1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

It’s a well-known fact that people on the right side of history famously ban books

This feels incredibly accurate. I covered Biden toward the end and he suffered from the fact his voice sounded weak and frail and he would trail off. That looks different from Trump's decline, where he rambles and yells a ton. Now that Biden's gone, it looks worse www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Yeah, it's a binary thing - either we pursue a war with no strategy, or we get nuked. There's nothing in-between. I'm sorry.

"High Plains Grifter" a new reality show starring Sec. Duffy, generously funded by companies that need his support.

Did Duffy reach out to Boeing & Toyota for funding? How does this sort of implicit bribery even work? Do Boeing or Toyota have a general ledger account for "protection money" or "cost of doing business under a semi-autocrat"? I bet they still categorize it under "government relations," how quaint.

Someone else wrote "The Art of the Deal" for Trump, and he just runs around taking credit for it. That's basically his approach to life.

This is a wonderful description of AI text, "a privileged kid, a bit drunk and therefore overconfident, who grew up knowing their daddy will pay for the lawyer to get them out of whatever nonsense they produce with their indifference to truth…." crookedtimber.org/2026/05/12/t...

Polluters, many of whom have a history of violating the Clean Air Act, are now exempt under Trump. They just had to send an email and then all enforcement ended.

New Gold Statute Of Trump Shows Him Shaking Fist At Blacks Attempting To Vote

To sum up: the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed to remedy a century of attempts to disenfranchise and unperson African-Americans by any possible, often through voting-related tricks and tests and barriers. They worked -- for a while. But then..../1

I mean, look at this map. Memphis is is split into three districts that flow out to the northeast from it nearly half way across the state to ensure those black voters are overwhelmed by white rural voters.

John Roberts claims the justices aren’t “political actors” Spare us the sanctimony. By destroying VRA in middle of election the court put its thumb on scale of midterms, turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering war & imperiling majority-Black districts across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Triple the rate. 3 times more likely to have grants suspended. “Compared to the all NIH-funded investigators in 2024, investigators who received targeted terminations were more likely to self-identify as… Black/African American (n = 86, 11.9% vs 4.0%)”

"When your war aim is 'status quo ante bellum,' you can skip the bellum"—Clausewitz, probably

This woman is a damn hero.

The DOJ under Biden had a case wrapped up to prosecute a prison-based scheme to use drugs to extort votes in Puerto Rico from addicts. These votes were for Jenniffer González-Colón, a Trump supporter. And after Trump was elected the prosecution was simply shut down.

Absolutely. Trump inherited a great economy from Obama and ... simply didn't screw it up. Sure, he locked up kids in cages and did other racist stuff. But until Covid came along the economy itself was pretty great.

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

The Misanthropocene

"imposes hardships" is a big deal here. Just the retainer for a top tier firm probably starts around $50,000.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I've been in my share of pointless meetings at work. But nothing to match this. And yet, our political leadership has decided that this is a good use of our military leadership's time.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

man it's always the ones you most expect

You can leave him white people we’re all rooting for you.

Trump fires the Navy secretary, his billionaire Palm Beach neighbor and fellow Epstein-knower, for not delivering a Trump vanity battleship fast enough

natsumikan grapefruits, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913

Watch Howard Lutnick's soul leave his body

The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups. n.pr/4u228c6

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO GET CONTROL OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, STAY IN LINE

Trump approval NBC: -36% CBS: -37% IPSOS: -43% CNN: -45% UMass: -47%

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

"The people we identified as resisting attempts to overturn the 2020 results have been replaced by roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Years ago in college there was a guy who played gigs around town, Brother Jeb. He espoused folk-n-roll and claimed the holy trinity was Bob Dylan, John Prine & Mojo Nixon. Mixed in some Elvis, some Warren Zevon. I wonder where that guy is today. Man my friends & I had fun at his gigs.

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

Irma Thomas, Anyone Who Knows What Love Is Will Understand www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_K9...

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

Hall of fame FT correction

In this clip Kevin Hassett predicts 4-5% GDP growth this year. Comparable 2026 forecasts from... Fed: 2.4% WSJ survey of economic forecasters: 2.1% CBO (from Feb, pre-war): 2.2% FT/Clark Center survey: 1.9% IMF (Jan, pre-war): 2.4% OECD: 2.1%

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

If Trump had just not screwed anything up (tariffs, war, etc) he likely would have had a pretty great economy by now. Everything was trending positive over the last couple years of the Biden presidency, and he could have just taken all the credit. I mean, it worked for him in his first term.