It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.

Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

omg ffs we just want healthcare

The world's first trillionaire did this

Now that Platner has won the primary, I want to be clear. When I said “vote blue no matter who” in 2016, 2020, and 2024, I meant it. I’m worried about Platner, but if you say “vote blue no matter who” in Maine, I hope you’ll extend the same courtesy to other Dems. I hope we beat Collins.

“.. The drawdown we’ve seen in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the past 4 weeks is the most extreme in history.” - Schwab ⛽️

Ordinarily I would be very reluctant to directly blame any President, of either party, for inflation. It normally doesn’t work like that. But in this case, there are two very specific policies that fueled inflation - tariffs and the Iran war - that happened expressly at the President’s direction.

i think it is really great that the civil rights division is now dedicated to rooting out any attempt to do outreach to nonwhites in education www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Crazy left-wing Democratic candidate: What if we just gave everyone health coverage? Crazy right-wing Republican candidate: I killed a man when I was seven years old, and don't ask me how many other people I've killed because I won't tell you www.mediaite.com/politics/gop...

Anyway please donate to your local station. For real.

Surely the headline of the week: "Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser." www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

The New York Times treats Republican lawmakers like hapless bystanders rather than willing co-conspirators in the illegal war with Iran.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Louisiana's SCOTUS-enabled racial gerrymandering will bring the tyranny of toxicity without representation to the mostly Black folks of heavily polluted 'Cancer Alley,' who'll lose a seat in Congress Voting rights die, environmental racism thrives. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/raci...

This is mass political violence. “More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.”

They’re against diversity. And they want Black people grouped together in one part of town, until it comes to our voting power. We see you.

The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.

What good is democracy if you can't choose the voters?

Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

Trumpism's attack on Smith College is alarming not only for its expansion to admissions for trans students but for its focus--first time?--not on a university but a small college. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Also read @ryanlcooper.com on the need for Dems to maximize redistricting before the GOP locks in one-party rule in the House. Discusses our reporting on this: zeteo.com/p/supreme-co...

The ignorance of the people who vote for these criminals is why we are where we are. Good morning everyone. ☕️☕️☕️

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

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.

I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

40 of them!

Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

A man who says he was born in Colorado was deported recently after being pulled over in Texas, after which immigration officers denied his offers to show them proof of citizenship he says he had at home.

These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media. Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.” Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We've had administrations where the Civil Rights Division took a less watchful eye to the rights of racial minorities or diverted its energies to address other issues, but this is the first administration in history to pervert it wholly into a tool to *hurt* the people its supposed to protect.

I dont't think you can separate the post-2012 racial gap in voter turnout from the GOP's sustained push for voter ID and general focus on faux "ballot security" policies

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026 A 27-year-old man from Cuba died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days. austinkocher.substack.com/p/aled-damie...

The Orban defeat was legitimately "too big to rig," as Trump falsely says about 2024. Trump won a historically narrow victory in an unrigged election. The popular majority against Orban had to overcome *actual* rigging. There's an opening here for Dems. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2090...

So let’s have universal health care and help people live in dignity.

Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election. At least 75 career staff are gone. Two dozen appointees, including many from the election denial movement, have been hired. Ten helped try to overturn the 2020 vote.

Victor Orbán’s removal sends a timely signal. Corrupt kleptocratic Christian nationalism was on the ballot in Hungary today — just as it will be on the ballots that Americans will cast in November. It was repudiated abroad — may it be repudiated here in November (and beyond).

They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be dictating terms.

Democrats should seriously consider a national ad campaign with clips of Republicans refusing to do their jobs, demanding they repay their congressional salaries.

While tariffs hammer US consumers and businesses, the White House quietly used foreign steel to renovate the president’s favorite room.

Reagan’s OMB Director:

Trump always gets judged on the remedial scale.

Did Iran offer to rename the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Trump? Because if they did that I'm pretty sure he'd let them have all the nukes they want.

You can tell that Vance and the US were really committed and serious about these negotiations because they worked on it for almost an entire Saturday. Truly astounding they couldn’t even pretend to spend at least a second day at the peace table.

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading. Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

Great piece that ends with a quote that panders to me, specifically Steinbeck is due for a rediscovery by popular culture