Americans will celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with significantly higher gas prices than a year ago.

NEW: A Spokane ICE agent was discovered to have posted on X last year calling Black people “ghetto garbage” and transgender people “mentally ill.” He was called to the stand today to explain himself. The story was first reported by @rangemedia.co www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

In a best-case scenario, Trump’s words will remain just that – the expressions of a jet-lagged leader on his way home from a grueling visit to Beijing. For Trump, the path to reducing risks of conflict is not to bargain away Taiwan. www.brookings.edu/articles/tru...

US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard leaving post after rocky tenure White House reportedly forcing Gabbard to resign, after she was largely sidelined from the role ...

Colbert was at the height of satirical news, and he was at the height of late night in a political context. That wasn't suitable to "christian" Right-Wing Republicans. newrepublic.com/article/2106...

In memory of what the USA that was once known as "The Bastion of Democracy." With the exception of Republicans until December 7, 1941 wrought fire on the USA. qr.ae/pFydPP

Another GREAT Republican/Trump pick! Just don't buy what she sells if you are in the USA military. Pathetic... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today let's all party like its 1859 to celebrate the birthday of the man who created Sherlock Holmes and then wanted to kill him but fans refused to allow it. Doyle passed away in 1930, but Sherlock lives on today in every conceivable form. #booksky #writers #moviesky #tv #botd

Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts reenact Holmes’ death scene at Switzerland’s Reichenbach Falls. It was the start of celebrations leading up to International Sherlock Holmes Day today. link.apnews.com/click/458371...

"Serbia’s youth movement was behind a wave of mass anti-corruption street protests that shook Vucic last year. Now, students say their sights are set on approaching elections later this year or next that they hope will oust Vucic’s right-wing populist government." apnews.com/article/serb...

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Does he have dementia? Or are we seeing more glaring manifestations of his legendary arrogance, which is rooted in his profound insecurity? Or is it merely the stupidity of a man who not only never reads a book but reportedly can’t even read one-page briefing papers? newrepublic.com/article/2101...

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Trump has to comply with the Presidential Records Act, overruling an opinion from the Department of Justice last month. So sad that Trump can’t violate the Presidential Records Act just because he feels like it. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Ballroom won’t be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request Multiple Republican senators objected to sending taxpayer dollars to the president’s East Wing revamp. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Trump's personal Federal Judge, Aileen Cannon, said there is no legal basis for the department to confidentially share the report with leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Trump's Judge Cannon knows where her bread is buttered and it isn't the law. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

SC's spineless Senator Lindsey Graham, who seems willing to abandon any principle he ever held to stay on Trump’s good side and remain his golfing buddy, expressed the essence of the Trump First Republicans after Cassidy lost:

So much naked corruption 🤬 apnews.com/article/irs-... US government agrees to drop tax claims against Trump in broadening of IRS lawsuit settlement

Why is Roundup is everywhere. Literally! Monsanto’s flagship weed killer (active ingredient: glyphosate) was all over the headlines this past week, seeping into the feeds of wellness influencers and...

But this estimate hinged on the fact that all those shipments had been handled by a small group of prolific importers — companies that quickly got ready to file their claims. More than two-thirds of importers were not ready — many of them small importers like Brown. www.npr.org/2026/05/03/n...

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social

Americans were sold "We caught you here illegally, we're sending you back to your home country." Instead we got a torture victim being deported to Africa. It is worse than you think. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:

Do the laws not apply to the rich and wealthy? Kleptocracy? Quid pro quo. Bribery. You name it. All of this is wrong and illegal. Shameful.

Here’s how the Editorial Cartoonists are reacting to Wednesday’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais. Some of the most accurate commentary during the Reconstruction period came from Cartoonists like Thomas Nast. Needless to say, the reaction to the decimation of the Voting Rights Act has been pointed…

Out chasing waterfalls this weekend. Y'all be good. #waterfall

REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social : “This is a power grab… they’re spitting on the graves of all that work, saying we’re going to allow Black political voices & representation to be dismantled across the South- following marching orders of the White House. We’ve gotta fight back.” @GovBillLee

A Russian man is complaining that those "evil and scary" Ukrainians are finishing off the miserable Russians. Right there in their own country, on their own land. So, maybe you shouldn't have invaded them in the first place?

