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"This is sociopathy, plain and simple. Either Vance believes everything he’s saying, or he has no beliefs at all, and is a creature of pure, malicious nihilism. I’m not sure which would be worse."

Fox News keeps trying to make Michigan congressional candidate Abdul El-Sayed sound scary, but everything he says just keeps making sense.

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Striking parallels

In every other court of equitable jurisdiction, a balance of the harms is a bedrock requirement when injunctions are weighed. But not these 6 heartless hacks.

hey look the bros are ok with universal healthcare now

@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social This "Who are you with?" shit has to stop. "Who are you with?" "The United States of America, sir. Who are you with?" The first journalist to do this should get our nation's most prestigious journalism award.

New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."

Last year four Maine hospitals were identified as at risk of closing due to HR 1. If these hospitals closed, Aroostook County would lose $113.6 million in wages, Hancock County $55.3 million, and Washington County $15.8 million. #mepolitics www.mecep.org/blog/medicai...

Maybe I was in a coma for 4 years but I don’t recall Biden using, let alone depleting, any of our critical stockpiles of munitions.

I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.

REP. @aoc.bsky.social to @pabloreports.bsky.social on Trump’s upcoming election lies speech: “I don’t think we should be contributing to any platforming of lies about our election that aren’t based in evidence.”

Truth.

2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble

It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.

Trump calls me ‘crooked as hell’. That’s rich coming from him | Representative Ilhan Omar

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

Ken Paxton is throwing everything he has at us. He’s called me a radical leftist. He’s called me a fake Christian. He’s even called me a vegan! I’m an 8th generation Texan — I've been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

To end the war with Iran, “Trump had to choose between a bad option and a worse one, and it seems like, even though we don’t know what will happen in any deal, or if there will even be one, that he has chosen the very bad one,” a Middle East expert said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/FiMWWo

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: House Republicans just pulled the vote on our War Powers Resolution — because they knew it would pass. The GOP doesn’t care about your skyrocketing costs for gas, groceries, and everything else. They only care about appeasing Trump.

Prices for groceries spiked in April, according to newly released data, while broader inflation reached its highest level in nearly three years. The effects of the war in Iran are starting to show up in supermarkets. Here's how:

If you're in power in NJ, NY, MD, CO, IL, WA, OR, wake the fuck up and announce steps to redraw the maps so that Democrats are not drawn out of power forever.

We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

With no due respect, this MF doesn’t get to tell us who we can criticize and I can point him to a source for that conclusion.

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

"To paraphrase Nathan Hale, I only regret that we have but one seat to take from the Democrats." This is what Democrats are facing. Any Dem who favors bipartisanship over maximalist opposition is either lost and worthy of replacement or a Republican sympathizer.

Which is the backwards country now, United States?

Just makin' it clear for your asses. Erasing the voices of black and brown people is not "agree to disagree" territory.

You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block.

Justice Alito to white GOP state legislatures: “just don’t get caught”

So, in other words, only if white GOP state legislators are stupid enough to “show their math” will the Voting Right Act apply but if they wink their way through racist gerrymandering, it’s cool. Also Roberts is a p.o.s.

We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.

Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.

For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself. Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

To be absolutely clear, the DOJ is literally doing the bidding of white supremacists against one of the nation’s preeminent civil rights organizations.

The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

Yikes — “Military advisers intentionally excluded Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes extraction of a downed American airman in Iran, fearing his erratic temper would jeopardize the mission, WSJ reported…” www.jpost.com/internationa...

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

I long for the good old days when we had a pro nuclear weapon Pope. They don’t make em like they used to.