Below are some headlines we may have missed. Please feel free to share your finds or talk among yourselves. Enjoy what’s left of the weekend and stay safe.
Comic Relief:
Voting Rights:
Today’s Craven Asshole Award-From the MarKODA Files-Fundie Freak Racist Spews Bullshit:
Incredible
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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We’re Going Back:
Thoughts for people living in safe blue cities and states: Alabama is the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. People bled and died for our right to vote. #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth 🧵
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) May 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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“What is happening now is that all the legislatures in the old Confederacy states are going backwards. They’re the ones jumping backwards, not to do justice but once again reimpose injustice in the voting of Americans and all Alabamans.” @dougjones.bsky.social #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) May 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) May 16, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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TODAY: ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH. Republican lawmakers across the South are carving up maps to dilute Black voting power and protect their own power because fair maps would threaten their grip. They knew the voters didn’t support this, so they went around them. 1/2
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) May 16, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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The Sunday Shows:
Van Hollen: "You heard Lindsey Graham. He said 'this is the party of Donald Trump.' It's a personality cult. We need checks and balances, a personality cult of rubber-stamps."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 17, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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The Worst People in the World:
Republican C-SPAN caller: “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public it might help others… I regret my support for Trump, and I should’ve known better. He’s a con man. A liar. The worst, most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Joe Ceballos, the former Republican mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, voted for Trump, believed the “only violent criminals” line, then ended up in ICE detention himself after pleading guilty to voting as a noncitizen. And get this shit: He says he does not regret voting for Trump. 1/2
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) May 16, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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The Worst President Ever & His Brownshirts:
“But, but Hunter Biden!”
Bigly MAGAt Breakup:
Acting AG Todd Blanche: "We're finding out some incredibly troubling things, and at some point, at the right time, that will be made public and the American people will see exactly what happened to this administration and President Trump over the past decade."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 17, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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The Great Lie.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Pssssssst There already is an answer
— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Craven Assholes:
Sen. John Fetterman: "I've seen a picture. Assuming it's not AI, so far the reflecting pool looks good. If that's $13 million, really, that's small. We do need a ballroom."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 17, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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WELKER: Do you agree with the president that he shouldn't be taking Americans' financial situation into account when dealing with Iran? LINDSEY GRAHAM: This is his Churchill moment. President Trump is right.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 17, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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Lindsey Graham on Sen. Cassidy's defeat: "If you try to destroy President Trump, you're gonna lose, because this is the party of Donald Trump"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 17, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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