BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

Good for ABC for continuing to fight back and call Brendan Carr's investigations for what they are: intimidation tactics "plainly incompatible with the First Amendment." Read the letter we led from press freedom orgs commending ABC for taking a stand (this time): media.freedom.press/media/docume...

This, 100%

Holy crap.

One thing I’m gonna say about this nazi salute is that it does not “resemble” a nazi salute, it is a nazi salute. May we all dispense with this coy “resembles” language in all cases.

I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.

Capybaras patiently waiting for traffic before making their grand road crossing in Brazil is a sight you don't want to miss. Nature's charm at its best!

This is important. Texas Dem Party chair tells @simonwdc.bsky.social that Dems are having serious success recruiting candidates for every seat across the state. That's a sign of something big happening. (also cites my piece on Talarico's path) www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/texas-dem-...

NEW: @dataforprogress.org finds voters overwhelmingly oppose giving oil and gas corporations immunity from climate lawsuits. 73% of Democrats, 71% of Independents, and 53% of Republicans agree that Big Oil should not be above the law.

BOOM!

The idiots accept the blatant lie anyway.

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.

The limits of our courts in safeguarding democracy on display right here.

The feds won't even let the state’s governor inspect an ICE facility in NJ. Tells you a lot about what they're trying to hide.

Love to see public servants go into politics— a passion for public service heralds constituent service over craven selfishness. Note this former USFS employee was caught up in the DOGE purges. Thanks for flagging this campaign, @climatebrad.hillheat.com! Spread the word if in Montana.

Well, when you surrender twice a week for 12 weeks, it can get burdensome to keep coming up with something original.

The U.S. Senate is going home without passing their ridiculous budget reconciliation bill that gives ICE more money without guardrails and attempts to fund Trump’s DOJ “anti-weaponization” slush fund. Keep fighting. It’s working!

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

As often the case, the cover-up was worse than the crime. Martin has to go.

Stephen Colbert is all class. 👏👏👏 #Pinks #ProudBlue @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Trump sued the IRS. His DOJ settled it. Buried in the deal: the IRS can never audit Trump, his kids, or the Trump Org again. A pending audit could’ve cost him $100M+. He paid $750 in taxes in 2016. $750 in 2017. $0 in 2020. You likely paid more than the president. This is corruption as governance.

why would anyone ever pay taxes again if they're immune from audits?

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

The right wing owner of Twitter has unleashed an army of bots to complain about casting choices in the upcoming Odyssey movie. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

The vice president of the United States is just standing up here saying people should feel sorry for domestic terrorists who were given free and fair trials and were then convicted in a court of law. Absolutely despicable.

. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, at CAP event, on how House Democrats see this moment: “Either MAGA extremists are going to break the country, or we’re going to break them. And our goal is to break them. We will defeat them. We have to beat them electorally and then we have to break their spirit.”

Just feels like all the techies who work for evil companies who are just waiting to fire them could quit and band together and do some good shit. Sure, less pay and perks. But maybe helping humanity to survive?

No, no, this could be good!

Nothing to see here, folks.

What in the absolute F*CK is this, SH*T?

Amid the noise, one of the most powerful things a journalist can do right now is report on real climate solutions. Join us on June 4 for a live training and learn how to cut through the distractions, ask the hard questions, and tell the whole story. buff.ly/tn4t5qf

She hits on the key point. If she expressed remorse, error, there'd be an argument. Commuting her sense under pressure from the leader of the insurrection she supported when she remains militant is a terrible, terrible error.

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Email Republicans and tell them to reject the MAGA spending bill in order to focus on funding our communities: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo... Tell Democrats to use every tactic and tool possible to block, obstruct, and turn public opinion against this bill: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...

This boomerang effect—in which someone like "Chud the Builder" says the most provocative thing possible to get attention, which, in turn, gets a provocative response that also gets attention—is the fuel of the modern internet. It’s lucrative, and awful:

But…why? Thats what I don’t get.

BOOM! #climate

So not only did TN Republicans strip Memphis of representation, Speaker Sexton is also stripping Dems of committees for protesting it. Watch fascism work. www.wsmv.com/2026/05/12/m...

Joe Biden was old and not as sharp as he should be, and the New York Times wrote story after story about it. Trump is old and out of his damn mind, and the NY Times steps carefully around the issue. Why? 1/2🧵

conservative men are the most insecure people on the planet and calling them “unfuckable because they are ugly and gross” in unison would end them

We shouldn't be asking to put a moratorium on AI in schools. We should be demanding to ban *all screens* from schools, period. It's just spending money to make our kids dumber. It boggles the mind that anyone thinks this is a good idea.

The fact that we've put iPads in schools is horrifying enough. But replacing actual teaching with AI games is actually insane. Ed tech is an oxymoron. It's worse than pencil and paper learning. We need to get all screens out of schools. nymag.com/intelligence...

part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation

Great to talk to @gregsargent.bsky.social about late-stage MAGA degradation and Trump as Ozymandias.

EXPAND THE COURT! (Win first, of course)

Busy night…

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