"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention."

The House of Representatives is often regarded as the “People’s House." If Republicans complete their racial-gerrymandering campaign, it will lose any claim to honestly representing the American people as a whole. trib.al/QUufZzL

Don't forget: my old Yale Law classmate Clarence Thomas refused to recuse from Jan. 6 cases despite his wife's involvement in the plot. And he's taken at least 100 gifts worth over $2 million while serving, including from GOP donor Harlan Crow. He's a disgrace to the Court.

It took me a while but I finally managed to get Palm Pilot sync software running on my Arch Linux desktop. It actually syncs with my Palm Tungsten TX!

The corporate takeover of American politics was rapid and ruthless. In the 1970s, I watched as thousands of corporate lobbyists descended on Washington. Fast forward to today, and lobbying has become a multi-billion dollar industry. It all began with the Powell Memo.

Trump is now hyping up an Iran “deal” that would be WEAKER than Obama’s nuclear deal, the same deal Trump claimed was so terrible he had to destroy it. Think about that.

#Colorado: "We have a lot of folks who've worked and lived here for over 20, 25 years," Loya said. The Deportation Data Project found that immigration arrests of people without criminal convictions increased eightfold. www.9news.com/article/news...

Mainstream TV news has shifted from “inform the public” to “don’t offend power.” The worst part is the tone: everything is delivered like a calm weather report while the country is on fire. These past anchors understood that journalism is supposed to apply pressure. Not host a brunch panel.

After Missouri voters passed ballot measures to enshrine abortion rights and establish paid sick leave, GOP state legislators overturned them. Now voters may have to pass another referendum just to protect the progress they've made. The GOP's contempt for democracy is absurd.

Information collected by the people, for the people. And it belongs to the people. This theft, and it is subversion. The individuals must be named. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

'Cause that's an American thing. Cementing the master's agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Trump Administration Weighs Citing ‘Emergency’ to Admit More Afrikaners as Refugees www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...

Tesla is now accused of misleading customers. In the past, it has been caught making “misleading statements” about the safety of its electric vehicles, Now, a lawsuit filed in California alleges that the cars are also falsely exaggerating odometer readings to make warranties expire prematurely.

Glad to see this is happening. There was absolutely no reason for CBP to collect DNA from protesters at all, let alone on flimsy charges or no charges at all.

For his entire life, every word out of his mouth has been a lie. And the media stopped caring a long time ago that he lies as he breathes. Hopefully one day soon the American people will say they’re tired of being lied to every single day.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Singles Out $920 Million Worth Of Crude Oil Shorts And Says On-Again, Off-Again War Rehetoric Is Just 'Insider Trading' Source: Benzinga share.newsbreak.com/icrrlaz8

Franklin Roosevelt’s pragmatism and John Maynard Keynes’s ideas “saved capitalism from the capitalists”, writes Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prizewinning economist. Register for free to read his guest essay and learn why econ.st/42m6w9W Illustration: Dan Williams

He heard there were openings for late night comedians. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rudy might finally be making a legitimate claim Giuliani Seeks to Have Health Care Covered by 9/11 Program www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/n...

Collins has exposed and rightly protested persisting historical cruelty in American political discourse. One lesson here is: politicians should not keep Health secrets. Another is she’s just a naturally feckless, easily manipulated senator.

The day you can undo a school bombing and killing 165+ girls, is the day I can forgive this administration.

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The word of the United States used to mean something. This week was a case study in how fast that changes. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Just a reminder to the ever energetic and effective Congress that Peter Thiel is mentioned more than 2200 times in the Epstein Files. Let Peter come in and testify and clear his name in hearings...

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

The surreal sensitivity is pervasive. It may just be what happens when you find out that the big things were invisible. When you find out that the Epstein oligarchic network was corrupting democratic governments for decades. Nothing seems real anymore. All a production--a crass, cheap one.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

This is pretty original. Just stand there and say the war is over, we won, let's move on. Nothing else changes, but you said it, so there you are. I mean, who has had the nerve to do this? Disruption!

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Marjorie Taylor Greene just revealed she has text messages from Trump that could get her “put in jail” if she releases them. “Donald Trump texted me that if my son gets killed, I deserve it because I was a traitor to him. I’d probably get put in jail if I released the texts. That’s our president.”

The fact that Kennedy compares his heroin addiction to SSRI use should honestly tell you everything this man knows about SSRIs He also is clearly unable to not center himself in anything he does. Cannot think of others. Incapable.

Boycott Jeff Bezos and his Met Gala.

I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.

I don't know Ezra doesn't know, but, yes, what we call "liberal" values are the actually the hallmarks of Western civilization--critical thinking, human rights, law above privilege, etc--but political "liberalism" has been around since the 18th century. American liberalism is a small chapter.

Yes, you read that right. Trump Administration Live Updates: Education Dept. Investigates Smith College Over Transgender Students www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

The most vivid symptom of a culture in decay is this kind of display, making humans into objects of folly and abuse. You have seen it in history many times. In this case, produced as fast as instant soup, by the pathological concentration of extreme wealth in the hands of sociopaths.

How quickly we forget. www.milwaukeeindependent.com/explainers/l...

A perceptive piece by @parkermolloy.com: "Shining a sympathetic spotlight on Carlson now does the work of laundering his reputation for the next time he attacks [his] next target. The infighting on the right is useful. Boosting the people doing it is not." open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

The dismantling of the Civil Rights Act was NOT the first step backwards to Jim Crow era. WAKE UP boingboing.net/2025/03/25/s...