Here is Elon Mush bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts.

Japan, China lead declines in foreign holdings of Treasuries in March, data shows reut.rs/4dCmrWR

The kids are alright

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

“…Trump bought as much as $680,000 in stock of Eli Lilly, the maker of blockbuster obesity drugs, as the agencies he oversees undertook an agenda that largely benefited the company….[Trump’s ] timing coincides with several favorable government decisions benefiting the drugmaker’s GLP-1 business…”

Disbar every lawyer who had anything to do with crafting, drafting, approving, and signing off on this most corrupt action ever to disgrace our federal government m, and then prosecute everyone into oblivion

This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.

Striking gender and age disparities in Trump approval/disapproval In this latest Sienna poll

Striking gender and age disparities in Trump approval/disapproval In this latest Sienna poll

They were justly convicted. By juries. Of essentially trying to help a Trump stay in power Via violence. When he got back in power Trump pardoned them. Now he’s trying to reward these same criminals with the US government’s money.

They were justly convicted. By juries. Of essentially trying to help a Trump stay in power Via violence. When he got back in power Trump pardoned them. Now he’s trying to reward these same criminals with the US government’s money.

Trump defense attorney Stan Woodward signed the "settlement" on the Trump tax case. A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER of people who will file for the slush fund were his clients (most notably terrorist seditionist Kelly Meggs, but also Kash Patel). So much for recusal. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

JUST FILED: Trump $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money for convicted criminals is labeled by former Justice Dept officials as: “Corrupt” “Collusion” “Crazy” And that’s just the words beginning with “C” youtu.be/ehoyejGGIRk?...

The pro-cancer administration strikes again... undoing Biden era regulations that banned forever chemicals from our drinking water. Stunning move but not at all surprising. Wow. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/c...

If you are a Trump ally who feels wronged by the Justice Department, there has never been a more lucrative time to sue

Every GOP member of Congress should be asked by the press whether they agree Trump can use $1.7b that we, the taxpayers, paid so gov’t could work for us, as reward money to his supporters.

Nearly 100 Democrats are fighting to block the creation of a massive slush fund after Trump moved to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Depressed and anger filled, that's how I feel after reading this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The president seems to conflate news he doesn't want to hear with treason and that's not the case," the reporter said. www.huffpost.com/entry/new-yo...

Such arguments giving presidents the full privileges of kings are nonsense. As prominent judges like St George Tucker wrote after the revolution (1803) about the sections of Blackstone’s common law treatise that concerned the king’s privileges: irrelevant in the US because we are a republic

And this is why they are so desperately trying to entrench themselves in education and government. They’re hoping to create generations of captive users who have no other choice but to use their tech if they want to read, work, write or think

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

The graph below is amazing.

So what do the geniuses at state-"regulated" Dominion Energy want to do? That's right, build more gas-fired power plants! Total. F'ing. Joke. bluevirginia.us/2026/05/sund... h/t @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social

It’s invidious.

“He flaunted his wealth, and people didn’t mind,” Barrett Marson, a Republican strategist based in Arizona, tells The Times. “But now it’s sort of like: Wow, you’re really not feeling our pain, you are adding to our pain, and on top of that, you don’t care about our pain." #InflationNation

Yesterday I shared that I am working on a project that synthesizes material from my blog. Here is the introduction to that project. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Teapot dome. Massive corruption that will likely do lasting harm to America’s public lands. So much is going on now it’s hard to pay attention to this land grab. But it needs to be fought—

Just in: Director-General of the WHO, having consulted the States Parties where the event is occurring, has determined that the Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

Spoke recently to a friend of mine who runs a lab. This administration is profoundly, maybe irreversibly, undermining the foundations of scientific research in the US. We won't feel the effects right away but they're coming

This will be catastrophic and this is where Congress and the Senate together should come together and resist this completely

“Rejected without comment”

It’s invidious.

My first story for @theatlantic.com is about how ed tech slop is taking over American classrooms. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Peter Brooks, The Times

I was interviewed by Pitt’s University Times about my new book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States (a.co/d/0fJS2Dc3). Give it a read! www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/public-...

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

"There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics are fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not cre... https://bit.ly/42FjgbT

Nearly two decades of data show a large shift among Latter-day Saints to the left.

ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent last year by executives asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act requirements. The White House approved more than 180 requests and is considering more.

This ⬇️ We are all paying every which way to Sunday for AI, even if we don’t use it

Smithsonian defies Trump and restores damning detail to his national portrait www.rawstory.com/trump-portra...

This settlement violates the separation of powers under Article I and it is being contemplated in order to avoid an order from an Article III that a President cannot instruct a federal agency to give him money. I am not sure this could be more wildly unconstitutional.

“Overturn Citizens United!” “Expand the Supreme Court!” “Impeach him!” “25th Amendment!” “Primary them all!” “Vote them out of office!” “Get money out of elections!” “Defund ICE!” sigh.. THAT REQUIRES A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY

Look at what the data centers are doing to our energy prices. We have choices here. They are not paying for themselves. This is happening across the country.

Major new report shows electricity prices increasing by 76% this year over last. This is data centers, and AI large language models, sucking up all our power and making it more expensive. Our power bills here in Maryland have been shocking. This was even before Trump’s war of choice against Iran.

Correction. They're supposed to have Congressional approval, but they're just ignoring the constitution and our laws. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...