Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

“Some of the legal immigrants affected by the strategy include permanent residents and people granted refugee status or asylum, as well as their families” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u... #ruleoflaw #immigrants #greencard

When oh when will the prestige legacy press headline in big bold banners across the front page that the president is unhinged? Is it not newsworthy? #NYT #Wapo #Latimes #Economist #BBC #WSJ

“movants submit that the settlement “is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the Court.” ” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... #slushfund #law #settlement

We got some ominous news this week about President Donald Trump’s dangerous bid to crack down on mail voting ahead of the midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Which NEPIP artworks no longer have Nazi era gaps? Which still do? How to see if a museum is making progress on provenance? One way is to compare provenances for the same artworks a decade apart. Example: Art Institute of Chicago www.openartdata.org/2026/05/Art-... #arthistory #digital #provenance

Hmmm, looks like some Republicans in North Carolina want to legalize domestic homicide, if a man is killing a pregnant woman. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

I remember when I wrote about how John Solomon was rolling over for Trump and he got so mad and insisted he was so independent etc and well

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Universities caught in a rising dictatorship are in a tough spot. But a wealthly and powerful institution closing libraries invites not sympathy but scrutiny. All that wealth, all those alum donors, and MIT can’t manage to keep #libraries and conservation labs open? #MIT #archives

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Plunder, Restitution and the Challenge of False Provenance www.youtube.com/watch?v=61n1... #arthistory #investigations #museum

Sometime afterward, the statuette passed through Swiss and New York-based art dealers' hands, eventually ending up in the collection of dealer Eugene V. Thaw. In the 1990s, Thaw consigned the bronze for sale with antiquities dealer Michael Ward (of Ward & Co.).

Donald Trump has decided to use his DOJ lickspittles to try to intimidate an 82-year-old woman whom he owes $88.3 million after a trial jury found he sexually assaulted her three decades ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

The same Trump-appointee who fucked with the Broadview 6 grand jury is the one going after E. Jean Carroll.

Monstrous. Despicable. Authoritarian abuse of power.

WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

NEW: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. Emily Waldorf’s case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

Trump repeated lies about 2020 election “points to a forward-looking strategy aimed at justifying new voting restrictions, reinforcing party loyalty ⁠and energizing supporters ahead of November elections.” Via Reuters

Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. 2/4

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

New studies reveal more pregnancy-associated deaths & a decline in miscarriage treatment in abortion ban states, “adding extra trauma” says Kaitlyn Kash, whose own care was compromised. "This is not how health care should work. This is not how human rights should work,” says @robinmarty.com.

Ten years already www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0p... #SNL #Humor #Trump #video

Canada as a state. Greenland as a state. Iran as a state. The Western hemisphere as a state. Stuff like this should immediately end a presidency, seeing as it wildly violates the UN Charter & massively endangers US national security. But alas, he is One Special Boy & nothing seems to matter anymore.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Erasure is an event. A terrible event.

The proper headline here is CHARGES DISMISSED DUE TO DOJ MISCONDUCT www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/u...

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

Hear how we track transnational far-right networks... This panel recorded at re:publica is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywcp...

It’s all illegal - a US president directing his appointees to pay him billions. Will press put illegal in the headlines? Or just pretend that the mechanism devised has any legitimacy? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“He’s a person I’ve known for a long time”

REUTERS: “Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to get between $2 & $5 million.” We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This is so good. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - behind the scenes www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS21... #drama #film

A new exhibition launching this week will draw on our unique collections to explore how perpetrators such as the SS, the chemical company I.G. Farben and weapons manufacturer Krupp profited off and exploited slave labourers during the Nazi regime...

Georgia Republicans are now dominated by vote suppressors and election deniers. Yet, the legacy media reports like it's business as usual. Not Democracy Docket. Support independent pro-democracy media by subscribing now. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

Any DOJ settlement that gives the President a dollar -- or a direct material benefit -- is a plain-as-day violation of the Presidential Emoluments Clause: "The President shall not receive ... any other Emolument from the United States, or any of [the states]." Art II, S.1, cl. 7.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

🔍 Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today:

 Active Voting Rights Cases: 161 Active Redistricting Cases: 47 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 80 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 78 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 Find real-time updates here:

‘The government’s settlement with Trump was signed by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and by Frank Bisignano, the chief executive of the IRS.’

The Defense Department’s inspector general said Monday that it’s investigating U.S. Southern Command over its extrajudicial execution of alleged drug-smuggling boats which actually usually turn out to be fishermen and gasoline smugglers in the military’s campaign against drug cartels.

Trump fired the head of the Office of Government Ethics last year. The agency hasn’t had an acting leader in months. Now some Democrats are warning the ethics watchdog has been crippled and pressing the White House for answers.

ICYMI: Former jail guard, Tova Noel, who was purportedly the last person to see Jeffrey Epstein alive, will be interviewed today by House Oversight in its continued investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. abcnews.com/US/house-ove...

Judge Richard Gergel asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tonight whether lower courts are supposed to follow SCOTUS' often unreasoned emergency docket decisions over decades-old precedent. That's a "legitimate question," Jackson said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Spain has banned Francoist symbols. So why is the country still full of kitsch cafes glorifying the dictator? | Abbas Asaria

Is it the official policy of the US Dept. of Homeland Security that no Jews serve there? If not, who is the “we” defined by belief in Jesus Christ as savior? Or does the “our” refer to the Americans whose security the Department has a duty to protect, none of whom are apparently Jews?

Disney's experience with the FCC has made one thing ⁠undeniable for ​any company facing the same pressure. You cannot buy ​this administration's favor. For the right price, you can only borrow it. And the price always goes up.

Todd Lyons led a secret police force for Trump where masked agents attacked our own American streets, violated Constitutional rights, and shot our own citizens. We’ll hold you accountable too.

Todd M. Lyons www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Why does the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) not publish the provenance it has? www.openartdata.org/2026/05/CMOA... #arthistory #provenance #carnegie