Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

a lot of Vichy Twitter addicts love the proximity to power you can get on there. but Bluesky has a similar quality when it comes to progressives and leftists

a Russian war going disastrously wrong because the imbecile dictator is listening to incompetent morons and screwing everything up? do tell www.wsj.com/world/russia...

in 2021 solar and wind exceeded global nuclear power production. in 2025 they exceeded hydro. and now they are exceeding natural gas electrek.co/2026/05/20/i...

When Ted Lieu cornered Rubio with video of Trump sleeping, it forced Rubio to choose, says @brianbeutler.bsky.social: "I either have to lie and debase myself, or tell the truth and lose my job." On the pod Brian is good on why Dems should use such tactics more often: newrepublic.com/article/2113...

Great piece from @ryanlcooper.com about why we haven't seen real consequences of the Strait of Hormuz closure in the form of shortages, and why those stopgap measures cannot hold back the reckoning much longer. prospect.org/2026/06/03/a...

Yes, if anything, this should all serve as a reminder for Dems that when they hold the line, even when it seems difficult at the outset, it often ultimately forces Republicans into toxic situations and fractures them as well:

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

This is good: Dems are moving to force Rs to vote on Trump's corrupt IRS immunity deal, now that the slush fund is in doubt. The exemption from IRS audits is getting overlooked, but it shouldn't. Dems tell me they're pushing for votes to kill it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2112...

As Iran backs away from the negotiating table, it seems like a good time to highlight an underappreciated fact: Trump is a spectacularly bad negotiator and dealmaker - and has been for years - Republican hype notwithstanding. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

. @jamellebouie.net's point about the "war on knowledge itself" is true and under-appreciated It’s one thing for an administration to discard evidence; it’s something else when it embraces willful ignorance and deliberately denies itself access to information it needs but doesn’t want. For example:

I would not want to be standing under the giant steel arches on the South Lawn if there’s lightning. Good thing DC rarely gets thunderstorms in the summer. 🫠 www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-fyr...

On Iran, Trump has contradicted himself on uranium stockpiles, the Strait of Hormuz, and even whether he wants diplomatic talks (among other things). There is no strategy. There is only a hapless amateur, lost without a map, unsure of his own positions, which change by the hour.

This is how to wedge affordability and it should be done in every race from state leg to senate/gov.

Congress returns Monday with Trump diminished, wildly unpopular, and failing on many fronts. Democrats must be ambitious and aggressive now. New, from me 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/congress-r...

It's unbelievable how little understanding there is of this imminent reality.

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The GOP is very deliberately killing off one of the United States greatest economic & strategic advantages: For well over a century, we were the cutting edge of most research in the world. But staying there would have involved a few women and brown people so instead we're burning it down.

@brianbeutler.bsky.social is onto something but the Project 2029 document needed is about eliminating obstacles to governing: jurisdiction stripping of federal courts, ending Republican vetoes over red-state judicial appointments, killing the filibuster, adding DC/Puerto Rico as states, etc.

New, and I think important piece. Brainstorming policy ideas to address kitchen table issues is an important undertaking. But it is NOT the same thing as a Project 2025 analog, but for the pro-democracy movement to save the country. www.offmessage.net/p/project-20...

This person who is speaking like this is a senior official of the government of the United States of America.

A good @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com case here for subscribing to @liberalcurrents.com!

In a normal world, Trump wouldn’t be President of the United States. In a normal world, the U.S. electorate wouldn’t have put him there. In a normal world, the U.S. media wouldn’t be acting like Trump being the president was normal.

"What Ken Paxton considers manly appears to be sleeping around on his wife, defrauding investors and friends, and making life a living hell for queer and trans Americans." Good @aselrod.bsky.social on Paxton as exemplar of indecency of Trumpism/today's GOP: www.liberalcurrents.com/hell-is-empt...

The reason the war doesn’t end and prices don’t come down and people are losing health insurance and the measles is spreading is that all the White House does is corruption 24/7.

