I agree with the overall gist here. But not the details. The GOP is planning to destroy all remaining guardrails without Congress, VIA THE COURTS. The midterms matter because a Dem House or Senate can begin driving attention to the project of massive and complete Court reform.

When we say medical misogyny kills people, this is the shit we mean.

Republicans and the MAGA hacks on the Supreme Court are radicalizing the majority in real time. They're making the case for expanding the court, introducing term limits, and initiating an enforceable code of ethics. Keep at it. They have "the power" for now, but they don't have the numbers.

Zeteo documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ just won a BAFTA in the current affairs category. Yes, the same documentary that BBC refused to air, once again proof that independent journalism is the future. Subscribe to watch the full film on gazadoctors.film.

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NEWS --> Top Virginia Dems have decided against exercising a procedural end-run around the State Supreme Court ruling that cost Dems four House seats, the Dem leader of the state senate tells me. This will anger Dems who wanted an aggressive response. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

I think this movie ends exactly how it seems like it would.

We are facing another blizzard of lies concerning elections in America ahead of the midterms. Lies about the 2020 election (as illogical as they are) are intended to justify the Trump regime’s interference in the midterms. That’s not to say they’ll be successful - but that’s part of the threat.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It’s a big deal that the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org is going directly after the Highway Lobby for the unprecedented damage they’ve done to cities and transportation. Spread the word. #UrbanTruth

Wow. Officials “discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Deliberate destruction of American power and prosperity by the Trump regime

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

Well according to the SCOTUS any state can just gerrymander at will. Fuck the vote.

Ahem: bsky.app/profile/did:...

A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

But let's talk abt this for a minute. 1) Tom Homan accepts $50K re prison contracts. 2) DOJ kills investigation. 3) Trump puts Homan in a position not requiring confirmation. 4) After ousting Noem, Homan installs a figurehead. 5) And moves to put HIS GEO contracting guy in charge of ICE.

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."

Tennessee Republicans did it. The final vote is in. They just gutted the only Black-majority district to lock in more Republican power. Black voters shut out, representation erased. Call it what it is, a white supremacy power grab. And a shameful day for Tennessee, the birth place of the KKK.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Oh my god. Its foundation is lies. It’s not “interpretation” if it is based on fallacy.

Republicans are in charge of the Senate. Republicans are in charge of the House. Republicans are in charge of the Presidency. Republicans are in charge of the Supreme Court. Republicans are to blame for everything.

Buttiigieg: "Look, when you are this deep into your second year, if your reflex is to still be trying to blame the previous administration, it really shows that you are out of ideas, out of solutions, and unwilling to take ownership of your own choices."

The FBI’s reported investigation focusing on an Atlantic journalist would represent a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s war against press freedom, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

RFK Jr. raises a lot of good questions, like "why only have measles when you could have measles AND melanoma"

This is exactly why we need DOJ reform to be *codified in law,* as I argued in this piece, and as Adam Schiff and others told me in interviews. The old post-Watergate norms-based approach is dead. newrepublic.com/article/2099...

Chad Bianco’s candidacy went up in 🔥 tonight. ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA: “You’re an Oath Keeper. We all know that.” CHAD BIANCO: “I’m very proud of it. I don’t think you know what an Oath Keeper is.” For the record: the Oath Keepers is a far-right extremist white supremacist militia group.

Trump, 79, Falls Asleep After Bragging to Kids About Iran War Plans Trump thinks an event where he is surrounded by children is the best time to discuss the Iran war and then doze off. newrepublic.com/post/209963/...

Add together people less than 16 yo, and the 1/3 of people who could have drivers licenses, but don't, and the people who have a license but are not driving for other reasons, and we get...50% of the population for whom our car-first, and often car-only, infrastructure is not working for.

It’s amazing how quickly @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com and other outlets just white washed this catastrophic disaster, disregarding the millions that will die from this disaster of Trump and Musk’s making.

ICYMI: We spoke with long-time journalist @letsgomathias.bsky.social about his new antifascist spy thriller, "To Catch a Fascist," and discuss what's changed since the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the role of anti-racist researchers under Trump 2.0, and much more.

I am really struggling to understand the Bert Callais news as anything other than evidence of how the Big Lie ideology has fully taken root. It is no accident that he was at J6, just like it is no accident that the justice writing the opinion flew an upside-down flag that day

Trump's ballroom project, and the rest of his opulent overhaul of D.C., isn't just an affront to good taste — it's deeply un-American, writes @nikkimcr.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Persecution by boredom.

It's weird that Donald Trump describes America like it's one of the young girls he targeted for sexual abuse, selfishly manipulating them to get what he wanted and destroying them callously, before walking away scot-free and, oh, wait, OK, yeah, I see it now.

I’m guessing it’s past someone’s nap time.

LINDA McMAHON: In order to have a sound mind, you do have to eat well, you do have to exercise TRUMP: *sitting, eyes closed*

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Contrary to expectations, our forecast currently has Republicans favored to gain only 1 seat in Florida, despite the new pro-GOP map intended to oust 4 D incumbents. New Pro-GOP Districts FL-09: Tilt R 🔵→🔴 (FLIP) FL-14: Lean D 🔵→🔵 FL-22: Lean D 🔵→🔵 FL-25: Lean D 🔵→🔵

We gave the met museum's gift shops a makeover for Jeff Bezos's billionaire bonanza the Met Gala on Monday.

After the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Democrats are renewing their calls for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would protect voters from race-based discrimination. However, getting it passed would be no easy task.

Former Paul Weiss Chair & Jeffrey Epstein pal, Brad Karp, admits to Harvard Law students he bent the knee to Trump because he didn’t want to lose money. My take on how profits over people is the name of the game & how those law firms began the domino effect of capitulation youtu.be/fXlbiasgzjU?...

Soil at the public DC golf course where the Trump admin dumped debris of the White House East Wing has tested positive for lead, chromium and other toxic metals. @nytimes.com gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/c...

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

They called it and they’re still correct yalelawjournal.org/article/call...

Good to see: Hakeem Jeffries announces new initiative for New York to redistrict in retaliation for ongoing GOP abuses. As I've reported (see below), getting NY to do this is a key piece in neutralizing the GOP advantage.

BREAKING: We filed another emergency lawsuit — this time in federal court — against Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. Louisiana is disenfranchising voters who have already cast ballots, all in the service of stifling Black voting power.