Something people don't really remember but is true is that one of the *top* political issues the media covered in the runup to the 2014 midterms was the idea that Barack Obama had badly mismanaged an Ebola outbreak because 10 total Americans had gotten it

It's so sad that Barney Frank literally spent his last days yelling about trans people

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Yep and that coverage completely dissipated after election day. www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-...

HUGE: The Senate just advanced a War Powers Resolution aimed at ending Trump’s illegal war on Iran. Before the final vote, contact your senators (especially if they’re Republican) and demand they vote YES: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

In Callais Alito claimed racism was over. Now Southern states rushing to revive Jim Crow, eliminating or set to eliminate at least 5 majority Black districts in TN, AL, LA, SC, MS. This is bigger than partisan politics. Multiracial democracy under all out assault www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

this is a masterpiece

YO PLEASE WATCH THIS IM FUCKING SCREAMING

Take a breath. Now read it slowly. Move your lips as you read if it helps: 1) A Republican legislator broke with his party to demand information be made public about which rich and powerful men fucked children. 2) Republican allies spent $30 million to make him stop it. 3) Voters stopped him.

Any DOJ settlement that gives the President a dollar -- or a direct material benefit -- is a plain-as-day violation of the Presidential Emoluments Clause: "The President shall not receive ... any other Emolument from the United States, or any of [the states]." Art II, S.1, cl. 7.

Well, now he can release his tax returns now that his audits are over, as he promised several times.

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Absolutely perfect two sentences.

My feeling about Thomas Massie losing is the same feeling I had about Cheney losing, about Cornyn not getting endorsed, about every Republican Trump has ever purged: so long fuckface! There were Nazis who lost out in internal power struggles too, and got shot in the courtyard. Don't care, see ya

why reward an election denier and january 6th apologist is a question these democrats should be asked tbh (except fetterman do not even bother)

You can try very hard to emphasize "no, I'm just opposed to the Zionists", and still come off sounding incredibly antisemitic. I don't know how you don't.

Ask and ye shall receive. BOYCOTT REI www.axios.com/local/denver...

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

As if there was any doubt, the Republican Party belongs to Donald Trump. All his sins are their sins. The Republican Party must be razed to the ground, and salt the earth it came from.

I genuinely struggle to understand what these people think is going on

You can't just write yourself an "immunity from any and all future tax crimes" card, right? Like my entire understanding of concepts like "government" and "laws" kind of depends upon it

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

"I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards." www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1...

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

I just want to repeat again: The American people saved 26 million lives — because we could It something we should be proud of. Our leaders should tell us about it. Not decry it as some budgetary sin while signing our names to a slaughter.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

people will say “the media won’t cover it” but chris hayes is a decently-watched nightly cable news host outright saying these people are thieves and liars and at some point, you’re gonna have to talk to your parents about this, if you still talk to them, they’re not going to listen to him

We have to smash the suffocating instinct to pretend that this is all normal. Nothing here is normal. You are living through the most open, shameless corruption of government in American history.

Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.

A month later, nine people - dubbed the Spokane 9 - were arrested by the federal government, alleging a “conspiracy to impede or injure officers." All nine of them initially pled not guilty and awaited trial. In December 2025, 6 of them took plea deals.

‘Union’ means ‘group of workers collectively bargaining’, not ‘ontologically good thing’. There are more workers than firms so thinking unions are in the right is a good strategy for being right most of the time, but not all the time.

New reports say the U.S. is seeking sweeping control over Greenland’s military, infrastructure, and investment deals. That makes our earlier reporting even more urgent: Trump’s Greenland push could benefit tech investors eyeing the island’s vast mineral wealth.

me, a guy who absolutely has a political future, affably: so we can all have a good laugh about being cucks here, right

“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual

So *%#%g Special

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

It's the TAKE OUT THE TRASH cycle. We may not get this opportunity again. Put these fucks out of work, do everything in your power to ship their asses.

A typical mid-sized private jet consumes 300 gal/hr and jet fuel has increased 27% since the Iran Adventure began. That's about +$500 per flight hour, perhaps +$900/hr for a large Gulfstream-sized jet. If they're mad about a tax and silent on that, it's not about money, it's *zizek voice* ideology.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

I've been thinking a lot about the death of friendship lately. "Somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...

It's kind of fascinating how the red-brown phenomenon is exclusively the reds following browns and never the other way around

The Republicans are The Party of Trump, they literally say it every day and if you're trying to "work" with Republicans you're a Trump fan. Simple as.

“.. The unemployment rate for workers under 35 with a master’s degree has rarely been higher in the past 20 years ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Fascinating case study on how personal fealty to Trump is the litmus test for MAGA influencers and a huge portion of GOP primary voters.