Cassidy says the Trump admin has "left Congress in the dark" and he's heard from Trump supporters who "are concerned about this war." "Until the administration provides clarity, no congressional authorization or extension can be justified," Cassidy says. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. Last year, it finally succeeded. (Published Dec. 2025)

Ask yourself: Why would a settlement over leaked tax filings include a prohibition on examinations of previously filed returns? One answer, which lots of people are missing: For years, Trump has been fighting an IRS audit that could have resulted in a $100M bill. No longer, apparently.

Trump gets free pass from Trump IRS and Trump DOJ for any past Trump tax violations. Not making this up.

This so-called "settlement" has somehow gotten even worse and more corrupt. This was not in the agreement that was released yesterday, by the way. "I.R.S. Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

A 21-year-old Honduran immigrant was arrested after a hearing inside 26 Federal Plaza Tuesday morning, according to advocates who saw ICE agents take him into custody. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/19/i...

Imagine sending your kid to your neighborhood elementary school, and then learning the whole thing was built on a former fracking waste site. Now imagine the people who built it telling you it's perfectly safe, but refusing to release any hard evidence. Bonkers story from @saulelbein.bsky.social

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30B/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $29B and counting It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

The crimes of this cruel cruel Administration and its MAGA followers www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

As you read about Trump stealing $1.8 billion in our money to pay off terrorists who tried to overthrow the government, consider that 3 million Americans have already lost ACA healthcare coverage & 19 million more are paying thru the nose to keep theirs. charlesgaba.substack.com/p/new-series...

NEW: More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a new Brookings report.

Shameful — and strategically illiterate to ignore that the U.S. actually benefits from it.

Trump defense attorney Stan Woodward signed the "settlement" on the Trump tax case. A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER of people who will file for the slush fund were his clients (most notably terrorist seditionist Kelly Meggs, but also Kash Patel). So much for recusal. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

In 2025, I did several major reporting projects: I was the first reporter to reveal what's at stake at Ingleside on the Bay, a Trump+50 town in South Texas. Across the fence from America's Crude Oil Export Capital are three facilities that handled nearly half of the U.S. crude oil exports in 2024.

US House GOP & Dems have compromised on 5-year transportation bill. Draft bill includes a $150 annual fee on electric vehicles ($35 for plugins). No fee on gas-powered cars. Though not huge, this is another disincentive to shift to EVs in a country where the EV market share is low & declining.

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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"I argue here that this three-pronged assault constitutes the most antidemocratic and morally reactionary series of judicial acts in the Court's history." https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/callais-caps-the-roberts-courts-comprehensive

Where did gerrymandering come from, and where is it taking American democracy? Our explainer has answers: bit.ly/3MqI6FI

Wannabe Gilead bullshit.

It's good they're quoting scholars here to dismiss the fiction that America was founded as a Christian nation, but you can just read the Constitution yourself. There are only three references to religion in it, all meant to keep it out of government, to avoid conflicts that had rocked Europe.

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

FT: “.. The number of transactions disclosed on Thursday .. marks his first major sale of assets since returning to office ..” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f921...

Trump’s gerrymandering war has been underway for nearly a year now. But it may only be getting started. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

"The Trump administration has struck what some see as the final blow to PEPFAR, the vaunted US program that has saved the lives of 26 million people living with HIV. The State Dept now says that as of 30 September, CDC support for PEPFAR will end in most countries." www.science.org/content/arti...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% in largest US energy market

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

“.. This is an insane amount of trades,” he said, adding that it looks more like something done by “a hedge fund with massive algo trades” that buys and shorts securities than a personal account. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Hormuz $40-billion ship insurance facility has done no business, has had zero uptake due to absence of naval escorts through key waterway giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Emoluments Clause exists for exactly this moment The Founders feared a president who would shake down the American taxpayer & Trump just tried it — to the tune of billions We're fighting back in this week's publisher's note 👇-TN

Breaking the Nebraska GOP’s filibuster-proof majority would block: 1️⃣ Passing new voting restrictions. 2️⃣ Gerrymandering the light blue 2nd District. 3️⃣ Erasing the 2nd’s “blue dot” to stop Dems from winning the Electoral College just by flipping MI, PA, & WI. Dems currently rely on GOP defections

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “Trump is using the entire government as a slush fund. One of the most Unpatriotic & un-American acts I’ve seen in my entire life.” Trump is robbing us blind, with Republicans as accomplices, as the press shrugs. 🤷🏼 (From @meidastouch.com @pabloreports.bsky.social )

Multiple times a week someone on an e-bike passes me when I'm on my road bike and most of them say some version of sorry for cheating. I'm like, look around, there are a million people driving 4,000 lb SUVs alone to pick up a cup of coffee, you are not cheating my friend.

“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”

what i think @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is dead-on in highlighting here is that the VA supreme court ruling was a violation of the VA constitution itself, which quite explicitly notes that the power of the people to reform their constitution is sovereign and inalienable

We’re going back to Selma and Montgomery. Why? The Supreme Court destroyed the Voting Rights Act, and the country needs to be reminded who we were before Civil Rights - and why we can’t go back.

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

A New York judge declared a mistrial in the criminal trial of Harvey Weinstein, marking the second time a jury has deadlocked on whether the former producer raped an aspiring actress in Manhattan.

Beware of charlatans like Leon Simons who hype (see: www.cbc.ca/news/science...) the false (see: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...) narrative that warming is exceeding model predictions as a way to promote their pet project: geoengineering