The decision by Vance to withhold over $1 billion in Medicaid payments owed to California-made with scant evidence that the state is refusing to investigate fraud-will harm thousands of Americans It’s hard NOT to believe this is a politically motivated decision

Prove me wrong, humans! Prove me wrong.

That's balance issues.

MIN: Do you know how much new energy China put online last year? BURGUM: Intermittent or base load? M: 543 GW. How much was renewable? 434 GW. B: But only when the sun is shining M: Meanwhile, the US put up 53 GW of new energy last year - less than 10% of China. You're harming our natl security

NEGUSE: My understanding is a no bid contract is reserved for situations involving serious injury. What's the injury w/the reflecting pool? BURGUM: 19 fountains didn't work NEGUSE: That's the serious injury!? And who picked this company? Trump said 'I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing pools'

A congressional investigation estimates broker breaches have cost consumers $20 billion in identity theft. Major brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out of their databases.

The kids know what time it is. And they’re rigging the maps because they know they can’t stop time. ⏰

Renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are nearly $12 million over Trump’s initial budget and the White House ballroom could cost $1.4 billion, up from $200 million.

Great news! One concentration camp closed but many more to go. youtube.com/shorts/X3sKs...

Top Republicans Don't Want To Talk About The DOJ Paying Trump $10 Billion House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune told HuffPost they're not familiar with Trump's efforts to boost his compensation www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The honest version of this post would note that these are white Republicans trying to eliminate the district of the state's only Black US rep. You cannot tell this story properly without headlining the racism.

this fuckin guy

This is collective punishment, denying benefits to the most vulnerable when they have done nothing wrong.

Linux distros are rolling out patches for a new high-severity kernel privilege escalation vulnerability (known as Fragnasia and tracked as CVE-2026-46300) that allows attackers to run malicious code as root.

Renewables made up 85.6% of last year’s new global power capacity additions. Each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days.

Rachel Maddow nailed it: the secret geniuses behind “Epic Furious” dropped the ultimate anti-tRump arcade game roasting his Iran war disaster—Diet Coke orders, Epstein file bonfires, & Vance taking cognitive tests in Tehran. tRump’s a walking punchline. Satire is resistance. mcsp.short.gy/IfxC

McGovern: I think Trump is seriously ill. He needs medical attention. There needs to be an intervention from his family or someone in his cabinet—I would say some of the Republicans here, but they don’t have the balls to confront him on anything.

House Democrats secured the necessary signatures to bypass Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on a package of Russia sanctions and billions of dollars in Ukraine aid. This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used to do an end-run around GOP leadership.

Roslyn Carter once said Ronald Reagan, "makes people comfortable with their prejudices." Trump didn't create MAGA, he just brought it out from under its white sheet and put a red hat on it.

White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says anyone asking how the Iran War isn't another forever war is "either low-T" or "mentally challenged"

Imagine just... lying like this. Blatantly.

[looks up his actual credentials] oh yeah that's super not impressive

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.

Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.

"Rep. Nancy Mace defends South Carolina Republicans' push to redraw the state's congressional map and reveals to Laura Coates that the White House provided state lawmakers with a proposed "7-0" Republican map." 📺 www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/p...

The gothic genre, known for its queer roots, is a useful framing in understanding how climate change is haunting us, even when it shows up in beautiful forms.

Diplomacy is theater with consequences. China studies symbolism obsessively. Trump showing up to a geopolitical pressure cooker with a reality-show caravan of family members, loyalists, influencers, and donors is the most cringe shit they could have possibly done. An absolute fucking embarrassment

Unfortunately, the #EpsteinFiles are undeniable. It’s too big of an atrocity to be ignored. So we now as a country have to face the reckoning between “this isn’t who we are” and “is this who we always have been?”

These stats Kash throws around are as phony as he is.

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

CNN split screen of Trump saying he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation and Vance claiming that Trump didn’t say that. 🙄😎

There’s a staggering loophole in Georgia law that seems to say that, if a justice loses reelection, they could resign and cancel the election post facto. One of the 2 justices on the May ballot told Bolts they won’t do that. The other (=a Justice who upheld that loophole in 2020) didn’t answer.

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.

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...)

It is indeed totally nuts. But as much as I want it to be otherwise, it really has a lot to do with inertia and lack of ability to understand what is going on.

How Epstein made Peter Thiel www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfW...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Essential tremor IS really common, and most of the time doesn't lead to dementia. I'm not out here defending Susan Collins, but don't use this framing that people with essential tremor are doomed and can't be trusted with important work.

73-year-old Senator Susan Collins’ medical condition carries a 300% higher risk of dementia, a peer-reviewed medical journal found: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-is-sus...

Part of the thinking around this whole trial is that Elon did it to embarrass Sam, but hard to think of anything more embarrassing for Elon than "he had a plan to turn OpenAI into a hereditary monarchy"

I don't think it's "Bluesky" that is the "net negative." It's the fact that the global social media ecosystem is entirely enshittified and captured by the far right. If Bluesky didn't exist I would still not be on Meta platforms or X.

Ppl staying on X makes those ppl more Right Wing. Being on Bsky helps libs. But no social media site or anything else has been done yet to get institutions or pols to listen to liberals. So there's little overall effect on U.S. politics. theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...

In terms of "who moved first" I think we have to squarely place the blame on X. It was my "home platform" and while it took a lot to pry me off it, but the data is very clear. Exhibit A below.

Exhibit B below. I recognize that trolls are a feature rather than a bug, on Twitter, and I have a thick skin and a hefty blocking finger. But after the algo changes, I would have 10x more truly offensive and hateful comments on a single post. bsky.app/profile/kath...

And let's not give Meta a pass on this. Their largely undiscussed algo changes implemented immediately after the US federal election effectively tanked climate engagement on that platform. I was posting identical content on both platforms before/after the election and the difference was STARK.

Bottom line: 1. For profit social media was already incentivized to amplify fringe voices to boost engagement 2. In 2025, most owners picked a political side & tweaked their algos accordingly 3. The resulting diversification of platforms has enhanced the bubble effect which boosts polarization 😱

“Multiple others were recruited from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, allegedly during the many years of friendship between the now-president and Epstein. They included Virginia Giuffre, who worked as a spa attendant at the age of 16 in 2000, when she said she was recruited by Maxwell …”

A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project. He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. He thought it was good for the environment. Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized. These people have power over your life.