One of the wildest things about Kavanaugh's now-notorious quote is that there was ample evidence *on the record before the court* that this was untrue, yet he stated it as an undisputed statement of fact. Did he bother to read the record before writing his opinion?

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

I think a lot of people that stayed on x have been more influenced by Nazis than they would care to admit

It seems like when you report that Trump or an admin official says they are “close to a deal” with Iran you should put in the same article the number of times over the past 90 days they said the same thing and it never happened.

A state accused of deliberately drawing maps to diminish Black political power is unable to fight for those maps in court today because it is honoring a man who fought a war to deny Black Americans any political standing at all. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

A real man would have told those kids about all the bombs we’re dropping on Iran.

Nearly 700,000 #LGBTQ adults in the U.S. have received conversion therapy at some point in their lives. Olympic medalist Tim Koleto was one of them. In a new interview for @outsports.com, the retired figure skater tells me how the memory of that experience convinced him to come out publicly.

Telling SCOTUS that Alabama can’t push through its racist maps because it’s too busy honoring Jefferson Davis’s Birthday is perhaps the best thing I’ve ever read. That we’re here because Clarence Thomas ignored Alabama’s request for a SCOTUS decision by this morning is just the cherry on top.

NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

Racial profiling, including of US citizens, in Kavanaugh Immigration Stops is now routine. As in the time of legalized slavery, one racialized group, regardless of immigration status, bears the brunt of the full force of the federal government's resources in punitive immigration enforcement.

it's "june"!!

Local tour guides are “historians” now?

as Trump keeps purging nonwhite people from the country, he's simultaneously purging immigration courts of any immigration judges he thinks could hinder that effort--and silencing those who try speak out about it and the Supreme Court is helping keep them quiet ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Catholic Catechism and the Baptist Confession of Faith state explicitly that God is neither male nor female, has no body or physical form. To think of God as biologically male diminishes the very nature of God. Everyone from Billy Graham to the Pope to the Anglican Church agrees on this.

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

“The U.S. military murdered 3 more people it accused of smuggling drugs. This brings the total number of murders of people they have accused of drug smuggling with no evidence committed by the military to 205.” Fixed it for you.

During the apocalypse, the billionaires, celebrities, politicians and Royals will be safe in their bunkers. It'll be someone's job to drop live rattlesnakes down their air vents...that's where I come in.

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

The goal is twofold: 1) Create a permanent spoils system in which all considerations of merit are eliminated, and science is administered by politicians. 2) Eliminate all funding for any science that contradicts Christian fundamentalism

I hope Donald Trump goes to his grave knowing in his bones that there is no mark or monument he has put upon this country that we will not dedicate ourselves to uprooting

Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.

these are truly awful people. i wish them the worst. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

oh come on

NEW: Colorado Republicans are meeting now to select a new chairperson after infighting led the resignation of the previous chair. A leading candidate is MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann, who has called for the execution of the "Synagogue of Satan Jews" running Colorado.

CBS just dismantled the most important and popular news show in the history of television at the behest of a president who regularly sics the FBI on his critics. Here’s why some NYU kids complaining about Jonathan Haidt represents the greatest threat to free speech that our country faces.

Herbert Hoover said the same thing during the Depression: "The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They're too damn greedy!"

i don’t want a president who does whatever they want, even if those are things i want them to do. i want a congress who aggressively guards their first amongst equals status and is representative of the people they are elected to represent.

nearly every terrible thing trump has done could have been stopped by a legislature who views the other branches as inferior to their own, as was the intent from the very start.

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

AI can tell you how a word is spelled. But the work these kids do to solve those words—developing study tactics, identifying linguistic patterns, honing their ability to perform under pressure—is something a computer can’t do for you. The Bee is a reminder of what the human brain is capable of.

This is rookie NFL QB Cole Payton. He is 6’3”, 232 pounds.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

Between the DNC comms person and now Talarico's girlfriend, Dems are having a good 'Republicans post a woman's photo to be weird but then the woman is hot' week

I remember when I wrote about how John Solomon was rolling over for Trump and he got so mad and insisted he was so independent etc and well

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

T. Elliot Gaiser, the head of OLC, is quickly building up a track record to qualify as one of the true villains of this era. Today, Acting AG Todd Blanche is using OLC to team up with the FCC's Brendan Carr to make it harder for some immigrants to have phones and internet access.

Legend.

not a dumb question! yes some of the people who wrote the Voting Rights Act are still alive and we do have documentation (from then & now) about what the legislature intended, all of which the Court's Republicans ignored I discussed this in the 'stealing elections' chapter of The Originalism Trap

NEW: The DOJ has launched criminal investigations into all performers who canceled their appearances at Trump’s concerts.

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

i think it is probably difficult to pull the “this guy isn’t manly” gambit when you look like someone aged up the boss baby

FUCK ICE

Fairly strange to see organizers of Rome’s Pride enforcing Mussolini’s 1938 “race” laws excluding Jews. Even stranger that they surely think they are being “progressive” by doing so.

In this interview with Henry Fernandez for @thenation.com, I had the chance to talk about my forthcoming book, our deeply flawed criminal justice system, and that time in college that my student journalism landed me in hot water and taught me some painful lessons. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.