The federal prosecution against Kumar Abrego Garcia has been dismissed storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Womp womp. apnews.com/article/cong...

The decisions made by state supreme courts touch every part of our lives. And that’s especially important when voting rights and basic freedoms are being challenged. Today voters in Georgia can stand up for fairness and integrity by electing Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan to Georgia’s Supreme Court.

Patty Murray to Blanche: "This is corruption that has never been more blatant. What's happening is you write the check, Trump and his cronies cash it, and American taxpayers who are already being whacked with high prices are gonna foot the bill."

Christ, this is despicable. youtube.com/shorts/wa7Mn...

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

AOC: “It is time for the North to pull up to the South and let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant they just awakened. What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo”

Breaking: The Senate Parliamentarian just advised that the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom will be subject to a 60-vote threshold if it remains in Republicans' bill.

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Odoms: I was in the halls of the United States Supreme Court listening cowardly white men talk about how they feel about discrimination being something of the past. About the way that we live in a post-racial society.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Really. You've got to watch this. It's brief.

Attorney: I’m a trial lawyer. I tried the case against Meta and Google in Los Angeles, the first social media addiction case decided by an American jury. The evidence that I saw in that case keeps me up at night.

Scientists named this species of hairy ghost pipefish after beloved Sesame Street resident Mr. Snuffleupagus and we're obsessed.

Good riddance.

It's time to ban members of Congress from lobbying for life. I have a new bipartisan bill to get it done.

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It is an obscene, irrational, irresponsible, and unprecedented massive increase in military spending not seen since 1942 after we entered a World War on two fronts with a small military. It also comes at a time when our national debt accelerates and zooms past $40 trillion.

Incompetence and idiocy all the way down. US Border Patrol chief Michael Banks is resigning, in latest DHS leadership change apnews.com/article/bord...

📌We are but one serious virus away from a catastrophe, and not near enough is being made about the fact that a former heroin addict and anti-vaxxer, who has ZERO training in medicine, academia, or scientific research would be leading the response. IT IS ABSURD.

SCOTUS, which ordered Alabama to create a second Black opportunity district just 3 years ago, has lifted that order a week before the primary. The Purcell principle says courts shouldn't permit chaos too close to an election—it's now an open question whether there will even be a primary on schedule.

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

Under President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.

"'We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. And anybody who is alarmed by these developments — as everybody should be — better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness while we still can,' NAACP National President Derrick Johnson said..." apnews.com/article/alab...

They’re used to false facts. How about Citizens United’s “no need to worry about corruption, all the political money we just released is going to be transparent: you’ll know who the donors are”?

Incredible community note.

Experts wonder 'Where is the CDC?' as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Ras Baraka has filed his amended complaint against Alina Habba for false arrest. It makes clear how much of this was an attempt to humiliate a Black mayor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Love this! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Damn, I miss Carl Sagan.

So Tennessee republicans can blatantly strip majority-Black Memphis of representation 9-0, but virginia voters VOTE to redistrict and it gets struck down? What a country. 🇺🇸

"Datacenters provide a physical place and focal point where people can show up and directly confront out-of-control and otherwise impossible-to-reach tech billionaires," write @astra.bsky.social and Saul Levin.

My son you haven't lived 'til you've punched a Nazi right in the face, lalalalala. youtu.be/S7m9tsAj3g0?...

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It's okay. Really. youtube.com/watch?v=yq5E...

#captainamerica #punchanazi #marvel

Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter wants SCOTUS to overturn the 14th amendment. None of this protecting equal rights and due process for ALL citizens stuff for these good ol' Southern boys. They're determined that the Confederacy will rise again. www.rawstory.com/fourteenth-a...

1. 🧵"If you are taking seats from Black people...then you are a thief." Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers said the quiet part out loud Friday as GOP lawmakers push to wipe out Louisiana’s majority-Black districts. See the heated exchange👇

The First Amendment is clear: The federal government can't punish media organizations just because it doesn't like what they have to say. By fighting back, ABC is sending an important message: Our rights are worth fighting for.

If One Thinks About It, We Are Being Controlled And Railroaded By Mostly,RepubliKKKan WHITE MEN. Everything In Our Lives Has Been Downgraded,From Voting Rights,To Women's Rights And Even The "Rights" Of Our Planet.....

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

Louisiana v. Callais will “probably go down in the history book as one of three of the worst Supreme Court decisions in the history of this nation,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson. From @jonshorman.bsky.social.

BREAKING: ABC has accused Trump's FCC of violating its free speech rights — arguing that regulators had a "chilling effect" on free speech by trying to punish political content they disagreed with.

Iran is at it again. This time they added the Tesla logo. 😂

Consumers still feel “buffeted” by rising costs brought on by the Iran war, including “soaring prices at the pump.”

The 🚨 alarmists 🚨 have 🚨 yet 🚨 to 🚨 be 🚨 wrong 🚨

Tennessee lawmakers weren’t going to allow a little thing like a tornado to spoil their plans to carve up Memphis and disenfranchise Black voters. They are absolutely shameless.