One does not feud with the IRS

Just like @golikehellmachine.com, I hate that the framing of this pretty clearly paints this out as a legitimate fight that Trump duked out and won fair and square. Absolutely insane way to frame the worst public corruption in the history of our country.

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

Graham Platner looks like a guy you have to assassinate at an inn in Whiterun during the Dark Brotherhood questline

Sorry if this sounds like I’m rejecting the MAGA-and-media version of reality, but I think the president should stop stealing stuff and murdering people and actually belongs in prison right now.

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them. www.wired.com/story/us-pla...

The 14th Amendment, one of the crowning successes of the Second Founding, was a thoroughly partisan achievement. "It had been carried from first to last as a party measure" and it "failed to attract the vote of a single Democratic member in any State Legislature in the whole Union."

AI can do anything! Except leave you alone.

If you want serious adults with a functioning moral compass running for high office, you need serious adults with a functioning moral compass casting ballots. We are so fucked.

Oh fuck yeah let's do this. Couldn't have picked a worse battle to fight, but they're stuck because they need people this incompetent and mendacious to work for them

More than half of Trump's White House ballroom donors have won $50B in new or increased federal contracts since donating to the project, per @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Many are also facing federal enforcement actions — or have had those actions suspended by the administration. wapo.st/3QmJjSz

Questions like "How can I find an even younger third wife?"

The only thing David Brooks has every grinded on is his intern.

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

Well this just made me very sad www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...

Screwworm confirmed in Texas in the midst of having the worst imaginable people in charge. I guess we’re gonna have to keep getting hammered by infectious disease until we realize public health has a point.

I think there’s a strong possibility that the Congress can only be Dem majority in a wave year. They will adapt. We can’t keep having a wave every year. This means we really only have one shot to fix things.

This cartoon isn't an exaggeration—not even 1% an exaggeration. Weeks ago it seemed this far-right Supreme Court would still block any map intentionally authored to be racist. We just learned that that's no longer true. We have reentered Jim Crow, and it's a national disgrace.

There is no law & there is no legitimacy anymore. Congrats again to Chief Keyser Söze, who has now passed even Roger Taney as the worst, most corrupt & authoritarian Chief Justice in American history: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

This is such bullshit framing, as if Republicans are the ones who powered this

Trump just signed order "reclassifying" ~8,000 civil servants so they are easier to fire for political reasons -- this has been in the works since his first term www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

I'm sorry I'm like this but I was right about Rubio

The Coultergeist had a few thoughts.

The Biden Admin prosecuted the leaker

The United States of America as understood for the last half century no longer exists. There will be no going back to it. What's happening now is a fight over what will take its place, with the early lead taken by the people currently filling concentration camps with innocent immigrants.

This may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

I’m fairly well convinced at this point that there are a great number of modern-day left-wingers who if catapulted back in time to 1861 would be doing apologia for the Confederate States

You may have seen me post about 3 former Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico who were running for their old seats. They were conservative Dems who'd opposed legislation like abortion rights, paid sick leave, & AVR. Result: All 3 lost tonight, two against progressive incumbents & one in an open race.

it's fine, we can just allow larges volumes of immigrants to move to the country now let me take a big sip of coffee and take a look at the political history of the West for the past decade and a half

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...

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v. Ferguson?

Pictured are the two most flawed paragraphs in Callais. SCOTUS declares that *it*—and not Congress—gets to decide what legislation is "appropriate" under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Which is how we come to today's SCOTUS majority blessing racist gerrymanders bc the VRA is "colorblind."

NEW: The Supreme Court's Republican appointees end civil rights redistricting protections. The majority invoked “our colorblind Constitution” to expand and transform April's Callais decision. Sotomayor, in dissent, highlighted the "grave harms" the majority "inflicts." Tonight, at Law Dork:

It gets a little more wild each time they say it. So if every single Black person votes one way, and every single white person votes the opposite way, every election, that's not even RELEVANT to whether voting is "racially polarized"—as long as this durable disagreement is organized into 'parties.'

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

American journalism and the American legal establishment are very similar actually; both demand all the rewards and accolades of fulfilling an important role in society while violently rejecting any of the obligations. Both defined by fawning sycophancy that they've defined as courage.

section 2 of the VRA? nullified? the 15th amendment? only applies to intentional discrimination. intentional discrimination? impossible to prove given an unbreakable assumption of good faith for a state legislature. 14th amendment? equal protection clause means the constitution can't even see race.

Some people demand constant displays of respect from other people because they don’t have any respect for themselves

nick bilton is a bitch

I hate the line that the Constitution is "colorblind." The reconstruction amendments gave the Constitution eyes with which to see discrimination, ears with which to hear the cries of the oppressed, and a mouth with which to speak the law against it. The Court made it a blind deaf mute for a century.

“Pelley told 60 Minutes colleagues that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said Pelley had created a “hostile work environment” & that Weiss asked him to write an apology letter. Evidently, this is not a request Pelley will comply with” perhaps as it’s not hostile to object to a fascist takeover

this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

Any Democrat who refuses to openly endorse packing the courts should face a primary in 2028.

A profoundly dumb series of actions to utterly tank your legitimacy before an election you have no hope of winning and crystalizing the party that will be seizing power over the next few years to view you as an enemy and a force that will need to be constrained. It literally beggars belief.

To paraphrase @diplomatofnight.com on another issue, they reason they act like they have total impunity is that they have always been given total impunity. It is an entirely rational decision to treat their opponents with contempt, because their opponents have contempt for themselves.

You can always tell a free speech warrior by how fast they fire people for making them look bad in a meeting

The Court has gone to war against its own legitimacy

Would like to draw attention to this very perceptive comment on my recent blog post about SCOTUS; the way in which the Court now treats the entire judicial system as its own private playground is really unprecedented, I don't think anyone anticipated them seizing total control of their own docket.