Was quite a moment, a sense we reached some kind of inflection point in U.S. history. You can now personally pay a U.S. president to gain an audience.

Here is our story on some of the $TRUMP buyers: folks who paid money to the Trump family and their partners in exchange for getting access to the president of the United States. A free link. Who Won a Seat at Trump’s Crypto Dinner? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

Trump is wearing a campaign hat during his commencement speech

More Russian sites were taken down and/or compromised by Anonymous overnight, no details if useful info was extracted yet. Everyday is a new opportunity for Kremlin bonking.

"Border Czar" Tom Homan's security detail is reportedly costing taxpayers $1 million A MONTH. This is absurd. Where's DOGE?

Trump “promised to make American families more prosperous,” David Axelrod said. “He just decided to start with his own.” @nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

"We should make no mistake about President Donald Trump’s strategy: He is trying to install himself as provost of our university. He seemingly wants to dictate who can be admitted, what classes can be taught and which professors should be fired." wapo.st/3FfIHsx

Wake up, Americans; this administration is actively trying to kill you.

💥 NEWS: McDonald's shareholders voted Tues. to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent. McDonald's Board said the proposal "unduly interferes" with the company's "flexibility and judgment." MCD: "Our success in the future builds on our history of embracing diversity as a competitive advantage."

I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put *14* individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint. W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid. BRAVO.

WSJ: “.. Fully unwinding the department would require a filibuster-proof, 60-vote majority in the Senate, legal experts have said. .. The draft order doesn't mention Congress.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

@myater.bsky.social I’m here too!

So the world’s richest man, who grew up under apartheid in South Africa and now pulls the mentally deteriorating incoming U.S. president’s strings, has written an op-ed urging Germans to elect a neo-Nazi government. Got that?

Trump’s CDC pick, who was proposed by RFK Jr, has a long history of espousing anti-vax views. It’s a feature, not a bug.

The Trump-Vance embrace of Daniel Penny isn't just about "law and order" — it's white identity politics. A defense of a racial hierarchy where Penny can kill a Black man on a train and face no consequences. They're reminding us they want to preserve this status quo.

If we weren't at such a weird moment in history, the collapse of Assad's regime would be widely understood as a huge success for the Biden administration, which pursued sanctions on Russia and Iran as well as Syria, armed Ukraine and thus weakened Russia, and supported Syrian democrats and activists

U.S. job creation bounced back in November after disruptions from storms and a major strike. The Labor Department reported on Friday that the economy added 227,000 jobs last month. Revisions to the prior two months added 56,000 jobs. nyti.ms/3Bjjdse

NEW: We just requested records on the background check agreement between DOJ and Trump transition team, including any contracts with or communications about the private vendors the Trump transition team considered to perform the checks.

Justice Neil Gorsuch Recuses From Case That Could Benefit Colorado Billionaire The justice had been under pressure to step aside from the matter because of his myriad ties to Philip Anschutz, an oil and gas magnate. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...

Hegseth: We've had great conversations about who I am and what I believe and frankly the man I am today because of my faith in my lord and savior Jesus Christ and my incredible wife right here.

“Hegseth has blamed sexual assault in the military on ‘equality,’ claiming that the issue was ‘exacerbated’ by letting women enlist in the first place.”

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I hereby promise to start drinking heavily if Pete Hegseth becomes Secretary of Defense.

Jeff Bezos and I were both in the news today. Bezos is making nice with Trump. Kash Patel has said that I am an enemy of the GOP. He owns the Washington Post. I founded Democracy Docket. Both rely on paid subscriptions. Which do you want to support? www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

If Pete Hegseth has nothing to hide, he should release his accuser from her non-disclosure agreement.

77 million Americans voted for a rapist felon who tried to overthrow our democracy but was duly elected president again because our justice system and leaders failed us. It doesn’t get any easier to swallow that fact. But giving up is not an option. Keep your spirits up. This ain’t over.

"Pete Hegseth faces a tough road to win confirmation to lead the Pentagon amid Republican concerns about past allegations of misconduct and questions about whether he can do the job, according to multiple GOP senators." via @mkraju.bsky.social www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Ah yes, Elon’s mom, the expert on federal bureaucracy.

Cohen: You’ve heard me say it: when China invades Taiwan… He’s going to see this like the olden days of kings, when it was all about amassing land. I said he was going to take over Canada, and then after Canada, he’s going to roll the military into Mexico, and the new borders will be the shoreline.

“Boulos is a friend of Suleiman Frangieh, a Christian ally of Hezbollah and its candidate for Lebanon’s presidency” Imagine if Biden had appointed as MidEast adviser a guy with connections to Hezbollah: the GOP and Fox would have lost their minds!

Joe Biden dressed down the DOJ for backing out of the Hunter plea deal under political pressure. If you look close enough you can see "F you, Merrick Garland" written between the lines. More on this on Jen Taub LIVE. Subscribe (for free), and tap the notification bell so you don't miss

When your MAGA uncle wonders why Trump is threatening tariffs and raising the prices of everything, after he repeatedly promised to do the opposite, look him straight in the eye and gently whisper: "It was never about you...and now he doesn't need you anymore"

I don’t know who all broke all those shopping records yesterday, but it certainly couldn’t have been all those people mad at eggs.

“In June, Boulos told the Associated Press that he is a ‘friend’ of Sleiman Frangieh, a Christian politician allied with the Shiite party and the militant group Hezbollah. The group has endorsed Frangieh’s bid to become the next Lebanese president.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Amidst the delirious joy with which msm covers its normalization of the Trump regime's preparations for authoritarian rule it would be helpful if they might press for the truth about Trump's supposed bullet wound that healed miraculously without so much as a scab.

I did a deep dive into Kash Patel back when I was at MSNBC, in case you’re interested. He’s a deeply strange and alarming and sycophantic figure (do you all know about the children’s book?)

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin on Kash Patel: "The Senate should reject this unprecedented effort to weaponize the FBI for the campaign of retribution that Donald Trump has promised."

69 poultry premises in Canada 🇨🇦 are currently affected by H5N1 bird flu outbreaks, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

The dream team for an authoritarian regime! Starting at power forward…

Nichols: You have the makings of a not so slow motion authoritarian takeover of the United States government. And people ought to be really concerned about this.

Kash Patel has openly expressed his plans to “come after” journalists he doesn’t like. He is for retribution, not justice. This is from my book, #RoughBeast:

Yep, everyone should stop buying Teslas.

As the unthinkable nominees like Hegseth, RFK Jr, Oz, Gabbard, and now Patel pile up, the math could well turn inside out from sheer fatigue just as double negatives become positives . . .

We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Mr. Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped…. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/u...

Jesus H. Christ

If Trump wanted to arrest a Mayor or Governor, he could find an aggressive prosecutor willing to pull the trigger. But it would be very difficult making those charges stick, given all of the defenses available. Mayors and Governors have the means to mount an aggressive defense.