it took a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort to get from losing 400 million dollars & a gubernatorial race on the heels of north carolina’s 2016 trans bathroom ban to “trans people in idaho caught using the right bathroom twice spend 5 years in the wrong sex prison.” thread in the QP.

Trump has not “given” the USPS special control over mail ballots because that is not a thing that is his to give. PLEASE STOP PRETENDING THAT THE CARNIVAL BARKER HAS MAGIC POWERS JUST BECAUSE HE SAYS HE HAS MAGIC POWERS.

I used to sit on my dad’s la while he played M.U.L.E. I’ve got really fond memories of it. I didn’t previously know who I should be thanking for that game!

It has always been wild to me how the GOP’s alleged concern abt anti-semitism has been given a good-faith treatment by lots of media. You know, the party led by Christian chiliasts who think the end-game for Jews is convert or go to hell after Israel’s existence triggers Armageddon. That GOP.

🚨BREAKING: Those declarations, made during a federal court hearing seeking Maine’s voter rolls, sharply contradict a recent report that the department is preparing to share that same data with the DHS for purposes beyond election law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is exactly why we need every major outlet to hire dedicated repro reporters - and why I publish Abortion, Every Day. We are *fucked* if our gov't can label IUDs and the pill "abortion" and the nation's biggest papers don't think that's worth writing about

This wasn't some random mistake: both the State Department and USAID called the contraceptives 'abortion'. And when international groups tried to buy the stockpile so it wouldn’t be destroyed, the administration refused, citing the Global Gag Rule. A policy that prevents U.S. funding FOR ABORTION

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

Fourteen people have died in ICE custody so far this year. By mid-February, the agency was detaining more than 68,000 immigrants one of the highest totals on record, according to federal data.

immigration violations are civil matters but the regime is treating and talking about them like they're crimes because they want Americans to associate immigration with criminality

Liberals flipped Wisconsin’s supreme court in 2023, gaining a 4-3 majority that they defended last year in an extravagantly expensive election bankrolled by Elon Musk. A liberal win this year could expand that majority, and secure it until 2030.

The research exaggeration pipeline. -Unpublished paper -One outlier: "min & max can be found at 0.3°C and 9.1°C" (95th pct "between 1.5°C & 2.4°C") -No causal identification; just pre/post that could be result of many factors Do you really believe data centers are warming *10km* away? Really?

Trump, Bessent and Lutnick vowed that from the 4th quarter of 2025 onward they would stop blaming Biden, they would then “own” the economy, and every economic metric would be red hot with inflation 2% or less.

It's all so fucking corrupt and RACIST "In 31 percent of the 2,241 transcriptions, researchers found, the court reporters’ errors changed the content of what the speaker was saying, misinterpreting either who was involved, what was happening, when it happened, and/or where it happened.'

This morning, Trump posted a threat that reads like a war crimes checklist. He threatened to destroy Iran’s electric generating plants, oil wells, Kharg Island, and (in his words) “possibly all desalinization plants.”

there it is, all 7 continents

“The first US case was detected in June and it has since been detected in patients and the wastewater systems of 29 states. Doctors have said that the COVID-19 vaccine, however, might not be as effective against this strain as it is significantly different from its peers…”

Please enjoy the two minute crucible that is this turtle trying to get on to a log that other turtles are on.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Changes that Republicans made to SNAP will kick a lot of people off food stamps starting April 1. If you can, please support your local food bank. www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/...

❤️🖤Burnside Bridge Portland, Oregon 🖤❤️3.28.26

Like whatever you think of No Kings surely we can come together and agree that there is no type of protest that the NYT would find acceptable, it simply does not exist

There really is no pleasing the NYT, is there "I'm all for protest, but not property destruction. What happened to civil disobedience?" "Blocking the roads is not the way to win hearts and minds" "This peaceful protest is too small to do anything" "This large peaceful protest is...too large?"

I hadn’t seen this before. It’s lovely and inspiring - take a break and watch it and feel warmer today.

"I'm a cop, I don't understand the law" is literally one of the most on-brand things I have ever heard in my life

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Super interesting election coming up: Wisconsin's swing county of Kenosha was ground zero for conservative takeover of school boards, & the book bans & anti-LGBTQ policies that followed. In April, liberals may oust last remaining conservative from the board. Details: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Denying promotions of individual officers based on their race or gender would betray every principle of merit-based service that military officers uphold. It would also violate federal law. I am demanding answers from SecDef Hegseth & the Pentagon.

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

Hegseth’s chief of staff told the Army Secretary he opposed the promotion of a female general to take control of the military district in Washington because President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Goddamn it, of course MGP is on the list. Let’s do better, local friends, and elect @bhennrich.bsky.social . You’re not improving your chances here, @gluesenkampperez.house.gov , and we demand better.

NEW: Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain. www.ms.now/news/trump-c...

"separating the art from the artist" is an analytical tool. it arrests the impulse to try to read the artist's mind when you're interpreting their work. if you want an adage to keep in your pocket when you're making consumer choices, try "follow the money."

Trump kept classified docs tied to ‘business interests’ and showed Susie Wiles a top-secret map, ‘damning’ DOJ memo reveals

“The hypothesis was that getting the X-ray reported faster would cascade into a faster diagnosis, but (...) the bottleneck isn’t the reporting; it’s everything that happens next (...). We’ve shown that AI prioritisation, by itself, cannot fix that," Hmm, perhaps we should invest in something else? 🤔

“Using artificial intelligence tools to read thousands of chest X-rays and prioritise abnormal ones did not lead to faster lung cancer diagnoses, according to a new study led by researchers from UCLH, UCL and the University of Nottingham.” www.uclhospitals.brc.nihr.ac.uk/news/ai-driv.... #AInews

Bannon called it “another 5D chess move from Trump” pointing out that ICE agents are trained to check IDs, making airport duty “perfect training for the fall of 2026.” This is not subtle. They’re telling you exactly what they’re planning.

Davis agreed, saying ICE should be stationed at polling places to stop non-citizens from voting. Bannon went further: “Pick ’em out of line starting today, and maybe the lines will get shorter.”

On this weeks War Room podcast, Bannon told conservative lawyer Mike Davis: “We can use what’s happening with these ICE authorities helping out at the airports, we can use this as a test run, as a test case to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterm elections.”

Freedom of the press is too strong for our military to defend against. Coward Whisky Pete is afraid to answer tough questions. Takes the mask off all his other bravado and macho proclamations. #wuss apnews.com/article/pent...

"Most jarring is Bradley County Constable District 7 in Tennessee: a single officer received a base award of $107,525, followed by a $11,500 salary bump — and now a further modification appears to add $1,820,550 in new funding for that one cop." www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

BREAKING: Trans West Virginians ask full appeals court to revisit alarming ruling in Medicaid coverage case. "Left to stand, the panel’s reasoning could amount to judicially-endorsed regulation of transgender people’s liberty to be themselves," lawyers for the plaintiffs wrote. At Law Dork:

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Full analysis: www.cato.org/blog/banned-... More at austinkocher.substack.com

The State Department is actively instructing consular officers NOT to tell applicants they're banned, even as those applicants pay fees and attend interviews.

Cubans are the most affected: nearly 1 million blocked applications totaling $543 million in fees. Venezuelans follow with 239,000 applications and $138 million. Nigerians, Afghans, Haitians, and Iranians round out the top groups.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