Yes, this. Everyone can keep blaming Biden & Garland if they want, but the primary, secondary, & tertiary answer to everything about our democracy's collapse since 2021 is "Mitch McConnell & the GOP Senators totally violated the oaths they swore on Bibles, twice, & so here we are."

Personal pet take: The best monocausal explanation of how we got from 1/6 to now is that Mitch McConnell didn't have the courage to put party before country just once and banish Donald Trump from elected office forever. bsky.app/profile/davi...

Jeff Bezos could’ve done what several other wealthy newspaper owners have done — turn the Post into a nonprofit and provide it a sizable endowment. Instead he did shit like this ⤵️

if he were as smart as he thinks he is he’d know “i’m the only president who’s ever taken cognitive tests and oh btw they’re hard” is not something one says with cameras and microphones present

Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.

The second point cannot be emphasized enough. Guiliani put the command center in WTC against the advice of experts, and as a result of his horny incompetence, the city's command center was obliterated in the worst terrorist attack on NYC and its response suffered. But he got good photos so...

Monday

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

I’m shocked, shocked, that Bari Weiss’ CBS would alter video to promote and protect Trump

Wait, I thought if 60 Minutes edited an interview with a politician in the slightest, that was grounds for a lawsuit?

friendly reminder ahead of the much dreaded #CincoDeMayo

There are seemingly countless things wrong with this administration, but the corruption is both staggeringly obvious and a very effective campaign theme that would unite voters across the spectrum.

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

1966-1999: SCOTUS rejects various challenges to VRA 2006: VRA reauthorized with 98-0 senate vote 2008: Obama elected 2013-2026: SCOTUS dismantles VRA

John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights. Today’s SCOTUS decision takes the sacrifice and fight of all who marched before us and throws it away. We must keep marching — too many have fought too hard to give up.

This is so terrible. The third country removals are human rights catastrophes; South Americans fleeing persecution in their homes, then being dumped in Kinshasa and told they can’t stay and must go… somewhere. Preferably right back to where they fled.

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

hey do you guys think I need a lawyer

Well yeah Biden never had to deny being a pedophile but you have to understand: dozens of political consultants, donors, podcast hosts and Hollywood celebrities feel being an old man with foot neuropathy and a lifelong stuttering problem is much, much worse

Accurate and Very Well Said….

Donald Trump: I'm going to destroy their civilization! CNN: Democrats need to tone down their rhetoric.

Time was when something like this would have been a massive scandal. Today it so pales in comparison to other things that no one's even paying attention.

Note: DOJ did NOT charge Allen with 18 USC 111, which they would have if they knew he shot the USSS who was shot. So ... possibly friendly fire.

By this same logic, Donald Trump bears direct personal responsibility for the murder of Melissa Hortman, the assault on Paul Pelosi, the guy who showed up armed at the Obamas, the attempted pipe bombing of several prominent Democrats, the January 6th rioters who assaulted cops, and many many more.

Trump told 60 Minutes that Secret Service told him to get down. No, he fell. You can see here that Secret Service is trying to bring him to his feet. The press corps will accept his lies as true, however. I don't expect this to get more attention. It should, though, given how Biden was treated.

Once again I feel a surge of contempt for the useful idiots who helped promote and normalize this shameless Nazi.

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

This is a good time to re-read the decision in Carroll v. Trump.

Guys, this is from the Baptists baptistnews.com/article/69-w...

TWO DOZEN women took the risk of publicly telling their stories of Trump sexually assaulting them, knowing that doing so would probably ruin their lives. For every one who did that, there had to be, what - 20? 50? 100? - he did it to, but who made the very reasonable decision not to go public.

This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

We need to prepare ourselves for just how bad the trauma bond between the president and the press is going to be.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

The anchor of a CNN Sunday show asking Democrats if it's irresponsible to criticize the president.

He honestly thinks we're stupid.

Spotted in Washington DC during White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend. Source MeidasTouch

Trying to imagine what it must be to have so little self-respect and so much need for attention to be a journalist attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight celebrating an administration that routinely attacks and assaults the press in every way imaginable.

We murdered two more people in a boat today.

New Fox poll is absolutely crushing for Trump: *Approval on economy: 34-66 *Approval on inflation: 28-72 (!) *Dems now lead GOP on economy *55% say Trump mentally unfit for office On the pod, @gelliottmorris.com is so illuminating on all these numbers and much more: newrepublic.com/article/2094...