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Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

Hi, my dad got covid and it killed him. And I know this man doesn't give a shit about that or anyone else. I wont pretend, as a reporter and moreover as a human being, that this isnt dangerous or stupid or wildly offensive. These policies get people killed.

Good morning, #FirstAmendmentPeople. #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FreeAssembly #FreedomOfReligion #PeacefulRedress When foreign policy doesn't make sense, Fred Kaplan does. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Good morning, #FirstAmendmentPeople. #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FreeAssembly #FreedomOfReligion #PeacefulRedress www.propublica.org/article/vete...

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

The FBI's probe into Atlantic magazine journalist @sfifz787.bsky.social's reporting on Director Kash Patel shows complete disregard for the First Amendment and for the FBI’s supposed mission of stopping crime. Read our statement:

“With rising federal interference, press freedom is facing an existential threat in the United States.” — CPJ’s Américas Director @josecarloszamora.bsky.social and @amnesty-usa.bsky.social’s Senior Director of Research Justin Mazzola Read the op-ed👇 cpj.org/2026/05/cpj-...

No classified information. Pure authoritarian stuff. www.ms.now/news/fbi-inv...

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Makary is blocking a treatment for incurable melanoma bc the multiple trials its undergone were not RCTs. The drug is intended for patients for whom other cancer therapies have not worked. An RCT would require a control group to continue to use chemotherapy that previously had not worked for them.

Three surprising benefits of HPV vaccines we didn’t anticipate when they were approved: 1. They protect against FIVE types of cancer 2. They are creating herd immunity 3. They last a long time. “We have people who are 20, 30, 40 years old who are seeing protection from the HPV vaccine.”

In Venezuela, Trump Promised Transparency. But Secret Oil Deals Linger Trump officials and their Venezuelan allies have promised a new era of accountability to unlock Venezuela’s immense oil wealth. But the country’s oil industry remains a black hole. Read free. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/w...

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Independent reporting is essential to the public’s right to know. Cuba must release journalist Yeris Curbelo Aguilera, who is serving a two year sentence as part of the government’s effort to silence independent journalism in the country. Learn more: cpj.org/data/people/... #WorldPressFreedomDay

The GOP's Louisiana is basically Orban's Hungary. apnews.com/article/new-...

Had always been at war with Eastasia but in reverse.

“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child safety case against Meta earlier this year. The next stage of the fight begins today, and it could be even more consequential for Meta and the social media industry at large.

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N.I.H. Reinstates Employee Put on Leave After Criticizing Trump Research Cuts www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

It's worth noting that many free speech advocates did and do mean it, but it's also clear that many of them were using "free speech" as a cudgel against the left, and have no use for it now.

Voting rights groups sue to block Louisiana from suspending primary elections State’s governor has ordered congressional primary halted until state can redraw districts and dilute Black vote www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

61% of Americans say the Iran war is a "mistake," per new WaPo-ABC poll. “In Iraq, it took more than 3 years to reach that high. In Vietnam, it took 6 years.” - Aaron Blake www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Teddy Roosevelt got shot in the chest and finished a 90-minute speech. Reagan got shot and joked, "Honey, I forgot to duck." Truman survived an attack and kept his Arlington schedule. None of them blamed their critics. None of them built a ballroom. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Medicare portal database exposed health providers’ Social Security numbers wapo.st/4cHHlVn

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One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Americans reject Trump’s planned WH ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a Post-ABC-Ipsos poll, and they appear largely unmoved by the intensified calls from the president to allow the project to go forward. @ddiamond.bsky.social @sfcpoll.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is another attack on the constitution to empower Republican gerrymandering against communities of color

Constitutional calvinball.

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AOC tells PabloReports that the reinstatement of the agent who shot Renee Good is a reminder of why Democrats should not give ICE and CBP a dime. AOC: Every single person that that man encounters is in just as grave danger as she was in.

Either these white South Africans are returning to a genocidal country, or there is no "white genocide."

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"A Chinese businessman puts Trump’s blunders in perspective. 'For us, Trump’s attack on Iran is less consequential than his threat to attack Greenland. When he did that, to America’s oldest allies, I knew that Europe would not follow America’s approach to China.'” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

Trump may be the only national political figure in American history for whom you can point to a court opinion finding that he did rape someone caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis...

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

Academic Freedom Index has slipped in 50 countries, but taken a nosedive in the United States. "‘This academic freedom erosion is part of broader democratic backslide that we’re seeing in the US"

A profound threat to one of America's world-dominating industries, which makes us richer and healthier (higher ed) academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

CDC delay of infant hepatitis B shot likely to raise infections, studies show Federal vaccine advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted in December to recommend delaying the first shot... Read free: wapo.st/4vVDziF