VAN HOLLEN: In your response to me earlier, where you had a blowup, you made a couple provably false statements PATEL: So did you VAN HOLLEN: Do you know it's a crime to lie to Congress? P: Maybe the next time you run up a $7,000 bar tab we can talk V: See. You're lying again. You're a disgrace

Trump: "When the Fake News says that the Iranian enemy is doing well, Militarily, against us, it’s virtual TREASON"

This is this weekend- ramping up to be a big one

The thing that frustrates me the most about Barney Frank's current media tour is that a.) in every single appearance, he takes a shot at trans people, and b.) he fundamentally misunderstands what's been happening on the issue of trans rights, generally.

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

The actual numbers are probably much higher but let’s think about this for a moment: $29B is an insane figure. You could wipe out a chunk of medical debt for many, or give $1k/month to millions for a year They have the ability to do this. But nope, war of choice. Fuck it

Greg Abbott threatened to pull $530,000 from a Texas city unless it canceled a private Eid celebration at a rented water park. Conservatives saw that it was an event intended for Muslims and lost their minds. The threats worked. The event was canceled. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-private-...

I, too, am old enough to remember when the entire National Conversation™️ focused on the need for Democrats to Tone Down The Rhetoric because of fears about Political Violence.

A University of Washington trans student was fatally stabbed in her campus housing building and the suspect is still at large. abc7news.com/post/seattle...

Atheists support Pope Leo on Iran *way more* than Catholics do.

It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups": "They've never been associated with the right, they've always been associated with the left." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Still need this if anyone can help

He’s still doing it

Saturdays are for soccer girlies @angelcity.com

Lol- lmao

Klobuchar giving an assist to the Minnesota Republican Party. Useless. The moderates are useless.

Preacher Greg Locke repeatedly accused Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, and others of horrific crimes against children. He added: "I’ll step down as your pastor if it ain’t true!" Turns out he lied. So why's he still preaching? www.friendlyatheist.com/p/hate-preac...

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

Everyone knows that only your naive desire to not crush untold numbers of human skulls underfoot is keeping you from a billion dollars

Right-wing media is upset that Hasan Piker quoted the extremely radical... uh... JFK.

“Rob Reiner attacked me, attacked Trump, said I was a dangerous Christian nationalist. I was shocked, but not surprised, to find out that he had opened up his own house to such demonization that his son lost his mind and killed his parents. I don't think it was God. I think it was the devil.”

A jury rejected a wrongful death lawsuit against LAPD officer William Dorsey Jones Jr., who killed 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta with a round fired at an armed man that ricocheted into the Burlington Coat Factory dressing room she was hiding in w/ her mom.

they are stealing the election *now*

Beware any influencers that suddenly started portraying Xavier Becerra as strong, masterful leader within the past few weeks. This operation exposed some kind of weird propaganda network in our midst. No way there was a sudden outpouring of organic passion for an Empty Suit at 4% in the polls.

Rep. Lauren Boebert weighs in on the government's release of UFO files, saying aliens are actually "fallen angels and Nephilim" from the Old Testament: "I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic."

"Fascists tell us that we have no bonds with each other save state and race and other such trivial connections. They do this to tear us apart from our shared humanity—to make us vulnerable to their whims, their bullshit, their violence. Our connections with each other are the best antidote to this."

I’m excited to ride the D. Stoked to finally have a train option in my neck of the woods.

This week, we lost Laura Sullivan of @onepeoplesproject.bsky.social, an incredible pillar of antifascism. Laura was one of the first people to reach out & believed in me. LCRW is still here because of her. Featuring comment by @dlj.bsky.social, @jaredlholt.bsky.social, & @mxscottkernest.bsky.social

The Defense Department is beginning to release its "UFO files." Some of them are ... completely fucking ridiculous. If I were a Fox Mulder type, I'd call this a disinformation operation.

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

insane every blue state in the country needs to pack their own state Supreme Court immediately if the unelected law wizards want to make donald trump a god-king with a 30% approval rating their power must be broken at every level

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

As Tennessee Republicans voted Thursday to approve an unprecedented Congressional redistricting map that would divide Memphis, protesters and Democrats pushed back with walkouts, protests resulting in arrests and burning a printed Confederate flag in the Capitol. nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Laura & Mike were there for me very early on, supporting me when this was just a one person blog. LCRW wouldn’t be what it is without them. I miss them terribly

i hate that older Black people have to live through this shit again. i think about my mom, who integrated schools and had white girls be shocked that she didn't have a tail. and my grandfather, who served in a segregated army unit; human enough to serve, not human enough to die next to anyone white.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

like a butterfly dropping into its grave, of course. a phrase we’ve all used and a very normal, relatable kind of image that conveys clear meaning. i’m always saying this. so beautiful, like a delicate butterfly croaking mid-air and gently floating into a tiny open bug grave at the insect cemetery.

Q: After today's strikes, is the ceasefire with Iran still on? TRUMP: Yeah it is. They trifled with us today. We blew them away. If there's no ceasefire, you'll see one big glow coming out of Iran. They better sign an agreement fast.

TRUMP: Tom, how good a president is Trump? HOMAN: Greatest president of my lifetime. I got a question for the construction workers -- are you all legal? WORKERS: Yes sir

One of the things I always find fascinating is how law enforcement reacts when they realize there’s a camera on them. Photo 1: before the DHS agent noticed my camera Photo 2: after the DHS agent noticed my camera Both taken on May Day in Milwaukee, WI near the federal courthouse downtown.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

Is it political violence when the country’s health secretary suggests sick people deserve to die

RFK Jr. showing his eugenicist beliefs. Here he is today at The City Club in Cleveland: "The average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. So what was really killing them? It was almost impossible for COVID to kill a healthy person. It was killing people who were already sick."

Delusions of grandeur

As suspected, the company used to erect the fence around the Old Federal Building in #EugeneOR was the same used in #PortlandOR during 2020-2021. From today's article by KLCC regarding the cost of the fence: $269,225

BREAKING MS NOW: Kash Patel has ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail and other staff and has been described as in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team, according to two people briefed on the development.