In this NYT piece about Trump’s concerns about JD Vance as a presidential candidate, the writers interject that Trump doesn’t generally take vacations? Really? “[Trump] has brought up the number of vacations Mr. Vance has taken as vice president. (Mr. Trump does not generally take them.)”

Capital Weather Gang, a truly outstanding weather service for the DC metro region, is leaving the Washington Post. That seems like a huge loss to the Post which is now literally divorced from the local DC community.

US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NAME FROM KENNEDY CENTER BUILDING - ORDER

"What was it all for? .... In the short run, the point of the journey seems to have been to muscle in on the British share of the fur trade, to judge by a report that Lewis wrote after the expedition." A fascinating review of a new book about the Lewis and Clark. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Garcia: "We asked Bondi questions about Ghislaine Maxwell and the transfer, and she referred those questions to Todd Blanche and the Bureau of Prisons. So we have many questions for Mr Blanche that Republicans are refusing to ask. Why was she transferred to a less secure facility?"

At the New York Times, every day is "Iran is about to open up the Straight of Hormuz" day, because a dodgy Trump official told them so.

Just in past 24 hours: -Criminal investigation of E. Jean Carroll -Subpoenas seeking info of ICE critics -Former judges demand inquiry into IRS "deal" -White House intervention leads to $600+M deal to family-linked firm -Monuments, pictures on currency Turning us into a tinpot authoritarian state

The Pentagon gave a $620 million loan to a company linked to Donald Trump Jr., after White House adviser Peter Navarro requested it. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said a Pentagon staffer.

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

Hannah Arendt coined the term “the banality of evil” to refer to the Nazis who carried out Hitler’s orders. Trump’s cabinet can be described as the “tediousness of evil.” Watching these folks endlessly glaze their Dear Leader is just tiresome at this point. No one believes them, not even Trump.

Over the past 20 years, “the combined wealth of California’s 10 richest people has grown ninefold. The fortunes of the list’s upper echelon — Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg — now equal about 24 percent of the state’s G.D.P.” The case for CA’s billionaire wealth tax:

Pope Leo XIV: “A litmus test for social justice today is the treatment of migrants, refugees and those forced to move due to poverty, violence, climate change and environmental disasters.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The most corrupt administration in American history: The Trump administration has gutted the Commodity Futures Trading Commission so Trump and his sons can profit. Gift article:

Trump's crypto partner is still helping Iran Stay informed on Trump's for-profit presidency New. Free. Subscribe.

It’s not surprising the White quarterback from the University of Mississippi, Jaxson Dart, is a Trump fan. He should nevertheless be challenged on his provocative public Trump support. Roughly 60% of NFL players are Black and Trump is literally trying to disenfranchise Black voters. This matters.

The third pick of the 2025 draft, Abdul Carter of the New York Giants, is not a fan of his QB Jaxson Dart’s support for Trump.

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

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

“.. What is happening is an assault on democracy, and they’re using the easiest vector, which is anti-Black racism, because it’s the easiest thing you could do, the laziest thing you can do,” Nelson said. @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Quite a first sentence in the new Congressional inquiry to Treasury Secretary about Trump's $1.7 billion slush fund "The American people & the world just witnessed one of the most brazen acts of public corruption & self-dealing in American history" democrats-waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death. We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

My latest: Trump’s Insurrectionist Payout Plan Violates the 14th Amendment open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

It's insane being one of the richest men to ever exist, and also just a massive, massive bootlicker

This is such a dishonest argument by Jeff Bezos. Maybe it's all the steroids pulsating through his body. America faces a serious economic inequality problem. Taxing Bezos more so we don't have to make billions of dollars in healthcare cuts is a perfectly logical policy choice.

Yields on 30-year U.S. Treasuries haven’t been this high since right before the global financial crisis. The Iran War comes with this hidden cost in the form of increased interest payments on government debt.

The NAACP calls for a boycott of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina, “arguing that the athletic programs of those states' flagship universities are especially reliant on Black athletic talent and should protect Black political interests.”

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

If I was running for president in 2028, I’d run as the anti-fraud candidate—a Savonarola of anti-corruption, traveling the country to deliriously warn Trump, his sons, Jared, Todd Blanche, Clarence Thomas et al. that justice is coming. Hopefully someone—John Ossoff?—will actually run in that lane.

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

On the same day we learned about Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for J6 criminals, the untrustworthy Mark Cuban appears by the fraudster’s side.

What do you call it, New York Times?

Like this guy: “A Florida handyman who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been convicted of multiple state charges of child molestation and exposing himself to children.”

Todd Blanche bungled Trump's felony trial Now he's at DOJ — negotiating Trump's personal multi - billion$$ payout using YOUR tax dollars I'm naming names in this week's @contrariannews.org publisher's note 👇-TN www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-to-r...

Trump & his corrupt AG Todd Blanche are creating a $1.8 billion fund to compensate Jan. 6 defendants & other criminals. A Jan. 6’er, Andrew Paul Johnson, who was convicted of child abuse, attempted to bribe one victim with money he said he’d receive as part of restitution for Jan. 6 defendants.

The president is stealing tax dollars from the public treasury to pay off his criminal cronies.

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

Even by Trump’s crooked standards, this is outrageous. It’s not just corrupt to steal taxpayer money for his personal needs, it is treasonous to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. Trump should be thrown out of office, prosecuted, and put in prison.

NYT: “Just 37 percent of Americans approve of [Trump’s] performance as president, a drop of four percentage points from the last Times/Siena poll in January and his lowest approval rating in any Times/Siena survey in either term.”

critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”

Jadarian Price, Seahawks rookie running back, throws out the ceremonial first pitch ahead of today’s @mariners.com game! J.P. Crawford catches it. Looks like plenty of Price’s teammates were here to watch. #TridentsUp  #Seahawks  #SeattleSports

A good fact check of the lying fraudster Eric Trump by MS NOW’s Jen Psaki.

Season 5, Episode 5 of the Object of History podcast is here! Learn about the American Invasion of Canada (1775-1776) and the failed attempt to make Québec the fourteenth colony in rebellion. Listen here: www.masshist.org/podcast/seas...

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

This is the most fraudulent administration in American history and it’s not even close. Trump, his sons, Jared, Witkoff, Lutnick…It’s literally impossible to keep up with all the fraud and corruption of this lot. It’s obscene for the slimy JD to even utter this word.

One of the greatest disservices we do to ourselves is retcon Trump's 2024 campaign into something it wasn't, a tightly disciplined killer messaging machine, in order to paper over the chief mystery it raises, which is how it wins. But it was no different than anything else Trump runs: a train wreck.