"Trump is widely despised in educated, democratic countries, which even a year ago had no confidence in his leadership. Today, most people of the world express significantly higher approval of China’s despotic, genocidal regime than they do of U.S. leadership." newrepublic.com/article/2095...

Khmarynka fits into a broader class of low-cost kamikaze drones designed for mass deployment, including to exhaust Russian air defenses and strike targets such as armored vehicles, warehouses, and infantry bunkers. "Lightweight, but most importantly cheap." kyivindependent.com/lightweight-...

For more than 200 years, among the worst charges anyone could throw at a president was that he viewed himself a king. Smash cut to Tuesday, when the WH marked King Charles III’s visit to DC with a post of the British monarch alongside Trump. The caption? “TWO KINGS. 👑.” www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The statue, which includes a Banksy signature on its base, was erected overnight on Wednesday. By Thursday, a video about the piece had been published on Banksy's Instagram account, confirming it as his work. www.npr.org/2026/05/02/n...

Rick Hasen, a UCLA law professor who specializes in election law, described Wednesday’s court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais as “one of the most pernicious and damaging Supreme Court decisions of the last century.” newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Russians standing by the monument to the Wagner, with Perm burning in the background. A brilliant photo.

She made the short drive to the Freepoint pyrolysis incinerator in Hebron, Ohio. As she pulled up next to the site, she saw black plumes of smoke coming out of the smokestacks and had to leave after only a few minutes due to sudden nausea and dizziness... www.motherjones.com/sponsored/me...

I sat a little girl by the cold, deep well, Pebbles for wishes, blue skies over stone— I tossed one for the sea and kept the mountains as home, Years later I saw the tide, and both worlds were my own. #photography #poetry #waterfalls #MayDay #FirstOfMay #Friday #mountains #wishes #eastcoastkin

#Sweden is electrifying everything that moves — trucks, buses, ferries, and mining vehicles — building the world's most complete 0-emission transport system. While most countries are focused on getting private EVs onto roads, Sweden has been electrifying every category of transport #ActOnClimate

May 1 . 2023 We lost the great Canadian Gordon Lightfoot on this day 3 years ago. Gordon was an incredible singer and songwriter. Bob Dylan said whenever he heard a Lightfoot song - he wished it would last forever. Me too Bob. Sundown #gordonlightfoot #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #vinylsky

Tennessee is 35% Democrats. Does this mean you’re adding Democratic seats? Majority-Black Memphis votes for Dems. By “accurately reflect the will of Tennessee voters” you mean white Republicans. Just say it with your chest, Guv. Let’s stop pretending.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky is working on a strategy for negotiating with Russia without US help, - Politico He has become more cautious about future US involvement and now hopes that Turkey will hold the next round of talks with Russia.

what a spectacular #scape day in the #mountains yesterday. the previous video I posted last night shows High Camp Creek, the starter #creek for the Trinity River. here's a pic of it. #ECK

The ignorance of the people who vote for these criminals is why we are where we are. Good morning everyone. ☕️☕️☕️

The combination of extreme weather and shortages of gas-derived fertilizers that typically flow through the Strait of Hormuz stands to exacerbate a looming, climate-fueled global food crisis. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Palestinian Christians in the West Bank, some of the oldest in the world, have faced increasing harassment from outlaw Israeli settlers. Israel has been embarrassed by a rise in their hostility towards Christian clerics in incidents that have gone viral online. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A Petulant man-Child ruins the world even more: "A brigade combat team now in Germany will be pulled out and a long-range fires battalion the Biden administration had planned to begin deploying to Germany later this year will no longer deploy, the official said." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yet USA complaints about logistics alone do not explain the delay. At the center of the impasse remains the question of territory. The RU continues 2 demand that Ukrainian forces withdraw from Ukraine controlled parts of Donbas as a precondition for any agreement. kyivindependent.com/heres-why-tr...

Jonathan Ross — the ICE agent who lethally shot queer mother of three Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last January before calling her a “f**king b**ch” — was only placed on three days of administrative leave for the murder. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/this...

This past week, the US Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of drones from Powerus as America’s war with Iran hits the 60-day mark. The company’s co-founder, Brett Velicovich, claimed the decision had nothing to do with its investors’ obvious ties to the WH. newrepublic.com/post/209840/...

In an interview, Sanders said Mills’s decision to drop out of the race is “indicative of the kind of changes we’re seeing in this country. The American people are tired of status quo politics. The very rich get richer. Everybody else struggles.” www.semafor.com/article/05/0...