Evil ages you. Marco Rubio is only 55.

I turned down running for office because I hate begging people for money, your average voter is dumb & mean, and I talk shit about them behind an egg.

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

A Trump administration whistleblower says officials plotted to declare 2.7 million living individuals dead in a plot to push immigrants out of the country.

“More than half a dozen detainees alleged that the water given to them over the last three days was ‘rotten’ and containing mosquito larvae, in an apparent attempt to pressure them to sign.”

Don.

Same underlying principle, six years apart

In 1933 Adolf Hitler shook down German industrialists for millions of Reichsmark to establish what he called the Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft—a slush fund he used to pay off Nazis whose violence got them into legal trouble. In 2026, Donald Trump is quietly doing the same thing.

#BREAKING: Six Republicans joined Democrats on Wednesday to push through a vote on military aid for Ukraine, a blow to President Trump’s handling of Russia’s war against the country and his withdrawal of U.S. support for Kyiv.

To prove racial gerrymandering, a plaintiff has to draw race-blind districts that are just as favorable to Republicans. But that's impossible to do because Republicans uniformly select racists as their candidates and Black voters won't vote for racists. So racial gerrymandering is always allowed.

In addition to the awful conditions, they’re apparently forcing people who have not been convicted of any crime to work for $1 per day.

JUST IN: DOJ's No. 3 official @ASGWoodward signals dept will take up an option we raised here and pay off many J6ers using ordinary DOJ procedures www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Democrats Should Give Trump a Choice: Bill Pulte at DNI or Section 702 Reauthorization emptywheel.net/2026/06/02/a...

Everyone knows that if #GrahamPlatner had a burning cross tattoo he hastily covered up he’d be unviable right?

These cases are bait. This guy is almost certainly gonna do life as an accomplice and Roberts gets to point to it when asked about callais

The gop basing its entire personality around being shitty to people comes home.

y'all need to start asking yourselves some questions as part of a crowd watching 2 ppl terrorized by 1 man & a dog. this is how it begins, or, how it is stopped. are you a BYSTANDER, a PERPETRATOR, or a RESCUER❓️❓️❓️ youtu.be/JQFfj6ZShIE?...

Incredibly good reporting here on how former Trump campaign chief Brad Parscale is using Salem Media, a massive Christian network, to advance Israeli interests.

“I wanna be railroad commissioner,” #BoFrench says in a raspy whisper, a trembling hand clutching the arbeit macht frei sign replica

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

Look back at the last year or two and how cornyn debased himself for Trump

NIH funded peeps: This is insane and coming for us.

I had a Palestinian friend who said that the terrorists are feeding off of the Israeli right / government and I think he is right.

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.

It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

NEW: A Spokane ICE agent was discovered to have posted on X last year calling Black people “ghetto garbage” and transgender people “mentally ill.” He was called to the stand today to explain himself. The story was first reported by @rangemedia.co www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Federal judge in Tennessee DISMISSES the criminal prosecution against Kilmar Ábrego García as a vindictive prosecution. First time this happens during Trump 2.0. Lays much of the blame at the feet of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Of note, the person who initiated this vindictive prosecution is now the Acting Attorney General

Superb reporting on the destruction of the Civil Rights Act, based on interviews with people directly affected by anti-rights violence in the 1960s (Josh Kovensky and Khaya Himmelman, Talking Points Memo): talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

The New York State Bivens Act is now law, closing a dangerous "accountability gap" that shielded fed. officers from legal liability for misconduct. Protect Democracy applauds Governor Hochul, Senator Myrie, and Assemblymember Romero for driving passage of this landmark measure. protdem.org/43jxFuC

Your turn, Congress

It's true that ICE neo-nazis putting out job listings for other neo-nazis is a leading cause of neo-nazis seeking to join ICE.

It is EXCEEDINGLY important that if you have a R MoC, you find SOME WAY to ratchet up the pressure on both the Bunker-Ballroom and the Terrorist Slush Fund. I suggested earlier you pick an awful Jan6er and make him the poster child of the Slush Fund. Put up wanted posters or something.

Racism is real, but race is fake. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

Tennessee plans to execute a man this morning. And if that happens, it will be an absolute travesty. theintercept.com/2026/05/20/t...

On the one hand I was rooting for #massie because he’s anti war & pushy on Epstein On the other hand his one trick pony bigotry where he makes the same tired Tel Aviv phone number joke hourly is obnoxious and I’m glad he lost

I simply do not think this woman should hold elected office

The absolute normalization of anti-semitism (on the left and right) has allowed someone like Maureen Galindo to be competitive in the Democratic Party. Absolutely pathetic.

#massie - an antisemitic homophobe - is no great loss but it’s also not great that the gop is a Puritan personality cult.

One way to think of this is that WE ALL FAILED miserably to hang Jan6 on Trump in 2024. Trump has given us a 2nd chance to do that, made all the easier bc 1) This is fucking corrupt as hell 2) GOP is already underwater 3) Voters already recognize Trump is corrupt. Here's our chance for a redo.

BREAKING: The Senate confirmed Sheria Clarke to the District of South Carolina after she refused to say Biden won in 2020 and dodged questions about January 6. Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Hassan, Heinrich, Reed, Shaheen & Whitehouse voted to confirm her. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/eight-demo...

Any Constitution is only as meaningful and powerful as the people subject to it mutually agree. We have entered the space where who is bound by the Constitution and what the Constitution binds us to are open questions.

Hitler impersonator gets government payout

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.