if one removed people who obsessively talk about teenagers' genitalia in public, a huge swathe of the conservative movement would simply vanish

Bread and circuses, but they keep all the bread

i feel like this is probably the best time in recent american history to be a criminal because the justice department doesn’t give a shit, it’s too busy going through the president’s burn book www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

Trump: "We don't need oil."

The use of that word is key. Because the extremist right has always been jealous of our narratives.THEY want to be victims so badly. They need a story. So, reverse racism. Creation of rightwing “Legal Defense Funds” to litigate Demanding entry to programs for Black ppl And now, REPARATIONS

So you can shove your faux-sophisticated "it's always been like this" takes up your ass. No it hasn't. We have systematically traded truth-seeking institutions for algorithms manipulated by tech bros & Russian disinformation campaigns & f'ing paid trolls in some room in Malaysia or whatever.

"Gen Z has a hip new approach to truth, it's called 'believing whatever flatters the priors of you and your peer cohort'!" I'm going to have nightmares about this piece.

Let’s take tonight to be relieved: abortion pill access stays the same for right now, and that’s amazing. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that this is conservatives’ way of kicking the can down the road, and we still have lots of work to do. jessica.substack.com/p/scotus-mif...

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Big pub day! Can’t wait to read.

Me a couple decades ago: “the female beauty industry is so insane, I wish things were more equal between men and women” Me now: “not like that”

Do raptors like dead trees or are we just more likely to see a raptor in a dead tree?

the entirety of the gop has embraced the ballroom and i love that disastrous midterm messaging journey for them

The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.

"We tried to fight a war we thought would be very easy and instead gave one of the countries in the world most hostile to America the greatest hostage they could possibly imagine" is such a perfect MAGA-style foreign policy disaster, in that its idiocy is only rivaled by its absurdity

In our discussion, @gtconway.bsky.social envisions two steps: Accountability for Trump and top officials first, then reforms to prevent future fascism second. It all amounts to a pretty good accountability agenda for the post-Trump era. Here's the key exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2091...

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

The information we have about the Iran War is incomplete and unreliable and it’s still clearly a debacle. The full story is likely much worse.

they are calling it the scotus cuck chair

Hi, Historian here. Just a heads up that the shape of the future is actually not inevitable or fixed. *You help make it happen. So try to make it the one you want*

"More violence, more force, more repression" is the answer. What was the question again?

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

If they really do kill USPS, they're gonna take out a lot of old and/or disabled folks with it. So many people rely on mailed prescriptions. Some health plans also require folks to receive recurring prescriptions this way.

Leaving aside how rude it is to bring up Pearl Harbor here, he's taking a question about how the US didn't alert its *allies* about a surprise attack and responding with a complaint that Japan didn't alert *the target* of its surprise attack.

Does Ryan Coogler have some deaf/ASL connection? He just did ILY but then also did a clear, intentional "thanks" in ASL.

If I have the administration's current argument right, they have achieved a clear and decisive victory in Iran *and* they desperately need other countries to come bail them out of the mess they've made?

I hate when something is funny enough to skeet but not funny enough to bear the weight of contextual information.

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

🚨NEWS: Democrat Andy Thomson has won the Boca Raton mayoral race by just ONE vote. 🔵 Thomson — 7,568 🔴 Liebelson — 7,567 With 100% of votes in, Thomson becomes the first Democratic mayor of Boca Raton in over 30 years. One vote decided the election.

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

The economy wasn’t doing great before Iran and it sure isn’t doing well now. Fool’s Golden Age. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The woman at the center of Ted Carter's resignation has an LLC registered to WOSU's headquarters and created a single podcast featuring Ted Carter and JobsOhio chief PJ Nauseef that earned 137 YouTube views in two months. www.rooster.info/p/krisanthe-...

This fool's spring is advancing too quickly! Go back buds, you're in danger! Nooo, tiny leaves, you're gonna freeze in a week!

DHS made a massive purchase of 2,500 new custom marked ICE vehicles that are now sitting in parking garages because nobody wants to use them: “ICE has never had marked vehicles. We don’t want to use these - we can’t.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immig...

Lots of folks cling to the idea that this comes down to Biden's inability to "sell" these accomplishments. I'm sorry, though, that's pure cope. Whiny resentfulness toward Dems & cities is *constitutive* of the RW worldview today, not something that can be turned on & off with policy.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

A writer-director asked me for a meeting because they were worried I was going to derail their film's Oscar hopes. I didn't recant, the movie still got (way too many) Oscars.

Update: The analysis in my article this AM explored what would happen if you moved all voters toward the "Dems strong" and "moderate" sides equally. But a better counterfactual would account for the fact that many more voters see Dems as weak than extreme — so strength moves more voters. Here's that

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

Trump illegally imposed billions in tariffs (taxes) on U.S. corporations. Much of those costs were passed onto consumers. The corporations might get their money back. You never will.

A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.

Not the first, second, through ~seventeenth most important points related to this but my deaf heart is enjoying all of this whining and scrambling about a lack of access. Transcripts! Captions! What is he SAYING?!

WSJ reports: Whistleblower complaint that has stalled under Gabbard pertains to Jared Kushner. About an intercepted call that "at least in part concerned issues related to Iran" in which 2 people talk about Kusher with allegations that "would be significant if verified." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

To sum this up bluntly: if you send out weather vanes into a particular audience & they come back as racist shitheads, it's because the audience is full of racist shitheads. Trump, Carlson, all these folks: they are shitty because the voters who put them there & support them are shitty.

Whoa. Dems just flipped a Texas state senate seat in a district that Trump carried by 17 points. Not only that, but the win was decisive, making this an enormous swing. Plus, Republicans went all in to try to save the seat, to no avail.

Team USA Sneaks ASL Anti-ICE Protest Into Snow Sculpture #ICEoffOurStreets

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Hi guys - I know this is controversial among rapid responders, but I think it’s important: if you knew Alex Pretti, please consider talking to (real) reporters like Sam here. They are not trying to harm us or his reputation but they can push back against right-wing lies if we tell them the truth.