You sound unhinged if you say it out loud, but the acting Attorney General directed the IRS to stop all ongoing audits of Trump, but we know from leaked tax returns that Trump owes more than $100 million in unpaid taxes, so Trump is basically just giving himself a free hundred plus million dollars.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

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Rep. Madeleine Dean explains how her examination of redactions in the Epstein files revealed they are protecting Trump and not victims. She then tells Blanche, "You are gravely conflicted. These survivors deserve prosecutions. And now it's on your lap, as Pam Bondi told us."

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

When your agents shot my coworker Alex, that was pretty fucking unlawful.

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

And Blanche said this RIGHT AFTER saying that his so-called Fraud Task Force would jail not only those who stole $100M from taxpayers, but also those who stole $1001.

Breaking—Today Lambda Legal, ACLU and NYCLU filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Attorney General’s and DOJ's efforts to compel NYU Langone to hand over the identities/sensitive health info of trans youth who received gender-affirming care from 2020-2026. Complaint: www.nyclu.org/uploads/2026...

under questioning from Rep. Meng, Rubio says the administration is rolling out the red carpet for Afrikaners because they "have a high likelihood of rapid assimilation." Meng points out that Afghanis in her district have already assimilated

It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force. The kind of care need to knock it out is often not fully available in a lower resource country like the Democratic Republic of Congo.

One thing I have loved about my years representing @dailykos.com is that when someone tries to unmask a user, @kos.dailykos.com does not back down from the fight. We did it when then-citizen RFK was pursuing a defamation claim; now you can read about how DailyKos fought back against Trump's DOJ.

This story could easily be about how trumps policies are killing growth in one of the country’s beloved cities. But that would require an entirely different NYT

I just keep staring at this part chased the kid down shot the kid in the back and successfully claimed the kid was the aggressor sickening apnews.com/article/stor...

SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

I think that's Trump's real goal. He'll sacrifice the slush fund while keeping his audit exemption intact.

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Was saying earlier, re: the newest NYT reports that Trump has neared the napkin sketch of an outline of a framework of a starting point for negotiations, that POTUS believes he can keep kicking the can without having to worry about real-world consequences. For a time, that might even be right.

Kaine to Rubio: "By not sharing the [Iran] legal opinion with the Article 1 oversight branch, you give us the opinion there's something you don't want us to see. Could you use your influence as the president's chief national security adviser & secretary of state to share the opinion with Congress?"

two things to remember here: (1) it is indisputable at this point that partisan identity & affect shape responses to consumer-sentiment surveys more than in the past (2) it is a step too far however to conclude that *all* expressed negative economic sentiment is vibes with no connection to reality

"If finalized, (Trump's proposal) would require all federal grants to be approved by the president’s political appointees, who must ensure that the money would “demonstrably advance the president’s policy priorities.” The Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS powered regime keeps making mockery out of Congress.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

How much did Operation Metro Surge cost St. Paul, Minneapolis and the metro? Researchers looking at everything from lost wages to police overtime, canceled events and construction slowdowns are putting numbers in the hundreds of millions of dollars... and growing. www.twincities.com/2026/03/12/h...

The EU wants to triple data center capacity in five years. But how much energy and water do these facilities actually use? Nobody can say. Tech Policy Press senior editor Ramsha Jahangir digs into the secrecy with Investigate Europe's Nico Schmidt and Leitmotiv's Christiaan van Veen.

this article is helpful on the history of index standards, btw; a lot were added after the dot com bust vaporated everyone's retirement savings, so that fly by night companies would no longer be added easily finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

Pope Leo is an Augustinian. Trump has nothing on him. Trump has no courage and his anger isn’t for Hope but for enrichment, a hold on power, or personal grievances. He is a hopeless man, no vision for others. His world view is one of pure cynicism and selfishness. Courage+Anger=Change. Mother Hope

None of you'd complain if someone used AI for an admin email no one wanted to write or read. Most of you would be fine (as you should) using AI to finish a DEI training. Sure, catch students cheating when AI is banned. Elsewhere, ask what was promised and whether it's actually true on the merits.

The graph is a visual representation of class power. The bottom 50% barely moved. The top 0.1% increased 501% When the wealthy fund campaigns, hire armies of lobbyists, and shape economic policy, redistribution upwards is the result.

They're actually going to spend millions removing the equipment so it can't be switched on again. It's sick.

Renewables are READY. 🟢 Wind and solar already dominate new power capacity and beat fossil fuels on cost, with storage and smart grids keeping them reliable. 🟢 Clean, homegrown renewables can shield tens of millions from price shocks and energy blackmail.

This is insane. The Heritage Foundation, architect of Project 2025, has been denying climate science for decades, and employing deniers to do so. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Tilly Norwood’s most recent Instagram post, which is 2 weeks old, has 280 likes and 30 shares. No one other than reporters has any particular feeling one way or the other about Tilly Norwood.

"Gentlemen, you can't report in here! This is the press office!"

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is crippling Asia. But not Pakistan. 🇵🇰 They already kicked their fossil fuel addiction, building the fastest solar revolution on Earth. And they've done it despite floods, landslides, 50°C heat, drought, blackouts and militant attacks.

Polish artist NeSpoon from Warsaw, known for her street art featuring traditional lace pattern imagery #WomensArt

Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

He literally brags on social media about assuming enemy positions against U.S. citizens, and using the office of the president to knock out their power, wealth, authority and reputations. None of this falls under the duties of his office.

WIN: A federal court ruled today that the federal government’s attempts to undercut Endangered Species Act protections for the sake of coal mining were illegal. Coal mines will now be required to follow the law and ensure their activities don’t harm protected plants and animals.

i won’t believe the slush fund is dead until trump cries about it on truth social, until that point, i assume he plans on pushing it forward regardless of what his aides and republicans in congress have told him, axios gets things wrong *a lot*

Trump's appalling corruption here is ripe for congressional intervention. Raskin suggests a legislative overhaul that would bar such slush funds going forward. Importantly, Raskin casts the stakes here as very high, as a matter of Congress taking back its power. newrepublic.com/article/2106...

Talking about Romeo and Juliet with the kid earlier and the main message he's taken away from studying it at school is that Year 11s in gangs shouldn't get married, which is fair enough, I guess.

If anyone else were in the White House, Democrat or Republican, America’s 250th birthday would be a celebration of what unites us and the strength of our democracy. This day belongs to the American people, not any one politician.

Fuck yea, I love reading the news.

My view is that those of us who can easily afford to buy books should do so, because if *only* libraries buy books, neither publishing nor being a full-time writer is economically viable. But as an author, I’m thrilled any time anyone reads my books, however they do so.

The Pentagon has effectively banned all journalists. There are very few people left to hold them accountable.

Remember: Concerned Susan Collins voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, who was credibly accused of sexual assault. She can sit all the way down.