A U.S. House of Representatives petition to force a floor vote on providing security aid to Ukraine and imposing new sanctions on Russia reached the 218-signature threshold to move ahead on Wednesday, the latest successful bid by lawmakers to defy the chamber's Republican leadership.

Trump and his allies are doing everything they possibly can to strengthen the forces in the center-left that are urging Dems to embrace procedural Total War. Trump and the GOP are doing this to our country. Every last shred of damage that results from escalation is their fault.

📣 ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH While Trump’s administration dismantles the Voting Rights Act piece by piece, people across the country are organizing in solidarity, this is YOUR invitation to be part of it.

Zbigniew Ziobro was one of the authors of the attempt to transform Poland into an authoritarian regime. Ziobro is a wanted man with no passport. The Trump White House just went to a good deal of trouble to bring him to the US. snyder.substack.com/p/copycat-ty...

This whole Administration is just one big grift. Everyone is encouraged to use their position to extort money from the corporations the Administration regulates. The result is simple: Trump officials profit. Corporations get favors. Regular people get screwed.

VAN HOLLEN: The article says agents with expertise in Iran were fired for their role in the classified documents investigations PATEL: The article, just like all the others you cited, is false. I terminated everyone that weaponized law enforcement V: I see. So it *was* related to the docs case

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

Zohran Mamdani has fully balanced New York City’s $12 billion deficit — an uncomfortable reminder to the political establishment that governments can, in fact, function when taxpayer money isn’t funneled toward lobbyists wealthy benefactors

Kash Patel fails to answer Chris Van Hollen twice when asked if he knows it's illegal to lie to Congress:

I encourage states to review the text of Fuck You v. Make Me

Trump one month before the 2024 election: “Think of it - within one year you’re gonna have electric bills and energy bills and gasoline for your cars is going to be 50% cheaper than it is right now. That’s a big thing.”

You should be watching @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social in Palm Beach conducting open hearings into the Epstein Trump scandal.

He called the White House a “shithouse” yesterday publicly. What national leaders so openly holds his nation in contempt?

I woke up this morning thinking about the poor people waking up in the DHS camps this morning. Republicans have dramatically increased human suffering but not because it served any purpose beyond they want more suffering.

On April 30, 2026, medical experts who believe President Donald Trump is “mentally unfit” to perform his duties had a letter outlining their concerns submitted to the congressional record. www.congress.gov/congressiona...

Two days ago they were supposedly “begging for a deal” again for the 29th time in 9 weeks.

Unhinged and dangerous. The American government is under attack from within.

“Please remind anyone you know in GA that there's a #SupremeCourt election May 19th & early voting is already underway.”

Just watched great interview with @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jenjordanga.bsky.social & #MiracleRankin just after I stamped a bunch of #PostcardsToVoters to go out to GA tomorrow. Please remind anyone you know in GA that there's a #SupremeCourt election May 19th & early voting is already underway.

Summary of an excerpt from “What the Heck Just Happened” with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social

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Huntsville Visibility Brigade with a timely message. Alabama won’t go down without a fight! We won’t allow our fellow Alabamians to be silenced by fascists doing evil in Montgomery. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social Photography by the talented Presto 📸🎥

For One, it Doesn’t Make Any Sense…

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.

Voters: Can you do something about these gas prices? Trump:

@c-span.bsky.social America's Book Club with @hcrichardson.bsky.social Posted on YT May 10, 2026 Sunday youtu.be/iVTE6vMLrrs

A lawsuit says ChatGPT advised the alleged Florida State University shooter on using his guns, including warning that his Glock had no safety, and also told him it’s more likely for a shooting to become national news “if children are involved, even 2-3 victims can draw more attention.”

#TRUMP IS UNFIT AS OUR PRESIDENT If Congress does nothing to impeach him, then, in Nov, we MUST VOTE to 86 #GOP & centrist #DEM like Schumer & Jeffries Then OUR Congress will 86 Electoral College 86 #MAGA wannabe King Trump #StrongerTogether #UNITEDWeStand TYVM @boldnewme.bsky.social #BlueCrew

Tear gas and pepper spraying children is unacceptable. Period.    We cannot accept this level of barbaric cruelty as normal. The agents responsible for harming kids must be held accountable for these heinous actions.

The man building a ballroom with foreign steel probably shouldn’t call himself the champion of American steel. But as you learned from the Epstein files, I’m open to working across the aisle. So how about signing my steel bill to actually rebuild the American steel industry?

The US did NOT contact airline passengers who flew with people known to have been infected with hantavirus. Cool cool.

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

All that’s missing are the inflatable flamingos. And it only cost us $6.9 million!

@hcrichardson.bsky.social The GOP Senate could stop this crap! civileats.com/2026/05/05/n...

Today’s excerpt from “Letters from an American” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social Full carousel on Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DYKU3LRlt5... #lettersfromanamerican #HeatherCoxRichardson

BIG THANKS to the great @hcrichardson.bsky.social for taking the time to interview - and amplify - Georgia State Supreme Court candidates Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan as they seek to win their elections on May 19th. Let’s keep spreading the word! www.youtube.com/live/0VwqcdP...

The FCC has been quietly investigating “The View” for months. The show’s network, ABC, has accused the government of violating its free speech rights. The clash could lead to a high-stakes legal battle over free expression. nyti.ms/49mhe46

While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

“It’s going to take a really strong push by the public to get a Congress that’s willing to reform voting rights,” says a redistricting expert. “And while we’re there, there’s an awful lot that could be done on court reform.”

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

Agreed with Greg, except I think make it a civil rights museum called the Rosa Parks Center. Two reasons: 1) We can't let the media get their heads turned by bad faith about wasting money. Use it, don't destroy it. 2) If Trump is still alive, watching Obama dedicate this center will kill him.

“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.”

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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 has never been just the South.

They'll release the UFO files, but not the Epstein files, which tells you all you need to know about the distraction strategy the Trump administration is relying on. Don't look away!

Kica Matos is the president of the National Immigration Law Center & was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2026 for her work in this area. I loved the chance to learn more about her through this interview. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

‘Bama voters bringing some heat as Republicans try to gerrymander the state back to Jim Crow www.al.com/politics/202...

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.

“.. the most aggressive defense from any television network since President Trump kicked off an extended campaign last year to bring media organizations to heel.” @nytimes.com #$DIS www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

I joined more than 250 of my Democratic colleagues in filing an amicus brief to defend access to mifepristone and protect the integrity of the FDA’s science-based approval process. We will keep fighting to protect reproductive freedom. Read more: