FT: “.. The number of transactions disclosed on Thursday .. marks his first major sale of assets since returning to office ..” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f921...

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

The Founders created a secular Constitution with no mention of Christianity, banned religious tests for public office, and protected freedom of religion for everyone. That’s the opposite of Christian nationalism.

After years of the Trump family using the presidency to personally profit, The New York Times on Thursday reported that merely the “potential” of corruption exists. Read more here: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Sometimes, a scandal is so big you have to pick off one piece of it. So in the case of Trump's insane stock trading, pick this: He did 6 trades of Intel stock. That company now counts the US government as a $9 billion stakeholder, thanks to Trump's intervention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You may remember during DOGE chainsawing USAID early on they said they wouldn't kill PEPFAR. Not true. Massive cuts in funding and implementation details, and we're holding HIV meds hostage to African countries signing away mineral rights to the U.S.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Both Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford (R-Arkansas) and Fox News know that the ONLY time Article 5 of the NATO treaty (calling for collective defense) has ever been exercised was after 9/11 when NATO allies came to assist the US in Afghanistan. They’re just gaslighting their ignorant base.

More on the destruction of US science: Federal science agencies lost more jobs in 2025 (12%) than over the previous TWO decades (8%), including 30% of personnel at NSF, 20% at USGS, NOAA, and NIH. NASA lost 12% (now up to 24% by Jan 2026). (Data from www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...)

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

FREIGHTWAVES: “.. Truckload spot rates surge to $3.57/mile, up $0.47/mile from a week ago. “.. Diesel is only $.01/mile higher than it was a week ago.” 🤓

Indictments for anyone involved (line agents on up) should be a Day 1 priority in 2029.

Some of the identified individuals the US killed in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific showed "no indication of involvement with drug trafficking." And even if they were traffickers, they'd be low level. Killing them would make virtually no impact on the cartels or drug trafficking into the US.

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

Don’t tell the building code tyrants in the US about this

‘One of the telltale signs of an asset price bubble is high margin debt among institutional and retail investors. Check. FINRA reported that margin debt provided by broker-dealers hit $1.3 trillion for the first time in April, up 53% from a year ago.’ sakonnetresearch.com/margin-debt-...

… Literally not a female at the table. Photo posted by the White House.

The American people need to sacrifice for my pet ideological project.

I’m so sorry your bribes to the imperial son-in-law weren’t respected.

The octopus waves back [📍 London's Sea Life Aquarium] Original post

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

Holy balls, this opinion: "As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors . . . will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the judiciary. DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case." (via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In the ocean, humpback whales have surprised scientists with one of the strangest and kindest things seen in nature. When orcas, also known as killer whales, go hunting other sea animals like seals, sea lions, small dolphins, or even baby whales, humpback whales often arrive to stop the attack.

“.. We are witnessing Southern legislators across the former Confederacy approach this racialized gerrymandering process in a way in which we thought we had gotten beyond,” he said. @nbcnews.com #redistrict www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

Trump’s kids turned Fox News’ bullshit smears about the “Biden Crime Family” into a business plan. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

this is absolutely BONKERS behavior from the director of the FBI. it's a disgrace to his position and the entire US government.

It’s not a real lawsuit. It’s a note handed to the teller by a bandit with an amount written down

Assume this Strait of Hormuz thing works out, because it’ll be bad if it doesn’t? Awful analysis, even worse as a financial plan. Political constraints are real, you fools. War is very real. Iran gets a big say in how this goes, and their priorities are power and security, not US investors’ books.

What the President of the United States says matters, and his sharing of this communication is sickening.

“.. Inflation is now eating up all wage gains for the first time in about three years. This is painful for Americans and a true financial squeeze.” CPI Inflation in past year: 3.8% Wage gains: in past year: 3.6%” @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

Austrian Eurofighters scrambled twice in two days to intercept USAF PC-12 aircraft that entered Austrian airspace without permission, Die Welt reports.

Finally, a major American newspaper whose editorial board is courageous enough to stand up for the rights of big tech companies.

Washington is debating suspending the 18.4¢ federal gas tax. But nobody is talking about the REAL tax Americans are paying: the Iran war premium. It’s adding roughly $1.35 per gallon right now, costing drivers about $571 million today alone. Over 71 days? Nearly $28 billion.

If the wealth of all the billionaires in the world was capped at a mere $1 billion, it would free up $13 trillion to spend. Enough to do everything in my book and more!

Dear Flight Attendants, No eggnog? Just say so. NO NEED FOR THAT LOOK

The degree of political asymmetry on what judges/justices are up to these days, AND what politicians are doing to courts, is one of the most staggering aspects of our moment.

In Ukraine, Vovchansk today is nothing but scorched ruins on the frontline. Russia destroyed schools, churches, neighborhoods, and homes—stealing lives and dreams for nothing. These scenes remind me of Syria when Russia helped destroy it.

A lot of AI criticism makes me feel like someone says “the automobile has been disastrous for society” and I’m nodding along like “yeah I actually really agree, I think that car centric urban design has-“ and then they add “also it’s a scam, cars break down after more than ten miles anyway”

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

No Mother’s Day message yet today from Trump. He did post this though.

Two days ago they were supposedly “begging for a deal” again for the 29th time in 9 weeks.

48 days ago.

Murderous racist pretengineer with the brain of a 13 year old D student

something I find very funny about the Marcomentum bullshit is that foreign policy has been objectively a huge disaster! like what the fuck is this guy going to run on, “I murdered millions of people by dismantling USAID and was heavily involved in the Iran fiasco everyone hates”

The Art of Hoping for a Deal