I definitely feel like 2012-2016 were the best years for the US. Not to say it was perfect, but it felt like the most freedom for the most people.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

NEW: It's 30 years without parole for the child sex-abusing Pentecostal missionary who was hailed by generations of Assemblies of God college pastors as "the holiest man alive." Last year we published an investigation on the denomination's failure to stop him.

Getting some deja vu from the fact that Orange Turd had fired all the pandemic preparedness people shortly before COVID

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

Chief Justice John Roberts is a lil whiny bitch

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

NEW—Video shared w me by a witness shows another angle of NYPD officer throwing a protester to the ground during an anti-ICE protest outside Wyckoff Medical Center in the early hours of Sunday morning + has helped identify the officer. His name is Hubert Mohamed, The Handbasket is first to report:

Immediately post-slavery, during reconstruction, Black people were HUGELY successful in taking political & economic power. A centuries-long project of lynching, Jim Crow, Red-Lining, Divestment, drug epidemics, Voter disenfranchisement (again & again) - that's the ongoing work of white supremacy.

A less than hot British guy flying to Wisconsin with a backpack full of condoms and having 3 good looking women fall in love with him in the first bar he enters is both more fun and more realistic than this fantasy

- Rudy was not welcome at many FDNY funerals - He tried to use 9/11 to cancel the election & stay in office - He's always been a bad lawyer - the mobsters he put away were the idiot bandits & yahoos who killed the old guard

Saying this now, just in case - - New Yorkers hated Giuliani on 9/10, couldn't wait to get rid of him - Giuliani was in the street on 9/11 bc the Command Center at 7WTC was destroyed (he put it there to be near Judi Nathan) - Giuliani killed 343 firemen by forcing cheap radios on them

On this day in 1963, hundreds of Black children began a movement peacefully protesting racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children's Crusade and faced intense police brutality, sparking nationwide outrage.

Another illustration of the failures of capitalism. Passengers who bought tickets in good faith and regular employees who did their jobs get screwed, while the rich C-suite get to walk away still rich

This is an abortion ban

"Jonathan Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the arm, head, and chest, is back in both an administrative and investigative capacity, facing virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight." newrepublic.com/post/209615/...

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Happy 7th anniversary to this tweet, which explained exactly what would go on to happen.

People here: Why are these dumb "journalists" at a fascist dinner, anyway? I don't exactly feel sorry for them. This lady:

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

The dystopia of inequality--that high table for the lords and ladies; the dystopia of violence--all the federal guns suddenly on display; the dystopia of incompetence (they had one job: to keep a shooter out); the dystopia of normalization.

Everyone who attends the White House Press Correspondents' Dinner tonight is a loser, hack, simp, coward, amoral clown, or useless go-along. Here's a thread of more worthy journalists to follow. First, LOCAL journalists. Vastly less compromised than the WHPC chumps. go.bsky.app/FzSc9z

Smoke 'em if you got 'em

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

Doctor's office: have you had any feelings of hopelessness lately? Me, on our eleventy-fifth day of Red Flag Warnings in a city that had wildfire evacuations yesterday, and hoping not to have to pay $200 for this "wellness" visit: nope I'm fine!

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

A “former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public stmt, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the US government, & many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation.” 1/

I think we should get to see him prove his theory. He handles a rabid bat, then refrains from the prophylactic vaccine. If his theory is correct, he should be fine!

Senate Republicans voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to reject an amendment offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders that aimed to cut US prescription drug prices in half.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

I do honestly wish more politicians would call out the media when they get into this horse-race bullshit. We are in this fascist hellhole in part because political discussion in major media is more like sports discussions than politics.

Rep. David Scott, a Democrat of Georgia, has died: www.ajc.com/politics/202... Scott, who is 80, faced a lot of pushback for choosing to run for reelection this year, amid reports he'd skipped voting in many recent cycles (inc. 2024 presidential race) & faced multiple primary challengers in May

Reminder that Hickenlooper is 74 and running for Senate. The good news is, he has a primary challenger who is much younger: Julie Gonzales! www.julieforcolorado.com/about/

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

No shade to Molly, but this is how

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Donnie and Bibi sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G First comes love Then comes corruption Then they make a baby called World Destruction

And on the anniversary of Columbine!

The Prospect has learned that the Congressional Black Caucus will support a clean reauthorization of a warrantless spying program that expires in a week, despite its past use to surveil Black Lives Matter activists. @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social and Dan Boguslaw report. prospect.org/2026/04/13/c...

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

On this day in 1989, NYPD officers arrested five teenagers—four of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino—subjected them to coercive interrogation, and charged them with rape despite their innocence. All were sentenced to 5-13 years.

I guess we just need RFK Jr to get pancreatic cancer right about now

mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime. Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

Even more wild to me as someone who has had a bear sighting a mile away!

ANOTHER death in ICE detention.

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.