CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Your reminder that whatever you think of Bernie Sanders, the people he elevated continue to cause a lot of harm. 'Credibility' is an interesting thing to be worried about here.

These guys really could have sold AI as “this is going to make your lives better.” Instead they picked “this is going to take your job and ruin all the art you love and you better embrace it or get left behind.” And they expect applause at commencement speeches!

The answer is no. There is no way that smartphones are responsible for a 40% decline in worldwide fertility rate. This is what the graph looks like from 1970 to the present (from @ourworldindata.org).

Georgia’s supreme court reinstated a six-week ban on abortion in 2024 in a 6-1 decision. Two of the justices in the majority in that case are running to stay in the court on Tuesday.

I have no words. Actually I do. Just not today. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

SO excited that the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act was introduced today by Murray, Duckworth, & Pressley. I'm proud that @americanprogress.bsky.social has endorsed this bill & I'm grateful to be part of the the community that fights for accessible reproductive care for disabled people.

Everyone is so distracted by the genderflation that no is asking what the fuck "a real hit on Jesus" is supposed to mean??

I really want people to take a minute to process this. The US government is attacking and destroying our own scientific infrastructure and Republicans in Congress are piling on and loving it. These are democracy-destroying actions.

sorry, man, if a politician talks to you like this in your role as a journalist, and you do nothing but sit and grin at it in response, what, exactly, do you think the public should think of you. why should anyone else care what trump says about you when you don’t appear to be bothered by it

Another day, another scandal that would end literally any other presidency.

I mean, I don’t mind her saying this. But @kamalaharris.com literally emphasized both of these things on her Zoom last night & then Warren posted this today. So the timing is interesting. 😂

I repeat: THE PITT is saving television. And not in the flippant, "I just really like it" way. THE PITT has a full writers room, full crew, full seasons and is wildly popular. It's the type of TV that execs thought was dead, and, most importantly, it's the type of TV viewers will always crave.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

Since Bolts began, there've been several instances of articles elsewhere building on us with no credit. The only place I can think of where this has happened repeatedly is the NYT. What is happening over there?! Please remember to support small independent media like Bolts.

Subtext: Paine, in addition to setting the Revolution aflame with “Common Sense,” was a stalwart opponent of “mingling religion with politics” and railed against organized religion. His HUGE influence on the Revolution is undeniable, but watch how — or if — he’s mentioned at 250 events this year.

not for nothing, but the dems continuing to be in lockstep on affordability messaging for months is likely going to start being very, very relevant this summer

"This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used by some combination of Democrats and Republicans to do an end-run around GOP leadership." www.axios.com/2026/05/13/u...

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

This is a frustrating but important thread

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

in woke 2, as part of the re-reconstructioning, the DOJ is going to have to hire an entire battalion of white collar prosecutors who are more afraid of seeking too lenient punishment for insider trading than they are of seeking maximum 20 year federal sentences

“Unfortunately for the vice president, there’s video” will be an increasingly common sentence.

Jeffries: "We're gonna win back the House ... the ghost of the Confederacy has afflicted the Supreme Court majority, & is invading & haunting the nation right now, & we take that seriously. Which is why Democrats are committed to launching a decisive and overwhelming response in advance of 2028."

In his interesting opinion piece in the NY Times, Matthew Huber says the Biden administration had no answer for the working class re: the cost of living. But the Progressive Policy Institute and other groups found that workers’ wages, adjusted for inflation, rose during this presidency.

“At least 12 of those insurrectionists were arrested after being pardoned by Trump. A December 2025 investigative report from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington found that six insurrectionists have been charged with sex crimes involving children.”

Welp, other minority groups are finding out after the FAed and played footsie with the GOP thinking that will save them. This excerpt is so on the nose. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/12/t...

These people genuinely think they're better than everyone else because they have money, and are very used to being treated as such.

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

No, Aaron. I get you’re in a tough spot, but I cannot permit you to run from this.

jesus christ, i haven't seen this in ages this is the laser show in Stone Mountain that i grew up seeing at least every summer ...showing Robert E Lee breaking his sword, which turns into 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 fuck me this is blatant propaganda youtu.be/xPSorGZXI0A?...

I have seen some recent both-sidesing about calling people Nazis, and how we need to avoid labeling. "Fast-growing Active Club" 60 minutes is not engaged solely in apologetics, but literal propaganda for white nationalists. This is Nazis all the way down.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I would add that grief and loss plan a hugely important part in this, ESPECIALLY around anger in men. When I ask this question, the answer I get is anger. Men say they're not allowed to be angry. My intervention is regularly to explain that anger isnt the problem. It's the harm their anger causes.

we are going to win

Despair and pessimism are easy. Especially if you only look at the past through the lens of nostalgia. What does decline mean? What does it look like? If we are in decline, how do we know? Just vibes? America is currently committing self-harm, like England did with Brexit. You can say rhat this...

They're all great but I'm professionally obligated to prefer this one.

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

“Vote harder” actually worked in Hungary!

One of the myriad ways Joe Biden was always disrespected, even when he was running and winning, was the idea that beating Trump is somehow easy or automatic or morally deserved when ain't none of those things true

Kamala Harris said basically every bad thing that has happened at the nationally televised debates which had good but not great ratings and was obviously covered basically everywhere. That people didn't believe her is not a failure of hers

A must-read from UCLA law prof Dave Marcus, who was actually in the room when it happened. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

The Confederacy didn't just reappear w/last week's ruling, it has been here all along riding first one party, then parts of both, then the other as a parasite hollowing out American state & society from w/in. It changes its names, how it presents itself, but it has never gone away. 12/

My brother in law sent me an article about the hantavirus outbreak along with the message “this is bullshit,” and as I wanted him to have the facts I gently informed him that in actuality hantavirus has much more to do with rat shit.

When/if he gets called before a Senate committee, I want someone to remind him of his balls and strikes quote, then ask him why he calls nothing but balls for Democrats and nothing but strikes for Republicans* *Or vice versa, if you're looking at it from the batter's perspective