There’s no doubt about it. Trump is the mad king personified.

Trump tried to pull off a massive grift at the Lincoln Memorial, overcharging by millions for a simple paint job. But his plan had one major flaw: his own National Park Service got the receipts and exposed the whole thing in writing. Read the jaw-dropping report: 👇

“UFC stopped being just cage fighting years ago. It became a networking hub for oligarchs, crypto scammers, right-wing politicians, tech billionaires, podcasters, and every species of modern American grifter. A roving luxury suite for the decline.” open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

We the people not being able to distinguish between what is real and what is not is a feature of the tech oligarchs AI not a bug.

This aught to be good. In a sarcastic way.

After 39 years of putting my trash out for pickup on Monday nights the city has contracted out the service. My new schedule is means I put it out on Wednesday nights. This has caused undue and enormous stress for me.

Someday an academic will hit the total button on how many lives have been lost because of MAGA Republicans, and the number will show that Trump is a mass murderer.

“Understand right now, history has reached a turning point again. Not just Jim Crow 2.0—it’s freedom forever,” said Reena Evers-Everette. Her father, voting rights leader Medgar Evers, was assassinated by a white supremacist in the family's driveway in 1963.

"Ken Paxton: The Pedophiles' Candidate of Choice"

I’m 95% done with dinner I just have to decide what I’m eating, how I’m cooking it, and what store I want to shop at

First cucumber of the season

Breaking! Trump ends Iran War!

The U.S. Justice Department is a group of mob lawyers doing the boss' dirty work. They are not legitimate law enforcement.

It’s Driftglass Day! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This 👇🏻

What are those agencies gonna do, ask Grok what it all means? 🤣

People are already gathering in Jackson, Mississippi and showing up strong. ✊🏾 Mississippi fights back because our voices matter, our communities matter, and our future is worth fighting for. #Mississippi #VotingRights #BlackPower #WeGotUs

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/w...

Public broadcaster that had all their federal funding cut for purely political reasons wonders whether or not they live in an authoritarian state

We’re all fucked

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Trump's corrupt efforts to settle the IRS lawsuit with a slush fund that could pay off J6ers amounts to "using public money to reward the perpetrators of right-wing violence." @michaelmechanic.bsky.social explains deeper legal issues here (cites my reporting): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I see this meme make the rounds once every few weeks. It’s not real. There’s no Jack Smith “document dump”. The Trump Campaign did not pay travel for most of the January 5 (or January 6) protestors.

You could cobble together the hearts of all 6 consecutive justices and still couldn’t find a “good heart”.

“Since the New Deal, we have had too much of a willingness to acquiesce to conservatives. And for what? What we see today is a result of conservative excess.” open.substack.com/pub/smugchri...

Priorities. Had enough yet?

They knew there was a problem but sold these stupid things anyway. www.carscoops.com/2026/05/cybe...

It seems that Trump’s negotiation prowess only works through blackmail and he can’t blackmail Putin.

True

Aside from the fact that the people who didn't vote for Harris because of the genocide didn't cost her the election, the Callais decision was coming regardless of who won in 2024. Really you should still be mad at the loss in 2016 for this. That's what lost us this court for a generation.

Trump demanded $1,000,000,000 for a tacky ballroom, $10,000,000,000 from the IRS, a $400,000,000 jet, and $1,000,000,000 from oil executives. Clearly, Donald *loves* to round up when he’s seeking bribes and other corruption.

Wow. Just WOW! I hope they ask Jared for their money back.

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

Parts of NW/N-Central Texas Strong thunderstorms appear possible within the next couple of hours. This may include the evolution of an intensifying supercell or two by 5-7 PM. If/when this becomes more certain, a severe weather watch probably will be needed. #txwx www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/...

Republicans had Presidential Derangement Syndrome with Bill Clinton, extra special PDS with Barack Obama and lastly with Joe Biden.

The sooner we get rid of this geriatric knob gobbler the better off this country will be. Not ONE FUCKING U.S. CENT for Trump's vanity projects. He tore down the East Wing. Make him rebuild it with HIS money.

Everyone in the room is like, “no Ted Nugent?!!”

No country is gonna admit that it’s in a “state of collapse” What a liar. Big league liar indeed.