"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

You might think Aaron's exaggerating with Jim's quotes here but he's actually being very generous

Breaking news: The EPA proposed repealing limits on four types of “forever chemicals” in drinking water. The proposal would end the Biden-era restrictions on four PFAS compounds and give utilities more time to comply with limits on two others.

“No listen it’s ok. You won’t have a job, but also we’re going to use vast amounts of water and power, so you also won’t have a planet and then you won’t need a job. You’re welcome. Follow up: why are you all picking up rocks?”

NEW: An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help.

3. The overlap between Trump's public statements and his private investments were previously unreported. They were buried in a new 113-page financial disclosure filed by Trump. We've uncovered more examples.

2. Three more SMOKING GUNS in Trump's new 113 page financial disclosure. Trump purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 in Micron stock on March 25 (also unsolicited). The next day he called into The Five, said he had just met with Micron's CEO, and called Micron "one of the hottest companies."

Must-read of the morning by @jamellebouie.net. I'm writing about the creation of the VRA right now, and this is absolutely correct. The Roberts Six often pretend to use history to get what they want, but it's always a funhouse mirror version with no root in reality.

Perennial

"The Trump administration has struck what some see as the final blow to PEPFAR, the vaunted US program that has saved the lives of 26 million people living with HIV. The State Dept now says that as of 30 September, CDC support for PEPFAR will end in most countries." www.science.org/content/arti...

Some North Carolina lawmakers say the state should reconsider sentencing minors to life without the possibility of parole. “To never walk outside having any freedom after they’re the age of 16, is pretty harsh,” said Marcia Morey. “It’s unforgiving.”

interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor

Florida Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map violates a voter-approved state ban on partisan gerrymandering, voting advocates argued Friday, asking a court to block the state from using the map in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

pushing out diverse people to accommodate diverse views about those people's inferiority, be fucking serious

BREAKING: We just temporarily blocked enforcement of a Kansas law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 18. A state court found the law likely violates the Kansas state constitution.

“I’m just so goddamn fed up with all this,” Gina Small, 29, said in a comment on the U.S. economy that one of her friends assumed was about the world’s ongoing humanitarian crises, another friend thought was about the weaponization of America’s military against its own people.

there were two bills on bail yesterday. Both of them were terrible and I would’ve voted against them both.

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

raskin explaining to his caucus why this bill is so bad and it not mattering at all to them makes it even more shameful

As far as history is concerned, the news doesn’t get much bigger than “Trump regime to continue planned rollout of concentration camps that will exceed Japanese American imprisonment.”

My rep @gluesenkampperez.house.gov voted to outlaw bail funds. Wtf. This doesn’t keep dangerous criminals off the street, it forces poor people into plea deals for crimes they didn’t commit. I don’t know if it’s ignorance, racism, or malice, but it’s an unacceptable vote from 32 house dems.

This is depressing and shameful but I want to highlight @raskin.house.gov's dissenting vote in Committee. He gets it, and I'm glad he put in the time to fully assess this bill and put this on the record. His full dissent is here, at the bottom: www.congress.gov/committee-re...

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

🚨BREAKING: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called for lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative maps for 2028, adding Georgia to the growing list of southern states poised to wipe out majority-Black districts before the next presidential election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump yesterday: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody." Vance today: "I don't think the president said that."

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

I’ve seen so much wishful thinking about GOP maps backfiring by making GOP seats light red to target Dems—this is largely false. They mainly packed Dem seats more efficiently, reduced dark red seats to “only” solid red, & made vulnerable seats no bluer. Dems may still win the House—this isn’t why

NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data

I can't leave it alone. Here's the 527-page opinion describing Alabama's congressional map: "[t]ry as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamian's voting strength." That's the map SCOTUS resurrected today with 0 explanation.

Critically: You must INTENTIONALLY REQUEST expedited processing by including a letter with your citizenship request explaining your situation, along with supporting documentation.

Every week after I watch Last Week Tonight, I am offended all over again when HBO suggests I watch Bill fucking Maher.

Since redistricting and the VRA are rightfully getting attention, here‘s info about prison gerrymandering. If unfamiliar, prisoners are counted as part of population of area in which they are held captive and not where they’re from, despite felony disenfranchisement. www.prisonersofthecensus.org

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.

More & more eligible low-income people are losing SNAP because of H.R. 1’s bureaucratic hurdles, including this mom who has tried for months to get her family’s benefits back while working & caring for 2 young kids. Keep in mind: SNAP benefits average about $6 per person per day.

🚨BREAKING: Montana Court BLOCKS law reducing the window to register and vote in one trip to the polls on Election Day from thirteen hours to just five hours. Another victory for Elias Law Group, its clients and Montana voters. www.democracydocket.com/cases/montan...

Your Mother’s Day weekend reminder that the so-called “party of family values” has historically blocked: -Paid family & medical leave -Universal childcare -Universal pre-K -Expanded Child Tax Credit -Programs to support reproductive health Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.

"According to statistics compiled by the ACLU, women who kill their partners will spend an average of 15 years behind bars, while men who kill their female partners serve much shorter sentences, on average between 2 to 6 years."

This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

“In the midst of a hantavirus outbreak that involves Americans … the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been uncharacteristically missing in action, according to a number of experts.”

And now they're using that structural bias in the system to turn it into a permanent advantage that will make it nearly impossible to vote them out of power. It's turning us into an illiberal democracy with a permanent ruling class dominated by white men.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

In response to redistricting rulings that have gone against them over the last 18 months, Utah Republicans have (1) passed a law to pack the court and are about to name two new justices, and (2) have launched a major push to oust two justices in their retention races this fall.

Note: Virginia supreme court justices are "re-elected" by state lawmakers, meaning the legislature chooses whether to reappoint them or replace them. Two of the four justices in the majority today against the new congressional map will be "up" by early 2028.

Update on DOGE: A federal judge just delivered a devastating ruling against DOGE, finding that Elon Musk’s operation “blatantly used” race, gender, and other protected characteristics to carry out the largest mass termination