Could have announced victory on D minus-1 and saved a lot of trouble.

New Todd Blanche lied to Laura Ingraham that DOJ had no info suggesting that SPLC shared what they learned from informants with the FBI. Prosecutors now suggest that's okay because he (sorta) corrected himself on a different Fox program five days later. Doc buff.ly/DvqDBEH

**blinks in minneapolis**

Why do Republicans now want TAXPAYERS to pay $1 billion for Trump’s ballroom? 😡

Dozymandias

time and time again the court holds that rules and maps - even illegal ones - cannot be changed because it is “too close to an election” if the changes would benefit Dems now, it is fine canceling *ongoing primaries* in order to rewrite maps in favor of the GOP

Probably the same ones who had an advanced knowledge of Trump's decisions.

A mortifying percentage of tech fortunes are built on theft

Kinda burying the lead here, NPR

These monsters are always talking about rounding people up and putting them in camps.

Eliminating the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Boston Celtics in the same week... Philadelphia Forever

Trump to Congress, May 1: Hostilities with Iran "have been terminated." Trump to Florida audience, May 1: "You know we’re in a war." @ericalgj.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

The man with the nuclear codes: "He’s been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live... He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn’t do, because of his sheer power and force of will."

Blake Lizotte just got away with this spear on Porter Martone. no penalty.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

World upside down.

Odd, how a lone gunman failed to even enter a targeted room and no one was harmed—and Republicans go HYSTERICAL over the “tone” of Democrats. And yet heavily armed and masked fascists murdered two people at point-blank range in the streets of Minneapolis—and not a peep about the “tone” of the right.

john fetterman is in the same groupchats

Happy talk on Friday to drive the markets up. Cold hard news on Saturday to drive them back down on Monday. Rinse. Repeat..

Yeah, something like this has to be the real answer. The President can't sue an agency he currently controls, it's ridiculous.

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

WARREN: So those massive discounts-- RFK Jr: Massive. 600 percent WARREN: 600 percent! They can pay hundreds of dollars on TrumpRx or they can get it for $12 as Costco

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

Sitting in this work AI use meeting like…

Hairy Caray checking on the Phillies’ bullpen.

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Phillies are attempting stolen bases 4.8% of the time vs. 6.8% last season. (League average was 6.7% last year, 6.6% this year.) Also 27th in attempting to take extra bases this year (36% to 43% league average) vs. 42% (exactly league average) last year. 0 sac bunt attempts this year (27 last year).

Very interesting piece. “An ‘edifice complex’ emerges when individuals in positions of authority, uncertain of their place in history, attempt to pre-empt posterity’s judgment with grandiose construction projects. It reflects insecurity and egomania in equal measure.” quillette.com/2026/03/26/t...

Trump did this 👇🏽

The speech is fantastic, and the silence after Wilson’s rebuttal is absolutely delicious. Well done, @wajali.bsky.social !

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

I feel like I‘m in Bananaland. How is Platner still in? Leave aside the Nazi tattoo, his lies about it, his past & present use of slurs and his gross work history. The fact is he voted for Collins multiple times, his *own staff* resigned over these issues and zero experience. Fetterman redux?🍸

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then? Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

Howard Lutnick's firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, bought up the rights to refunds from importers, essentially betting against his boss's signature economic policy. Lutnick -- and his adult sons who run CF -- will make a fortune. The cynical cash grab continues.

Again, if you want explain why trust in universities has declined in the last decade, & you don't benchmark that decline against contemporaneous declines in trust in <every other societal institution> in 🇺🇸, then you cannot identify variables internal to universities as the main or sole explanations.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

DoorDash's head of public affairs said "no one is claiming it was a real delivery." I found a few people who were claiming that: Reuters, ABC, CBS, the AP, Fox, Newsmax, The Hill, the New York Post, and CSPAN, for starters. www.readtpa.com/p/a-real-del...

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

The federal government – ICE, FBI, and more – is spying on you without a warrant. This week, Congress will decide whether Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Trump can keep spying on Americans. If that scares you (it should) this thread is for you.

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.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

They have a whole landing page on it!