“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty — the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast — nothing can be done?” the judge asked. “I think that’s right, yes,” Roth responded.

OK, tough guy. Keep talking.

Who you say you are, what you say you believe, your identity as a citizen of this country, are all on the table. “Are you prepared to stand and watch as Black political representation is erased? Do you not yet understand that this is also your fight if you have any hope of living in a democracy?”

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

This is ridiculous. And would set off massive alarms on any normal planet.

The thing is, Lee Zeldin *is* this boring.

Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.

“Bilton is making $2.5 million for his new “60 Minutes” gig. Sources tell us that salary is $1 million more than what “60 Minutes” veteran Tanya Simon was pulling down for the same job before she was ousted by Weiss” pagesix.com/2026/06/04/h...

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/

Trump celebrates pride month 🌈

Your daily laugh.

The majority refers to "our colorblind Constitution." As fucking if. It was racist when it was written and they are making it racist again.

The majority refers to "our colorblind Constitution." As fucking if. It was racist when it was written and they are making it racist again.

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

It gets a little more wild each time they say it. So if every single Black person votes one way, and every single white person votes the opposite way, every election, that's not even RELEVANT to whether voting is "racially polarized"—as long as this durable disagreement is organized into 'parties.'

Just so we’re all crystal clear, the Supreme Court says they’ve gutted the voting rights act and used the fifteenth amendment to justify it; what they’ve really done is to rewrite the fifteenth amendment, designed to protect non-white citizens’ voting rights, as a White Power amendment.

THIS

pack the court or lose the republic

SCOTUS wants more of this.

This is worded wrong. Supreme Court allows Alabama to use overtly racist map that disenfranchises Black voters after falsely claiming they were not overturning the Voting Rights Act.

Racists all the way down in the GOP.

Thanks to the serendipity of Brooklyn I got to meet @thrasherxy.bsky.social today -- what a thrill! Everybody, buy THE OVERSEER CLASS. I mean it. Writers need your support (especially this good one).

Welp there’s no unseeing this

“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any“

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Spectacle is not a distraction from Trump’s real agenda; it is Trump’s real agenda. That does not make it any less dangerous. In some ways it is more dangerous, because the logic of spectacle is the logic of constant escalation."

Read CARELESS PEOPLE!

The first ever trillionaire will become a trillionaire by using political power to bend the rules of financial markets to force everybody’s retirement accounts to invest in his company

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

Essential 🧵

Hey I interviewed a queer Yemeni man, who spent nearly 3 years in ICE detention before being granted asylum. He’s looking for therapy— do we know a Queer Arab or queer affirming Arab therapist who’d be willing to take him on? He has Medicaid so it’d have to be that pro bono

Thissssssss

Woke Bill Kristol FTW

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

Like I was saying

Billionaires should not exist but this is 😍

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

Just because Trump says DEI is illegal doesn't make it illegal.

A word we need to bat around, as we plan an eventual national journey out of all this, is 'disgorgement.' Not saying I have any answers or useful thinking here. Just putting down that we need to get comfortable talking about it.

We must make this against the law.

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.

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

According to new reports, Trump's White House personally ordered the Pentagon to give a $620M loan to a company linked to Don Jr. Stocks for other Don Jr.-advised defense contractors are surging, amid rumors of more DoD deals. This is corruption. Watch.

This carefully worded statement is consistent with subsequent reporting that Boutros is actually investigating Reid Hoffman’s charity.