South Carolina had surprised me with an early vote against this, so I’m not at all surprised now, just disappointed

Dear GOP leader is such a weird little man

I stand by my take that Tina Peters was an incompetent nincompoop in a tiny county (2.7% of Colorado population) that got caught. Her flim-flam had no material impact on any county or state election results. Eight years ‘was’ a lot for her situation

Hahaha exactly The cult’s logic on this topic is astoundingly stupid

It’s just not realistic to expect this guy to say what ‘he’ thinks when one of the more strategic parts of his business (AWS) depends on government contracts, ‘and’ when he knows that the top decision maker is an exquisitely-insecure, petty little man who would reduce that business on a whim

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Ever since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Trump’s gerrymandering war has kicked into high gear. Multiple states’ congressional maps are up in the air, with new developments coming down by the day. Our redistricting map tracks all the latest updates LIVE:

Scary prospect

Great!

Trump’s 3 Cs: crazy corruption continues

tRump's shady $1.8B "Anti-Weaponization Fund" — payoffs to allies via DOJ settlement of his IRS lawsuit — proves our government is now a tool for his personal revenge & crony enrichment. Taxpayers pay, loyalists cash in. Corruption this blatant destroys trust in democracy. mcsp.short.gy/ydlw

Minnesota has become the first state to ban prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. ground.news/article/e165...

BREAKING: It took eight tries, but the Senate has voted 50-47 to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s war on Iran. Bill Cassidy flipped after losing his primary, joining Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul in voting with Democrats. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote against.

Oof is right, and I’ll add a yuck 🤢

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And what, pray tell Secretary Rollins, is causing said price increases and struggling farm economy? I have a tariffic answer for you if interested. Farmers war also affected by another thing I could fill you in on, if interested

Super-interesting insight, made me want to dive deeper. Here’s what the Google machine says (I asked it to include sources in its responses)!

The adults in the room will be ready for this bs but I’m sure it will be chaos My guess is the MAGAts will show themselves to be the 🤡 🤡 🤡 that they are

I’m no expert ofc but while I don’t think Talarico will win Texas regardless of his opponent, I do think he’ll do better vs Paxton than Cornyn

Van Hollen eviscerates acting Attorney Fraud Todd Blanche aka “Total Blank.” Watch to the end - perfect

Now ‘this’ is the way to report something “Trump says” including the headline @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cbsnews.com bsky.app/profile/demo...

Fatnatistic thread with several fantastic cartoons, I liked this one in particular

Wow Thoughts and prayers, the hate version

No bail out for the king of the GOP 🤡 car administration!

Cuban drinking the GOP koolaid to get favors

GOP clown show diplomacy in action

This is really important analysis.

And again, here we are with more hate-based violence by some guy who should never get near a gun - now for the “price of freedum,” “thoughts and prayers,” “we need to fund more mental health treatment,” “if they’d been armed they woulda stopped him” etc

He’s been on a roll recently when it comes to elections. This is a good test of Epstein v dear GOP leader

Randy Fine and people of his ilk hate the majority of Americans, so I think he and they are the ones who hate America

While you pay more for groceries, health care, and utilities, Trump is inching towards making a slush fund for his MAGA allies using hard earned taxpayer dollars. This is corruption in full effect.

Oh no! apnews.com/article/san-...

There was a lot of misdirection with Rededicate 250. E.g., the website is very careful to denote a celebration of God not Christ, and the promotional video weaves in a couple of quick clips of Jewish people. However the faith speaker slate was 18 Christians (predominantly evangelicals) and 1 Rabbi

ESPN’s Randy Scott quote on Jordan Canada’s slick move to the hoop on a highlight from yesterday: “Canada and the Euro step in an unholy alliance against the Americans”

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

⚠️ Iran started an account for the Strait of Hormuz on X:

There are 169 days until the Midterms, 904 days until the next theoretical Presidential Election, and 978 days until the next optional Inauguration Day. Midterms progress: ███████▒▒▒ 74% Presidency/Regime progress: ███▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 34% Until Next Inauguration : ███▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 33% #protest

Mr Bad Faith speaks

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The “Trump says” or “Trump said” headlines and reporting have been the most disappointing aspect of the media in this 2nd Trump term. The guy lies, exaggerates and simply makes shit up on a daily basis - this should be the default assumption on anything he says, and it should be reputed as such

He’s red and he voted against the American people on a regular basis, but Bill Cassidy was one of a truly small handful (in honor of dinky pinky POTUS) of reds who voted to remove a truly criminal President. I’ll give him full credit for that - he should sleep well at night on that point at least

Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

The Civil War ended 161 years ago. The South lost, slavery was abolished and Black voices soon had the right to be heard as citizens and voters. This Supreme Court and numerous southern states may still try to change that--as if their Lost Cause remains righteous--but we can stop their immoral wish.

Weakness. Trump has nothing except empty threats and cankles. He has lost this war but refuses to admit it.

Totally agree with this tho it ‘is’ tough rt now. The reactionary enemy is winning the redistricting battle thanks to the courts, red Congress keeps bending over to implement Trump’s agenda incl the ballroom/pool/arch BS, and MAGA keeps primary-ing anyone who crosses him. Nov can’t come soon enough

Dear GOP leader ‘doesn’t think’ about the American people. He just doesn’t care. This should be in Dem and Dem PAC ads everywhere at least through the midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

A ballroom blessed by God, according to the sacrilegious right

Canada advertising in my feed now, also targeting my demographic (newly retired), although I’m not as old as ‘those’ guys, eh :)

Corruption should and likely will be a massive campaign theme for Democrats and these quotes should figure prominently.

Dear GOP leader does not care about the American people’s financial situations. He said it twice (so far) - put that clip in the ads, Dems