In a functioning democracy, we could count on the government to give us something approximating the truth after a fatal shooting outside the White House. But in whatever transitional system we’re in now, we automatically assume the regime is lying to us.

From 2024:

This entire situation is nothing less than shocking. The academic dishonesty alone should disqualify everyone involved from any science-related position, permanently. I think it may actually be impossible for me to overstate how treacherous and dangerous this is.

The NY Times apparently thinks fairness in journalism means having no values at all. Trump assaults one of the key factors in America's rise to global leadership — immigration — and the best the Times can do is call it a “risky pivot.”

Billionaire Jeff Bezos said doubling his taxes wouldn’t help regular, working people. So we did the math, and the results are staggering.

lmao yeah if anyone thinks Harris lost because of tRaNs pRiSoNeRs and not because of ignoring voters on Gaza and multiple other issues, they actively want us to keep losing

We got a very welcome 0.82" of rain last night at our house in in Piedmont NC. Not nearly enough, however. Strikingly, that was the largest one day total since mid October, an almost unheard of drought in our time here. 1/2

And Trump’s reliance on idiot golfing buddies: During talks with Iran European officials were stunned to find themselves explaining basic uranium-enrichment concepts to the American team, Reuters reports.

The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower. That audit could have cost him more than $100 million. (From May 2024 w/ @nytimes.com)

AOC: I think it’s pretty unbelievable that Gaza would not be mentioned once in the autopsy report. I think it was very clearly a major dynamic and a major thread that was happening in 2024. The fact that it’s not even addressed, I think, is a major oversight.

The main process argument against the death penalty is that it’s irreversible in the case of wrongful conviction but the fact that executions can’t be carried out with 100% certainty is also a clear process argument that it is “cruel and unusual” punishment.

The "batteries are just as bad as fossil fuels" stuff is so fucking stupid, so easy to refute with just a minute or two of rational thought, so *obviously* a piece of propaganda, that I just have no sympathy at all for people who fall for it. Gonna block everyone who drags it into my feed.

"Democrats dislike a guy who killed people with a gun and like a guy who didn't, square that"

NPR: Swing voters in North Carolina say they are frustrated with President Trump and the state of the economy, but aren't ready to abandon him or his party as the midterms inch closer. If they always vote for Republicans, then they aren't swing voters Headlines like this, piss me off

The IRS leak that was the subject of Trump’s suit occurred in 2018-2020, when he was president. So, in effect, he was suing over what his own IRS did. Then he dropped the suit after he got his own Justice Department to give him a $1.8B slush fund to reward his thug army. What an outrageous scam.

After some early promising signs it looks like Spanberger is pivoting to shitty centrist

Liberal arts education profoundly changed my life.

Billionaire fascist enabler Jeff Bezos says Trump has been "more mature" during his second term. More mature. You can build a corporate juggernaut and make mountains of money and still be a pathetic fascist tool. History won't treat the tech capitulators kindly. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...

The deepest challenge to student learning is the transactional system of education they've been steeped in. Harvard's actions have just turbocharged this problem by making the desired outcome of the transaction scarcer. More stress, more dishonesty, more AI use, less collaboration. Good luck, fools!

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

The NY Times embarrasses itself with a story that says, in effect, "Until Todd Blanche approved Trump's $1.8B thug fund and his tax cheat immunity, we thought Blanche was a moderate." The story doesn't even mention Blanche's dirty dealing with Ghislaine Maxwell.

You know the U.S. is most of the way to a dictatorship right now, and heading further in that direction, right? Can you please let the mainstream media know about it? They seem to be actively trying to downplay the biggest story of their careers.

The media need to retire their lame descriptions of the many financial scams of the crook-in-chief. It’s not “a break from norms.” It’s not “highly unusual.” IT’S CORRUPT! My Stop the Presses newsletter.

"The media covering Trump should use the word 'corrupt' more often...it’s abundantly clear that a corrupt enterprise is operating out of WH. The media shouldn’t keep it a secret." I like this test from @markjacob.bsky.social: Will coverage convey full measure of his corruption to *casual* readers?

i think one of the best grifters has to be alyssa farah griffin, who went from posting birther stuff w her dad at world net daily, to trump white house staffer, to campaigning with harris and now co-hosting the view. excellent scam. and the liberals totally fell for it.

if we ever get a democratic president again and he or she says one fucking word about "turning the page" on this gop criminality i think ill riot.

Gross stuff from this woman

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

Actually, abolish all monarchs. Except for the butterflies. They can stay.

TF is wrong with these people

Mainstream media should be covering Trump with fewer political reporters and more crime reporters.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

Sure sounds like Trump is trying to make the White House into a fortress for when he refuses to leave office.

he's still posting on twitter but @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has stopped posting here. he wants an echo chamber.

i absolutely hate the dem congress thing of asking witnesses "will you commit to [doing thing we know they will never fucking do]?"

i care much more about the people who are going to die from trump policies than i do about the feelings of limp noodle democrats who simply refuse to do basic shit to stop trump policy.

Exactly. Hit Blanche with the degenerates this will help. "This is a mug shot of so-and-so. He beat up cops on January 6. Trump pardoned him. Then he was arrested for molesting a child. How much taxpayer money do you plan to give him from Trump's insurrectionist/pedophile slush fund?" Rinse, repeat

Mamdani booms in New York as Reaganomics goes bust www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Greg Sargent is the best. Always on point, always pushing back on the regime's cruelty and corruption.

Among the primaries I'm watching tomorrow: In Georgia, Democratic state Senator Esther Panitch said last year that Ossoff's criticism of Israel amounted to a "betrayal" and that she'd be open to supporting Kemp if he challenged Ossoff. Tomorrow, she faces a DSA-backed challenger, Aaron Baker.

critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”

Where does grabbing women by the p***y fit into all this?

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

I want these 3 things. 1. A recognition among Democrats that bipartisanship is dead. 2. An opposition party that understands its role is to OPPOSE the party in power. 3. An end to the filibuster so the party in power can reap the rewards and suffer the consequences of its decisions.

You can see from his disbelief and confusion that these tech bros don’t get booed nearly enough. Bravo, University of Arizona! The rest of us need to boo harder. Let them know what ordinary people think of them.

This is Abraham Lincoln stuff and I am so here for it

Froomkin is right about all of this: today too much of the media is averting its eyes from the experience of Black people. Too much coverage treats this extraordinary and consequential display of racism and societal regression as if it were just an ordinary political battle.

Memphis Press-Scimitar, 21 December 1945. "[Gerald Smith] wants to preserve 'Christian Nationalism' without domination by the Jews or any other minority group. And he wants America First--with Mr. Smith leading the 'crusade.'"