i have no idea what this means but I'm excited

5.21.26. 4:10PM. Live.

Sure you hate "burrito taxi 'sponsive" discourse, but what if we crossed it with "medieval peasants lived a life of leisure" discourse?

timeline cleanse

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

conservatives are being pretty clear that they see anything more than a token black presence as tantamount to "anti-white discrimination," and even then, they view that as suspect

Polis/Massie is the 2028 Libertarian ticket, I regret to inform you all

Strong evidence that the shooters at the mosque in San Diego yesterday held both Islamophobic and antisemitic beliefs. Our safety is bound up together, no matter how much politicians may try to divide us.

watching every republican primary and nodding while saying “buddy get ready for 100% more hitler this cycle”

There's a funny drama on X right now where Republicans are demanding Dems condemn Galindo and they're all like - yes! We have! She's only in the race bc a secretive pop-up GOP PAC ("Lead Left") keeps running ads about how progressive she is!

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

The most principled figure in American politics: a retiring Republican Senator thinking about their book deal

I again insist this is a total fringe wacko that Republicans have ratfucked into visibility. Her job is to discredit us.

exactly one Jan 6th protestor received proportionate punishment and she received it on Jan 6th

Steyer flubbed this one. As soon as she said “I run WIRED” he should have responded “so you’re management?” and immediately ended the interview to show solidarity with the working class

Christofascist horseshit. We really do need to do a number on our Augean Stables.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

you never lived without a state. you never came to a border in fear and trembling. you were never asked for your papers to prove you were the 'right' kind of person. (And yes, this is also the situation of Palestinians, which is why Palestinians want *and deserve* a state of their own.)

notable nobody argues that, for instance, the Kurds wanting a state of their own is irredeemable ethnonationalism for which they must be condemned forever.

Jews wanted a border and an army and a state in order to protect themselves, which is the same thing that Palestinians want, because like it or not *we live in a world of states.*

is bsky having a moment

taking tax dollars to pay insurrectionists. which (by the way) the 14th amendment is supposed to prohibit: "[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States...."

On Fri night, Brooklyn court staff forced a woman to give birth inside the courtroom. Per public defenders, she gave birth in handcuffs, unable to reposition herself, unable to pick up her infant. The men who’d shackled her looked on. The judge lauded the birth of a ‘beautiful baby’ on the record.

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

From the Bullshit Translation Service AG: "Right people" Translation: WHITE PEOPLE

It's kind of fascinating how the red-brown phenomenon is exclusively the reds following browns and never the other way around

add to this that polis himself admitted that he thought peters’ contrition was insincere *and* that he subverted the court who was scheduled to resentence her, it’s an abuse of executive power, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with her original sentence, that’s the whole problem

Is it the official policy of the US Dept. of Homeland Security that no Jews serve there? If not, who is the “we” defined by belief in Jesus Christ as savior? Or does the “our” refer to the Americans whose security the Department has a duty to protect, none of whom are apparently Jews?

there are a lot of people who seem to believe "if you cared enough, you would have won the election" is a type of argument rather than the dumbest fucking thing anyone has ever said

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

Voters be like “we hate every single idea Republicans have, we will only vote for them 65% of the time”

i hate js so fucking much

ts is so corny (excuse my nutpicking)

Some of the people interviewed are three-time Trump voters who nonetheless consider themselves political independents who distrust both parties, in case you needed another reminder of what that actually means

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

white southerners are essentially demonic

for americans: this is like if generic democrats were polling 45-55 in Wyoming

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

Also the "that image wasn't me of Jesus it was me as a doctor" probably came from one of his advisors telling him to say the image was doctored.

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

this is obviously stupid but also "i should not have to see a black person in a position of power or influence" is a guiding belief of the trump administration

This is very foolish, especially in current supply-shock conditions: the price will just rise until consumption ends up balanced with supply *anyway.* There is, in fact, no short-term policy solution to a supply shock. You need to restore inputs, replace inputs or destroy demand. 🤷‍♂️

In theory it should be insanely difficult to start a war for any reason but the imperial US president can just be like "hello yes I would like to commence an offensive war of choice" like he's ordering a fucking pizza. And if you object to this people treat you like a fringe weirdo! Madness

It’s time to stop lumping Hakeem and Schumer together. This fight on redistricting is the singular fight of the next 4 years in a lot of ways and Hakeem is seemingly up for the knife fight.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

a reminder of the gutter racism that media just lets slide

we got rid of the president of unavoidable high grocery prices to elect the president of avoidable high grocery prices

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders