US drug regulation has essentially been decapitated

Kash Patel's "VIP Snorkel" with 9 guests, accompanied by Navy Seals, over the tomb of 900 sailors at Pearl Harbor: "[A]s disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Finally, Ronald Reagan can rest in peace, knowing that children will no longer have to learn that some white people were the bad guys in that whole slavery thing.

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

It's the 1930s again, with transactional autocrats making secret deals to enrich themselves, leading to explosive global conflicts. In this week's Gaslit Nation bonus show, we look at Trump's Xi trip with Eric Trump on the nepo-baby express, and ways to fight back sites.libsyn.com/124622/the-p...

Breaking: The Texas Supreme Court has refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state in 2025 to block a vote on the congressional map demanded by Trump had vacated their office. It deals a blow to Greg Abbott's efforts to severely punish the Democrats.

White people are destroying America. The Trump family and their lackeys are traitors. They want their base to not see that and instead scapegoat DEI.

When the Department's senior ethics officer tells the DAG to recuse from cases involving Trump, the DAG should: a. comply; b. seek a second opinion; c. fire the ethics officer. Looking forward to discussing the DOJ's ethics-free zone w/ @lauracoates.com on @cnn.com at 11:15 PM.

FLAG: The Wall Street Journal says it has received subpoenas for the records of its reporters — an exceedingly rare move by Trump's DOJ that prompted concerns the admin is impinging on press freedom.

Repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will now cost $13.1 million. Trump had promised $1.8 million. The Interior Department added $6.2 million to the no-bid contract for repairs late last week. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

House Oversight's Robert Garcia says Dems will release a new report May 12 that he says will detail, from bank records, how the sweetheart deal that Alex Acosta helped further enrich Jeffrey Epstein and expand the network of sexual abuse of adolescent girls. "This report is just the beginning."

Roza says the government chose to release Epstein files naming her 500 times while the names of perpetrators and other enablers of the crimes were protected by redactions.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel's FBI has imposed new policies that inflate the number of arrests made during his tenure and overstate the bureau's progress in stemming crime, according to a half dozen law enforcement sources with knowledge of the changes. www.ms.now/news/fbi-ins...

It's vote harder vs. secession referendums in states like California, NY. They don't have the troops to win a civil war. We saw that with ICE. Russia is too bogged down in Ukraine to send soldiers.

Ten thousand losses. That's the Trump admin's track record in court on its ICE detention practices. Judges have ruled against those practices in roughly 90% of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.

How much does Trump serve Putin? Reps in the House have had to organize a discharge petition an historic six times to force a vote on Ukraine aid. House Speaker Mike Johnson blocked aid on behalf of Trump/Putin. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements involving lawmakers exceeded $550,000, newly released documents show www.cnn.com/2026/05/13/p...

Moscow is banning almost everyone from posting on social media about damage from Ukraine's drone strikes www.businessinsider.com/moscow-bans-...

Breaking NYT: The Trump Justice Department is dropping Biden-era charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. The reversal came after Adani hired a new legal team led by one of Trump's personal lawyers.

MORE: Adani's lawyer went to Trump's DOJ and made a proposal: If prosecutors dropped the charges, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy and create 15,000 jobs.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Supreme Court upholds new US House districts backed by Trump that could help Republicans win an extra seat.p

Trump has publicly championed the U.S. steel industry, and yet, the White House just secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for Trump's $400 million ballroom project.

Breaking NYT: Brad Raffensperger received a "manifesto" deemed to be a "credible threat on his life" on Monday, the day before a suspicious object disrupted a campaign event in Macon. The handwritten document included a photograph of Raffensperger with the word "Boom" written across his forehead.

Everyone in Ukraine is calling Tucker Carlson a pro-Russian journalist. They think he works for the Kremlin. If we had a functioning government, he would be investigated for FARA youtu.be/Cu3m13L7t8k

Trump sucks up all the oxygen while cowardly corporations hide in the shadows, even bankrolling January 6. Listen to this mind-blowing Gaslit Nation with @profciara.bsky.social, author of Corporatocracy, unmasking dark money villains gaslitnation.libsyn.com/corporatocracy

Trump has shared a post calling for President Obama's arrest.

Colloquially, OCD is known as the doubting disorder. In his new book “How to Not Know,” Simone Stolzoff explores whether treating that uncertainty with magic mushrooms can help people through it. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Today is my birthday! We're celebrating at @gaslitnation.bsky.social by opening today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4pm ET with the reading of a screenplay-in-progress. To join us today, sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit and get bonus shows, ad free listening, invites to exclusive events, and so much more

Congress Faces New Wave of Sexual Misconduct Allegations Amid Epstein Probe—Nearly a Decade After #MeToo time.com/article/2026...

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT EXTENDS PAUSE ON JUDICIAL DECISION THAT BLOCKED MAIL DISTRIBUTION OF ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE, PENDING FURTHER ORDER BY THE JUSTICES

Reuters: VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS ASK U.S. SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE AFTER STATE SUPREME COURT INVALIDATED PRO-DEMOCRATIC U.S. HOUSE MAP AHEAD OF NOVEMBER ELECTIONS

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT CLEARS WAY FOR ALABAMA REPUBLICANS TO PURSUE NEW CONGRESSIONAL MAP FOLLOWING COURT'S DECISION GUTTING VOTING RIGHTS ACT

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

Pro-European, center-right Péter Magyar has been sworn in as Hungary's prime minister. The EU flag was raised on the parliament building in Budapest for the first time since Viktor Orbán's authoritarian government removed it in 2014.

Today in History: May 10, Nazis burn books across Germany

Soviet victory in World War II is a religious cult in Russia today. It's against the law to point out Russia started the war by invading Poland with the Nazis. A pathetic looking Putin and an impotent Victory in Europe Day in Moscow exposes the truth of Russia's unwinable invasion of Ukraine

Justice Sam Alito used deceptive DOJ data to gut voting rights: report www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...

Dani Bensky is a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. She's the first to see the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, the 4,347 volumes of the redacted Epstein Files & the beautiful tribute. Dani shared those moments as we talk about the continued push for justice. youtu.be/nZLoVrhI3NU?...

Republicans are just radicalizing a majority of Americans. They think they can have minority rule and steal everything for the rich and the people will sit there and take it forever. This includes their own voters. Nope.

😕🇺🇸 a rigged system

Trump: "We cut drug prices by 90%. You could say 500%, 600% depending on the way you phrase the statement."

Our grand national humiliation continues apace.

Trump: "We stopped transgender mutilization of your children for everyone. But I want to thank every single mother here."

"The Free Press: Honest. Fearless. Independent."

Take psilocybin just once, for the first time, and it enduringly changes your brain for the better.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

The Nazis deliberately hunted civilians, just like the Russians in Ukraine

The Nazis intimidated their opponents this way, until they banned all opposition.