The Republican Party has become a collection of arsonists targeting every part of civil society, liberalism and democracy. What unites them all, however, is corrupting the electoral process. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

“Instances of both pride and prejudice have decreased over time, and it is therefore time to abolish protections for the Bennet sisters that unduly burden their suitors.”

"...shocked with a Taser gun, kicked and tackled...'Please, guys, I’m not a criminal,' Sanchez Toledo moaned, insisting he had documentation — a pending asylum case... 'Too f---ing bad now!' one deputy screamed." Even for FL, PBSO has embraced its imm. deputization with especially ghoulish relish.

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

This year is shaping up to be the most expensive midterm election ever, and many billionaires have already given tens of millions of dollars each.

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Nothing from him but 🦗🦗🦗 I don't want to hear a single person talk about this man being our ally. Black folks have told you all repeatedly that he doesn't GAF about us. He's showing us in real time that our rights are not a priority for him😒

Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/huKmBtq

Happy Mother’s Day!

When you ask for American Flag Blue and they give you Suburban Toilet Bowl Blue.

@marcelias.bsky.social said this a YEAR ago. It was sound advice then-- and even better advice today. We need to start taking action. Looking at you, Democrats in NJ, NY, MD, CO, IL, WA, OR. Marc: We "need to tell Republicans that if they take 5 seats, we're going to put 30 seats on the table."

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

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I don't only want fully funded libraries but I want fully funded parks, public education, FREE HEALTHCARE, actual affordable housing etc... these are ALL CONNECTED.

Gift link to this important op-ed by @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

NEW: You can read 61 transcripts of testimony heard by the Fulton County special purpose grand jury in the Georgia 2020 election interference investigation. Witnesses include Lindsey Graham, Brian Kemp, and Rudy Giuliani. Read the transcripts, from @AnnaBower.bsky.social.

H/T: @joyannreid.bsky.social

We've all heard about the massive energy needs from AI data centers, which too many hyperscalers are meeting with gas and coal, and increasingly about the enormous amounts of water they use. But this issue about their potential to create a giant heat island is new to me. H/t @pbnewman.bsky.social

Like the man sez:

One thing that the report on Juan Orlando Hernández' influence operation did not mention: he was freed with the help of ratfucker Roger Stone. english.elpais.com/internationa...

If you don’t want to be vilified, don’t be a villian.

Mississippi consistently ranks as the worst quality of life state in the US and has the highest firearms death rate in the country. The governor, Tate Reeves, ran a re-election ad showing his face superimposed on Clint Eastwood‘s shooting minorities. He won.

Happy Mother's Day to those of you with children, near children, adjacent to children, haunted by children, currently hiding from children, or who once made eye contact with a child at a grocery store and felt something. And to the single dads pulling double duty - we see you. ❤️

For Mother’sDay: www.instagram.com/reel/DXg-zLH...

I wish some of these people would stop threatening and just get on with it.

Bid You Good Morning.

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/...

Happy Mothra Day!

The recent Supreme Court decision, which effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, represents the life’s work of John Roberts. The Roberts Court has now gutted the VRA on three different occasions, and Roberts wrote or joined all those opinions.

Watch the pattern, not the headlines. The next six months could bring distraction campaigns, fear narratives, media spectacles, investigations, and procedural warfare. None of this will be random. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Good Night.

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She sure did.

Virginia is "a wakeup call to Democrats across the country - in NJ, NY, MD, IL, OR, WA, CO - this is the time to start fighting back... Republicans don't believe that Democrats have the right to exist. If we don't start fighting back, we're going to good government ourselves into obscurity."

Russell Vought and his puppet president are determined to destroy American science, one of the biggest achievements in our nation's history.

@redpencilscript.bsky.social continues to investigate the Epstein Files and has brought focus recently to the uncomfortably cozy relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Michael Wolff. She joins me for the latest updates, including Epstein’s purported suicide note. youtu.be/y035_8J_Dn8?...

In my book Twilight of Democracy, I wrote about how authoritarian populism had divided friends, including in Hungary. After Prime Minister Magyar was sworn in today, he said he hoped "Family, friends and communities will be able to speak to each other again." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

We dig into examples from Georgia, California, and Arizona that illustrate a new playbook for election denial: using unfounded election fraud claims from citizen activists as the basis of official law enforcement action. bit.ly/4wciFMe

And WaPo on how badly the Comey witch hunt has harmed EDVA, including a terrorism investigation there. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Good Afternoon from Adams Morgan.

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.