Now that’s a mayor worth voting for

Mayor Mamdani Keeps Up The Wins For New Yorkers,And He Just Keeps Getting Better.......👏🏻

I was serenaded today by this beautiful indigo bunting. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Exactly. #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass

In another time - and thinking of how high youth unemployment is -being a parent of young adults seeking work I would have called this ad in Islington tone deaf. In these times I see it as something else, something quite sinister

There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

The Truth About E. Jean Carroll www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

MacDonough ruled over the weekend that the $1 billion in ballroom funding needs 60 votes, rather than a simple majority, to pass the Senate.

BREAKING: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn & MPD Officer Hodges are suing to block the $1.8B “weaponization” slush fund.

The lawsuit calls the government's "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is an illegal slush fund that President Donald Trump will use to "finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name." https://to.pbs.org/4dBOx4z

FairSquare director @ncgeehan.bsky.social in conversation with @billlaw49.bsky.social about Sudan, the UAE and Manchester City; Israel and the Court of Arbitration for Sport; and how FIFA is putting football at the service of authoritarians open.spotify.com/episode/1pZt...

UAE reports drone strike near Abu Dhabi nuclear power plant

In Iraqi Desert, Two Israeli Outposts Were Kept Secret for Months www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/w...

"The vast sums being spent on the war effort, at least $29 billion as of May 12, has not prompted the Trump administration to provide enough support services to help those families cope with their extra burdens" prospect.org/2026/05/15/t...

"Trump is snatching food out of the mouths of hungry American children, in order to pay for bombs that are dropped on Iranian children, and the effect is to make the price of gas and diesel, and therefore food, shoot upward. " prospect.org/2026/05/15/a...

⚖️ 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Thirty-four Council of Europe member states, along with Australia, Costa Rica and the EU as an institution, have said they would join a future special tribunal for Ukraine tasked with prosecuting Russia over its invasion of the country.

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

As the war with Iran pushes its munitions stocks to dangerously low levels, the Defense Department has not signed new contracts to replenish its supplies, according to two U.S. officials and two people familiar with the matter.

The dismantling of USAID is a humanitarian crisis. Only the cartoonists are covering it.

Mamdani for President 💥

'Absurd spin': Trump’s overnight screen heralding US as 'hottest nation' horrifies experts During his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping suggested that the United States is a nation in decline. Trump and his allies, after the meeting, claimed that Jinping was talk

Stop Looking for an Offramp in Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

NEW: Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages New accounts from 17 men, women and children who have filed formal claims after being detained in a late-night raid paint a violent and terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ actions.

Farcical psychodrama returns! The new Private Eye is out now.

Russia pummels Ukraine with missiles and drones as ceasefire collapses ft.trib.al/vEZz1Ca

Israel Says Netanyahu Made a Secret Trip to U.A.E., Which Says He Didn’t www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/w...

Leo has never said he wants Iran to have nuclear weapons but why should the truth stop Trump? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This is more accurate than people realize.

The Votings Rights Act of 1965 was signed by President Johnson… To overturn the Jim Crow voting laws in the South… nightmare Supreme Court has decided the Votings Rights Act of 1965 is no longer needed. Southern states are now working on redistricting most black representatives out of office.

Another Trump blunder comes back to bite the GOP. When they gonna learn he’s in it for the money and the pander to his grossly inflated ego

This still has no answer 🔥 REPORTER: Any evidence Iran was about to attack the U.S.? WHITE HOUSE: The president had a feeling. 😭 50 DAYS OF GLOBAL CHAOS… ALL FOR A FEELING.

This is what we need more of!

Rock In Peace Dave Mason, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as a founding member of Traffic, and his solo career and work with George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, Leon Russell, and more. Gone to the big gig in the sky.

🇬🇶 🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV will visit a prison known for its squalid conditions in Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday, on the penultimate day of a marathon tour of Africa tour during which he has spoken out forcefully on world issues. ➡️ u.afp.com/SEyj

"The idea that he would dismiss [Olly Robbins] and the way that he dismissed him... sends a real chill through the civil service." Dave Penman, General Secretary of the FDA, says the PM is "losing the ability to work with the civil service." #Newsnight

Good on Canucks. Stay away from Trump’s USA!

🇸🇩 Sudanese deminers scour shattered capital for hidden explosives The war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has moved on from the capital since the military retook it last year, but Khartoum is still littered with explosives that authorities are struggling to clear.

Oil prices held steady on Wednesday after pushing higher the day before and U.S. stock markets looked set to open stronger as investors tried to make sense of President Trump’s decision to extend the cease-fire with Iran amid doubts about the status of another round of peace talks.

Another of the gross incompetents in Trump’s grossly corrupt and incompetent administration

The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe “Last March, Mr. Samson was in London for a secret breakfast meeting with Nigel Farage, Britain’s most prominent right-wing populist, to discuss abortion and censorship.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

New York #Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott, who was born without a right hand, throws a no-hitter vs. the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium! (1993) #MLB #Baseball #History #Inspiration #RepBX

"These days, I’m feeling more aligned with Catholicism than I have since my first communion. I’m not alone in that," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states. DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand. My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases. DOJ is now 0-5. My firm is 5-0. Lesson: When we fight we win.

Trump Fumes Over Report He’s Considering Giving Iran $20 Billion A jaw-dropping report reveals Trump is willing to give Iran billions as part of a nuclear deal. ...