“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

More like DO(i)J, tbh.

Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · last wk.

I will never get used to reading leads like this: "DOJ will no longer enforce its own guidance around...a 1999 landmark Supreme Court case that held that unnecessarily segregating people with disabilities in institutions is a form of discrimination under the ADA." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

It’s time for Congress to pass a robust anticorruption agenda that would help end the era of massive money in politics that the Court ushered in. bit.ly/4b5yJ9H

Supreme Court Continues to Dismantle Anticorruption Laws

Its latest decision to strike down campaign finance limits underscores the need for Congress to pass popular anticorruption reforms.

brennancenter.org

This desert oasis is a biological wonderland. Trump’s border wall threatens to destroy it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This desert oasis is a biological wonderland. Trump’s border wall threatens to destroy it

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

theguardian.com

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Ossoff brilliant at this

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3w ago

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov: “Here’s what’s gonna happen tonight — the world’s most famous sore loser will deliver a primetime presidential sour grapes 🍇 address to pursue his 6yo grievances about the 2020 election while his war spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise.”

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · 3w ago

As has been the case for six years any news outlet taking trump live thursday night after he said he’ll lie about the 2020 election and the legitimacy of georgia’s senators is explicitly endorsing that lie as a legitimate opinion

I prefer principled leaders. We need many more like Mayor Mamdani.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Must be nice to be rich.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3w ago

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

The Trump administration moved today to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate development and other activities in what environmentalists characterized as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)

The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.

nytimes.com

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

Why do I get calls literally every day from different public opinion polls? Aren’t these supposed to be random?

So, uh, just to be clear: birthright citizenship is for everyone, not just immigrants. It's just that most of us in the US haven't ever had to think about it in our own lives. Take it away, and what replaces it?

I also wonder what it will take for elected Democrats to become serious about judicial reform. Dobbs wasn’t enough; neither was the death of the voting rights act. There doesn’t seem to be a constituency they value more than their cowardice.

What I wouldn't give to just once read a headline that says, 'Internal Records Demonstrate that the President is Full of Shit.'

UnWritten is back. After clearing licensing/editorial questions, the Kickstarter relaunch is live. Short 2-week campaign, limited print run. If you don’t pre-order now, there won’t be extra copies later. Let’s finish this properly. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

UnWritten: The story of the 2026 Basketball Season.

The editorial chronicle of Michigan basketball’s historic season is back. Now with significantly fewer legal panic attacks.

kickstarter.com

Open the damn bridge!

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 2mo ago

Why is Trump blocking the opening of a lpng-awaited bridge linking Michigan and Ontario, which he previously supported? Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with a $1 million super PAC donation from a guy who owns a rival bridge. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Such a disgrace. This guy’s worked his whole life to be selected for the World Cup. He’s earned it.

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · 2mo ago

🚨 Here we go -> Somali World Cup referee Omar Artan denied entry to the US. This referee, who was due to be first official from his country to be involved in a World Cup game, had a diplomatic passport but was turned away in Miami. www.thetimes.com/article/f565...

sign at mt. kisco, new york anti-trump protest this past week:

I went to Delaney Hall to follow up on conversations I had this morning with family members of detainees. ICE and GEO Group did not let me speak with detainees. Why do they insist on hiding the truth even after getting almost $1 billion of tax dollars?

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

What an embarrassment

Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hegseth at Normandy: "Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not."

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

If you aren't on Twitter, you might not have seen this! @marc-gregor.bsky.social and @byazuniga.bsky.social are putting together a photo book chronicling the 2025-26 Michigan men's basketball national championship season. It should be fantastic. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

UnWritten

Remember in photos the 2026 Michigan men’s basketball national championship season.

kickstarter.com

If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it. Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.

Skye@simplyskye.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement— If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: