NYT: For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump Freedom 250, Trump's hijack of America's birthday, is presenting the UFC fight event on the White House lawn. Freedom 250 also presented white Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 rally. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/u...

A clean, cogent argument can be made that while there are a great many accomplices involved, three men are predominantly responsible for the end of the American Century and the collapse of our republic: Newt Gingrich, Rubert Murdoch and Mark Burnett. I'm not here to argue, only to mourn.

I think we can all agree Big Tobacco is a paragon of greedy, deceptive, illegal conspiracist, and murderous set of entities and people. Big Tobacco should *never* win. Donald Trump has bypassed procedure & law to help get more kids addicted to & ultimately harmed/killed by tobacco products.

UFC event on the WH lawn presented by Trump's Freedom 250 hijack of America's birthday. 11 US senators launched an investigation into Freedom 250, demanding answers about allocation of $100 million in taxpayer dollars and an alleged pay-to-play scheme. Sponsors include Mastercard and United Airlines

and THESE cynical assholes, who know trump is destroying the USA and don't care because they're profiting from it

these assholes

The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

Our government telling an adversary to disregard the President's social media posts because they're not real and are intended for promotional purposes and US media consumption, says it all. Holy fuck.

Revealing the corruption among Trump administration regulators matters precisely because these companies gain users by emphasizing that they are regulated by the federal government. Via @splawinski.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-polyma...

I deeply fear for elderly people (and young people!) in disaster areas nowadays who 100% do not have X/Twitter accounts and likely have no idea that that’s where official disaster updates are being posted.

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 22% compared to this time last year!

The Trump administration has opened up land bordering Denali National Park for oil and gas drilling.

That’s the hypocrisy people are angry about. Republicans want to talk tough on fraud while protecting the biggest fraudsters when they’re politically connected. If fraud is wrong, then it should be wrong for everyone.

Trump's HHS is now using AI to cut funding for supposed fraud. The agency has accidentally cut legitimate programs under Trump, including 9/11-related cancer research.

It's not stupid. It's the most blatantly illegal & unconstitutional thing you could imagine. You're a goddamn United States Senator. Do the job you swore an oath to do. Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here. These are <entirely> the people responsible: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This is so illegal lol 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Christian nationalism is very dangerous. "Christian Nationalism’s singular goal is to combine religious and political power, which scholars agree likely results in 'religiously motivated genocide.'" "Theology of Control: Christian Nationalist Violence and Hostility" www.hsaj.org/articles/22898

🧵 Only 17% of US adults say the federal government should declare Christianity the nation’s official religion. Doing so is unconstitutional. Christian nationalists are propagating a debunked narrative about our country's founding. Mastercard and United Airlines among sponsors of 'Rededicate 250.'

The man who bankrupted a casino has now also managed to produce the first football world cup nobody wants to attend, there has never been anyone else who ever possessed this level of ability at failing

Murdoch's pet antisemites are working with fascists to compile and distribute lists of Jews tonight:

"Donald Trump and the Republican Party are stealing two billion dollars of your money to give it to their corrupt criminal friends" should be in every single Democratic ad the rest of the year.

“.. government watchdogs immediately pledged to fight what they called a ‘corrupt’ and unprecedented resolution, warning that the arrangement would unjustly enrich people close to the president with taxpayer dollars.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

Yeah, I’m done. Expand the court and add age/term limits.

This is outrageous. It’s just pure largesse for the president’s family, cronies, and street thugs. The corruption is mind-blowing.

The rampant and open corruption and grift are breathtaking.

The Tsar and boyars pillaging the treasury as much as they can before the revolution

Cutting beef tariffs. Suspending federal gasoline taxes. These are some of the “pre-midterm adjustments” moves many policy desks have been predicting.

The Reflecting Pool is the Trump admin in microcosm: *The pool has real problems, like leaky pipes, that are not being fixed *Superficial paint job that will actually make it look worse *No bid contract! No oversight! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

To be honest, I think even without bringing religion into it, you can question the idea of building a gold statue of someone. I greatly admire many, many people; I cannot think of one I think it would be un-weird to honor with a gold statue.

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Corrupt AF Fossil fuel company owners see that they can't compete with clean energy. They gave POTUS $1B to protect their profits. He's doing it, abusing public power to drive their competition out of business & force Americans to choke down their high prices & pollution. bsky.app/profile/just...

"We can fight to stop the ballroom. If this means leaving the area as a destruction site for the rest of Trump’s presidency, so be it. Let its ugliness exemplify the ugliness of the Trump era. Let its rubble symbolize what he's tried to do to the American republic." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"33% of Republicans said they thought they could take Trump in a fight. 39% said Trump would beat them! So some large percentage of Republican voters either: See the poll question as a loyalty test; or Think that Trump actually looks like his memes in real life." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The CTA was designed to give law enforcement a tool to track drug cartels, kleptocrats, and sanctioned actors hiding behind anonymous U.S. shell companies. Now Congress is threatening to repeal it. What's at stake — from @dschulkin.bsky.social, Jodi Vittori, and Matthew Stephenson

Trump fired every full-time health official responsible for investigating outbreaks on cruise ships.

It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

So uh, precisely the types of people the US economy is going to most need in the next 20 years as the crisis of aging Boomers overwhelming our care systems reaches its fevered peak

and I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I'll proudly stand up h/t @silkyweineck.bsky.social

“While congress appropriated $150m to the Department of the Interior last summer for the anniversary, it is now believed that most of that funding will be redirected to Freedom 250… for projects aligned with the president’s views and interests.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/06/t...

We haven’t even begun to understand the Pandora’s Box that this war has opened. @cfr.org www.cfr.org/articles/aft...

WATCH— @warnock.senate.gov : “The same tools used during Jim Crow, packing and cracking Black voting districts, are back, and now the Court said that’s fine… This is an effort by politicians to choose who their voters are instead of having voters choose their politicians.”

Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products

No matter who you are. No matter what your politics are. You need to oppose House bill HR 7661. Don't let the federal government decide what books you can access and which ones are "right" for your community, friends, family. There hasn't been a bill this bad for #1A rights in my lifetime.

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.

Very much looks like the Trump administration put a more systematic federal effort to investigate Alex Pretti's government co-workers who attended a vigil after he was killed, rather than investigate the government officials who killed him. www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:

To hell with trump, hegseth, johnson, and the rest of the weirdo christian nationalists. Not going to dedicate anything to something that excludes LOTS of Americans