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It was always performative outrage.

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BREAKING: Judge Richard Myers rules that the N.C. Supreme Court's handling of the state supreme court election violated the U.S. Constitution. The win for Justice Riggs, a Democrat, is to be certified. Today's ruling stayed for 7 days for Judge Griffin, a Republican, to appeal "if he so chooses."

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Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…

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Big news out of Georgia

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A gift to the NRA.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1274 comments

Even if you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d still need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

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I am not often quoted in @nytimes.com DealBook, but I hope the business community is listening.

submitted 8 hours ago • 342 comments

The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm. We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open. Hello?

submitted 1 day ago • 480 comments

I may be the only lawyer targeted by Trump willing to speak on camera, but for me it wasn't a choice. All of us have an obligation to speak out against what Trump is doing. All of us have an obligation to fight for democracy. I am fortunate to be a lawyer and to have a platform -- and I will use it.

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You’re a gem @katiephang.bsky.social! Wishing you an amazing next chapter. No doubt you’ll be in the trenches continuing to make a difference!

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com

submitted 2 days ago • 181 comments

“Do not mock us.”

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Don't be surprised if reports eventually emerge that Trump posting his sacrilegious pope photo wounded up pushing more cardinal electors toward a more progressive pontiff.

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Posted by my friend Lakota Man… We’re talking to you Trump Admin!!

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Looks like I will be on 60 Minutes on Sunday. That is me at the end of the clip.👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ef...

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TRUMPISM REJECTED IN AUSTRALIA Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been re-elected as his Labor Party surged to victory and is projected to form a majority government. In a historic first, opposition leader Peter Dutton—often likened to Donald Trump—lost his own seat of Dickson.

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Trump is singlehandedly revitalizing the global center-left

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The Trump-Musk Budget is out. It tortures to death every program the average American family benefits from while (1) ensuring that no department that helps Elon Musk’s companies is harmed one iota, and (2) dumping endless wads of cash on a missile-defense scheme Trump was already told won’t work.

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 491 comments

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

submitted 3 days ago • 154 comments

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

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AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

submitted 3 days ago • 1150 comments

Our latest: Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it. Janet Mills wouldn’t bend the knee. Instead, she kicked the ass. The orange ass, to be specific.

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

I want the Tesla Board of Directors to understand that I don't give a shit if they replace Musk. Keep him, oust him, it doesn't matter. I'm still gonna do the same thing: boycott Tesla and encourage others to do the same. They made a choice to enable Musk, and there are now consequences to be had.

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

So you’re saying, high tariffs aren’t’ helping U.S. manufacturers? Who could have predicted!

submitted 3 days ago • 187 comments

Shout out to @microsoft.com They dropped a law firm that made a deal with Trump, and engaged Jenner and Block who are fighting Trump!

submitted 4 days ago • 274 comments

NEW VIDEO: Courts delivered wins for Pennsylvania voters Friday in two different right-wing disenfranchisement efforts. One ruling ensures that undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots will be counted, the other rejects a bid to purge more than 277,000 from the voter rolls. Paige and I explain.

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

“A hallmark of dictatorship”

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Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.

submitted 3 days ago • 990 comments

There is a reason why millions of workers want to join unions. There is a reason why greedy corporations oppose unions. Union membership means higher wages and better benefits. Let’s grow the trade union movement.

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Number of US gas stations currently selling at $1.98: zero. 🤡 www.gasbuddy.com

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People aren’t broke because they’re “splurging” on iPhones and lattes, people are broke because corporations have bought up housing, control our healthcare, and are gouging at the register.

submitted 3 days ago • 127 comments

This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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Meanwhile, in Canada…

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👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 549 comments

I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 984 comments

Big shoutout to Chicago! ✊ 👏

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There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

submitted 4 days ago • 309 comments

The Hill: Egg prices reached another record high last month. It now costs American shoppers an average of $6.23 for a dozen eggs — nearly a five-fold increase since 2020.

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Whelp this is a HUGE ASS MISTAKE breakingdefense.com/2025/05/hegs...

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LMAO -- a reporter breaks news during a briefing to State Department spox Tammy Bruce that her boss Marco Rubio is the new national security adviser "I just heard this from you," Bruce says

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Trump replaced the physical bribery palace of the Trump hotel with a virtual one and it’s doing orders of magnitude more business.

submitted 4 days ago • 245 comments

He’s an idiot.

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Q: “The president signed an executive order…threatening to defund sanctuary cities for their policies. Why not just arrest the leaders who are harboring and shielding illegal aliens from deportation?” Tom Homan: “Wait to see what's coming.”

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas — appointed by Donald Trump himself — has just ruled that Trump's controversial attempt to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations is unlawful.

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Increase in productivity since 1979: 86% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

submitted 4 days ago • 176 comments