CORRUPTION! We must fight it. It’s theft.

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

Your Thursday (properly hash-tagged) reminder: Release the EPSTEIN FILES! Release the EPSTEIN FILES! Release the EPSTEIN FILES! Release the EPSTEIN FILES! Release the EPSTEIN FILES! (Thanks @surfsidedubber.bsky.social !)

Your Thursday reminder: Release the EPSTEIN FILES! Release the EPSTEIN FILES! Release the EPSTEIN FILES! Release the EPSTEIN FILES! Release the EPSTEIN FILES!

America has become a place where the least deserving get the most, while the most in need get the shaft. We must change that.

Disney accused of misusing facial recognition technology

The Supreme Court rules the entire Constitution as unconstitutional, 6-3, as the original document has been amended 16 times, reasoning that the document’s original intent did not support these amendments.

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

We have a cultural obsession with innovation over maintenance, not just because of the capitalism, but we should worry more about taking better care of, and making better use of, what we have.

I will keep mentioning the segregationist goals of the feds and many other higher ed stakeholders in these interviews and one day a reporter will print it

This is atrocious. Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer, now serving as Acting Attorney General of the United States, signed a one-page document in which the United States government “RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES” Donald Trump, his sons, his businesses,

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...

This is bad news. Really bad.   Trump’s EPA wants to roll back limits on 4 “forever chemicals” in drinking water and give utilities 2 more years to comply with limits on PFOA and PFOS.   This is an absolute betrayal of MAHA—and states like Maine that have led the way on addressing the PFAS crisis.

I simply could not imagine being in congress and staying silent as Trump builds a slush fund of $1.776 (cute right… 1776) billion dollar slush fund for insurrrectionists. What are these people even there for? History will be brutal to them. And their kids will be embarrassed

List of some people eligible to get payouts from taxpayers from the Trump/Blanche Criminal Slush Fund: Steve Bannon Peter Navarro Rudy Giuliani Mark Meadows Stewart Rhodes Enrique Tarrio Sidney Powell Jenna Ellis John Eastman Jeffrey Clark Boris Epshteyn Joe Biggs Walt Nauta

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

Just out: "Trump’s IRS Settlement Illegally Halts Audits" via @publiccitizen.bsky.social

Andrew Quentin Taak, of Texas. Ask Cornyn and Cruz how they feel about paying off this man. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...

New Evidence Data Centers May Cause Hotter Weather

Illegal, unethical and beyond corrupt!!! Separation of powers must be reinstated. This is fucking nuts!! www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Public lands - OUR public lands - are not “unused”! substack.com/@willpattiz/...

The Brown v. Board ruling happened 72 years ago today. The reversal of the Supreme Court’s previous “separate but equal” decision highlights how it’s possible to overcome bad SCOTUS decisions. But it took years of activism from brave people to get there. Keep fighting.

Looks like potential insider trading to us. Does this look like insider trading to you? Over 3,600 stock trades by Trump since Jan. Absolutely unprecedented. This will be investigated.

our system of knowledge production is under attack from an extraordinary array of forces and if the people putatively on the side of maintaining it cannot commit to the most basic standards (not using fake citations, writing your own words, etc) I fear there is no hope

This is beyond the beyond. This is state sponsored… bullshit. Make. It. Stop.

Corruption. Straight up.

Do YOU experience the same melanin deprivation that I do? Then YOU have an obligation to be part of the movement to restore voting rights to all the people from whom it was stolen! They can steal votes, but they can't steal grassroots organizing!

$6+ per gallon gas in #Yakima - a longtime conservative (MAGA) agricultural city in Eastern Washington.

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The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

May 16, 2026

If JD Vance has real evidence of fraud, by all means, prosecute every last one of the fraudsters. Instead, he’s withholding $1.3 billion in Medi-Cal funding from California.    Prosecuting fraud and withholding care from vulnerable people are not the same thing, and one doesn’t require the other.

Gerald LK Smith was widely known as one of America's nastiest antisemites and racists from the 1940s into the 1970s. Here's a 1958 piece from his magazine, The Cross and the Flag (circulation ~300,000), where he defines "Christian Nationalism." Much of this sounds eerily familiar these days.

So much good data center opposition going on nationally too. This just happened with leadership from the nearby Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe. (But the approval of the mega-data center near the Great Salt Lake is horrific--I hope it gets overturned. While I'm hoping....

Keeping this false narrative alive is a corruption of public office. Audits and lawsuits have already answered this question.

I’m firmly in favor of each and every one of these guys coming face to face with the public and realizing in real time that they’re unlikable, antisocial goons

That’s not how the first sold it. And that’s part of the problem The FIRST part of their sales pitch has always been “AI and innovation will remove the undesirables and raw successful people ( unlike those undesirables) will rise ! And return us to an ideal age) That was always first

These are lawless violent vigilantes, not “patriots” or “martyrs.” Trump has already pardoned them. They most certainly should not now get paid from Trump’s proposed $1.7B fund.

Must-read of the morning by @jamellebouie.net. I'm writing about the creation of the VRA right now, and this is absolutely correct. The Roberts Six often pretend to use history to get what they want, but it's always a funhouse mirror version with no root in reality.

it’s genuine journalistic malpractice to frame the declining birth rate as about the job market or girlbossing or whatever when it is almost entirely driven by the decline of teen pregnancy

This is "among the most corrupt acts in American political history...a shakedown of the American people by a crook president and his crook lawyers,” says Sen. Ron @wyden.senate.gov. "Trump is a parasite on the American republic.” Why is Wyden this outraged? Click below. I will explain everything.

While everyone's watching Hormuz, the Epstein files are being buried. The law says release them. Trump is fighting it. Massie may lose his seat Tuesday for pushing it. And now a $1.7B slush fund for Jan 6 defendants? Don't go quiet. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Trump has spent the day angrily posting about Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert due to their role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. That says a whole lot. His latest post: "Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?"

I know AI has made life more interesting for computer people but it has cheapened so many other areas of human life and sociality in incredibly disappointing ways. Completely narrowed the window on human possibilities into one tiny path.

BREAKING: WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo, Uganda with over 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths.

Psychopaths.

This requires public outcry! Pick up the phone on Monday. These are OUR lands. Once privatized, they’re gone. sourcenm.com/briefs/feds-...

Pay attention fellow Washington state citizens!