NEW: ICE violently arrested a US citizen, filmed high-res videos of the operation + made viral social media content out of him Christian Cerna, LA native, speaks out about his arrest at gunpoint while driving his baby + toddler and the turmoil in his life that followed "They tried to humiliate me"

The Intel chair hasn’t read the treaty. If he had, he’d know there’s only been one time NATO was required to help the U.S. and that was after 9/11. And they did.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

It’s crazy that the world’s richest dork can blast out racist filth to a hundred million people, is given the power by our government to execute on that dream, and will still be covered in the business page as a superstar business lord with a sizzling IPO coming.

“.. the show has provoked a public spat with Duffy’s predecessor over high gas prices, and drawn an ethics complaint to the Transportation Department’s internal watchdog.” @wsj.com #$BA www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Kaine: "The administration is refusing to allow members of this committee to see the OLC opinion stating the legal case for war. We've always that ability. We're being asked to fund a $1.5t budget. What are they hiding?"

Republicans make us pay more for gas, groceries, and a multitude of other things, make us pay for their wars and bombing campaigns, want us to pay for Trump’s ballroom, and now want us to pay $1.7 billion to “compensate” convicted J6 criminals he pardoned. Vote them all out.

The United States is being gutted. It’s intentional.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

Through twilight-hour shifts, President Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp supplies the president with stacks of printed-out drafts and awaits his approval before hitting post. Her work has included posts of the Obamas as apes and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ. trib.al/qySE74R

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

NEW: The Supreme Court has frequently admonished lower courts for intervening too close to elections but is now facing accusations that it is doing exactly that in a way that helps Republicans draw new districts at breakneck speed: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters

William Paul, the son of Sen. Rand Paul, drunkenly hurled antisemitic insults at Republican Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar “Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.” “Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said.

Mockler: He took office and spiked 2.9% inflation, up to 3.8%. Gas prices are up to $4.50 in most states, and he did this all while stripping insurance away from 10 million Americans. I think the most impressive part is the deficit hasn't decreased at all.

BURGUM: I'm thrilled Americans are paying about a buck less for gas than they did during the Biden administration. That's exciting HUFFMAN: There's a real disconnect here. Americans are not celebrating this spike in gas prices, and your only answer is to harken back to the depths of the pandemic

“Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on," Rep. Pearson said. Fascist reprisals for protesting.

‘I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,’ says Trump amid Iran talks

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

I was a defendant in Trump’s frivolous lawsuit. I did not settle. I did not compromise. I did not stop speaking out. We fought and won.

This Washington Post Opinions podcast episode has 470 views on YouTube.

This is collective punishment, which violates the constitutional framework of nearly every nation on Earth, including the United States. At least, it is until the current Christian White Nationalist supermajority of the Supreme Court decide to legalise it in the face of centuries of precedent.

fish in a barrel for Chotiner on this one but I had a good laugh at this part of the exchange www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

PATTY MURRAY: We need someone at this agency who is focused on solving criminal cases, not passing out branded bourbon or jetting around the globe. Your job is to be reachable. If you want to pass out liquor or pop bottles in a locker room, stick to podcasting. KASH PATEL: *crashes out*

Today, Trump admitted he doesn't care about Americans' financial situations. Watch our new ad:

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

VAN HOLLEN: The article says agents with expertise in Iran were fired for their role in the classified documents investigations PATEL: The article, just like all the others you cited, is false. I terminated everyone that weaponized law enforcement V: I see. So it *was* related to the docs case

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

Saying the quiet part out loud when the CPI numbers just came out indicating we are experiencing inflation. This man is completely out of touch with reality. Trump says he’s not thinking about Americans’ finances ‘even a little bit’ in Iran talks www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Donald Trump just said it himself: He doesn't care about the American people.

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

🧵 by @harryjsisson.bsky.social

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation" 175 more days until you get to vote against this and every Republican who enabled it to go on this long.

Yesterday's 6–3 Supreme Court order ushering in a racist Alabama gerrymander broke two promises that Alito made *12 days earlier* in Callais and shamelessly broke the court's own (bogus) rule against late intervention in an ongoing election. slate.com/news-and-pol...

They are called entitlements because you are *entitled* to the money you paid over the years towards Social Security and Medicare. Unlike the over $38 billion Elon Musk slopped up from the government trough over the past two decades in contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits. #IgnorantSmucks

Breaking News: U.S. inflation shot up to a 3.8% annual rate in April, as the war in Iran raised energy prices and costs across the country.

“I don’t think about anybody” is a wild sentence for the president to utter

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

A record 70% of Americans now disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, per a new CNN poll.

Trump: I don't think about Americans' financial situation

I, too, am old enough to remember when the entire National Conversation™️ focused on the need for Democrats to Tone Down The Rhetoric because of fears about Political Violence.

A ballroom he promised taxpayers wouldn't pay for. A wall he promised Mexico would. And now a no-bid contract for a favored pool contractor costing taxpayers millions more. Trump's art of the deal is, and always will be, a scam.

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

Over on Xitter, @harryjsisson.bsky.social (who seems not to post here anymore) catalogued one part of Trump's batshit meltdown overnight. Note how many of them focus on Trump's 2016 conspiracies, which are probably responses to Brennan and Comey appearing on MSNOW.

A rare perfect work of satire. “We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots“ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

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

Trump is about to hit REM sleep on camera in the Oval

Trump is struggling to stay conscious on camera in the Oval Office again today

This administration is engaged in an all-out war against free speech, and everyone who pretended that conservatives were "pro-free speech" needs to take several seats and reflect on why they were so easily duped (or complicit). www.science.org/content/arti...