[AXIOS] JURY RULES AGAINST MUSK IN LANDMARK AI TRIAL

“The reality of racial inequality & the continuing fervor to deny Black voices & whitewash our collective history remains a hateful feature of American life. This despite more than a century of efforts by determined Americans to right these wrongs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-contin...

Mortgage costs rise sharply on Middle East conflict ft.trib.al/n2vbCx1

The people who sided with Democrats to force Trump DOJ’s Pedo Protection Racket to start releasing the files get the most vicious treatment from Trump. I wonder why?

Trump is doing what dictators do, he his rewriting history. He is redacting our actual past and replacing it with a white-centric fiction that negates the accomplishments of POC and women.

Texas limits eligibility for Medicaid to families living below 15 percent of the poverty level, meaning that a family of three earning more than—get this—$4,098 annually is not eligible for any benefits. trib.al/xIxx6h8

Trump's insecure and childish inability to ever admit to making a mistake is really going to catch up with him on this very public, obvious mistake. He's making possibly the worst verbal flub in American presidential history even worse by stamping his little feet in foolish defiance.

One of the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee called attention to a document displayed at a new hearing with Jeffrey Epstein's victims that could potentially reveal the names of his co-conspirators.

The latest consumer price report is here, and the data shows most grocery staples trending upward, electric costs at all-time highs and gas prices back above $4 per gallon nationally for the first time since 2022.

U.S. President Donald Trump has described arms sales to Taiwan as a "very good negotiating chip" in dealings with China.

China says Trump visit deals are 'preliminary' reut.rs/3RsXMwq

The Justice Department is preparing to seek the dismissal of a pending bribery and fraud case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, potentially ending prosecution efforts following a defense campaign led by one of President Trump‘s personal attorneys.

Last year, Donald Trump and his lapdog Republicans chose to increase health insurance premiums for millions of Americans on the ACA marketplace. My budget proposal would KEEP $0 monthly plans for low-income Californians to help clean up the financial disaster Trump created.

🔥Trump has exploded the national debt, crushed family budgets, and left working parents drowning. Soaring gas prices and grocery bills. Deficits our children will repay for decades. Our kids deserve better than having to live with Trump’s economic wreckage! #WeCantAffordTrump

Tax cuts for billionaires came at a massive cost: our healthcare. Now 700 hospitals face closure because Medicaid was gutted to fund the wealthy. Your local ER and neighborhood care are on the line. 💔 #WeCantAffordTrump

Trump made the admission. Then he defended it. He said he doesn’t think about Americans’ finances. He called that answer “a perfect statement.” Then he said he would make it again. This MFer doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself. If only the cult would believe it. #WeCantAffordTrump

Iranian hackers are believed to have compromised U.S. gas tank readers, according to CNN."The hackers responsible have exploited automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems that were sitting online and unprotected by passwords," said the report.

Stephen Miller has recused himself from talks about AI, space, and the proposed Paramount merger because of his wife Katie’s consulting work with Elon Musk’s businesses and her podcast, Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker report. theatln.tc/lMRSGjmV

Naturally. The person who leading the administration‘s response to Hantavirus is a penile implant specialist. newrepublic.com/post/210513/...

California gubernatorial candidate under investigation over payments to influencers Billionaire Tom Steyer’s campaign has paid thousands of dollars to influencers, some of whom did not disclose the payouts. 2/2 Via 🧵@sapphoreverie www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... 2/2

HUD Secretary Scott Turner couldn’t provide a single example of what he has done in the year-plus since he took office. trib.al/tj8SwOr

WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Trump made $3 BILLION last year… there is a ‘FOR SALE’ sign on the White House.” (H/T @Acyn)

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

CNN’s Harry Enten: “The bottom has completely fallen out for Trump with Latino voters. After winning a record share for a GOP nominee in 2024, just 28% of Latinos approve of Trump now. The drop with Latino men is even more dramatic. He won them by 10 points in 2024. His net approval now is -41 pts!”

Though Trump has repeatedly claimed that millions of noncitizens vote, data shows there are few such cases. Of these, most involve people like Estelle, who register in error. “It is a needle in the haystack,” a former DHS lawyer said.

Eight of the top ten officials at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office. @maxkozlov.bsky.social

LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt won’t stop talking about the apocalyptic results of homeless people using “super meth,” a very scary-sounding drug that does not exist:

This is what the most corrupt president in American history looks like.

The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy turns its political enemies into enemies of the state.

Silver tumbled to $76 on Friday morning, just days after it approached a two-month high of $90.

TrumpMobile is now evidently shipping a two-year old Chinese-made phone, the T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G, to MAGA die-hards who ordered the $500 Trump phone. The T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G is available on Amazon for about $125 and sells in wholesale quantities for $40 to $50. Grifters gotta grift.

DOJ's position on the "state citizenship lists" Trump ordered sent out ahead of elections this year is that the lists will inevitably be flawed and it's up to state officials to decide whether or not to start purging voter rolls based on what they receive. "No list is ever going to be perfect.”

The University of Chicago will provide free tuition to students of families earning less than $250,000 a year.

REP. @votegloriaj.bsky.social: “I was like this can’t be real, but it is. I went to the website… House Republicans are just big ol’ racists and don’t care who knows it.” Gloria confirms what we said — White male Dems (except Powell) still have committees, Black & Female Dems were removed.

NEW: Trump is going to give himself $1.7B from the treasury to pay his allies who were prosecuted under the Biden administration- including pardoned insurrectionists. This is a “settlement” deal in his $10B suit against the IRS. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Every day America sinks to a new level of stupidity and derangement.

US wholesale inflation soars to 6% in biggest surge since 2022 ft.trib.al/jzU84iN

President Trump said he does not consider the economic impacts the war in Iran is having on Americans. “Not even a little bit‚” Trump said when asked to what extent “Americans’ financial situations” are motivating him to end the war.

The brutal truth about the economy: Reporter: “To what extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal?” Trump: “Not even a little bit. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situations.”

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is building an “Amazon for Guns” and his son, Don Jr. stands to benefit. Under your noses, the Trump Administration is quietly reshaping gun regulations. The goal? Creating “Amazon for Guns”—a one stop shop to mail guns to your doorsteps. My exclusive report:

Breaking News: U.S. intelligence reports show that Iran retains substantial missile capacity, despite President Trump’s claims otherwise.

Neoconservative foreign policy scholar Robert Kagan writes the Iran conflict is worse than Viet Nam and has "revealed an America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started.” A thing you won't know if you watch Fox News. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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China has largely stayed on the sidelines during the Iran war—but this is not a sign of weakness, Ryan Hass argues: “The country is biding its time, positioning itself as the ready choice to fill a leadership vacuum when the United States flames out.” theatln.tc/8J2uGwPm

Sotomayor flamed her colleagues for allowing Alabama to use a congressional map disregarding 1 of 2 majority-Black districts mere days before the primary. The decision was made "without any sound basis for doing so and without regard for the confusion that will surely ensue." trib.al/LdltaQO

"Today, the scary Black man in the old ad has too often become the scary brown immigrant in the new one," writes Ben Jealous. "Campaigns still take one terrible crime, attach it to a whole people, and tell voters mercy, due process, and fairness will get them killed."

@robertgarcia.house.gov reminding Americans that we have only received half of the Epstein Files from the Trump DOJ and many of the documents produced so far are illegally redacted.

US CEOs seek China business gains from Trump-Xi summit reut.rs/4320gnZ