what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

For a @motherjones.com piece, looking to talk to a few people who purchased health insurance through the marketplace who have dealt with higher deductibles this year and how that's impacted you. Please reach out to [email protected] and appreciate reposts.

More evidence Republicans want you diseased or dead. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Thanks to Sara for her approach here. This was the way to shine a light on a disability that affects many, while tying it into a national story. Avoiding ableism, sensationalism, and fear mongering. 1/2

New from @alexjn.bsky.social and me at @motherjones.com: Trump's Medicaid fraud campaign has come to California. Not only is there no evidence of fraud, it puts disabled people on home care's lives at risk. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Trump administration wants to decrease a mother's allotments for fruits and vegetables from $52 to $13 a month.

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...

Excuse me, this is loud.

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

All I’m gonna say at the moment, is there is a reason why journalists have beats. Granted not everyone ends up in the right beat for them, but it’s easy to get it wrong if you have no experience reporting on something that isn’t in your wheelhouse.

SCOTUS is staging a coup & we should call it that

Children are being damaged by this virus. Make it stop 🛑

Instantly disqualifying.

The GOP is utterly hostile to representative democracy. It was predictable that Republicans would pull out all the stops to hold onto power. This country is so broken.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

‘Comrade Trump is the unwitting hero of a green revolution.’ This fresh take is the most uplifting news article I’ve read in a while. www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Imagine being a scientist investigating vaccines in the U.S. After years of research and millions spent, your study is blocked from publication because your data doesn't support RFK's and the FDA's battle against vaccines. This is why people like me were forced to leave.

So much for "financed through private donations," huh. A billion dollars for ballroom security enhancements - a *billion.* That's a thousand million of your tax dollars, friends. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2. Firefly 3. Westworld 4. The Wire 5. The Newsroom 6. The Pitt 7. The Expanse 8. The Peripheral 9. Stranger Things 10. Making a Murderer 11. Mindhunter 12. Orange is the New Black 13. True Detective - last season 14. Lovecraft Country 15. Severence

Historian here exactly. The Dems need to learn from the no quarters given political tactics and campaigns of the Republicans in the 1850s and 1860s when they managed to upend half a century slaveholder dominance of the federal government.

#Measles update: In the first 4 months of 2026, there have been 1,814 confirmed measles cases (& doubtless many more that were never confirmed). For context: That's 79% of the total for the entirety of 2025 — but in 4 months, not 12. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

It’ll be gay marriage next. Then interracial marriage. Then segregated schools. They’re already working on that. Then whites only public spaces. They’ve already re-segregated the federal work force by firing as many Black people as they could.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

In the past we had “Jim Crow“ laws. The next phase should be called “John Roberts” laws

Suspending elections where people have already started voting so you can gerrymander their voting power away. Very democracy.

To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.

the new Florida gerrymander not only cracks my neighborhood in two, it results in the county building being in a different congressional district than the other county building, which is across the street and tampa city hall's in a different district than the police station across the street

I'm on parental leave this week and next, so of course Callais came down today. Just a few top-line thoughts: 1. Don't believe Alito's claim that the majority is merely tinkering with precedent. In effect, this decision pretty much eliminates what remained of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

HEGSETH: Their nuclear facilities have been obliterated SMITH: Whoa whoa. We had to start this war, you said, bc the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying it was obliterated? HEGSETH: They had not given up their *ambitions* S: So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing

Patients have an expectation that when they visit a healthcare setting, they will leave in better shape than when they came in. However, many people end up with healthcare-associated infections. bit.ly/4eRAz0B

Yes, Fight Club is a story about men discovering and reclaiming a sense of themselves in a changing world. But it’s far more complex than aggrieved men seeking to own their toxic masculinity.

I hate talking about the ballroom bc I don't give a fuck about the White House and nothing there is sacred to me, but it feels obvious to me that allowing an authoritarian, who attempted a coup the last time he lost an election, to build a "top secret" military complex under the WH is a bad idea.

Just chatted with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on the phone, and there's some confusion that I want to help clear up: she was not attending the dinner, did not have a ticket to the dinner; she was seriously just there to try to talk to someone who was at an event at the Hilton.

! Wolf Blitzer on CNN, saying he was a few feet away from a shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner: "A guy with a very, very serious weapon starts shooting. I happened to be a few feet away from him."

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Gross

Nobody is safe as long as this man is in office. Impeach now.

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

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Dear gawd you must read this…

Palantir is bad news for the world.

Morning coffee with the brand new members of our house.