"it is a shallow sort of fascism, obsessed with outward appearances and completely uninterested in everything else...violent purges and jackbooted pogroms are the sort of thing that fascist bad guys do in movies and TV." - @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism

in the past the future of a society could be discussed and debated in terms of ideology or economics, but we've reached a point where it all comes down to the personal wealth and power of specific individuals... and we have got to stop pretending otherwise

Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Katie Lane to a lifetime federal judgeship in Montana even though she earned a rare and embarrassing "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Assn. First of Trump 2.0 court picks to get this rating -- and to be confirmed anyway. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

Confirmed by 99 senators on January 20 and signed the memo that effectively killed USAID on January 24. Like, he wasn't who Senate dems thought he was for even a moment

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

i don't think there is any limit anymore to what the Court will do to overthrow American democracy.

State Rep. Josh Turek (D-IA), a gold medal Paralympian, won the Democratic primary Tuesday and will now set his sights on the open Iowa U.S. Senate seat.

Just so we’re all crystal clear, the Supreme Court says they’ve gutted the voting rights act and used the fifteenth amendment to justify it; what they’ve really done is to rewrite the fifteenth amendment, designed to protect non-white citizens’ voting rights, as a White Power amendment.

right. they are trying to end American democracy before they are ended by it

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

Oliver Darcy’s Status has obtained a statement from Scott Pelley responding to his termination by CBS News and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Nick Bilton. Full Story Here: bit.ly/3Qig8Qz (Side note: I will always be a paid subscriber to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social — worth every penny)

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

Steyer: I have a strong anti-ICE platform. I think they are a criminal organization, and we have a very strong plan when it comes to prosecuting them. You don’t have to trust me. The head of ICE went online to say that my program is unfair to ICE agents, and I took that as a huge compliment.

said this in a work email last week and, uh, shared my views with one of my groupchats.

The U.S. government handed a 3-year-old to an abuser to torture him to death, and then his mother was allotted one hour for his funeral.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Russian attack on Kyiv tonight. Home to several million people. Children. Elderly. Families, just like yours.

Searches for Adam Hoffman are skyrocketing as reports go viral of Ken Paxton’s office offering the admitted child molester a one-day jail sentence after serially abusing a young boy.

The family of a child who was repeatedly raped by a man who Ken Paxton let off with no new jail time is speaking out: “The fact that Attorney General Ken Paxton allowed this man to get away with molesting and sexually abusing [our] son for three years is completely disqualifying.”

according to the spacex filings, their valuation is justified entirely by grok, which will be 90% of enterprise ai, and ai will be 90% of the us economy

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

“One U.S. official acknowledg[ed] that some form of financial relief would be required for Iran.” So Trump’s war will end not just with the Iranian regime in power but with Trump paying them off far more handsomely than Obama ever did. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.

Former Governor of Texas Rick Perry (R): “Ken Paxton initially offered a plea deal to a MAN WHO ADMITTED TO MOLESTING a child to serve only ONE DAY IN JAIL.”

Secretary Mullin said I shouldn't have been at Delaney Hall, but I disagree.   This isn't about me. This is about the detainees and their families, the lawlessness we're seeing from ICE.   I was willing to take a risk and I'd do it all over again to keep people safe.

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

Hoffman “was first arrested and charged in 2022 for repeated instances of sexual abuse with a 10-year-old boy, a first-degree felony, and was facing life without parole.” Corrupt Ken Paxton is endangering children.

THIS IS YOUR WARNING! DON’T MESS WITH CALIFORNIA’S ELECTIONS.

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

No matter what deal they do, the war has effectively given control of the Strait to Iran. What a masterclass in incompetence by Trump and his team.

I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns. Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.

BREAKING: Donald Trump has announced a new deal with Iran where they do whatever they want whenever they want and we pay them and Trump stands there with his tiny dick in his tiny hand.

"On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. It will exercise leverage with dozens of the richest nations in the world." Sounds like Robert Kagan was right www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Meanwhile, Ukrainian boxer Usyk just dropped Verhoeven in round 11. His first words after the fight: "Ukraine is being bombed right now. My family is texting 'I love you' from a shelter."

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

I'm not easily shocked by this administration but this left my mouth hanging open

There have been very few airborne bombings by US aircraft on US soil. The first was the 1921 Tulsa Massacre of Black owned businesses. The most recent was the MOVE bombings in 1985, of Black occupied apartments in Philly.

it's going to be a tough negotiation between two of Trump's cronies over how many billions of tax payer dollars to give Trump.

Senator from a state that has never assimilated to the modern United States.

Here's my take on the California gubernatorial candidates' housing agendas, based on the Ezra Klein-hosted forum from last week. publiccomment.blog/p/the-candid...

“We need to be prepared, given that it’s not hard to see more extreme members and Trump himself pushing something like this between November and January…We should be clear: It would be a coup d’état, an attempt to overthrow constitutional government altogether.” www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-vra-ru...

Supreme Court Unblocks Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Map, Showing That Alito Was Lying talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

The Roberts Court previously treated the “Purcell Principle” (can’t change electoral rules close to an election) as important. But that was in instances doing so advantaged Republicans. Faced with a situation where Republicans want to change rules while voting is already underway, the Court says OK.

NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."

After losing their map in Virginia, Strength In Numbers estimates Dems are now down 6 seats in the House from mid-decade + post-VRA redistricting. Could lose 2-3 more across the South. Dems need to win the House pop. vote by 4 to win the majority of seats. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-10...

Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.

Trump’s sons signed a weapons deal with the Air Force during a war Congress never authorized. Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania documentary, then won a $581 million no-bid Pentagon contract. The corruption is not hidden anymore. It is the business model. November cannot come fast enough.

It's become totally commonplace. But it's remarkable how quickly it became commonplace that having totally valid immigration/work permit documents just became irrelevant and these people are routinely tossed into detention by ICE.