What if taxing the rich works?

“Government stats say incomes after adjusting for inflation are now declining YoY. What do you say to that?” “Yeah, well, we are also starving people and kicking them off health care”

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

I can see from some responses that people are still confused about what's going on. A lot of us liberals are very literal! So we assume Trump is "confused" about this. He's not. "Trans" is an all-purpose category on the right now to describe anyone who doesn't conform to rigid MAGA gender roles.

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This is an absolutely terrifying escalation by the regime. They have now criminalized our freedom to fight the crimes they commit against us and our neighbors. These protesters acted with extraordinary courage and moral clarity.

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:

As of a couple of weeks ago, no US Senator had lost reelection in a primary since 2012. Now GOP voters have ousted two senators over 10 days: Cassidy in Louisiana, and Cornyn in Texas.

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

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...

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Meanwhile I haven't seen anyone mention that Change Research has *Dems leading* in FL Senate (+2) and Gov (+4). One poll, massive caveats, but we're talking Senate seat ~55 for Dems here. (via @fiftyplusone.news)

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

He filed too late? What did Musk think this lawsuit was, notice to the SEC that he'd acquired more than 5% of Twitter?

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.

Our simulations show that the act isn’t needed for minority representation in the South, if partisan gerrymandering were checked. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

Internal AutoZone memo: “.. We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.” (via Costa Oil) #$AZO

interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor

under the court’s reading of the VRA and the 15th amendment, it is basically constitutionally suspect for a state to have a district that elects a black person to congress. you have to prove it isn’t an illegal majority-minority district.

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

Oh no! Our sinister plan to undermine America by impairing the judgment of a handful of morose leftist shitposters has been discovered!

Trump complains he can't brag about the Iran War because of the "little man with the $4 gasoline": "I don't want to say we're making a fortune ... because if I say it, they're going to say, 'He forgets about the little man with the $4 gasoline.'"

Jay Powell faced a pandemic that nearly broke markets, the worst inflation in 40 years, and a sustained presidential assault on Fed independence. Few Fed chairs have faced one of those. He faced all three. A reflection on what he leaves behind: www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Dems are still favored to win the House. But we can't ignore or downplay how Republicans essentially won 10 seats IN A WEEK through gerrymandering, lawsuits, and judicial rulings. This isn't the kind of democracy we should be comfortable with. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court is conducting a coup d'etat. It is at war with the very premise of an electoral democracy. Nothing about that institution or its work is legitimate. Nothing.

Incredible community note.

Braindead populism:

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

TRUMP: Katie Britt -- I hope she always remains loyal to me so I can continue to support her BRITT: You've got it TRUMP: I would hate to go against her. That will never happen, Katie, right? BRITT: That's right, sir

Instead of getting a vastly more compassionate & egalitarian country, we are transferring vast wealth to private oil companies for *nothing* -- no national benefit whatsoever. And where are the fiscal conservatives? Where are the deficit & inflation scolds? Where's "we can't afford it"?

God she never f'ing misses.

The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now

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This is particularly maddening because the court allowed the election to go ahead when all the legal facts were exactly the same. The only real new information they have now is what the result was.

This will make for the quite split screen for when Florida's conservative supreme court likely ignores the state's 2010 constitutional amendments and blesses DeSantis' +4 map.

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

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virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Yeah, it’s a fuckin’ mystery.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

Did Ramaswamy write this