Bravo to Hunter Biden. Well done. I like this informed swagger.

Oops they forgot to connect the strings.

no healthcare no vacations no energy no video games no jobs no steaks no housing no porn

The sugar glider joeys Ruth and Emma. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Jamelle Bouie; gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Centrist/moderate/liberals fundamentally have the same underlying values as conservatives and will always be on the defensive against them because they agree with their worldview If you aren't breaking the frame and refusing their premises, they'll stomp you by being real where you're fake.

Really fantastic @jamellebouie.net column today. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

It begins

Our supposedly high court issues the lowest of low rulings. 🤬🤬

Fairly clear at this point that the Supreme Court has overturned the lion’s share of the VRA.

Completely agree with @rickhasen.bsky.social. After tonight’s decision, it isn’t just impossible to win a Voting Rights Act claim—it’s also impossible to win a *constitutional* claim against egregiously racist gerrymandering. The supermajority massively expanded Callais. electionlawblog.org?p=156541

Sotomayor comes very close to calling the supermajority a pack of liars for claiming in Callais that they weren’t requiring proof of discriminatory intent then turning around and doing exactly that here. This is a remarkably blunt and caustic accusation. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just don’t. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment.

I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.

This is one of those times when it’s important to recognize the asymmetry of the warfare here. For people like Weiss and Bilton and their backers, they win if they (1) corrupt CBS News OR (2) destroy CBS News and its credibility. Defenders only win by saving and preserving it.

More for @elizabethginexi.bsky.social on the proposed OMB rule, addressing the far reaching consequences of the rule including and beyond science: open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Because they have such wonderful control over their AI. Let’s just fire more humans? 🤯 “Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.”

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Trump promised to deport violent criminals and “the worst of the worst.” Instead, ICE is terrorizing law-abiding families, detaining an 18-year-old girl weeks from graduation, and denying basic medical care at Delaney Hall. This brutality is NOT America. #ShutDownDelaneyHall

Not even a criticism of Becerra in particular, but in general, the total collapse of ambition in American politics remains one of the bleakest ongoing trends. It's just a competition between gangsterism and pensionary politics. Nobody believes in the future anymore.

I teach about this in my upper div oceanography class every year. My students design observing systems around the world based upon this as a model. I guess I’ll just teach about other countries’ systems now that the US is intentionally taking a back seat on scientific innovation and discovery. 😭

Trump Retreats on Trump Slush Fund Proposal to $1.8 Billion to January 6 felons www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

Financial experts were alarmed over what some have described as a financial “coup” being carried out by Elon Musk, one that could see tens of millions of Americans unknowingly prop up his unprofitable company SpaceX through their retirement accounts.

Kobayashi Maru.

"Under the cover of amusement, the site systematically works to construct migrants as an existential threat, to dehumanize them, to stifle empathy for them, and finally, it asks people to report 'suspicious aliens,' thus becoming complicit in the government’s effort to dispense with them."

Trump always sought cultural cachet from both the highbrow and the lowbrow-but-beloved. And he got neither. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-free...

It's been 16 hours since two journalists were arrested with protesters at Delaney Hall. Even lawyers can't reach them. New Jersey State Patrol made arrests. According to Essex County Jail, everyone is physically there. But they're just "transport." Legal "custody" is with Newark Police Department.

One factor in the recent homicide decline was the Biden admin's clampdown on gun trafficking. Now, the Trump admin is pulling back on several fronts, raising odds that the flow of illegal guns will rise, with ill effects down the line. My latest @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/how-...

I keep having to be reminded that a core tenet of Trumpism is intentionally telling impossibly obvious lies, and enjoying making everyone else deal with them.

Really well done.

Standing up for human rights is absolutely heroic, especially when you put your own safety on the line. In this country, we have the freedom of speech and assembly. This administration has ignored those rights. Speak out against Trump & #ICELawlessness!

Racial profiling, including of US citizens, in Kavanaugh Immigration Stops is now routine. As in the time of legalized slavery, one racialized group, regardless of immigration status, bears the brunt of the full force of the federal government's resources in punitive immigration enforcement.

Imagine, being violently taken from your loved ones, starting a hunger (and labor) strike, hoping someone will help ... and they do! Delaney Hall signaled last night they knew people were on their side! #ProudBlue #Hopecore 📹: adamcrai/TT

Immigrants imprisoned in a Newark camp are on strike to demand their freedom. This is a work stoppage combined with a hunger strike, made harder because the strikers are behind locked doors. Important reporting from Luis Feliz Leon.

saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that read "THERE IS NO CLOUD, JUST SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER" and it took my last shred of self-control not to thank him for his service

God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.

King shit

Pro-tip: don’t name your Bluetooth speaker ‘Bomb’.

Over 3.3 million Californians have cast ballots for the June primary. Returns as of May 30 per @politicaldata.bsky.social : 🔵 DEM: 1,540,171 🔴 GOP: 1,126,628 ⚪ OTH: 693,445 % Turnout by Age 18-34: 5% 35-49: 8% 50-64: 15% 65+: 30%

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

Staging these sites under the EOP & circumventing fedramp means we can’t see who’s doing what, who’s writing the code, etc - things required for govt sites. This is scary stuff. They could fabricate voter registration fraud and use it to throw out votes, for example, and we couldn’t check it. END/

Additionally, the USPS is now working to implement the rule that would prevent voters not appearing on Trump’s list from receiving ballots in the mail. 3/ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

This right here.

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

“A message democrats may not expect” — you mean the one democrats will not shut the fuck up about?

tell me more about trump/republican populism www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

LOL while still negotiating the same deal he used as an excuse to miss Jr’s wedding