“About 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war against Ukraine through the end of 2025, according to a new estimate.” This is approximately the same number as that of Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War.

The decision marks a significant and terrifying moment in our democracy as the court allowed an election to be cancelled after its completion.

Essential story on Trump’s corruption: “I believe the president is profiting off the office and making foreign policy decisions based on business interests to a level we’ve never seen or even conceived of before, and apparently nothing is being done to stop it.”

Among the many Big Lies Trump perpetuates is that DC is somehow a “dirty” city. It’s actually one of the most beautiful cities in the country with stunning gardens, expansive green spaces, and flowering trees throughout the town. He just hates DC because 95% of its citizenry loathes him deeply.

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

I think the fact that Iran apparently blew the shit out of our expensively defended Gulf bases and the regime that refused to embed journos for the first time in our history covered that up should be a much bigger story.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

Serious question: Does the GOP really believe Americans want an illegal war in Iran, a billion-dollar ballroom, a $1.5 trillion defense budget, $70 billion added to the deficit, and cuts to healthcare, food assistance, and education—while Americans cannot afford housing, gas, and groceries?

The DOJ is investigating a series of suspiciously timed trades in the oil market where traders made more than $2.6 billion just ahead of major announcements by President Donald Trump about the war in Iran. What happens if administration officials are discovered to be involved?

Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide note: “They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!…” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/n...

Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide note: “They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!…” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/n...

Come on now! Kash Patel brought a case of this bourbon to the "training seminar" he held at Quantico with UFC fighters, and after one bottle went missing, he lost his shit and began "threatening to polygraph and prosecute his staff over the missing bottle."

It’s crazy that Trump administration insiders are placing trades to profit from Trump’s mercurial policy pronouncements on the Iran War. How is this not a major scandal?

THE ARSENAL HAVE ARRIVED!

With over ONE THOUSAND documented instances of ICE using physical force against against detained individuals, ICE has proven - once again - it cannot be reformed. It must be abolished. Close private detention centers. End the violence.

What are we doing, America: "Just 0.1% of accounts on Polymarket take home 67% of the profits."

What are we doing, America: "Just 0.1% of accounts on Polymarket take home 67% of the profits."

The Montreal Canadiens win game 7, despite struggling to get shots on goal. A great series. Tampa Bay was a formidable opponent.

The edits CBS made here are severe, and depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest. trib.al/xaPuJZc

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Justin Sun accuses the Trump family's World Liberty Financial of 'Criminal Extortion' An awkward detail (that I'm not sure has been reported) is that in 2025 Tron Inc., majority owned by Justin Sun's father, signed a lease agreement for 2,791 sq feet in Trump Tower NYC www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

CHEVRON CFO: “.. Our strategy is to grow free cash flow, not grow production. .. You wouldn’t expect us to be changing our plans significantly on the back of eight weeks of disruption.” @financialtimes.com #$CVX #$XOM www.ft.com/content/2a02...

"Kushner has continued to raise funds for his investment firm, Affinity Partners, seeking $5 billion from Middle Eastern governments even as he participates in peace talks in the region. Saudi Arabia, one of his largest investment partners, urged the Trump administration to continue fighting Iran."

"Pope Leo on Friday named a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the United States in a car trunk to be bishop of West Virginia." Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/3RcUTj8

This should be a disaster for the GOP, if only Dems could communicate more effectively: “Millions of Americans appear to be dropping Obamacare coverage in the months since Congress failed to extend the generous subsidies that had become a defining feature of the Affordable Care Act.”

KIMMEL: “It’s time to make yourself great again, with REZYNE… Ask your conscience if REZYNE is right for you.” Amazing stuff

Via Sportsnet

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

There is absolutely no way anyone in the administration will understand a joke about the French and Indian War. That’s half the joke.🔥🔥🔥

EXCL: Nigel Farage was given an undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in general election @annaisaac.bsky.social reveals www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage” is some serious Madison Grant/Lothrop Stoddard stuff, straight up 1920s Klan/eugenicist language.

An absolutely beautiful goal by David Pastrnak in OT. Bruins stay alive. On to game six.

NEW James Comey: "Well, they're back." "Nothing has changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So let's go."

My review of the Melania movie.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Our DOJ is no longer a serious institution. Can we ever restore its reputation?

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:

Paul Krugman: "While [Trump] may be done with his war, the war isn’t done with him — or with the world economy. And the longer his fugue state lasts, the worse the damage will get."

SPLC wants Todd Blanche to stop lying. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New: "The president’s second son pitches his bitcoin company as a money-printing machine. It’s actually an arbitrage vehicle that preys on MAGA-minded investors." A must read by @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Beltway journalists are so broken they are now praising their abuser. These two from The Atlantic celebrate the “new” Trump:

America’s most prominent Libertarian Rand Paul wants to spend $400 million on a ballroom because the millions we already spend on the Secret Service regularly leads to suboptimal outcomes. And he wonders why we have a debt problem.

I talked to Jamie Raskin about his explosive exchange with CNN's Dana Bash. "The media should understand that the survival of the free press is at stake right now," he tells me. "There is only one party in America trying to censor and control the press.” New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2095...

Over 28,000 young people signed on for a Seattle Public Library card, which enables access to e-books even if they don't live in Seattle. The program was started by Brooklyn Public Library to expand service in communities impacted by censorship.

New: “How the Trumps’ Billion-Dollar Crypto Stake Depends on a Company That Helped Iran Evade Sanctions.” my first report for @publiccitizen.bsky.social 1/

‪After their meeting, Pope Leo and the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed together in the Chapel of Urban VIII.‬

You know, instead of debating how we should go overboard to protect the one man who's the most hated provocateur of malevolent violence in the entire nation, we could just remove him from office through the normal procedures.

Our mainstream media is utterly broken. PBS was perhaps least equipped of all to deal with the endless lying and criminality over the past ten years. It's sad to see.

It really does change my understanding of this story that she had been enthusiastic about what happened to her happening to brown people and…just hadn’t realized it would apply to her and might not be pleasant