You don’t need a law degree to know how truly wild this is.

“Savvier talking heads have spun the raging war within the Democratic Party as less about “left vs. right” and more about “floppers vs. fighters” “ This! I want to vote for people who are at least as angry about what is happening in our country as I am and are willing to do something about it.

People often ask how we got here and I would just like to direct you to the end of this great piece of reporting for one possible clue. “By law, Trump was required to report all of these trades within 45 days. He missed that deadline for many of his trades. As a result, Trump was fined $200.” WTF

Tarlov added that Trump isn’t offering much of a platform for Republicans to run on. She said, it’s basically “I want to get rich, and I don’t care that you are poorer.” I think that about sums it up. Should make for good campaign ads.

Bezos discusses why him paying more taxes wouldn't help working people on the same day my reporting reveals the working conditions inside an Amazon package facility where someone died last month.

“In her order dismissing the suit, Judge Kathleen Williams noted that because Trump’s dropping of the suit “does not reference any settlement or include a stipulation of settlement, there is no settlement of record.” It is NOT a settlement! It is a theft of taxpayer money. OUR money!

"United States K-12 students are not uniquely bad at reading, in fact, they are among the very best in the developed world." freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/one-more-t...

Some really big news out of Minnesota today! Story time. On a cold night in February, ICE agents chased a Alfredo, a DoorDash driver, through Minneapolis streets. Panicked, he called his partner and his best friend Julio: both urged him to come home. He almost made it. /1

“Those attorneys did not arrange a single phone call with the client, contact the trial lawyer or obtain the police or prosecution case files about three-quarters of the time.”

This is so infuriating. I’ve had so many people push back that private donors need to/ will step up when I mention things like this, but as this article (and the thread) explains that’s just not realistic.

Not a PENNY for families whose children were cruelly stolen away from them, but $1.8 billion for his friends and allies.

lmao what the FUCK incredible

I am a pilot today mostly because of a military acrobatic demonstration. I know of more than a few pilots who say the same. It's a hell of a recruiting tool. For flight time that needs to happen anyway. Wanna talk about nixing the Blue Angels and Thunderbird's? I'm all ears. But the demo teams? Na

1. On March 11, Trump toured a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility in Ohio and repeatedly praised the company. On *the same day* Trump bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of Thermo Fisher stock. The purchase was "UNSOLICITED," meaning it was requested by the customer, not recommended by an advisor.

“Replacing Americans’ civic identity with Christian nationalism destroys that vitally important understanding of the role of citizens in a democracy. Instead, it demands that Americans do as they are told, turning them into subjects.” No kings = no subjects.

An awful example of how our legal immigration system is getting progressively worse.

(President) Johnson said: “This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.”

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Has there ever been a more embarrassing president? I was assured by so many people that the US would be more respected on the world stage than ever before if we elected Trump. 😏

VETERANS: -My mental health appts are now only 30 minutes long -Wait times are longer -There are limits on the types of care I can get Is this happening to you? Let @votevets.org know so we can fight back: votevets.org/va-tipline

“Muddying the waters for voters is the best the Trump administration can hope for because, for all the administration’s claims to be fighting fraud, Trump’s corruption is mind-boggling.” Every accusation is a confession has been a pretty safe assumption with the Trump admin so far.

This is important. This administration is trying to cut benefits for veterans while also creating new veterans that will need those benefits. The costs to care for veterans is almost never mentioned when talking about the price of war.

This is depressing and shameful but I want to highlight @raskin.house.gov's dissenting vote in Committee. He gets it, and I'm glad he put in the time to fully assess this bill and put this on the record. His full dissent is here, at the bottom: www.congress.gov/committee-re...

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The echoes of the past are deafening indeed.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

May 12, 2026 The biggest story in the country, today and always, is that the president of the United States is mentally unwell. Over the course of three hours last night, he posted on social media fifty-five times. Those posts accused a number of those Trump considers his personal enemies…

“We can tell you what to do, but you can’t tell us what to do.” - the GOP

New piece by me reflecting on an article @leahsottile.bsky.social recently published about what it's like to be in your early 20s and to have always lived inside an era of mass shootings, climate change, unaffordable housing, and Trumpist rage. rightlandia.ghost.io/recommended-...

May 11, 2026 The story of the Trump Mobile phone seems a microcosm of the Trump administration. As Judd Legum of Popular Information explains, in June, Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric announced the launch of a new, gold plated, Trump smartphone, “proudly designed and built in the United States.”

In 13 years of learning about various government programs and agencies, the two-word phrase that explains the most, and that I most wish the general public knew about and understood, is “administrative burden”.

Washington is debating suspending the 18.4¢ federal gas tax. But nobody is talking about the REAL tax Americans are paying: the Iran war premium. It’s adding roughly $1.35 per gallon right now, costing drivers about $571 million today alone. Over 71 days? Nearly $28 billion.

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Having destroyed America's aid agency, President Trump is now withholding GAVI vaccines from poor countries--like a $3 vaccine against malaria, and a $4 vaccine against cervical cancer. Countless thousands will die. Destroying aid is Trump's single most lethal policy: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

The realist shit to ever appear in a gov memo.

"It is essential going forward that Democrats convince voters they have a plan to recalibrate a system that has been twisted and abused by this administration and made to punish everyone-"

Adam Serwer wrote this in 2018:

A picture is worth a thousand words.

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

NEW: Trump is killing companies left and right. Some cases are more like murder, others are like manslaughter. Our @crampell.bsky.social visits the 'America First' corporate graveyard: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

SCOOP: A confidential new CIA analysis delivered to policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least 3 to 4 months before facing more severe economic hardship, a finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse 🧵

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Global affairs journalist David Rothkopf wrote today in The Daily Beast: “Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and results of a war than we have seen from the White House on Iran.” But Vietnam was so much longer.

Not the main point of this racist move in Louisiana, but in my piece on this fiasco I dropped a chunk on JUST how common this vile move is: "oh, you're innocent? We can tell, but if you want to fight it you can spend five more yrs in prison doing so." It's really common!

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.

U.S. Sen. Andy Kim has a vision for South Jersey. And he wants his constituents to share theirs, too.

“The Defense Department initiated significant reforms of the military health system starting in 2017 as part of an effort to eliminate redundancy and duplication across the military health system. But the reforms have negatively affected the system…” I’m sure this idea will be better.