Ruben Gallego is the latest Senator to come out in support of structural reform of the Roberts #SCOTUS. Sens. Warren, Smith, Markey has come out for expansion. Booker supports term limits. Where are Sens. Whitehouse, Sanders, Merkley, Murphy, Schatz, Murray and so on? Time is now to speak out.

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

And when this is all over and we finally have a new Supreme Court line-up with a great replacement for John Roberts, the new Chief can write the majority opinion saying the Callais decision was wrong on the day it was decided and consign it to the trash heap with Dred Scott and Plessy.

I agree with the overall gist here. But not the details. The GOP is planning to destroy all remaining guardrails without Congress, VIA THE COURTS. The midterms matter because a Dem House or Senate can begin driving attention to the project of massive and complete Court reform.

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper. For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.

In the next four years you’ll see a lot of New York Post articles about City Hall that don’t make sense when you read them as an outsider because they’re just permission to hit the anger button in the reader’s brain. This is about seeing someone non-binary in power and getting permission to be mad.

"Inquiry" "Criticism" "Sprawling Research" I swear to God @nytimes.com, future generations will look back at this time in history with you as an illustrative example. And it won't be kind.

The DOJ is pushing Trump’s anti-trans agenda by stripping medical care, protection from violence, and dignity from incarcerated people. I'm leading my colleagues in fighting the admin's policies and to make sure trans rights are secure.

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

Gov Jeff Landry, 2026: "No one gets extra rights." President Andrew Johnson, 1866, Civil Rights Bill Veto Message: "safeguards which go infinitely beyond any that the General Government has ever provided for the white race."

For all the talk of how Democrats aren't close enough to the mainstream, only Republicans act—consistently, through all of their members in every branch, federal and state—as if they know there is no chance they could hold power in anything resembling a free and fair election.

UPDATE: Now it makes sense why Rep Todd Warner wore a Trump flag like a cape as Tennessee Republicans stripped Memphis of representation— he too is running for Congress in TN-9, and wants to seem like the Trumpiest to win a primary.

RFK may have gone underground with it, but he's continuing to work aggressively to turn HHS against vaccines. Don't let the relative public silence fool you. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/h...

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Remember when the Supreme Court said that it was illegitimate to change election procedure too close to an election?

Let's give a shout-out to the 3 members of the Supreme Court who believe in a country where we're all treated equally, where justice has not been sold to the super-rich. It must be excruciating to watch close-up as 6 fascist colleagues dismantle democracy. All respect to Jackson, Kagan & Sotomayor.

There's a working arcade game at the D.C. War Memorial this week where you play as Trump invading Iran. www.readtpa.com/p/this-arcad...

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

BREAKING: SCOTUS acts immediately on Alabama redistricting, vacating earlier decisions blocking the 2023 map and sending cases back to the district court — over the objection of Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Republicans want to clamp down on colleges’ DEI efforts, saying it's discriminatory, illegal, and divisive. Here’s where legislators have introduced bills to restrict DEI offices or diversity statements. https://chroni.cl/4tqCNYm

Once again the New York Times kneels before power and wealth rather than dare criticize the powerful or wealthy

IMO one of the biggest challenges with hantavirus right now is the fact that the wholly unqualified individual currently in charge of HHS rose to undeserved prominence by repeatedly promoting the idea that individual rights are more important than protecting the public’s health.

"Heating Up to Expectations" | Press release on our new @pnas.org article (via #MichaelMannBlog): michaelmann.net/heating-up-t...

This story is about British Muslims supporting the Green party. That’s it. You wouldn’t know it from the headline though. It’s all about a grand conspiracy. The paper that once glorified Hitler is now recycling antisemitic conspiracy theories for the 2020s era.

Mississippi State Auditor Shad White says redistricting isn't just about partisan politics; it's about making sure "Bennie Thompson and Hakeem Jeffries are not in charge."

Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:

What if we didn't let the eugenicist authoritarians rule, & instead simply kept using our secret weapon against population decline, hegemonic decline, & all the other bad things: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

BESPOKE: “.. The only precedent for when the S&P 500 has been at record highs while fewer than 60% of stocks were above both their 50- and 200-day moving averages: December 1998-March 2000.”

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social really said it best here. Just today, i saw people expressing that it's "judgmental" to complain about how other people use AI--but the reality is that it DOES affect us all, as we are consuming AI-generated content without knowledge. www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

The @fda.gov withdrew its scientists’ COVID and shingles vaccine studies from publication last fall. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece walks through what those studies actually found, and why their suppression matters. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

One of my guilty pleasures is parsing through things corporate media shills just throw out as if they're self-evident. No. America didn't just "bounce back" after these events. They had effects on our long and painful decline. Who thinks like this? Are they letting babies write at the Atlantic?

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

In 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court's Democratic majority banned partisan gerrymandering under the state constitution. Republicans then won control of the court and spontaneously reversed that decision, re-legalizing gerrymandering. I suspect this is the model Virginia Democrats will follow.

Here's a graph showing interest payments from 1792 to present. The US has a problem, stemming from historically high primary deficits coupled w/ interest rates that have somewhat rebounded. But if we hadn't done the Bush and Trump tax cuts, we wouldn't: the high primary deficits come from tax cuts

Murderous racist pretengineer with the brain of a 13 year old D student

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

sorry kids we can't afford a new playground because they wanted us to admit that one of your classmates who clearly isn't antisemitic wasn't antisemitic. i think you'll agree that this was worth $25k not to state publicly.

The only reason they saw their son was because a judge ordered that they be deported back to Mexico after they were held in an ICE concentration camp for more than a month

Roll the tape. Read the story now: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Once again, the publication with the best title editors in the game, reason enough to subscribe (gift link):

Democrats have now lost a net of six House seats in enacted or likely mid-decade redistricting across the U.S. They will need to win the House popular vote by 4 points to win the majority of seats. New House elec. simulations from Strength In Numbers www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-10...

Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/Z6aOL41

I laughed louder than I should have. The Ginuwine fall still hurts my knees. Bobby Brown doin a two-step cracks me up. #music #RandB

The Big Lie is starting again. Laying delegitimization groundwork. Establishing villains in the cinematic universe. Framing it for the loyal. Just like 2020. Pushing back on this BS got recast as “ceNsorShiP” by lie machine media— Taibbi, Shellenberger, Siegel…the waterboys for election deniers.

If this happened under a Democratic president, even if it were not their fault, Corporate Media would crucify them. This is happening under a Republican president through, and it is completely his fault and he makes it clear he does not care, but Corporate Media will not hold him to account.

Interesting infographic from @npr.org based on President Donald J. Trump’s posts in his personal website. www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...