this parallels the housing crisis there was basically no action around it until middle class and even wealthier households started struggling solidarity, when?

3/x In part bc of the context of christianity, the father is framed as he whom the wife must obey, & he who inflicts punishment upon disobedient children. The father doesn't have to be worthy of this power. Fatherhood itself conveys worthiness, and the people below are not allowed to question him.

And so what we're ending up with is an array of people on the left who are effectively speedrunning what happened on the right: they've found a guy whose (claimed) policy preferences they like and who they think is likely a winner, and they'll engage in whatever cognitive contortions they need to in

Former Fed chair Jay Powell received the Profile in Courage Award at JFK Library yesterday. He defended the Fed's independence and urged respect for rule of law. Should not require courage to say such things. But these days it does www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

'But I don't understand, why does the materially deprived faction not simply surrender to the larger, materially dominant faction' shit

Guys don't worry I'm sure there will be a peace deal this week we're getting so close to having an inventory crisis and only good can happen

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a patriot and deserves a Congressional Medal of Freedom.

Universities have large built in constituencies of alumni, many of whom are deeply passionate. They could try mobilizing them imo

Judicial review written explicitly into the document, Supreme Court made up of a panel of 18 jurists who serve in 20 year terms, any given case is heard by a group of 9 randomly selected by the clerk of the court. All redistricting is done by a nonpartisan national commission every 10 years.

Black unemployment in Maryland is around 7.4 percent. Many Black Marylanders work for the federal government and PG County has a huge Black middle class.

I adore blue cheese, a nice tangy Danish blue served with grapes and triscuit crackers.

Russia's most famous alcoholic now threatens to kill European diplomats.

Hoping it’s the End of the Republican Party…. BREAKING: JD Vance is reportedly considering ABANDONING a 2028 run as he becomes increasingly unpopular inside Trump’s cabinet.

Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do.

The scapegoat/golden child dynamic is too deeply rooted in human psychology, you should never have only 2 children. One or more than two.

IMPORTANTLY, the full scope of this new policy is unclear. USCIS says it will issue further guidance, and has NOT said whether it will impact pending cases. At its broadest, this could impact over 400,000 people a year who are living in the U.S. when they get their green cards.

HALF of all green cards go to people in that second category; those here in the US who applied for a green card through "adjustment of status."  This group covers everyone from spouses and children of US citizens to skilled professionals getting a green card through an employer.

doomsday clock but it’s how close the NYT opinion section is to straight-facedly publishing “The Children Yearn for the Mines”

Cubans are starving and have gone weeks without electricity and clean water due to Trump's blockade of any oil reaching the island. Here's why we aren't covering this.

UPDATE: The Colorado Democratic Party's central committee is now considering a measure to censure or otherwise punish Gov Jared Polis (D) for giving clemency to Tina Peters. I'll thread details here.

If you're gonna discuss this in whole you've gotta grapple with the military not being a monolith and which specific part(s) are implicated in whatever it is you're talking about Eg the boat strikes are a relatively small amount of SOF + a gaggle of folks at HQ SOUTHCOM

This highlights that Trump is trying to effectuate by fiat something he could not remotely ever pass through Congress. That, of course, is one of the reasons it is unconstitutional, as I discussed in an earlier thread 2/

Multiple reports saying Republicans are pulling the ballroom funding from the reconciliation bill (!)

True public servants. This, to me, is American Patriotism.

UPDATE — PERRY COUNTY: “Larry Bushart, the (liberal) retired Tennessee law enforcement officer held in jail for more than a month over a Facebook post of a Trump meme related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk settled a ‘unlawful incarceration’ lawsuit for $835,000…” www.cnn.com/2026/05/20/p...

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Measure itself is mostly symbolic, because it would still need to pass the House and can be vetoed by the president. BUT, if majorities of Congress oppose the war, eventually the money will run out. That pursestrings - and impeachment - remain the ultimate checks Congress still holds.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Thus far no Dem Senator has raised this.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

Trump has purged federal agencies of black workers, the military of high-ranking black officers, supports GOP efforts to purge Southern states of black representation and wants elite universities to discriminate against black applicants, lest they admit too many (who obviously don’t deserve it.)

The Epstein files changed me forever. I read them in painstaking detail over months, realizing in real time that we are not ruled by laws equally applied. We are ruled by wealth, access, and protection networks. America is a syndicate. I’ll never get over it, so don’t ask me to.

Alabama is in a maternal health crisis. The Alabama Supreme Court's refusal to consider this case is deeply disappointing. These restrictions only threaten to worsen the situation by cutting off essential care.

So, when Elon Musk talks about going to Mars or literally any of his ideas about the future, he’s not talking about an actual future that can be reached from our actual present, but a mythological supremacist one that is more like his imagined idea of the pseudomythical Greece he’s defending

Raskin says the fund is unconstitutional. Congress didn't structure it. 14th Amendment prohibits obligations in service of insurrection. Raskin says Dem House will shut it down and compel transparency on payments. He's calling on Rs to legislate against it now. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2105...

To be clear, ANY politician who later proclaims "we need to move on" from the rampant criminality is fucking complicit and needs to lose their office. Because we do NOT move on from this. We hold the regime to account. Either we're a nation of laws or we're not.

Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Russia launched a massive 30-hour attack across Ukraine: 1,500+ drones and 50+ missiles. With 100+ dead and 50 homes hit, it’s one of the heaviest attacks in 4 years.

Zelenskyy is punkin' Putin. Zelenskyy is granting Russia the ability to have a parade in Moscow. lol Things have changed in Putin's 3 day war where Ukraine had no cards. lol Slava Ukraini. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

It's honestly remarkable how striking the similarities are between Roberts and Taney, both are partisans of a dead faction (Taney the last Jacksonian Democrat, and Roberts the last Country Club Republican) who thought One Decisive Judicial Writ that would settle a fundamentally political question

More than anything, Republicans want Democrats to start to believe that it's hopeless so they won't bother to turn out. But the truth is that even the Virginia decision is not enough to prevent Democrats from taking the House if we have a wave election. But we have to have a wave election.

drives me nuts when people say prosecuting the leaders of this regime is a pipe dream. all the other democracies in the world don’t seem to have a problem doing it. we can do it too.

the absolute size of the national debt gets overstated in importance, but it changes the dynamic when (a) the underlying spending *isn't* being invested in infrastructure, science, and the long-term health and well-being of people and (b) the US is internationally viewed as unstable and unreliable

and if you think we're already past the hysteretic phase transition of the system into "we need our own mindless ravening demagogue to counter their mindless ravening demagogue" and you admit that's what you want and what it'll cost us, I guess at least you're honest

my petits choux, when a democrat of repute says they want "a strong Republican Party", what they mean is "an idealised version of one that had enough internal fortitude to hold against a man like Donald Trump" we had a weak Republican Party and this is what happened

Pressuring Hochul is ALWAYS worthwhile. She's not ideologically committed to certain positions; she's more of a classic, cautious self-interested politician who CAN BE SWAYED.

Around 3:40am a massive short position in Oil Futures was placed An hour or so later: an Axios report on a potential US-Iran deal to end their conflict. This is, yet again, The US Treasury manipulating the Oil Market via intervention + headline. There is no deal. This is fraud.

We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

And the case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1977. Now, if the State Bar's argument sounds like a really bad one, that's because it is. Their argument really did amount to sticking out their tongue at the judge and saying "but I don't WANT to follow antidiscrimination laws!"