AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

When I’m in Wisconsin meeting with constituents, I don’t hear a single person tell me that they want to spend their hard-earned money on a $1 billion golden ballroom. What I do hear is the rising costs of gas, groceries, healthcare & housing. This Administration promised to lower costs. They failed.

Those people? Children, retirees, and veterans are going hungry. Not enough money to help you or your families as costs go up, but just enough for Trump’s golden ballroom.

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

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

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Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

VA AG Jay Jones: "My team is carefully reviewing this unprecedented order and we are evaluating every legal pathway forward to defend the will of the people and protect the integrity of Virginia’s elections."

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

BREAKING: ABC has accused Trump's FCC of violating its free speech rights — arguing that regulators had a "chilling effect" on free speech by trying to punish political content they disagreed with.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

After explaining that moderate is an invented notion, people either are ideological and have fixed views (left or right) or are conflicted and toggle, I explain again how my guidance IS for the conflicted reached via activating base repeating it.

Ag Secretary Rollins: "The good news -- in just one year alone, we've already moved 4.5 million people off of SNAP. So this idea that once a government program is in place you can never roll it back, President Trump has proven that to be wrong. So we're going to be pulling more and more people off."

39% of SNAP recipients are children www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...

and relative to what similarly situated professionals make, even members of Congress are woefully underpaid. do you want more working class people to serve as federal legislators? you need higher pay. there is no escaping it.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

I wrote a paper about this in 2010, for the Richmond Journal of Law and Public Interest. Basically, low-paying, part-time legislatures serve to enshrine conflicts of interest as a best practice. We should raise pay by 10x.

🚨 BREAKING: The NAACP filed an emergency lawsuit to block Tennessee's new congressional gerrymander, arguing the GOP’s rushed effort to dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district was unconstitutional and illegal from the start.

NEW: In this majority-Latino city in California, the GOP had long maintained an iron grip on local government. But that all changed this spring: Anger toward ICE raids, immigrant organizing, and surging turnout for local elections, it all made for a Dem sweep—& flip. Check out the story:

It strikes me that John Roberts will likely be remembered as the first white supremacist to have a winning record since Reconstruction. Every other segregationist has been fighting rear-guard losing actions: Orval Fabus, Bull Connor, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, James Eastland. Roberts wins.

BREAKING MS NOW: Kash Patel has ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail and other staff and has been described as in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team, according to two people briefed on the development.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Standing before the White House to demand we close the concentration camps where roughly 70K people are now forced to endure horrific conditions by virtue of who they are, not anything they've done. #CloseTheCamps #BringThemHome

If you’re near Barnes & Noble at Burlington, MA or Salem, NH, I signed a couple copies of Cosplay: A History the other day!

These people are exactly who they’ve told you they are:

you kid but a version of the odyssey where someone gets lost as shit trying to drive back home through boston while having various adventures could be great

Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning: Work faster, or the company might fire her. She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.” (Published April 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has distributed “Ka$h”-branded bottles of bourbon to bureau staff and civilians, multiple people in Patel’s orbit tell @sfifz787.bsky.social.

Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has distributed “Ka$h”-branded bottles of bourbon to bureau staff and civilians, multiple people in Patel’s orbit tell Sarah Fitzpatrick. theatln.tc/n62c70PM

Jesus. The fact that they tipped off Fox News seems like a red flag that this is bullshit.

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Page One in KC:

Today in beautiful St Mary’s county I joined IAM workers as they launched their campaign against billionaires. Workers are the backbone of this country, not billionaires. They were elated to have a candidate come and stand with them! I will always stand with workers, with unions, and with you.

May brings a flood of new books, including some new additions to some fan-favorite series and a whole bunch of exciting-looking debuts. Here's what caught my eye: www.andrewliptak.com/may-2026-new...

Happy Teacher Appreciation Day! Grateful for the incredible teachers across Central FL shaping the next generation. My mom taught in public schools for 37 years & I saw firsthand the dedication it takes every day. I’ll keep fighting to make sure teachers have the support & resources they deserve.

There's a whole lot to celebrate this week, including National Teacher Appreciation Week! What's best for our kids is what's best for our state, and our educators are on the front lines of doing what's best for our kids. Thank you, teachers!

Happy New Murderbot for those who celebrate!

6 months from the midterms

I am not sure most people understand how completely bananas these investigations are. Title IX has an explicit carveout for private college admissions (meaning it is entirely up to Smith who to admit). This is not just arguing for a reinterpretation of Tile IX, it is plain and simple bad faith.

On October 3, the Trump administration abruptly stopped paying third-parties for medical care provided to detainees in the custody of ICE. According to the ICE Health Service Corps, payments to third parties were supposed to resume on April 30. But when April 30 arrived, payments did not resume.

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

A political party tries to court your vote. An authoritarian regime tries to keep you from voting including using its appointed politicians in robes to suspend elections so they can pick their voters.

A totally sane and real-as-life illustration to accompany this WSJ op-ed against mifepristone

In 1933, Justice Louis Brandeis said: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” What he said was true 93 years ago. It’s even more accurate today. Let us choose democracy over oligarchy.

Good to see: Hakeem Jeffries announces new initiative for New York to redistrict in retaliation for ongoing GOP abuses. As I've reported (see below), getting NY to do this is a key piece in neutralizing the GOP advantage.

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

BREAKING: Congressman Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) is introducing a constitutional amendment to establish term limits for Supreme Court Justices. The ROBE Act would establish 18-year term limits for justices.

Pennsylvania voter registration update: Democrats: +9,098 Republicans: -58

🚨BREAKING: Florida voters and pro-voting group Equal Ground Education Fund filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the GOP’s new congressional gerrymander, urging a court to block the map for violating the state constitution’s ban on partisan gerrymandering. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...