Senate Republicans just passed a rotten bill that makes their priorities painfully clear: More money for Donald Trump, more power for Donald Trump, and nothing to lower costs for working families.

EXCLUSIVE: A lawyer who represented Derek Chauvin, the former police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is now working for Trump’s DOJ. He is already involved in Trump’s aggressive nationwide campaign to obtain state voter registration data, which could disenfranchise eligible voters.

The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agencies early Friday morning, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill. n.pr/4fn3SZk

How does a state completely redo its district map with all the implications for ballots and polling places and changes of candidates in a few days? But then, SCOTUS let Louisiana change *after votes were already cast* Bodes ill for what they'll allow in the fall, nationally

Trump’s choice for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, is both terrifying and predictable, David Frum argues. theatln.tc/G5oL0eOQ

A reminder that DOJ has sued 30 states for access to their sensitive voter files. DOJ is currently 0-8 in decided cases. This is what I mean when I say the future of democracy is on the docket. www.democracydocket.com

🗺️ A.M. REDISTRICTING UPDATE 🗺️ 📍AL: Congressional map with two majority-Black districts in effect, but the state is asking SCOTUS to allow a map with only one district. 📍LA: GOP map eliminating one majority-Black district in effect. 📍FL: GOP map in effect. 📍TN: GOP map in effect.

The Trump administration must expedite information to Democrats on plans to deploy ICE and National Guard to the polls this fall, a federal judge ordered. Between DHS, DOJ and DOD, thousands of pages of potentially relevant records have been collected, but still not provided to the DNC.

My latest @npr.org story: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has declined to temporarily block President Trump’s executive order that calls for restricting mail-in voting. Another judge may rule on the order soon www.npr.org/2026/05/28/n...

"People have stopped believing that the economy can be good, and have lost the willingness to admit that they are doing well. That pessimism might be harder to fix than an actual downturn," @annielowrey.bsky.social argues.

New in PN: Trump has no way out on Iran "To sum up, if Trump escalates, people are going to hate him. If he surrenders, people are going to hate him. If he dithers, people are going to hate him. He has no good options, which is why he’s spinning in place, hoping someone, anyone, will rescue him."

WHO warns that eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict” as a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak outpaces containment efforts in a region already battered by armed violence, mass displacement and acute hunger.

BREAKING: A federal judge declined to block Trump’s executive order targeting mail voting. The judge said no action had been taken to implement the order that would require immediate relief. Full story to come.

ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data. n.pr/4dAMaAo

ICYMI: South Carolina became the first state to fail in passing a new map in Trump’s gerrymander war since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act last month. Here’s why the Senate abruptly ended its special redistricting session:

Here’s a gift link 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

Viktor Orbán advised Republicans to "get their own media," and they have done so. trib.al/gCsWXGa

“If you’re not worried about this country’s fiscal outlook, you’re not paying attention,” Jared Bernstein, a former economic adviser to President Biden, argues.

Three times in the past week, healthcare facilities have been attacked. On Sunday, angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients, forcing medical staff to evacuate them as gunfire rang out. n.pr/4ds53Fu

Controversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's reelection. The $100 million fight could have far-reaching implications for the GOP, and party control of the Senate. n.pr/4tWno2q

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

WTF. This represents the merger of autocracy and oligarchy.

I will give him credit for taking the U.S. back several decades in a year and for killing my brother.

8 Senate Democrats just voted to advance one of Trump's judicial nominees. Which raises the question: WTF? Dick Durbin John Fetterman Ruben Gallego Maggie Hassan Martin Heinrich Jack Reed Jeanne Shaheen Sheldon Whitehouse

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

With AI wearables, even the average person might need to worry about their every move being recorded, @rossandersen.bsky.social writes. He reports on a growing list of technology that is cropping up to counter this surveillance:

Here’s the bottom line. Donald Trump wants to take $1.8 billion dollars of money that taxpayers like you and me have paid to the government, and he wants to give it to his most hardcore followers. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

The Supreme Court's recent ruling threatens the power of racial-minority voters in Voting Rights Act cases about not just Congress, but also at least 17 state and local governments, NPR finds. n.pr/4wBi07o

For a more in-depth, state-by-state breakdown of where redistricting stands across the country, here’s Jim Saksa’s full reporting:

⚠️ Scott Petersen, a businessman who has questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election, has won the Republican nomination to be Nebraska’s next secretary of state. His win was based on a platform that supported many anti-voting policies, including strict voter ID laws and restricting vote-by-mail.

The trouble with Trump’s presidency, which entails much worse crimes, is that the system doesn’t work, or anyway isn’t working now. trib.al/E5V5LLn

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Pretty good way to pay and incentivize foot soldiers to do your bidding, even if it crosses lines. This is basically how warlords control territory in the absence of a functioning law and order state.

This is the horror cherry on top of the egregious fraud, waste, and abuse sundae. DOGE fired the people who send NIH money to research labs—which is a complicated process—so now even more labs are going to go under. All while Jay Bhattacharya goes on a podcast and says no NIH funding was cut.

Enten: "It's not just one poll. The five worst polls ever for any president on inflation, they all belong to Donald Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. What we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn't in there. Jimmy Carter isn't in there."

Donald Trump’s counterterrorism strategy is unfocused and amateurish—and foreign enemies may even delight in seeing the United States so fixated on drug dealers and street goons, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

We published a detailed guide to the major changes wrought by the Tennessee GOP's new congressional gerrymander, which is now law. Every district would have voted for Trump by at least 20 points.

Conditions are right for voters to stop turning a blind eye to his greed, grift, and gold leaf.

"'Orwellian' has been so overused that it now has lost all of its meaning, and when there are moments like this where it's so applicable... we have to be discerning enough here to say, 'come on, this is bullshit.'" Isaac Saul on a "ceasefire" that doesn't include ceasing fire.

You’ll find the names and stories of the victims as best as we at L.A. TACO could research them. We hope this list offers a moment to remember these individuals. The full list: lataco.com/ice-death-tr... By Memo Torres, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Odessa Hairapetian

ICE concentration camps are deadly. Already in 2026, 18 people have died in detention — roughly 1 person every week. They need to be shut down. Instead, the GOP is trying to give ICE and Border Patrol up to $70 billion more.

What happened in Alabama is actually happening everywhere. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The FBI’s reported investigation focusing on an Atlantic journalist would represent a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s war against press freedom, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

A brazen attempt to intimidate election workers ahead of the November midterms. Should be the lede story in every newspaper: Trump Administration Demands Names of 2020 Election Workers in Georgia www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

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