Bad-faith assholes have no right not to be called out as bad faith assholes. If you don’t want to be screenshot and called out, don’t be a bad-faith asshole.

So... his objection to being sued for violating historic preservation laws and rules is to claim that the construction is under budget (it's not) and the projects that are over budget but non-historical or rule-following aren't sued for breaking laws that weren't broken. So unfair!

“The order, which voting law experts say violates the Constitution by attempting to seize states’ power to run elections, is the latest in a torrent of efforts from Trump to interfere with the way Americans vote based on his false allegations of fraud.” apnews.com/article/dona...

This is absurd. Trans people are more likely to be assaulted in a bathroom than cis people are. Bills like this increase the odds that trans, cis, and intersex people are assaulted in bathrooms. This harms safety while lying that it improves it.

Only white men can be truly blue-collar coded in America

The GOP primary ads in Louisiana are *hilarious*. "Liberal Julia Letlow committed insider trading, just like Nancy Pelosi!" (who is routinely cleared of this). "Bill Cassidy is working with President Trump to bring down prices!" (Uh huh.) "Letlow passed a parents' bill of rights!" to avoid vaccines.

The Supreme Court refuses to review James Skinner's murder conviction and life sentence—even though Louisiana prosecutors concealed a mountain of evidence that fatally undermined their case and pointed toward his innocence. Sotomayor, joined by KBJ, dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

The magistrate judge who approved this invalid warrant responded to the warrant with corrections that would allow her to approve it, ignoring that the statute of limitations had passed. She should be fired.

I don't understand why, though. The world is nuanced. Black and white thinking is dysfunctional and nonsensical. People are choosing to believe that their religion is telling everyone to kill, even though "thou shalt not kill" is a major tenet. It's dumb!

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

I will never understand how so many people can look at Donald Trump and see courage and strength.

This is the thing that always gets me. If you’re going to do something wildly unpopular that you know everyone will hate you for just shut up about it? Literally no one is forcing you to publicly admit this shit? Just go about your morally questionable shit in quiet shame like a normal person.

honestly, this was the median opinion among protestors at no kings, and it's hard to tell if that's getting through to the establishment

If you're in Detroit, from Detroit, or connected to Detroit, I would love to personally invite you to this event and to suggest communities to personally invite. We also want to support a Detroit-based bookseller, so if you have any suggestions, let us know. #blacksky #detroit #michigan

Re LRP yeah in general right wing protests are covered more favorably and framed as significant events in and of themselves. Leftwing protests really doesn’t get the same coverage unless a window is broken or a trash can is burned at which point it’s wall to wall coverage of “leftist chaos” etc.

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

From custody deaths to suspicious cases, records reveal how one office’s failures denied accountability.

As should be expected from a Dominionist Christian white nationalist talking head without experience, expertise, wisdom, or even emotional balance. Being in charge of sending minority troops to their death for his religion gets him off sexually.

He's just so likeable and pre-children Marie Kando would have let him live in her house. He does have a weird little heart and it does well for us all. My movie friends went to see Project Hail Mary last night and I couldn't go. But it looks cute. I love a cute science dork!

Countdown to Trump insulting Zelenskyy for daring to accuse Putin of not being Trump's friend in 3... 2...

You would think that an attorney would understand that the citizenship rights identified in the US Constitution are, in fact, rights.

next time we should try a government staffed by people who are good at their jobs to see if things work out better

We could have had nice things

Chuck Schumer likes to imagine how his politics play with an imaginary middle-class middle-aged couple on Long Island, but I don't think he realizes that couple is currently constructing a guillotine in their suburban backyard and stockpiling Molotov cocktails.

Kash Patel is reportedly about to release files in an old investigation involving Trump critic Eric Swallwell, current contendor for California governor. In the case, a Chinese agent got a minion hired by this campaign office. The FBI warned him, he cut ties with all of them, and he aided. So what?

5 just how routine and normalized the answer to EVERYTHING in America is more cops, more cops, more cops. To do every job. TSA unpaid? More cops! Congress can’t budget? More cops! To *me* there is intimidation by their mere presence, but I feel like their PR move is not to conjure fear but normalcy…

Yesterday, @annabower.bsky.social attended a hearing in Georgia over the Justice Department's search warrant that allowed the FBI to seize thousands of ballots. Read her deep dive into the warrant and its supporting documentation:

i still can’t get over the god-tier chutzpah of creating this incredible mess for no reason and then saying to the world: “Welp, it looks like you guys better do something. Damn, that’s crazy. Good luck tho.”

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Trump is asked, "What is the one leadership trait the world is missing?" "I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success."

Trump said that he should rename the Straight of Hormuz the Straight of Trump. Then he said that the "fake news" would say that he "accidentally" said it, which is wrong, because he only says things that's he has well thought out.

He thinks that those people should go to jail because they aren't white men, and are thus, incompetent.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

This admission is a major red flag. If you are running for Governor because the state needs a "change maker," you should be aware what the status quo is. He's running from a position of "I don't know what I'm doing and also, I don't care to be informed." Terminal White Dude Syndrome.

Louisiana state Senators are pushing a bill to criminalize protesting in or *near* a church, supposedly to ban things that are already crimes. But they also included this: "knowingly financing, funding, or materially supporting a person engaged in these activities." It's to deplatform liberals.

This, right here: "You cannot separate the art from the artist while the artist still profits." Every penny that supports Rowling supports bigotry. It funds bigotry. It platforms bigotry. It *excuses* bigotry. It protects bigotry by keeping a black molded roof over her head.

Trump claims that he's been in high-level talks with the person that he believes is currently "running things," who gave a very expensive gift that only they could pull off, failing to mention who the recipient was and declining to identify the person. It's Prince Axe Murderer.

Oh. Apparently, they don't need permission from Congress to start a war because they already started it.

Remember: these are the same people who complain about participation trophies and being asked to "coddle people's feelings" by failing to discriminate against them. They're inventing participation trophies to coddle Trump's feelings because he thinks that it's discrimination to hold him accountable

The Constitution says that election procedure rules belong to states, with the understanding that Constitutional rights are upheld by the process. As usual, the conservative justices are literally imagining things and claiming that they're real, to justify overruling the Constitution.

Those doggo are trained to seek out drugs and guns. Guns should never be carried in airports. They never are. Until ICE. So yeah. Those dogs will do this. It is literally their job.

The lies defining this moment in America: -The 2020 election was stolen -There’s massive voter fraud -There’s an epidemic of noncitizens voting -We’ve been “invaded” by millions of criminals -Only an authoritarian government can fix these problems -Jesus agrees with all of this

I've retweeted posts but wanted to make a definitive statement myself: Any support of the new Harry Potter show -- even watching the trailer -- is an explicitly anti-trans gesture. Any success the show has will be funneled back to making trans lives more miserable. Let the show die in silence.

Fuck yeah.

NEW: Minnesota AG Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Moriarty sued the Trump admin over its refusal to share evidence in the Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis shootings, in which Good and Pretti were killed (Case No. 26-cv-1007). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...