its another reminder that we have really no idea how the president's social media communications are being generated

NEW: Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages New accounts from 17 men, women and children who have filed formal claims after being detained in a late-night raid paint a violent and terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ actions.

Of course, Scalise makes an Idiotic Argument…..

Winner-take-all, single-member district elections can never be fair, competitive, & representative. The Gerrymandering Wars of 2025-26 lay bare its bankruptcy Multiparty proportional representation can be enacted by law. It'd transform our calcified politics overnight by me @liberalcurrents.com

🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee announced Tuesday that it is deploying staff — including “poll watchers” and “election observers” — to at least 17 states in what it calls a nationwide “election integrity” operation ahead of the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As Sam said, it's about making people give up. @majorityreport.bsky.social

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

I know that it's Calvinball now but saying you're going to dismantle a district because it's 47% African American sure seems like the intentional racial discrimination that's still banned

This Mother’s Day, nearly 150,000 mothers will spend the day apart from their children. 58% of all women in U.S. prisons are mothers. 80% of women in jails, including many who are incarcerated awaiting trial simply bc they can’t afford bail. Read: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/03...

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.

The death of the mid-list as a way for talented dedicated people to make a reliable middle class income … across all fields … is a calamity (and yes one attributable directly to our extractive economic systems).

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Never thought I’d be living in a world so shitty that I’d find myself saying WHO CARES ABOUT UFO PICS RIGHT NOW

Hmmm.

how can they lose that much in just one quarter lol

Probably pure coincidence, but more US airline-related fatalities under (reality-TV star, zero aviation experience) Sean Duffy than his predecessors in previous 15+ years combined. Heckuva job, Duffy.

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"If Republicans make good on their threats, the choice for Democrats will be stark: Push forward, or perish." Dems should be looking to push forward now & not wait till 2028.

Dems need to learn from the Trump playbook to fight fire with fire and never apologize. You can’t play by the rules when your opponent is throwing the board.

Oh come the fuck on man how come every morning it’s more Airbud shit to wake up to, except the dog can only play basketball if it’s racist or whatever

I'm a page and a half in and I'm already fuming. A Republican justice pretending to whine about gerrymandering and quoting Kagan's dissent in Rucho in order to throw out the will of the voters and enshrine Republican gerrymanders elsewhere is so fucking rich.

the game that the republicans are playing is that democrats are institutionally more timid and less likely to wipe local republicans off the map. they are stealing seats now so that they can call for calm later. investigating virginia state sentator lucas is part of the game.

John Roberts and Donald Trump share the same flaw. Roberts assumed that SCOTUS credibility was a hard fact of life, and Trump has done the same with American power. Both have spent down those resources not realizing they need to be cultivated and replenished. You see the results.

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

And by the way, John Roberts, Trump approaching you at a State of the Union speech to shake your hand and say, "Thank you, I won't forget it" doesn't really scream "unpolitical" to anyone who has eyes.

"As Justice Jackson put it: 'The Court unshackles itself from both constraints today and dives into the fray. And just like that, those principles give way to power.' 'It is the dissent’s rhetoric that lacks restraint,' Alito snorted in reply. Well … a hit dog will holler."

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

This is only a big deal if you’re into food.

Folks in Idaho health care and public health, please share Duaa's story with as many people as you can.

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

It's a huge problem that the administration is systematically going after Black political leaders and that the outrage from white people on the left has been muted. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Obama simultaneously praises Mamdani's messaging ability and ignores why it works: he names the enemies and centers workers and the community in effective ways as part of the solution.

What Western Tennessee looks like in the new GOP map of the state: It splits Shelby County (Memphis) into three to eliminate the majority-Black district that's currently anchored there.

cool

The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

What's cool in this case is I believe Mamdani made the video in front of Ken Griffin's penthouse, without naming him, hoping to provoke a gross overreaction from the ultra-wealthy who can't help themselves, have no idea what they sound like, and have no one to advise them otherwise. And it worked

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

“They hope everybody folds because the process is the punishment, and that paves the way for them to do it to more people and exert power, especially over the media.” www.mediamatters.org/ms-now-msnbc...

I think this is a very useful clip because when I say that “10 years of this man has done immeasurable damage to the social fabric of this country” what I mean is, in exemplary form, the children who came into consciousness while being told that their country’s democracy is a scam by those in power.

“The Last Voting Rights Act: Last week’s Supreme Court decision didn’t just undermine the Voting Rights Act. It foreclosed the possibility of any new Voting Rights Act in the future, too.” electionlawblog.org?p=155916

Really sums up a favorite right wing grievance: what's offensive here aren't my actions, but your accurate descriptions of them

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

In December, SCOTUS stayed a district court ruling blocking TX from using its new maps because the lower court ruled "on the eve of an election." That district court ruling was issued 15 weeks before the TX primaries. Callais was issued *17 days* before the LA primaries.

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

Every Republican state treats its cities as conquered territories to be ruled by fiat, and this gets approximately one thousandth the degree of national attention and critique as anytime a Republican voter in California or New York feels underappreciated.

A sci-fi world with normal annoyances and regular frustrations and crappy merchants will always be better than a sleek, everything-is-round world in which all the people wear a silver suit and weigh 95 pounds

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education