How many millions of our tax dollars are they going to be paid for refusing to show up for a deposition?

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson.

Eligible to be paid with your money after storming the Capitol and breaking into Nancy Pelosi’s office.

Slush Fund Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org

Just so we're clear, when he talks about "the most violent thing" he's ever seen in politics, he's *not* talking about those who violently attacked the Capitol in his name, while violently clashing with police officers. He's instead talking about efforts to hold them and their allies accountable.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Happy 250th!

WHAT

NORMAN yoo

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul”

Possum jar in the works

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

Paying for parking at a hospital really ties the whole American healthcare experience together.

This is how you deal with trash

Everything about the $1.8 billion fund is ludicrous but don’t ignore the irony of blue states being forced to pay for bullshit “weaponization” claims as the government is being weaponized against them. Gift link:

"Trump is trying to create a new status quo where his single say-so is enough to overturn the will of two thirds of Congress on all spending matters. It’s un-American. It’s emperor stuff. If they had a shred of dignity left, they’d impeach the son of a bitch today." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Climate change compounding with Philly problems (old buildings, under-resourced city…ugh).

This is one way they’re going to try to disrupt the midterms. Either real armed magats showing up or phoned in bomb threats. Best be ready to handle such situations in advance and have fallbacks.

Oh yeah Texas is an urban state in denial tbqh

remarkable timing of him given this also dropped today: www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...

Whether it’s Ken Paxton committing multiple felonies or James Talarico ordering a vegetarian taco, both Texas Senate candidates have troubled pasts.

Trump actively values his underlings being criminals, because it binds them inextricably to him. That's why he chose Paxton.

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

Houston area folks: Looking for a last hurrah for crawfish season? Want to support free mental health access for Houston's food and beverage workers? Boy, do I have the event for you! Tickets at www.illhavewhatsheshaving.org/upcoming-eve...

Some were hit, but lived. They describe the blast hitting first with scorching heat. Then came ash: choking, blinding, burying. Jim Scymanky, working above Hoffstadt Creek with his crew thinning trees, was thrown to the ground and pinned by debris.

The first thing noticed after the blast passed: silence. Then—ash, everywhere. When the cloud lifts, observers see it: The summit is gone. A mile-wide crater gapes where the peak once stood.

I feel for the Quinn Emmanuel associates who are going to be tasked to hide in the jurors’ shrubbery watching for misconduct that could form a basis to attack the verdict

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

Reality: It sank. My head: civilization of advanced octopuses.

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

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In a sane world, we'd be discussing giving a million dollars to Jeffrey Epstein's victims and not to the traitors on January 6.

Buttercups at dawn. Taken this morning in Glastonbury.

Mt St Helens May 18, 1980 I just cannot imagine what seeing this would've been like. The person who took this photo had to abandon their car and escape with the motorcycle. 📸Richard Lasher

Imagine using $1.7 billion to address hunger, housing, education, and medical care. Imagine using $1.7 billion to address the wage gap and the lack of resources for survivors of violence and abuse. We should never look at these ideas as too radical or impossible again.

Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Living his best life 🎉🎈 TT: finn_e_bear

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Trump just walked away from a 61-year-old treaty that powers nearly 40% of America's hydroelectricity. And Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, isn't blinking. He isn't calling. He isn't asking for a do-over. He's letting Trump face the consequences of his own stupid actions..

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.

The bag of coffee I buy every week -- whose price fluctuated between $7.99 and $9.99 for about a decade, but never went higher -- was $15.99 when I went to the store today.

Also fuck Mike Johnson for saying politicians can't survive off $175k salaries but they expect citizens to live off $40k or $7.25 an hour. Fuck all the way off

Well. you can't say FIFA doesn't know how to Dallas properly. They came to town and immediately destroyed a beloved downtown mural painted in 1999 by a revered artist. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Good for Seligman.

Mike Johnson thinks $174,000 isn’t enough to survive without insider trading. But $15/hour is too much to ask for everyone else. Every single day, these goons prove how disconnected they are from everyday Americans.

John Winthrop's "City on a Hill" sermon, if he even delivered it, which is questionable, meant pretty much the opposite of what Rubio suggests. What he meant was, if we mess this up, which we very much might do, then God will open up an extra-large can of smiting whoop-ass on us.

I can't believe we're just unapologetically telling this "God-ordained Manifest Destiny" white Christian nationalist fairy tale from the highest offices in the land in the year 2026. BRB, working on a musical about this era in US history that will be entitled The Frederick Jackson Turner Diaries.

I'm not sure if folks outside the state have caught this yet, but these are the people who think their best move against Jim Talarico is to imply that HE is weird.

Yes, we really live in a universe where the government thinks it’s normal to argue in court that Plaintiffs suffer from a made-up “mental health” syndrome. Somehow, this is now what the U.S. government thinks passes as legal reasoning.