NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.

Incredible performance by David Byrne on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Dance, Stephen, Dance!

I love this interview. Where is Barbara Walter’s when you need her?

Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

“Can you even call Tennessee a democracy if people in the 2 largest cities don’t have representation?” (nope!) @brotherjones.bsky.social & @timmiller.bsky.social 🧢🫡on Republicans stripping Memphis/Nashville’s representation on orders from Stephen Miller/Trump.

The Women Are Taking Charge Over ICESTAPO's Plans To Loiter Around Polling Stations.......

The Entire Chump Family Should Be Arrested, Tried And Convicted, Of Enriching Themselves, During Don The Con's Time In Office......

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Why the secrecy, and why til 2028? Blatant corruption. The main agreement indicated that claims would largely be handed out in secrecy. The fund would stop processing claims no later than Dec. 1, 2028, just weeks before Mr. Trump is scheduled to leave office. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

So true: "In the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.." “By its very existence, the fund encourages those who enacted violence in the president’s name to continue to do so,” the lawsuit says.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel money to his criminal allies. He will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before.

The decisions made by state supreme courts touch every part of our lives. And that’s especially important when voting rights and basic freedoms are being challenged. Today voters in Georgia can stand up for fairness and integrity by electing Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan to Georgia’s Supreme Court.

Perhaps Massie should run in November as an Independent.

The Right needs new talking points and a check on their California Derangement Syndrome. California is the top-performing economy in the US. We dominate in EVERY category — from manufacturing to venture capital, engineering, and research. We are writing the rules of the future.

Mr. Zeldin is reversing positions he took as a member of Congress from Long Island, where the drinking water is heavily polluted with PFAS. As House member from 2019 to 2023, Zeldin was part of the PFAS congressional task force and to regulate forever chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/c...

I miss having a President of the United States.

Trump sued his own government to pay himself $10 billion in taxpayer funds. He even said: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself." It's not strange. It's corrupt.

This is an excellent profile of a Christian nationalist sociopath.

"The federal government is, by far, the world’s most important source of data,.. on a wide range of subjects touching almost every aspect of human life. This video tells the story of the Trump administration’s war on data - and the consequences for all of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

This is utterly batshit crazy. FFS it's way past the time of some 25th amendment. He belongs in some mental institution babbling away every day. Absolutely he is projecting. His every accusation is a confession. Thank you for your attention to this matter, LOL!!

More corruption: Last summer, Kash Patel capped a whirlwind South Pacific trip with a snorkel trip in Hawaii. A former senior official who has hired agents said Ms. Wilkins’s Nashville detail — two SUVs and four agents — costs about $1 million a year,.. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

Great writing: OpenAI’s lawyer asked one question that his writing couldn’t answer: How did it feel to have everyone reading his journal? “Well, it’s very painful,” he said. “But,” he added, “there’s nothing in there that I’m ashamed of.” www.tovima.com/wsj/the-secr...

The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism. It's Jim Crow 2.0.

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.”

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

"He acknowledged that defying the president carried risks.. 'That’s a possibility, if not a likelihood, and I’m comfortable with that, because my conscience is clear,' Mr. Massey said." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

It's a moral outrage that we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

Mayor Karen Bass

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

So true!!!

The Flower Moon rises over Manhattan skyline in a stunning astronomical spectacle

There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.

Two photos. Same room. Same flags. Same astronauts. In one, the President stands with them, smiling, centered, human. In the other, the President sits scowling, rambling, diminished. Four astronauts. Two presidents. And the faces tell you everything.

Projected benefits cut between 20-24%. This doesn's bode well for ordinary folks like me. I can only imagine how it will be for people with less resources when this happens. I wish rich people and corporations are more generous and pay their fare share of taxes. www.crfb.org/blogs/waitin...

Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

The Trump administration is demanding access to the health records of millions of federal workers including prescriptions, diagnoses, and doctor visits. The Office of Personnel Management has asked 65 insurance companies for detailed data on how federal employees use their health benefits.

“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social

When a King and direct descendent of King George III has to remind the American government about the utmost importance of checks and balances, you know we're in deep trouble.