With the new q1 GDP growth number coming in today at 1.6% what the data tells us that Trump has seen the lowest GDP growth on his watch of any American President since Hoover. 1/

A reader/skeptic asked me to spell out my procedural hardball philosophy, and why we should assume it won’t accelerate us along our trajectory toward fascism. I answered at extraordinary and ponderous length, but this is probably the crux. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

Every single time in my life I heard the phrase "be a man", it meant "be brave" or "do the right thing". It never once meant "try to bully someone from behind a keyboard" or "name a wide receiver".

🚨🚨🚨The difference between the 2018 midterm and the 2026 midterms is that we’re going to see people who always vote Republican, vote for Dems all across the map, which absolutely puts Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, Nebraska, and Texas into play.

Trump’s Weakness Is Becoming the Political Story of the Moment talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Trump says something ridiculous. The New York Times responds with: “critics disagree.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

"Rubio has continued to receive fairly gentle treatment from the media, benefiting from the fact that even if he’s not a moderate, he at least appears somewhat normal." Yes. Rubio has had a big, if somewhat hidden, hand in many of Trump's most radical and authoritarian policies.

There may be a prudential case against passing articles of impeachment, or conducting a trial, at least so long as Republicans remain committed to Trump’s impunity. But there’s no good case against invoking the impeachment power. The one Dems lean on is weak. www.offmessage.net/p/the-revisi...

this is true. there's a practical question abt how much value there is in doing it without the votes to convict. but it hurt Trump a lot. There's simply no question about this.

“I believe that there are people in the White House who couldn’t care less about what happens in November.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Little by little Trump is losing control over the GOP. Here's another data point.

Uber and Lyft drivers establised a union in Massachusetts today with which Uber and Lyft must bargain or face binding arbitration—precisely because their drivers decided to *agree* with the companies’ claims that they’re independent contractors. Great story from Harold Meyerson:

rules out any 2028 bid. we can't afford someone too dim to realize they're deflating their own powerbase with this kind of crap

An ad that argues private equity has too much power is taken down off the air by a private equity funded company that owns the team, the TV station that airs the team’s games, and the newspaper that covers the team. Platner couldn’t have written the script better himself.

Weird to think of having an honorable, genuine president rather than a degenerate blowhard and crooked chancer.

Here the truth about Trump is muddled by the rights massive propaganda system, but the rest of world knows we’re collapsing into an autocracy because of Trump and all his Republican enablers.

Little by little, Trump is shrinking MAGA down to its molten core. *Alienating noncollege/rural whites *and* Latinos/young *Forcing disloyal Rs out of GOP *Demanding Rs fund ballroom *Insisting Rs defend 1/6 slush fund *Wrecking economy with tariffs and war From me: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

Agree 100%. Have said this before but I think American politics will take a lot of highly unpredictable turns from 2029 onward, once the maniac is gone from the scene and it becomes clear that MAGA is not a sustainable political project (at least in its current form, as I argue in this piece).

I've been on the filibuster abolition train for over 20 years. I'm not hopping off. But in the intervening DECADES the courts have become so corrupted that I now question the wisdom of filibuster reform as a standalone democracy enhancement. www.offmessage.net/p/filibuster...

“I’ll get that done within 24 hours. Everyone says, ‘Oh, no, you can’t.’ Absolutely I can. Absolutely I can”—just one of the 53 times Trump said he could end the war in Ukraine in one day.

It is so effing boring to be hit with BS doomer posturing so regularly. Again: 1) Midterm elections matter 2) Presidential approval matters a lot in midterms 3) Public opinion matters b/c it tells us something about who we are 4) It's good that Trumpist populism is failing as a long term project!

If I were Greg I would’ve waited for more post-slush fund/GOP meltdown polls! Hard to know what precipitates opinion changes, but this was a very big week, and his already steep slide in polls means the MAGA information environment already contains LOTS of defectors. newrepublic.com/article/2108...

That step is contemplated in the piece!

1. Reforming the court is not radical, it is the bare minimum to maintain democracy 2. The radical thing is leaving a system in place that has allowed a minority to ram their extremist agenda through for 40 years unchecked

Democrats Flirt with Radical Reforms Needed to Dethrone Supreme Court talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democra...