MAGA - “What is Patriarchy, sexism, and misogyny? I’m glad you asked. Patriarchy is the overarching system of unequal power, sexism is the ideological theory justifying that system, and misogyny is the active enforcement mechanism that polices compliance and punishes those who step out of line.”

“Yes, Bezos pays taxes. But ProPublica found that between 2014 and 2018 these taxes were less than 1% of his true income. Amazon, like the oligarch who runs it, pays remarkably little in taxes as a share of its income” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bezos-back...

This is, of course, regulation. Klein’s story is that we don’t have enough affordable housing because of too much regulation, but the real issue is what kind of regulation. The wrong kind can frustrate new construction. The right kind can promote affordable housing by being smart about land use.

When DNC & “moderates/Third Way” try to muzzle progressives, remember why the public stopped supporting them…. these stories been happening for years under both parties “leadership”. substack.com/@politicsusa...

Independent researchers help the public understand how social media platforms, AI, and other technologies shape everyday life. Following yesterday’s hearing in CITR v. Rubio, @thecoalition.bsky.social's @geurkink.bsky.social spoke about what’s at stake when that work gets silenced.

This applies equally here in the UK and EU.

How to make a war disappear. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The real goal of the racial gerrymandering across the former Confederacy is to bludgeon African Americans into second-class citizenship, so their communities can be dumped on In La.'s 'Cancer Alley,' the right to vote is the right to breathe. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/raci...

Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.

On this Mothers’ Day... remember its historical foundation. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-9-2026...

Correct - the court believes the ”freedom” to discriminate is inherent in the constitution and laws to enforce equitable opportunity are discriminatory.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

“Every election cycle it’s like a running joke in the industry...it’s always the 24- and 25-year-old staffers that are under the gun to crunch out 35 emails a week for four political clients, not having any lives beyond sending emails and fundraising and feeding the beast.”

Argument is always same lies, the date has just changed for good old boys belief in their absolute right to power. “Louisiana Republicans desperately want to abolish the office—a move that is not only offensive to Duncan and his constituents, but to the concept of multiracial democracy itself.“

Airbus and AirAsia just signed the largest single order of commercial aircraft in Canadian history — supporting thousands of good careers in Québec and right across the country.

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

"The Voting Rights Act actually took away political representation from white people. They went from being wildly overrepresented in Congress to being slightly less overrepresented. Isn’t taking something away from a group of people based on their color racial discrimination?" buff.ly/bwVT63L

South's gonna do it again

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

Jon and @grahamformaine.bsky.social, US Senate candidate for Maine, discuss the limits of “tax the rich” messaging without tangible results and the willingness to push for real change. New pod out now!

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

I loved @benmckenzie.bsky.social's new movie exposing the greed & grift of the crypto industry. Can’t wait to take these lessons to Congress so we protect people, not scammers. (1/2)

Black women took the biggest hit: They lost 95,371 federal government jobs in 2025, about a third of the total contraction. buff.ly/hrAvS5g

Trump's jokes at the WHCA dinner Saturday are sure to be terrible (and unfunny). If, for some reason, you have to watch his anti-press stand-up routine, here's a way to make it a little less boring. 🖨️ Print and play our bingo card (and donate to @freedom.press): media.freedom.press/media/docume...

The only mainstream journalists speaking truth to power these days are cartoonists. @adamzyglis.bsky.social

Can't wait to be elderly and forced to use what precious energy I have left to lean against a lamppost or sit on the pavement while I wait for a bus because the city removed all the benches for fear that unhoused people might use them.

Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Massive data centers are gobbling up resources across the U.S.—and you may be paying for it.

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with Random House.

All in all, 32 states are holding supreme court elections this year, deciding over 60 seats. These courts could determine key issues including abortion access and redistricting across the country. Our new guide explores what’s at stake in each state: boltsmag.org/your-st...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

“Why Aren’t American Women Having More Babies? We Asked Fourteen Men”

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Doesn’t get much clearer than that.

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

As AI PACs flood primary elections, Hakeem Jeffries and House Democratic leadership are quietly bending the knee to the industry.

Important read by the great @carolecadwalla.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

"When I go into that voting booth, I think about three important things: What the man on the pamphlet looks like, what the name of the man on the pamphlet is, and whether or not that man is trapped in the pamphlet and needs help to get out."

The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

Ryan: Over 10,000 of our bravest and finest are en route to escalate a war they never had permission for in the first place—and for which no good case has been made. They still literally couldn’t tell us in this briefing what their mission was.

Everyone at LaGuardia today.

Our discourse assumes that right-populist-coded policies are popular. But the last year has shown otherwise. Tariffs and deportations are widely despised. I think the same is likely true with Trump's threats to NATO and destruction of multilateralism. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2080...

No Kings Day will be too big to ignore.

Again and again, Democrats have tried to fund TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard while we negotiate on ICE and Border Patrol. Republicans have blocked us every time.