Speaker Johnson sent the House home until June because we were about to vote to rein in Trump & end his war in Iran. Republicans knew they'd lose, but they'd rather bow to Trump and continue this unauthorized war than help families here at home. The people deserve better.

This is the kind of authentic moron whispering you can't fake. Nobody just pretending to be stupid would say something like this. It comes from the heart.

The Trump DOJ is quietly deleting all records surrounding Jan 6 rioters who assaulted and brutalized police officers. Officially, it never happened.

Actually true lol

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

Seriously, what would cause this? Some sort of IV? A necrotic skin condition? The backs of his hands have shown bruises since February of 2025 That's 15 straight months with zero explanation or justification besides the hand-shaking thing and the asprin dosages

The Broadview Six should absolutely apply for compensation from Trump's "weaponization" slush fund and sue when they don't get it. In fact, they'd arguably have the strongest case for standing of any possible plaintiff. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Utah Republicans expanded the court to create two seats, bullied a justice into retiring, and now are benefiting from yet another retirement — and will be able to significantly re-haul the majority of the court.

Our Comm Sec, whose firm represents the financial interests of the largest crypto co in the world Tether— whose coin is one of the primary instruments of global criminal activity—bought off house Rs so they wouldn’t press him on his relationship to the world’s most notorious pedophile.

$5 says he walks in on a different wedding held at the golf club in Jersey this weekend.

The likelihood of another US-Israel bombing campaign against Iran or a US military action against Cuba just went up.

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JUST IN: A day after the collapse of the "Broadview Six" case, attorneys for the former defendants have filed an emergency motion seeking preservation of U.S. attorney's office emails and texts about the case. A motion for sanctions will undoubtedly be filed down the road

If what happened here isn't met with severe sanctions that you can't walk away from, it will send the worst of possible messages to every Trump lawyer in the country: you might get yelled at, but you can get away with anything

A very good, digestible thread about the historic prosecutorial misconduct it was revealed Kat and her fellow protesters were put through, and what to expect next.

/26 But I digress. This gets worse and worse. And even when we get a different administration, DoJ will be permanently crippled by this. You can’t get that trust back. There need to be severe consequences. Personally I think a lot of this is less truth-and-reconciliation and more pock-marked wall.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

The way Ron DeSantis has turned Florida’s previously top-notch university system into a lavish slush fund for his friends and co-segregationists needs to be the subject of a withering political campaign. Everyone who touched this process should be made radioactive in polite society.

i mean, this is just an unusually blatant version of what the GOP does in every high profile election — same idea they ran over 20 years ago attacking war hero Kerry as a coward and elevating Bush, who got his dad to get him into the Air National Guard so he wouldn't get sent overseas, as a hero

Science textbooks narrow-mindedly coalesce around a very narrow range of theories, while new age bookshops are refreshingly diverse.

I’m not sure anything has soured me more on the concept of a rational market than Elon company valuations

Is... is this a blanket retrospective self-pardon for federal crimes that is trying not to call itself that? It is *not* limited to the IRS or to tax evasion/ fraud.

really can’t be overstated how much Polis was out on a limb with the Peters thing there are definitely issues on which “the Democrats” suck but on the topic of Tina Peters it was “Jared Polis sucks” the entire state party is furious, you don’t censure your own governor lightly

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

Beutler is, of course, correct. Trump and the GOP are doing exactly what it looks like their doing - preparing to use any authoritarian means available to void democratic institutions. The scheme is a product of Trump's political weakness. But preparing to counter it is simply essential.

She wasn't even targeted by the federal government! Come on, man.

incidentally, a problem I have not yet seen covered - free to a good home! - is that AP plays a pillar role in election calling in the United States and their financial condition is such that they will be stretched to do this this November and may not exist in anything like today's form by 2028

If you thought Trump was corrupt before, it just got *a lot* worse. The DOJ just expanded the absurd settlement giving him a $1.7 billion slush fund to ALSO bar the IRS from pursuing investigations into him, his family and his businesses. That's a huge, unconstitutional giveaway to Trump. 🧵

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.

So...Spanberger vetoes of collective bargaining, prescription drug affordability board (PDAB) and legalized marijuana marketplace legislation? bluevirginia.us/2026/05/vide...

The absolute fucking insult to injury here is that he's using the language of reparations re: these traitors. THAT'S the headline. "Just compensation for people who were mistreated by their government" oh you mean like a Constitution protecting slavers? FHA's redlining? Mass incarceration?

I’d note this is a trick Trump learned at the very start of his second term: Using frivolous lawsuits with no chance of success as a mechanism to solicit bribes from companied that quickly “settle” to curry favor.

shoutout to jared polis

I need a lawyer to tell me whether Trump and his family are now exempt from paying federal taxes for good; if so does it apply to successive generations indefinitely; and also if so what will it take to walk it back.

Okay but I don't *want* a conversational agentic experience, I really do want a list of links ranked for relevance by a basic algorithm, ideally 100 per page.

Anyone else remember that time Vance's home sold to a lobbyist and gov't contractor for $170,000 over the asking price?

Not a PENNY for families whose children were cruelly stolen away from them, but $1.8 billion for his friends and allies.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

Trump must have made some oil trades a half hour ago

Whether it’s Donald Trump stealing $1.7 billion from the treasury to share with his friends or Hillary Clinton using a private email server to share risotto recipes with her friends, there’s plenty of inappropriate sharing on both sides.

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

"Have you taken up arms against your government? Or tried to overturn an election? You may be entitled to compensation?"

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

Just laughable corruption. Impeachment, clawbacks, and criminal investigation are all that's worth discussing at this point. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

A federal judge also ruled that federal funding was withheld to coerce a pardon for Peters.

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

Sad as it is, this is entirely inevitable. If you are a progressive in American politics today, you simply have to price in the relentless opposition of the oligarch media.

Probably should be a bigger deal that the Trump Administration used taxpayer dollars to host a Christian Nationalist event in the nation's capital, but, nah. www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...