”Moderates” willingness to compromise with white supremacists bent on destroying Black political power destroyed Reconstruction and led to a century of Jim Crow. Democrats need to play hardball, not compromise with segregationists.

Really looking forward to a post-midterm analysis showing the three-seat Dem majority would have been a 50-seat majority with fair electoral maps. I won’t be upset at all.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Republicans are very close to using full-on slurs for Jews, LGBTQIA+ folks, and Black people. They want to do it soooo badly.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

One of the famous duties of Vice Presidents of the United States, "investigating" US states. And the media just nods along.

As someone who’s had shingles twice: this is just fucking evil www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

The GOP's Louisiana is basically Orban's Hungary. apnews.com/article/new-...

There are seemingly countless things wrong with this administration, but the corruption is both staggeringly obvious and a very effective campaign theme that would unite voters across the spectrum.

If you live in her district, please contact Council Member Gale Brewer and let her know you support a safer and more efficient West 72nd Street. (917) 685-8657 [email protected] council.nyc.gov/gale-brewer/...

Alex Jones has created a justice system wholly unto himself by threatening judges and anyone in his way with the very threats that bankrupted him — unrelenting harassment of innocent people and their families. It will work as long as the courts let it. Remove this stay. Give these parents justice.

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

@miketanier.bsky.social what's the funniest thing that could happen in round 1 tonight and why would it be the browns or Jets drafting Ty Simpson?

They're just kooks that have always been around and all that happened is that the President is also a kook.

"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

If you live in New York and are as mad about this as me I encourage you to call Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie's office and tell him to support the Stop Super Speeders bill that would take drivers like him off the road: 518-455-3791

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

this is so profoundly dishonorable

This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events. And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.

The plot to enslave America. The plot to enslave humanity. They are announcing it because they think we can no longer stop them

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

@benjaminkabak.com Which transit project would you like to see Mamdani roll out a sign saying "eat shit Ingrid" sign? Has to be Astoria or Ashland place, right?

MEDICARE FOR ALL IS A FILM STUDIO RETENTION ISSUE

@benjaminkabak.com is there any way to report Waymo operating illegally? My friend has seen them on streets twice since their permit expired

@benjaminkabak.com every night we get to see why there was no children's book titled "if you give a bad manager a flawed roster"

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”. This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

This interaction between White House election security official Kurt Olsen and Paul Brown, the head of the FBI’s Atlanta field office, is eye-popping. Brown was pressured to retire for not going along with the plan to seize 2020 ballots from Fulton County. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

'the pope is an American because the Vatican is out to get me' is terrific because it's both a thing an insane person would think and also probably true.

THREAD. This single headline in the NYT contains two outrageous claims reported as fact: 1) Vance "tried" to end the war; and 2) he "opposed" it. Neither is supported, but the thing to understand is: why is lying about the *intention* of powerful people so key to propaganda?

"I would say this is not a great act of judgment on the campaign's part."

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Major media outlets are helping JD Vance play both sides — posing as the principled adviser opposed to the war but also as the loyal helpmate supporting his president's war. Get a grip. Vance is helping a criminal president conduct an illegal war. It’s a scandal that working the press works so well.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

if the Dems somehow retake power, they must do everything possible to make this man's life hell. Create a new subcommittee specifically to drag his ass in front of it and ask him why his stupid brain is the way it is, every day bsky.app/profile/theu...

If it walks like a duck

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

@riveraveblues.bsky.social You may have already corrected it on Patreon, but I think you meant William Contreras not Willson.

I don't think the legal system is equipped to handle the potential volume of aggrieved pro se plaintiffs 'advised' by AI.

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

Did…the Trump regime lowkey threaten to kill the pope?

You never miss professional diplomats until they're gone

Cops fractured his skull for standing by in peaceful protest. And people in power claimed he assaulted the cops. No hell greater for those who smeared him. RIP.

They truly do not think laws apply to them at all. It's appalling. She should be disbarred.

*taps the sign*

@benjaminkabak.com it's pretty gross that whatever decision Trump chooses on Iran, he's doing it to "maximize TV ratings". The time deadline chosen gives it away. We're being forced to endure his narcissism.