Probably aligns with what a lot of R senators are thinking but don’t want to say out loud

DHS’s official Twitter account tweeted about deporting *100 million people.* This is not a pivot; it’s a ratchet.

this is so cool, and there are no plans to ever bring it to the US market

never forget that really exceptional journalism saves fucking lives

Watching a crowd at an INXS concert in the 80s and remembering how good that felt. The biggest difference noticed is no mobile phones. No selfies, no filming, we were all just completely absorbed in the moment.

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

"But Falcons always blow up!" ...they very famously don't, they're the least likely rockets to blow up since spaceflight began as a thing, which is why they're used monthly to carry people without issue That's why NASA was pivoting away from LEO during, like, the late Obama administration

Yo dawg, I heard you like solar panels - so I out some solar panels on your solar panels!

A lot of hate for SpaceX on this platform, but the reason they are dominant is not because they are a “catastrophe factory” but because they have done what no other entity on Earth has done in history: Land and reuse orbital rockets at scale.

Howard Lutnick made this donation on April 1—four weeks after his Epstein testimony was on the books, but just a day after the quarterly filing deadline, ensuring the donation wouldn’t be disclosed before his testimony. (House GOP also said nothing about it fwiw) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

NEW: Sen. Dick Durbin's office says AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg has been terminated from her position with the Senate Judiciary Committee after revelations in the "Broadview Six" case. We reported exclusively in February that she'd joined Durbin's staff: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/23/p...

The number of things that could cost are votes on the immigration package just keeps going up.

I actually do this kind of question in my head all the time for fun.

“.. an unusually large contribution for a sitting cabinet secretary.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

If Trump had given himself $10B from this bottomless settlement authority, would Congress have acted to block and/or impeach/remove?

K-shaped economy is real. Most people don’t have zillions in stocks, are living paycheck to paycheck, fuel and food costs are soaring and other expenses of a middle class life like housing and college tuition are eye-watering for wage earners. I don’t think it is a big mystery.

Surprising stat: There's been a lot of talk about "unleashing American energy" and "drill baby drill" from the administration, but US oil production today is only about 70,000 barrels a day higher than the Biden-era high in late 2024. (13.7M now vs. 13.63M).

GIFT LINK. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

France floods Europe's grid with solar, pushing prices negative www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US funding cuts have hampered response to the deadly Ebola crisis, aid workers say Read more from @laurengkent.bsky.social & me: www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/a...

Consumer sentiment just hit an ALL-TIME LOW. Americans' perception of their own finances has never been worse. Stock market just hit an ALL-TIME HIGH. Trump's approval on economy ~ ALL-TIME LOW. K-shaped economy great for Wall St, terrible for lots of voters. Best of times, worst of times, etc.

The weird thing about the Susan Collins questioning Blanche today about the $1776 million fund potentially going to people who beat up cops is she was in an approps hearing earlier this week where Chris Van Hollen and other Ds asked that very question and Blanche repeatedly refused to rule it out.

WH still doing a lot of chest-beating talk, but the GOP couldn't even pass a bill opening a women's museum, a bill funding ICE and the ballroom, or stop bills to end the Iran War this week. This is how every trifecta I've covered dies — they stop being functional majorities.

One of the people impacted by this prosecution was @katmabu.bsky.social, who was running for Congress at the time and garnering viral social media attention and bigtime opposition from the establishment wing of the Democratic Party. The judge is *not* happy with the prosecutors.

A bit of cognitive dissonance today: Tuberville and Rep. Norman arguing essentially today that 1/6 was really part of a *left-wing* coup against Trump, not what it really was -- an effort to keep Trump in power and throw out the votes of states that certified he lost, by force if necessary. 1/

geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez

The judge:

I was in the chamber for this and you couldn’t hear McGovern because it was so loud. Angry Ds as they pulled the vote to end the war (because it would have passed.)

Pondering the similarities between Senate today and the Entmoot after Saruman starting cutting down the trees at Isengard

HOUSE Rs just pulled vote on ending the war in Iran; appears they lacked the votes to block it today because too many of their members were on vacay

DOJ doc today said GOP senators whose records were accessed (in the 1/6 investigation) could *get paid by the fund.* (Lindsey Graham has wanted to get tens of millions in compensation)

FLASH: GOP SENATORS LEAVING FOR RECESS WITHOUT VOTE ON BUDGET BILL AMID FUROR OVER $1776 MILLION DOJ FUND, BALLROOM

FLASH: GOP SENATORS LEAVING FOR RECESS WITHOUT VOTE ON BUDGET BILL AMID FUROR OVER $1776 MILLION DOJ FUND, BALLROOM

May know today if the wheels have completely fallen off the GOP Congress. Ballroom$; the $1776 million fund for DOJ to pass out including potentially to violent J6ers; Trump’s self-settlement exempting him and his family from tax scrutiny; the war; Cassidy/Cornyn/Paxton all causing heartburn.

Trump has never been more powerful in Republican primaries and never more unpopular with the general public in polling.

Trump’s ballroom funding hanging by a thread. Thune acknowledged to me they are having issues getting the votes needed to pass it.

The area’s local real-estate database withdrew the listings as part of an escalating industry feud between Compass and Zillow. on.wsj.com/3RSSb2A

After all of Trump’s talk of slashing drug prices a nonsensical “600%” and similar numbers, they touted a chart showing a ~2% cut.

Knicks are, er, good.

Thomas Massie: “I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

Senate votes 50-47 to advance an Iran War Powers Resolution after newly unfettered CASSIDY, joins COLLINS, MURKOWSKI and RAND PAUL. FETTERMAN voted to continue the war. Final passage vote, however, is uncertain. Cornyn, Tillis and Tuberville did not vote. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is going like Dems would have scripted it: A late Trump endorsement after Cornyn/Senate Republicans incinerated ~$100M trying to nuke Ken Paxton as an impeached adulterer who violated ethics left and right.

TRUMP ENDORSES PAXTON

Van Hollen w/a lengthy J'Accuse-style flambe of Todd Blanche to start this hearing.

Dylan Harper turned 20 two months ago, found out he was starting about an hour before tipoff tonight, and has 22 points, 11 rebounds, six assists, seven steals and one turnover in 47 minutes in Game 1.

A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.

Bill Cassidy tells us he has no regrets about voting to convict Donald Trump, and wants “he voted to uphold the Constitution” in his obituary. #GIFTINK www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr called me on Monday evening—and, suffice to say, we went back and forth on his unprecedented action against Disney. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

Imagine telling somebody 20 years ago that a future billionaire president would file a lawsuit against the government he heads asking the Treasury to pay him, personally, 10 Billion Dollars, because a rogue employee leaked tax data showing how little tax he paid to the government.