless it's owned by right-wing Sinclair, local TV news is a reliable source of info for millions of Americans. And it's free, no paywall. But TV news is starting to vanish and that means far too many important local stories will never get told. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Today, we published 61 transcripts and excerpts of testimony heard by the Fulton County special purpose grand jury. The transcripts include the never-before-seen testimony of prominent Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, and Cleta Mitchell. bsky.app/profile/anna...

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

🧠 TONIGHT! A new episode of Very Important People launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT. Join Vic Michaelis and Linda Elizabeth Marie Braintree (Katya) for an important convo on makeup.

Impeach and Prosecute

NEW: The Pentagon IG said it will NOT investigate the military flyover of Kid Rock's home and a "No Kings" protest, citing Sec. Pete Hegseth’s decision not to pursue the matter. This is an alarming response. IG's need to be independent, not defer to the head of their agency.

There are *some* arguments for price discovery in stock, bond or futures markets serving a societal good. There are *NO* arguments for it in elections! It's insane we allow this! In fact, we ban early vote counting in elections for fear of influencing elections! www.npr.org/2026/05/07/n...

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

RFK just wants people to die. It’s that simple.

The new PTFO involves @samreich.bsky.social of @dropoutpresents.dropout.tv (!) and also @mcuban.bsky.social's response to the Pulitzer news (!) and, yes, cannons. youtu.be/kBBAp7UpPds?...

InfoWars chief Tim Heidecker talks to UNHINGED caller “AJ”. Check out theonion.info for this and more urgent news.

The details in this Bloomberg story on the new "fraud" division replacing the existing one make it increasingly clear it is about SHUTTING DOWN investigations of Trump's kind of fraud and blatant politicization attacking benefits programs. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Funny, I resent the failures that are WaPo opinion writers.

Is she reliable? lol bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...

i made this youtu.be/KnUFH5GX_fI

March 1723/4: Parliament amends the requirements for landowners to swear the abjuration oath with express references to Christian faith, permitting natural-born subjects who were Jewish.

New details have been released about Palm Beach International Airport, recently renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport. Their new contract requires the airport to purchase Trump merchandise from Trump's own licensor, directly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

The public airwaves belong to every American, not just the billionaire buddies of this Administration. If the Paramount-WBD merger could reach up to 100% of foreign ownership, as the company claims in its own filing, that demands a rigorous review by the FCC.

You don't need to blow up all of them, just occasionally remind the captains they're vulnerable.

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

HOLY SHIT @pablo.show CONGRATS!!!

Still no response from @mayor.nyc.gov’s office.

P.S. Steve Ballmer published a victim impact statement dismissing our investigation as “gossip.” So we asked the DOJ prosecutor who launched the federal Aspiration investigation — which led to co-founder Joe Sanberg’s conviction — to join us for Part X. New PTFO: youtu.be/KWewz-i8SHk?...