I’m furious

When the voters approve a map to help Democrats, it's nullified. When Republican legislators approve a map to help Republicans without going to the voters, it's allowed. The system is rigged to help the fascists.

I just want to say I can’t count high enough the number of times law experts have assured me how a court will rule and been wrong. Infinite times. Completely broken profession.

Virginia Supreme court has thrown out the voter-passed redistricting referendum, restoring the GOP's seats - the day after Tennessee legislators steamrolled Dems to eliminate the last Dem seat vacourts.gov/static/opini...

You can’t have a democracy where one party gets to rig everything

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK

welp

People are comparing this photo to the 60s when most of you were actually alive in the 2020s when young Black people have essentially had to confront white cops in this same way.

I believe: 1) immigration is great for the country 2) it’s theoretically possible to overpopulate the nation stretching resources 3) we are nowhere even remotely near that point and could easily add many millions of these hardworking productive people

"Iago says that he has no reason for hating Othello, and it would be wrong of us to impute any racist anti-Moor motivation on his part.” Simply brilliant.

McSweeney's, you magnificent bastards, you've done it again.

Every single new thing I see about the Callais decision makes it more obvious that it was simply a decision made to benefit the racist Republican party, with no Constitutional justification whatsoever

The US tech sector continues losing jobs—overall, employment decreased by 10k last month and is down 53k over the last year That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms

koko: koko not vote for this koko want them out but no. koko says no not like this koko want criminals away handler: now koko, what did you think mass deportation meant?

As venues are struggling to sell tickets, I bet they appreciate the "hope no one gets blown up in the parking lot" message.

UK politics shouldn't be perpetually interpreted in terms of US anxieties but this bit is relevant. If deliverism regularly mistakes policy for politics, popularism regularly mistakes politics for policy.

Yesterday, Trump pointed at Rachel Scott of ABC News and said "she's a bitch" after Ms. Scott asked him about rising gas prices. It will be old news by close of business today. Once again: Trump is held to a different standard by legacy media.

Roberts is now the most effective white supremacist leader in over a century, with Trump in sec. The two of them show how how conservative leaders have been this way for decades (actually centuries). Trump is new in style but not substance. Same old white supremacy.

@gelliottmorris.com notes a DIFFERENT statistical problem with the SCOTUS ruling here. Basically, SCOTUS gutted VRA bc their DEI hires are bad at stats. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...

In retrospect, Trump’s executive experience as the long time head of an organized crime syndicate wasn’t the ideal pedigree for the office.

The Bezos Post is essentially becoming Jeff Bezos’ personal blog to whine about people who criticize the idle rich like him. A hit dog will holler. Imagine arguing that hoarding billions of dollars is the peak of “human potential” with a straight face.

According to Team Trump we have multiple Iran Wars going on

Bezos trying to sell the biggest lie in America again

"Jews and Black people" is how you say "cosmopolitan communists and race hustlers" in English.

Hmmm. Wonder where Trump got the idea to loot Ukraine's geological resources.

In retrospect, Trump’s executive experience as the long time head of an organized crime syndicate wasn’t the ideal pedigree for the office.

Uh oh, this probably won't play well to the Deadbeat Dad Conservative community

Something I first realized in a specifically feminist context is that, when a given reform like “should women have rights?” Is being debated, there are always people passionately on the WRONG SIDE and when they are defeated, they don’t actually change their minds, they start plotting a comeback.

My primary thought, as southern Republicans drop all pretense and scramble to grab more power, is that if the rot runs deeper than we thought, so must the needed reforms.

Lots to read and digest here. Will comment later. www.rawstory.com/trump-georgi... Link to testimony below 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

🚨🚨🚨“A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of Claudia Sheinbaum, Lula, and Gustavo Petro.”🚨🚨🚨

WHOA

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

“Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025. But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

THEY ARE GIDDY

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

"He captured Harper's Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled through and through They hung him for a traitor, themselves a traitor crew, But his soul is marching on ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSn...

I can’t think of a President who openly hated all Americans who didn’t vote for him like this guy does

Can’t believe he wasted his WHCD material today

Shout out to Brother Jones! #FightThePower #Tennessee

As I've been anticipating, Cole Allen is moving to recuse Todd Blanche and (especially) Jeanine Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

like a butterfly dropping into its grave, of course. a phrase we’ve all used and a very normal, relatable kind of image that conveys clear meaning. i’m always saying this. so beautiful, like a delicate butterfly croaking mid-air and gently floating into a tiny open bug grave at the insect cemetery.

You wouldn’t marry someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t be friends with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t do business with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t work for someone who lied to u like this. You’d want nothing to do with someone who lied to u like this.

It won’t even get covered really

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

NEW: In this majority-Latino city in California, the GOP had long maintained an iron grip on local government. But that all changed this spring: Anger toward ICE raids, immigrant organizing, and surging turnout for local elections, it all made for a Dem sweep—& flip. Check out the story:

Late stage shit