Is this photos from 1964? Nope, this was yesterday May 7, 2025 in Tennessee.

The Rachel Maddow Show Breaking News Today May 8, 2026 youtu.be/371qrEDkUO0?...

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection.

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Has the Supreme Court ever previously struck down all or part of a duly-passed, constitutional law on the grounds that Justices feel like the law achieved its goals and feel like the goal would stay achieved without the law so therefore it shouldn’t be in force anymore? Because that’s legislative.

The sole Democratic FCC commissioner, Anna Gomez, is slamming FCC Chair Brendan Carr's order targeting ABC's licenses as a "politically motivated" and "unlawful" move. "This is the most egregious action this FCC has taken in violation of the First Amendment to date."

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

It is depressing how little people seem to care about the fact RFK Jr. is effectively committing an illegal genocide in the global south. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

The war in Iran has locked Trump into a showdown with a sophisticated state sponsor of terrorism at a time when U.S. security agencies have hemorrhaged experts and the White House counterterrorism czar has yet to release a plan to fight threats.

WaPo takes note of Trump’s “oscillating claims” about the war, but avoids the obvious conclusions — that Trump is deranged, that he is unfit, and that he shouldn’t be in charge. This is an example of the normalization of the dangerously abnormal. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“While breaking bread with Carr isn’t quite on the level of “honoring” Trump’s anti-press White House, it is still appalling.” What a nauseating guest list: Trump, Carr, Hegseth and Steven Miller. A stunning error in judgment by these journalists.

John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

Democracy Docket vs Politico. Support independent pro-democracy media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

We all need to watch this carefully. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment. By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

“The Truth is, These are Not Very Bright Guys, and Things Got Out of Hand.” -Evergreen Quote

Hennepin County officials say these are the first charges filed against a federal immigration agent related to the crackdown that brought thousands of federal officers to the state. The widespread operation led to the shooting deaths of two American citizens. n.pr/4dO6GxR

I think violent attacks on the US are bad, yes, and that people convicted of those crimes by a unanimous jury following full due process should be in jail, not let out and celebrated. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel. (I don’t know how the country comes back from that being partisan)

A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane comments capped by threatening to wipe out Iran and attacking the pope have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power and revived the debate about Trump's mental health. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

"In advance of this year’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Is the US plan for talks in Pakistan to give Iran concessions to open Hormuz, yell at media that reports it accurately, and insist that ending up in a weaker strategic position is somehow a success since US forces killed some people and destroyed some stuff? Because it looks like that’s the plan.

Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in a measles outbreak and depend entirely on herd immunity, where at least 95% of a community must be vaccinated to prevent measles outbreaks. https://to.pbs.org/4dI3Om3

Election deniers. Conspiracy theorists. Anti-voting activists. Big Lie true believers. By the time we hold our next presidential vote, they could be running our elections — including in some key swing states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If mainstream journalists did their basic duty – warning us about threats to our well-being – they’d loudly warn us that a deranged criminal is trying to overthrow our democracy. It’s the biggest story of their lifetimes, and they’re either afraid to cover it properly or they’re complicit in it.

The warnings are getting louder about Trump trying to take over voting at the national level. Are we paying attention? Sen Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is sounding the alarm, and he’s not guessing. That committee sees things the public can’t.

Still aglow from their triumphant lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts made more history Tuesday: calling their friends aboard the International Space Station hundreds of thousands of miles away as they headed home from the moon. https://to.pbs.org/4bWd2db

It would be nice if mainstream media would report the obvious fact that the president of the United States is out of his mind. Seems like a highly relevant fact that the media have buried so far, in betrayal of their duty.

How about journalists who care about the First Amendment refuse to attend this dinner. Instead of be used as a prop by Trump, speak out. If legacy media wants to know why it is in such rapid decline and not trusted, empty gesture like this is why.

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Looks like we’re well into the political purges of senior military officers stage of authoritarianism. It’s been going this whole time, but now noticeably accelerated. Even worse, the regime is doing it in the middle of a war, one they launched that is going poorly.

The Trump regime denigrates NATO allies, lies about them, tariffs them, lectures them that they’re not white enough, shifts towards Russia and against them, even threatens to take their territory, and now MAGA is confused that allies aren’t aiding an aggressive war of choice? How stupid can one be?

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

Ryan Goodman: "Hegseth's purge of Black and women officers is larger than was previously reported. Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for MORE THAN A DOZEN Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military." #morale #racism #injustice #politics

Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees. In sharp contrast to the Trump administration’s calls for Christian prayers for the war effort, Pope Leo XIV says military domination is “entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.” | NY Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Barry McCaffrey says Gen. Randy George is “probably the best leader I’ve encountered in uniform." Why fire him? I’m told that Hegseth had long been suspicious of George, who had previously worked for Lloyd Austin and clashed with Hegseth over promotions for women and minorities. wapo.st/4v9trlZ

Urbana Illinois (is fast!) NO KINGS. March 28 2026 Standing up and being counted together. Thank you!

Part of the march following the No Kings rally in Urbana Illinois

More from today’s No Kings rally in Urbana IL #NoKings

Part of the march following the No Kings rally in Urbana Illinois

More from today’s No Kings rally in Urbana IL #NoKings

Crowd beginning to assemble in Urbana IL #nokings

NEW: We have seen DOJ secure a search warrant to seize ballots in Georgia and a subpoena to seize ballots in Arizona. Now a sheriff is seizing ballots in California. This is a crisis unfolding in real time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

This is like outlawing shark attacks in cornfields.

Trump has damaged democracy at remarkable speed, reports find www.npr.org/2026/03/20/n...

I can't believe I'm saying this and it's not a meme, but polls close at 7 in Illinois, so if you're in line to vote, STAY IN LINE. You can register TODAY with a piece of business mail and vote TODAY. Every vote counts. It's a sunnier, nicer day out than we all thought it would be! Get out there!