No wonder I had to come out of retirement! The FDNY doesn't care that one of its firefighters is driving around in a 4,000-pound truck with an obscured plate and a long record of reckless driving. #CriminalMischief

“This isn’t a victory.”

Gersh for the “criminal mischief” 🏆!

Ruthless, barbaric, remorseless, American taxpayer-funded sadists. 🇮🇱

Case Norton, who is running for Congress in GA, posted this yesterday.

Trump administration cuts forced a key public health group to cut its preparedness work by 60% in the exact area where the Ebola outbreak began.

“Mr. Attorney General, you are acting TODAY like the president’s personal lawyer!” 🎤

“It is time for all of us to let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice!”

“It's built for our snipers…and bc of the height we get a very clear view of everything all over DC."

Taxpayer-funded cash prizes for theft, trespassing, assault, destruction, obstruction & seditious conspiracy. Only in [this] America!

“It’s a roadmap to how he is personally profiting from the powers of the presidency.” www.instagram.com/reel/DYajoJ-...

“every single official action conveniently doubles as a personal get-rich-quick scheme.”

“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones is one of my personal heroes. I recently had the chance to speak to him about the racist redistricting plot being enacted in his state and others in the South. Republicans are trying to bring us back to the Jim Crow era that so many fought (and died) to end.

"They're stretched too thin." — concern from me and others on the long shadow of 2025's DOGE cuts to the National Weather Service, still impacting Americans in 2026. See my sound bites in this report by Stetson Miller for WITN and other Gray television stations. www.witn.com/2026/05/11/e...

“I have come to the conclusion that the current highest level Democratic leaders would rather lose than change their approach fundamentally," Matthew told me last week.

“Here’s a cookie!” youtube.com/shorts/G-7yY...

The self-styled "father of fertility" wants to paint himself as a friend to mothers and children. But if you scratch the surface of his new moms dot gov website, you'll see that it's pure propaganda, and that it traffics in White Christian nationalist tropes. 1/🧵 www.ms.now/opinion/moms...

Fully “fledged” experts! youtube.com/shorts/-axc4...

“sand’s mined to build homes, roads & sea walls, in concrete production, foundations & masonry work. It’s used to manufacture windows, silicon chips & solar panels…it’s just as crucial left in place: it regulates rivers, protects coastal aquifers, filters water &… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump: I'll lower prices on day one 477 days later: everything is more expensive as inflation hits a 3 year high. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

“Fragile like a 💣, not a 🌺.”

The Ku Klux Kourt

“In a region that had legislated its commitment to life, she would spend her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.”

“How minimum wage hikes and food stamps fit in to suicide prevention”

“The admin is rapidly rewriting rules to support the development of nuclear power plants. Staffers from DOGE are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations & provide financial breaks for industry. Nuclear Regulatory Commission veterans say the admin is limiting oversight in dangerous ways.”

“This is the familiar story. A losing opposition party, devoid of principle, chasing the middle, losing everyone. We've seen it before. After George Floyd. After NYPD brutalized protesters and journalists in 2020.”

Reminder that Rachel Scott was the reporter at the Association of Black Journalists conference in 2024 who made him angry by asking tough questions.

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

“95% of the time it would be quicker for me to just do the thing myself than get the tool to do it & then have to chk whether it’s done it right. She also finds it’s an ineffective tool for qualitative research: a view she expressed in a co-authored commentary article” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“can result in significant disruption to ongoing operations and can potentially endanger missions and activities of national significance.”

"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello." here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.

Global Treasure 🌍 World Ambassador 🗺️ As Mr Rogers would say, “Helper”.

GEO = Gangsters of Evil Omens

A really tough week. I am doing everything I can to spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. You can help me by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free and sharing its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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.

Show me what idolatry looks like! This is what idolatry looks like:

“Through exploiting their now obv tragic commitment to ‘balanced’ reporting instead of objective facts.”

Palestinians ran in central Gaza for the 10th edition of Palestine International Marathon, which brought together some 1,900 participants, according to organizers. The marathon followed a two-year halt due to the war

“districts may not be changed between apportionments"

“Ball Without Billionaires” Workers work the runway best!

“Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.”

🔥 @justinjpearson.bsky.social: “WE ARE STILL HERE.” #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn #JimCrow

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

“In one 2017 incident that gained national notoriety, the 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield and his dog were sprayed by a cyanide bomb near their Idaho home. The dog, Kasey, collapsed and died. Canyon was rushed to a hospital, where he was treated for temporary blindness.”

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 we are so effing stupid in this country.