That George W Bush stays quiet as PEPFAR is gutted means he loses the one claim to decency he had.

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda ‘emergency’ of international concern

The surge in cases marks the 17th Ebola outbreak in the Congo since 1976.

At this point, journalists who still persist in declining to talk about racism and cruelty as key GOP motivators are essentially colluding in writing fiction about the present state of politics and of the country.

They have to be willing to admit they made mistakes re: Trump & gop policies. Not holding my breath

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

But will he finally grow a semblance of a spine now that he’s a lame duck with little left to lose? I’m not holding my breath.

Teachers and schools are expected to fill every gap created by the evisceration of social services in this country, even as they're being fiscally strangled themselves. Schools are food banks, community clinics, de facto counseling ctrs..and then blamed when all those problems continue to worsen

Shameless. This administration has no one who has any sense of shame. The first Trump term taught us that American institutions only work if people have a sense of shame. These second term people make the first term people seem honorable, and Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo were first termers.

Sign. Show up. Share the receipts. fixitfedex.com Tennessee is fighting. The South is fighting. If they take our government, we’ll rock our economy. Let’s get to work.

89 million people did not vote in 2024. 14 million of them were Black. These maps are not being redrawn because we lost. These maps are being redrawn because if even a fraction of those 89 million show up, the people running this country today do not run it tomorrow.

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There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Happy day, enough tomatoes from #containerGarden to make a caprese salad for lunch Flowers from garden 🌱 #FlowerReport #Gardening #CoastalSouthTexas

Let’s not pretend this is complicated theology. It is not. You cannot stand in front of a golden statue built to glorify a political leader, surround it with preachers, bless it, praise it and then act shocked that the rest of us might consider it a false idol. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Incredible organizing in Wisconsin. Check out this story.

Up next, 2 Tennessee women who are fighting book bans #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

Hey, trumpers...this is what you voted for.

great piece. please read if you have a moment: presswatchers.org/2026/05/its-...

At least five people pardoned by Trump for Capitol attack accused of new crimes

h) weaponizing the department of justice, making more Americans threatened i) building concentration camps and treating people inhumanely j) giving secrets and selling weapon systems to countries that bribes the President k) hiring foreign agents in key national security spots (Flynn, Gabbard)

e) undermining the effectiveness of the US military by appointing a Christian nationalist to head it and by relentlessly politicizing it f) undermining American energy security by ditching investments in alternatives to fossil fuel g) capriciously using law enforcement against innocent people

So much projection. Trump is the one who is treasonous: betraying a country in so many ways. a) launching an incredibly ill-planned and unnecessary war b) undermining the security of allies by not warning them of said war c) threatening allies due to greed for territory d) abandoning good deals

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Commentators constantly overlook Trumpism's deep-rooted, fundamental misogyny. From the Access Hollywood tape to TradCath influencers to Andrew Tate to incels to Nick Fuentes to Dobbs to Douglas Wilson, it has all been out in the open. Sexism is a core precept of Trumpism.

Literally the entire FBI clearly loathes Kash and is trying desperately to get him fired lol

Flowers love the recent rains 🌱 #FlowerReport #CoastalSouthTexas

Fascinating long thread about the disability use-case for Meta glasses and its broader implications.

Dusk approaching in #CoastalSouthTexas yesterday evening. Oak trees & bougainvillea & ruffled hibiscus blooms 🌱 #FlowerReport

"Did you agree to put forth these proposals for rule changes while you were having discussions about your possible promotion? Yes or no" -- Rep. Maxwell Frost flusters by ATF Director Robert Cekada by grilling him on same question over and over until he actually gets a response

Overall, of the roughly 700K Georgians who have voted so far, 55% have picked the Dem ballot and 44% the GOP ballot. This could matter, of course, to the judicial elections happening in the state. (boltsmag.org/georgia-supr...)

Remarkably heavy turnout from Democrats in Georgia today. Today alone, roughly 50,000 people went to vote in the Democratic primary, while roughly 35,500 voted in the GOP primary. (1300 just voted in the nonpartisan races.) That's a turnout advantage of 16 percentage points today.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

BREAKING: Hill County just proved Texans aren’t powerless. When local people stood up, they hit pause on a 300-acre data center, joining Athens, Killeen, San Marcos, and Wichita Falls in pushing back. If Hill County can fight back, the rest of Texas can too.

& undoubtedly the truest thing he’s ever uttered.

It's not just that the FBI director is acting like a spoiled child; he keeps repeating the dumb lie that Van Hollen was "drinking margaritas with a felon" when he visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As a reminder, it was a stunt from the El Salvador regime, who put sugar-rimmed glasses on the table.

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

I solved the 5/12/2026 New York Times Mini Crossword in 0:47!

Once again, they insisted Obama was a narcissist because he used the pronoun "I" in speeches too much. But this? This is fine.

If Obama or Biden had called the White House a “shithouse,” right-wing media would have screamed about nothing else for months and the GOP would have said they’re traitors.

…committing their time and energy to Trump’s ethnic cleansing program. Stephen Miller is still there. Don’t be fooled

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Q: What do you say to infectious disease experts who are worried the country isn't prepared to deal with something like hantavirus because of all the HHS funding and staffing cuts? TRUMP: Doc, you want to answer that? DR OZ: It's just not true. Secretary Kennedy is involved.

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Black history reaches farther than most people imagine — including the Arctic Circle. Long before the U.S. bought Alaska, Black whalers were already there. True story, fam. Pull up a seat.🪑(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Pro-European, center-right Péter Magyar has been sworn in as Hungary's prime minister. The EU flag was raised on the parliament building in Budapest for the first time since Viktor Orbán's authoritarian government removed it in 2014.

Seeing the massive amounts of capital expended in the last few years gives you a chance to see what our elites would do if they thought fighting climate change could be as profitable as putting every living artist out of work.

Trump's billion-dollar ballroom is now so toxic that some vulnerable House Republicans don't want to vote on it. This is important, because to Trump/MAGA, the ballroom represents a potent symbol of his imperial/dictatorial presidency. 1/ (new piece from me) newrepublic.com/article/2101...

But I love how Roberts is trying to mansplain the legal system to all of us. We disagree with him, so obviously, we don't understand the complexities of the law. Or his genius.