⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — “THE DISTRICTS MAY NOT BE CHANGED BETWEEN APPORTIONMENTS….” Tennesseans are reading the law Republicans are breaking to steal representation from Memphis out loud before rules committee

Marco Rubio explains that the Trump administration's goal now is merely to reopen the Strait of Hormuz -- the prevailing state of affairs before Trump launched his pointless war

You see this press release from DHS about a federal judge? The agency pushed it out 5 days ago. Today, a DOJ attorney admitted to the judge that it “simply was not true.” (It’s also still online at DHS dot gov as of 540 pm Monday) 1/

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IMPORTANT: Trump is openly calling for states to cancel active elections to push through new gerrymandered maps before November. His words: "If they have to vote twice, so be it." www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-n...

In 1990, I talked my boss out of invoking the War Powers resolution before Bush 41 went into Kuwait. But Trump's attack on Iran is a different kind of conflict, and Congress should rein in this exercise in unlimited war-making, as I wrote here: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Yes, this. Everyone can keep blaming Biden & Garland if they want, but the primary, secondary, & tertiary answer to everything about our democracy's collapse since 2021 is "Mitch McConnell & the GOP Senators totally violated the oaths they swore on Bibles, twice, & so here we are."

"Senate Republicans unveiled a $72 billion spending package late Monday night, and onlookers were left stunned after discovering a $1 billion line item related to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project" www.rawstory.com/white-house-...

We've got a new visual on @nbcnews.com gas price tracker that shows how much, in dollars, average gas prices have changed on the county level. The Midwest has been hit the hardest, while Georgia is enjoying some of the lowest price increases in the U.S. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

I would have had a much happier time in 5th grade if the presidential fitness test had consisted of gently hitting a golf ball with a putter three times, as contrasted to running 2 miles around a track and being told to do 20 pull-ups, of which I accomplished around 2.3

This, from Jack Smith's indictment of Trump for conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 election, says he "exploited" the riot but not that he ordered it.

Don Jr. becomes an investor in and advisor to drone-parts maker Unusual Machines. Unusual Machines touts its "increasing visibility into...drone procurement initiatives such as the Department of War's Drone Dominance efforts." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“.. Real personal income per capita has not grown in 15 months and is meaningfully below the pre-pandemic trend.” - @thedailyshot.bsky.social

Two former CIA officers wanted to understand how foreign money reaches the Trump family without leaving fingerprints. The answer: crypto. I returned to Mission Implausible to discuss World Liberty Financial, Binance, and Iran with @johnsipher.bsky.social and Jerry O'Shea.

New: Trump boys set to profit from Dad's war me, for 1100 Pennsylvania

White House trying to pull wool over Congress' eyes? White House Letter to claim War Powers clock stopped: "There has been no exchange of fire between United States Forces and Iran" since ceasefire began Gen Caine: "Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran...attacked US forces more than 10 times"

Key 'Unite the Right' Leaders Say MAGA 'Deluded' About SPLC Role in Charlottesville www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/prominent-...

RED FLAG: The Trump Justice Department has demanded the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, according to court records. The demand targets employees of Fulton County elections as well as volunteer poll workers, who likely numbered in the thousands.

Rep. Buddy Carter calls for Georgia officials to toss out already cast votes: "We need to suspend the House races and go ahead and redistrict so that Georgians would be represented in the next two years by people who represent their values. Georgia is a Republican state. We need to remember that."

One thing is, okay, let’s set aside the fact that Kennedy is a conspiracy-theory crank with zero credentials. Isn’t “the government jumps into health care to micromanage what sorts of treatments are available” THE EXACT THING REPUBLICANS HAVE SUPPOSEDLY BEEN ANGRY ABOUT SINCE 2010?

Doug Lindner to @weareufd.bsky.social: "There was nothing wrong with the Voting Rights Act ... the law is the not the problem. The problem is that far-right politicians and judges, including life-tenured Supreme Court justices, keep abusing their public offices to steal power from the people."

Two different technical, procedural moves from #SCOTUS yesterday have one thing in common: The Court is behaving differently in otherwise similar cases based upon the ideological/partisan valence of the dispute. Via "One First," me on why, results aside, that's a serious indictment of the Court:

“.. Trump’s comments on Monday created a sharp contrast with the economic reality outside Washington, as rising energy prices hammer families and businesses ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran would ​need to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...

“.. The funding would come in legislation authored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, which would allow for Republicans to pass the money over Democratic objections. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“.. There is no refund,” he said. “Only a handful of people are going to be able to access this, and I can almost guarantee it will not trickle down to me. It’s just maddening.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/1267...

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

Remember, back in December this same SCOTUS said it was too late to change Texas' maps (that had just been changed in August) after they were deemed (by a Trump-appointed judge) to be unconstitutional. So Dec. was too late, but May (after ballots have been sent) is fine? WTF?

Remind me again why Americans say they trust the GOP to responsibly handle the purse strings??

I know people involved in california water stuff and if you bring this particular incident up they have to go take a walk however stupid you think this whole thing was it was stupider than that

Chief Justice John Roberts once decried partisan gerrymandering as “unjust.” Last week, the high court made a decision that doesn’t just tolerate but encourages the practice, @dgraham.bsky.social argues:

FOX BUSINESS: The EPA is allowing extension of gas flaring for gas operations, and that some argue is not great for emissions. Can you point to something where you have actually tightened regulations to make sure we have clean air? ZELDIN: So, we, uh, um ...

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.

🔥 @timmiller.bsky.social : “You can’t tell me it’s a real democracy if by exec order the governor can nullify your vote… in Tennessee — the idea that NASHVILLE & MEMPHIS would not have representation? How is that democracy? That’s preposterous.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

JPMORGAN: “.. In 2025, US farm bankruptcies rose by ~50% y/y due in part to tariffs raising the cost of steel, equipment and herbicide inputs, tariff retaliation which reduced export markets, and immigration policy reducing the supply of undocumented farm labor.” 👀

JPMORGAN: “.. While the Trump 2.0 DoJ increased prosecution of immigration cases, it also terminated pending investigations involving organized crime, white collar crime, corruption, labor racketeering, violent crime, healthcare fraud and national security at a record pace.”

Morning Joe put together a supercut of Sen. Blumenthal asking Trump's judicial nominees who won the 2020 election, and each of them refusing to acknowledge that Trump lost

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

The SCOTUS decision on redistricting is no big deal, Washpost Opinion assures us. It just returns us to how elections worked in the early 1800s.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

The next 20 years of US history is going to be an endless series of 59-day wars with Iran. Veteran talking in 2032: “Ahh yes, I deployed to the Middle East with the Air Force for Iran War VII through Iran War XXIII.”

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

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Chris Taylor, a senior adviser to the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, said: “This is a Republican Party that is at war with Black America.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

Again: this is real life.

Wow. Trump approval down to 34% in Pew. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & yet this man is still in office acting like a Mad King & getting away with it 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

The people have spoken about Trump's D.C. "renovations." The consensus? Not great, Bob.

New in PN: Trump’s Reichstag fire presidency is immolating "While the world is lucky that Trump — a far lazier man than the quite lazy Hitler — is petering out well before he achieves anything close to the Nazi dictator's horrors, they share a late-regime obsession w/monuments to their failed rule"