Crusader Hegseth cut the military's recognized faiths down from over 211 to just 31. Among those no longer recognized by Hegseth's Pentagon are Unitarian Universalists, a tradition that can trace service in (& critique of) US military back to the Revolutionary war www.military.com/dod-official...

The admin is making its unlawful intentions for the midterms clear. But laws guard against this type of interference—and because we know what’s coming, we can prepare. We teamed up w/ @brennancenter.org to help advocates stand up for free, fair elections: https://protdem.org/election-advocates-2026

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023

Polis essentially released a proud arsonist at the beginning of wildfire season

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Apocalypse surveillance can only be fought through solidarity action. Read my words w/ Amanda Beckham for @freepress.bsky.social on our new #SOS initiative to fight govt & corporate spying: pressingissues.org/the-antidote...

DEEP DIVE: The Trump administration is escalating efforts to unmask anonymous online critics, sending grand jury subpoenas to social media companies for their information. A court fight has been playing out in sealed proceedings in DC. With Jimmy Jenkins: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Observe. Record. Document. Don’t threaten the officers with harm. Don’t put yourself in harm’s way. Accountability will come.

Donald Trump has decided to use his DOJ lickspittles to try to intimidate an 82-year-old woman whom he owes $88.3 million after a trial jury found he sexually assaulted her three decades ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

Mlli Vanilli?! The worst insult yet.

a disgrace not only to the office of the president but to military families who have lost loved ones

Leading on AI regulation to protect humanity, calling out war, standing with immigrants, and now apologizing for the church’s historic sins…the premier moral leader of our time is a newly minted pope from Chicago. Whoever is writing this season’s episodes is crushing it.

“If the foundational pillar of voting rights in America has been destroyed overnight” in Callais, said Protect Democracy’s Farbod Faraji, “there is going to be much more of an appetite than ever before for bigger reforms” like proportional representation. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Remember this when Johnson tries to prevent the swearing in of a newly elected Democratic majority next year because of “voter fraud”

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

He doesn't mean they're doing better now. He just means we stopped helping them.

Trump and his cronies look to be stealing from the American taxpayers left and right and finding all sorts of illicit ways to line their own pockets. So what can be done? My colleagues @protectdemocracy.org explain how we can get the money back. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Saying it now: no “too big to fail” bailouts for the techbro oligarchs

This slush fund to reward insurrectionists is a continuation of the assault on our democracy started by donald on January 6th. Its wrong and puts us in continued danger. See you in court

Blanche could’ve just said, without even fully accepting the premise here, that if you’re a known child abuser you can’t have this money. The fact that he won’t say that is horrifying

Until the police unions speak out, I’m going to assume they’re okay with the president paying millions to people who beat police officers

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

A bright line runs through Trump’s first term refusal to visit Aisne-Marne, his appointment of the painfully unqualified Hegseth atop DoD, and gross crap like this: total contempt for our military and the sacrifices Americans in uniform have made for generations.

The administration does appear to be doing a Sicario in Mexico. www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/p...

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

"The collective net worth of Trump’s Cabinet...is the highest ever, even before counting the president."

The Trump administration increasingly resembles a suicide bomber trying to blow up a livable future. Rather than building resilience, it is fostering a mad dash for dirty money that couldn’t care less about tomorrow. When we win, critical reforms must occur alongside real accountability.

“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

I want to talk to you about @nwsnws.com. Independent journalism is in crisis—you already know this. Outlets are dying. The surviving ones can't find their readers, readers can't find them. We built a newsletter economy out of desperation and then forgot to build the infrastructure around it. /1

As Brendan Carr asserts his role as Trump's top censor in violation of the First Amendment, we @protectdemocracy.org filed a mandamus petition in federal court on behalf of a bipartisan group of former FCC leaders to repeal the dangerous policy sword Carr is rattling against a free press.

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

The anchor of a CNN Sunday show asking Democrats if it's irresponsible to criticize the president.

It’s honestly insane to watch American conservatives pretend that the energy transition just is not happening. Batteries are bridging the gap in California. Many countries in Europe get the majority of their power from wind and solar. It’s just… here.

@reason.com recently covered the amicus brief we filed on behalf of 73 former service secretaries, retired admirals and generals explaining the critical First Amendment stakes for all veterans when the administration tries to punish critics.

This is really something. Fox News poll finds a solid majority of voters say Trump lacks the mental soundness to be president.

Look who's defunding the police www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics. Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The indictment of veteran civil rights organization @splcenter.org is the Trump admin’s latest attempt to silence critics, perceived opponents, and those who continue to pursue justice, equality, and the rule of law. SPLC has made clear it won’t be silenced. The rest of us should do the same.

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

BREAKING: We’re representing @commoncause.org alongside co-counsel in a lawsuit against the DOJ. Since ‘25, DOJ has demanded states hand over full & unredacted voter records. These demands are unconstitutional, violate federal law, and put the privacy & voting rights of millions at risk. Learn more:

So many of these strong First Amendment cases -- challenging the Trump admin's censorial campaign to chill dissent -- are winning. Here's another win for free speech against surveillance & ICE tracking: www.theverge.com/policy/91461...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past. Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic. emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

Trump on his historically dismal approval numbers: "The polls are rigged, much as the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged"