Anyone else watch 60 Minutes whitewash Mitch McConnell’s legacy? And the legacy media wonders why they have a lack of credibility.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

In Trump's case, it's Elon and the oligarchy.

Kash Patel is not only Trump's firewall against accountability and his weapon against critics.

He is also his defense against the oligarchs when they challenge him for the throne.

Nichols: You have the makings of a not so slow motion authoritarian takeover of the United States government. And people ought to be really concerned about this.

"If Trump’s goal is to break the FBI and undermine its missions, Kash Patel is the perfect nominee," writes @RadioFreeTom:

Trump noms ordered by how urgent it is they be stopped:

By Any Means

🟥 Patel
🟥 Kennedy Jr.
🟥 Gabbard
🟥 Hegseth
🟥 Bondi
🟥 Bhattacharya
🟥 Huckabee
🟥 Whitaker
🟥 Vought

By Almost Any Means

🟧 McMahon
🟧 Blanche
🟧 Oz
🟧 Noem
🟧 Stefanik

Try Hard

🟨 Wright
🟨 Zeldin
🟨 Bessent
🟨 Phelan
🟨 Greer

Pass it on.

Imma use my first Bluesky post to casually mention that Ted Cruz is a dick.

They have no idea that tariffs will make everything more expensive

Ukraine uses U.S.-made ATACMS missiles inside Russia for the first time

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin