Question to the NFL: Why would the super bowl ever go to a jim crow state that intentionally strips representation from black people?

Michelle Obama warned everyone. Kamala Harris warned everyone. Hillary Clinton warned everyone.

Because of course. newrepublic.com/post/210174/...

It's on MY kitchen table!

Pentagon’s lowball $25 billion estimate gets a lot of attention, but it’s more of a headline than a real number. The best any economist can do right now is get the order of magnitude right, & my math suggests the Iran war will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, & possibly trillions. War is Hell🫪

But Joe Biden had a stutter..... And here we are.

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I talked to @justinwolfers.bsky.social youtu.be/ipDb24j3I64?...

It's TALE: Trumpers Always Lie about Everything.

yeah, but you have to give Trump credit for trying :)

The Mara in Mara-A-Lago Make America Russian Autocracy Donald is not hiding it.

I wonder what % this contractor Donald knows agreed to pay Donald for the no-bid (AKA “high-profit”) contract.

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

TO RECAP: Democrats finally fight back but follow the rules, ask voters to decide in a democracy, and get overruled by fascist trump judges. Republicans do whatever they want and the Supreme Court rubber stamps it. Why can’t Democrats do whatever the Republicans do?

Trump’s sons signed a weapons deal with the Air Force during a war Congress never authorized. Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania documentary, then won a $581 million no-bid Pentagon contract. The corruption is not hidden anymore. It is the business model. November cannot come fast enough.

🚨🚨🚨 Today's Virginia Supreme Court ruling was 4-3. It underscores how vitally important STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGES are. 5/19: GA: Miracle Rankin 5/19: GA: Jen Jordan --Donations go directly to the candidates --Nothing goes to me Donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/state...

NEW: Detective Bribes McGee bemoans that Internal Affairs doesn't understand how the drug crimes division operates and sees its corrupt detectives as "criminals." The cops at times simply have to "get their beaks wet," he said.

While on US data, and as detailed below, the latest University of Michigan survey shows consumer sentiment falling to a record low of 48.2. This decline was driven by a sharp drop in the current conditions component. ... 1 of 2

My note on the solid US April Jobs Report. The topline looks good but once one looks beneath one can observe problems just over the horizon as inflation adjusted wages turn negative. #Econ #EconSky realeconomy.rsmus.com/in-april-job...

Only an utter narcissist like Donald Trump could mock a reporter for asking a very legitimate question and then give a rambling gobbledygook answer like "You can understand dirt better than I can"

Debt by itself is a lousy guide. A $500,000 mortgage can be manageable or terrifying depending on salary, rates, and future earnings. Same with countries: the real question isn’t “how much debt?” but “can they carry it?”

Look, it's not that hard. Want tariffs? Convince Congress to pass a law. If you do that, the Supreme Court has no quibble. And if you don't, then we get tariffs that are on-and-off, and unpredictable, and their unclear legality yields little leverage.

Trump's tariffs—the ones he added because the last ones were ruled unconstitutional—were just ruled unconstitutional My crack team has discovered why. This law allows him to impose temporary tariffs to "deal with large and serious US balance-of-payments deficits." Here it is:

🚨🚨🚨 Watched the video several times. The House members’ faces as they exited after the vote were priceless. Every American should know their names. Boycott any business they own or work with. #EconSky #VoteThemOut #Boycott

Lange resists calls to rush EU-US trade pact amid Trump’s tariff threats

He was born before the Great Depression, came of age in WWII, and is still making wildlife documentaries. Brits call David Attenborough a national hero, as he celebrates his 100th birthday. n.pr/42ngiIV

Trump and Pete Hegseth are so incompetent that if they were in charge of the US military during World War II, we would all being speaking German today!

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. it’s hard to recall another President so gung ho about a policy as economically destructive and politically unpopular ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

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Open Racism…

Attorney Kurt Olsen once worked to try to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in court and was later sanctioned by judges for making baseless allegations about Arizona elections. He is now Trump’s director of election security and integrity.

After submitting dodgy numbers in TX redistricting case, DOJ (aka Harmeet Dhillon) submitted dodgy numbers to SCOTUS. Seems like it'd be useful to focus on Harmeet's duty of candor as a lawyer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

UAE is reportedly bombing Iran right now. Iran says they aren’t going to negotiate on nuclear weapons at this stage. Close to a peace deal, my ass.

God I hope Michelle Goldberg is right about the radicalization of the Democratic base. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

It's funny how the people who think the Civil War was fought over tariffs rather than slavery don't seem bothered by Trump's tariffs.

Judge rules against Trump’s revenge tariffs again saying they don’t meet the legal standard. I wonder how much extra taxpayers are paying to defend his illegal acts over and over again in court? #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/ANtUO2ct5R8m...

"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth." And abject corruption on a mass scale, it turns out, is not politically popular. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:

The court is visibly racist, and pro GOP. The Constitution looses every time they make decisions based on what the regime wants. Giving immunity to a malignant narcissist is a great tell.

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

Mackenzie Scott has something these men will never have ~ RESPECT! With all the billions these men have, they COULD do so much good in the world. #TaxTheRich #CloseTheLoopholes

United Airlines is among 16 companies sponsoring Trump’s Freedom 250 and its Christian nationalist Rededicate event. 11 US senators led by Sen. Adam Schiff have launched an investigation into Freedom 250 over an alleged pay-to-play scheme. Other sponsors include Mastercard and Scotts Miracle-gro.

For his entire life, every word out of his mouth has been a lie. And the media stopped caring a long time ago that he lies as he breathes. Hopefully one day soon the American people will say they’re tired of being lied to every single day.

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The No More Wars President is stoking inflation with stupid tariffs and then even more stupid wars??? Shocker.🙄

New in PN: The Confederacy rises again "But this is more than a tragedy for voting rights. It’s a kind of revival of the Confederacy, in a way that few liberals thought was possible. The Lost Cause doesn’t seem so lost anymore."