Degenerate Clown Regime continues to murder with impunity.

Missing the point: degenerate criminal clown cuts a swath of destruction across American society and economy and 86 percent of Republicans approve. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

We are now less than 2 cents away from national gasoline prices reaching $4.50 a gallon on average for regular grade

A rudderless war launched by moral degenerates and buffoons that has produced only negative outcomes.

I haven’t recalculated since I checked 11 months ago, but fyi on the New York Times repeated quoting of Chris Rufo on a wide range of topics about which he has little or no expertise. bsky.app/profile/larr...

My piece with @ajvicens.bsky.social on how hundreds of Americans were fired or otherwise punished following the killing of right wing influencer Charlie Kirk is part of a package that has been recognized with the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Brutally partisan

Congrats to the Bloomberg team behind this incredible project — winner of a Pulitzer! It’s well worth your time and gorgeously (if terrifyingly) rendered. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Dept of Rhetorical Questions

Degenerate Clown Regime selects for degenerate clowns.

The flip side of this is receiving your bajillionth email informing you that the KKK were Democrats.

Sure, Rudy declined in old age. But when he was younger, and sought an annulment of his marriage claiming that he didn’t know his cousin wife was his wife cousin, he was a straight shooter.

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Reading racist bullshit really isn’t the same when I’m not being thanked for my attention to this matter.

The proper approach is not to “focus” or not on Trump. The task is to stretch Trump like a filthy wet blanket until his unpopularity covers and discredits the entire GOP, which spawned his crime spree in the first place.

Morning nap.

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

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.

“.. Colleen Heflin, a professor at Syracuse University who studies food insecurity, said larger state drops like Arizona’s were ‘beyond anything we’ve ever seen.’” @wsj.com #SNAP www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Sure, but it’s a long-term investment to ensure a nuclear Iran with a new revenue stream.

No lie detected.

But ultimately, getting mad at private industry for failing to produce a Chinese style broad EV industry and market is dumb because that was very much a political project. Our failure to match it is almost entirely a political failure rather than a market or industry leadership failure.

It’s a pathological age.

Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

The US Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from a company backed by Trump’s sons, according to the firm, deepening the military’s ties to defense contractors linked to the first family .

Somehow missed this a couple of days ago but it feels kinda important that a murderer still has his badge and gun and paycheck and federal bennies and Renee Good is still dead www.thedailybeast.com/ice-agent-jo...

Black voter participation soared right after the VRA passed in 1965. But not until 1992, after Congress strengthened the VRA to require majority-minority districts, did we start getting closer to proportional Black representation in Congress. Because Black votes finally counted more in the South.

Bit of a problem how huge swaths of our court system prioritize partisanship over ordinary functions. This is a bankruptcy sale of a business. Happens all the time. The sole cause for years of extraordinary procedure is that the business is part of right-wing extremist media.

The GOP is a lie-based political party.

A traditional warrior code says "yes, we kill people but within a framework of higher moral principle," Hegseth's code is that "we reject morality because it gets in the way of killing people."

Anti-Bezos campaign urges Met Gala boycott in New York u.afp.com/SaPZ

Death Cult News: apnews.com/article/trum...

there is civil law, common law, and calvinball. under which legal tradition does your country fall?

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

I would like to see a 2028 primary season in which radical plans for court reform clash with less radical plans for court reform. The destruction of the illegitimate maga court should be the goal that anchors and animates every debate.

I wonder what Todd Blanche will indict Bacon for

"Storm-1516 uses fabricated videos, phony websites and anonymous influencers to spread tales about election fraud, corruption and sexual abuse." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

“Faith Bottum” has got to be a character from either a Python sketch or “The Producers”

Texas is the national capital of pusillanimity.

Nazis in Disarray.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

big cash payments to all the conspirators

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

#OnThisDay in 1963, postal worker William Lewis Moore began a one-man march against segregation from Chattanooga to Mississippi’s capital. A Klansman gunned him down in Attala, Alabama, before he could deliver a letter to Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/23/1...

Epstein Palace intervenes in behalf of accused rapist.

“A group of Ecuadorian fishers have described how they were attacked in a double drone strike and then detained at gunpoint by soldiers on a US-flagged patrol vessel….victims of Donald Trump’s militarized campaign against alleged drug-trafficking boats.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It seems this fellow is “accused of involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs when in office.” Interesting. apnews.com/article/rodr...

Some people are deeply biased against reality.