A core statement of facts made by Samuel Alito in his decision overturning the VRA simply isn't true. He got the mistake from the DOJ. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My first job out of college, before grad school, was for a historic property redeveloper with an MBA. He asked me why he should hire a philosophy major. I said “because I can learn whatever you need me to learn faster than anyone else you could hire while outthinking them, too.” Humanities forever.

Antonio Villaraigosa made the Purple/D Line extension (OPENING TODAY, PHASE 1!!!) a central part of his 2005 mayoral campaign. And then LA Metro spent the next decade in legal battles with Beverly Hills via its school district over the line (funded by a school bond!!!)

Well this is a good sign

Pete Buttigieg took a brief leave when his son was in the ICU and Republicans still attack him for it to this day. But Duffy goes on an extended vacation to shoot a reality show while there are all sorts of pressing problems with air travel and Fox News thinks it's awesome. Beyond parody.

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.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

incredibly funny how the outbreak happened after the two main countries involved, the united states and argentina, completely obliterated their public health and regulatory agencies for insane kulturkampf reasons

Yea… kudos to all involved

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

Q: How worried are you about the future of the genre? “I don’t know what it’s going to be, and I don’t know what I can do to help other than what I did the last 11 years. But one night I’ll turn on the TV and probably no one will be there.”

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic hardship, .. a finding that appears to raise new questions about President Donald Trump’s optimism on ending the war.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

remember when michelle obama focused on encouraging childhood health and activity and republicans told her to shut the fuck up

Kind of think Tom Steyer should be the governor of California…

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

NVIDIA’s JENSEN HUANG, on California’s proposed wealth tax: “I don’t mind paying taxes.”

NBC4’s LA mayoral debate post-game just did an entire segment covering blue check tweets and Instagram comments, mainly pro Pratt, just after a segment where one of their reporters asked Pratt “should they have apologized to you” bc his house burned in the fires…

a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.

i aint reading all that. im happy for u though. or sorry that happened

This week on the @wired.com Big Interview podcast, I sat down with Amelia Dimoldenberg -- the host of Chicken Shop Date, a red carpet fixture...and a real control freak, it turns out. (Takes one to know one!) She was delightful, smart, and of course hilarious. Read and listen at the link:

Good and important analysis and story by @wsj.com: Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction Markets

A secret team at Ford tore up the automaker’s assembly line. The goal: make an electric truck that’s as fast as the Mustang, for the price of a Camry. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4debDhE

2025: There shall be no regulation of AI of any kind ever, because all theorized dangers are imaginary. Flop limits violate the first amendment. 2026: Woah, this looks dangerous. Maybe we should do training run registration and approval? For security. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...

As a Jewish academic, I feel infinitely more threatened by higher education administrators who capitulate to federal campaigns against faculty freedom of speech than I do by professors defending student pro-Palestine protesters.

sometimes i see a crypto hacker where i'm like "you know what they kinda earned that one"

It’s so funny!

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Ok what makes this even more of one of the most spectacular displays of chutzpah in a long long time is that this guy probably almost never pays any federal income tax. Literally zero for years. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

i just can't stress enough how getting your foot in the door at DOJ used to be a knife fight against the best knife fighters in the country and now they're begging people to join

There’s your tech-sector layoff spike.

“.. advisers described the FDA commissioner as a problem for ​the administration and told Trump that Makary has blocked the president's effort to ‘save’ vaping ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

KEN GRIFFIN: ".. As energy continues to become more and more scarce, that will create the conditions for a global recession, and the United States will unquestionably feel some of that pain.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Really hyped for this form factor tbh

Just in: Your @metrolosangeles.bsky.social D line officially opens at 12:30pm Friday 🥳 Parties until 4pm at all three new Wilshire stations (La Brea, Fairfax, La Cienega) plus Wilshire/Western 🚇 Free rides across the Metro system, including bus, rail, Metro Bike and Metro Micro all weekend long! 🚍

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

"A Pew Research Center poll released earlier this month found 60% of Americans now view Israel unfavorably... 57% of Republicans under 50 hold negative views of Israel... Among American Jews, support has slipped below two-thirds." www.jta.org/2026/04/29/i...

When you only eat dinner at strip clubs and Hooters:

Yes please

Hi @kenmartin.bsky.social! Here's a free idea I hope you'll consider seriously. Gavin Newsom has had success holding a mirror to Trump's degeneracy, and you can too. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/dnc-sue-cb...

Exxon and Chevron defy Trump pressure to boost oil production ft.trib.al/yk8hO7X

Until the GOP agrees to a national gerrymandering ban — this is the way

Lee Zeldin has transformed the E.P.A. from an agency that protects the environment and human health to one that sides with polluters. The consequences could last generations. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Not only is this not happening, the Chinese dominance of EV’s is a terrifying development for US auto manufacturers.

“.. The real question is: How in the world has Iran’s regime lasted this long .. against the combined military might of Israel and America? The answer: Trump does not understand how much asymmetric warfare has reshaped geopolitics ..” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/o...

Many Americans can’t afford the higher health insurance premiums that resulted from Congress’s refusal to extend federal tax credits. Via @reedabelson.bsky.social and @sangerkatz.bsky.social (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...

So is this EO just a “TrumpIRA” rebranding of the “saver’s match” program passed during Biden term, @emilypeck.bsky.social? Not entirely clear in the story…