That matters because it NORMALIZES and provides legal cover for Trump colluding with DoJ and IRS to control both sides of the bogus lawsuit he filed. This is not a settlement. It’s theft. Facts matter. END/ Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b... Source: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... The judge:

And the Stupid Idiots of the Day Award goes to... The Trump administration has announced a plan to kill Biden-era drinking water limits on four “forever chemicals” and to delay implementing standards for two other compounds. The rules almost certainly will be challenged in court. --Guardian

"This brings the total spent on “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Deportation Depot” — Florida’s other state-run detention center — to at least $460 million. The highest bill — $92 million — went to Doodie Calls, a portable toilet and sanitation company." www.wlrn.org/2026-05-14/d...

In the last 72 hours, Taiwan has gotten a heavy dose of the reality that Ukraine, Poland, Denmark and others have seen up close and personal. Just because you have been an ally for decades through admins of both parties, the US is not your friend as long as Trump is president.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

"72% of the white population is put into one district. 75% of the Black population is carved into two,” Sen. Jeff Yarbro of Nashville said. “We are being asked to believe that it’s just the luck of the draw, just happenstance.” Within hours of a new congressional map passing, the NAACP filed suit.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

The reporter who asked this question is a veteran journalist, Rachel Scott. She is also a Black American. Trump called her question stupid and twice seemed to imply she was comfortable with dirt. Just naked misogyny and racism

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

May 4, 2026

Right?

The Supreme Court just made it harder to challenge legislative maps drawn to dilute the voting power of Black and Latino voters. This is a green light for unconstitutional attacks on the voting rights generations of Americans bled and died to secure.

No mean tweets, ever. 🪠🚽

Mad Donald hates wind power. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Abhorrent. Trump Judge Says Some Women Are Just a “Warm, Wet Hole” newrepublic.com/post/209562/... via @newrepublic.com

To figure out why Cole Allen did what he did, I obtained a copy of his resume and talked to his former friends. The portrait that emerges is unlike what the White House is saying: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-w...

The ears of every state or federal prosecutor who's ever worked an Embezzlement case just pricked up. If you ever wondered how Donald Trump could transfer the cost of his Fürherbunker to taxpayers while personally pocketing millions, this would be Step 1.

Hope John Roberts, who assured us that absolute immunity would prevent presidents from going after their predecessors, sees this

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Yes, my guess is it’s more likely than not to be an exact recreation of the Hitler photo than just a crappy assassination attempt.

Hitler and Trump: arch rivals for the title of most tasteless dictator.

Trump tomorrow: Viktor Orban? Never heard of him.

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for issuing secret guidance instructing immigration agents to enter homes without a warrant. Sending masked, federal agents with military rifles and no judicial warrant to invade homes is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

1. Noem blames Stephen Miller and Trump for ICE violence 2. Noem is fired 3. Lewandowski is fired 4. 2 DHS officials tell the Daily Mail that Stephen Miller instructed ICE to cause violence 5. Someone leaked photos of Noem's husband cross-dressing to the Daily Mail Do I have that right?

If Nixon was "a long national nightmare," what the hell is Trump?

NEW: Arizona voters notched sweeping, back-to-back victories Friday after the state Supreme Court declined to hear three separate challenges backed by Republicans and right-wing groups — leaving in place key safeguards for mail-in voting, election administration and certification.

No Kings Day, Albuquerque

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.

SCOOP. From my OUR LAND newsletter: Trump's DOJ is helping to get a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence out of prison. The lie this guy told the FBI—Joe Biden took a $5m bribe from Burisma—was the main evidence for the GOP impeachment drive. 1/2 link.motherjones.com/public/44694...

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Is Trump Building ‘Concentration Camps’? These Experts Have No Doubts open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

BREAKING: Babe, wake up. New war just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...