A very effective retort. And it explains why Paxton is mortified at the idea of having to debate Talarico, just as he was afraid to debate Cornyn.

Boycott Uline, a shipping supplies company owned by the Uihlein family. When you buy their products, you're financing right-wing cruelty and corruption.

www.newsweek.com/erin-brockov... @newsweek.com

"NJ Governor Sherrill says she’s been denied entry into Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark... Roughly 300 detainees had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions they describe as inhumane." DHS denies the strike is happening. 🎥 from @nj.com: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxIJaO...

Many institutions, including NYU Langone, have already complied and stopped providing such care.

Persephone and her nemesis

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

So let’s get something straight about the unhoused: California is expected to carry a massive share of America’s homelessness crisis, then gets mocked for struggling under the weight of a problem that clearly extends far beyond Los Angeles. 🧵

The judge told the abusive prosecutor “you are significantly undercutting your mea culpa here by standing behind the charges and continuing to vilify these particular defendants” and said sanctions could be warranted. slate.trib.al/gRNjCkS

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Bari Weiss offered Anderson Cooper a bigger role at CBS News, but he chose to leave 60 Minutes instead. "I'd prefer less rather than more of you." It's a hard message to miss. I'll say it again: She had no detectable experience in broadcast news. Hers was a political hire. From @status.news:

NEW: After Tennessee botched the execution of Tony Carruthers this morning — leading Gov. Bill Lee to issue him a one year reprieve of execution — the U.S. Supreme Court, with no noted dissents, gave Florida the go-ahead to try and kill Richard Knight later today.

FLASH: GOP SENATORS LEAVING FOR RECESS WITHOUT VOTE ON BUDGET BILL AMID FUROR OVER $1776 MILLION DOJ FUND, BALLROOM

BREAKING: In a win for Maine and Wisconsin voters, federal courts ruled that the DOJ cannot obtain access to the states’ unredacted voter data. The DOJ is now 0-8 in its legal effort seeking access to such information. Full story to come.

We need to take this "nihilistic hate" jargon and throw it in the trash. Definitionally, it means nothing. Law enforcement is only interested in it because it helps them obscure right-wing extremist violence. The public finds the concept offensive. Just drop it, imo www.cbsnews.com/news/san-die...

In 2024, 6,300 people were killed or injured by landmines and explosive remnants of war, according to the Landmine Monitor. Behind every number is a person, a life interrupted, and a family forced to rebuild in the face of unimaginable change. Read more: ms.spr.ly/63329vrJvZ

NEW: Records released tonight show that Reynolds, makers of Vuse vapes, gave $5 Million to MAGA Inc. days before the FDA wrote a policy that could allow them to make millions selling flavored vapes. Via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death. We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

“Up to 70% of rooms reserved by Fifa in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle have been cancelled, the AHLA said” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Please send this message to Schumer and Jeffries. Call them. Keep calling all your reps and senators and ask them to impeach AND introduce legislation to dissolve this fund.

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

Donald Trump should be on the hook to restore the East Wing out of his own pocket. He tore it down based on a unilateral decision; our tax dollars should not have to pay for this shit. And I know I’m not the only one suspecting the real plan is to never leave.

BREAKING: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn & MPD Officer Hodges are suing to block the $1.8B “weaponization” slush fund.

So if you or I cheat on our taxes, we could spend time behind bars. But if Trump... or his kids... or his businesses cheat on their taxes, the law doesn't apply. This is insane & beyond corrupt. DOJ works for the American people, NOT Donald Trump.

Make Public Schools Great Again

The Biden Administration also wronged me, and I will now apply to Trump's "slush fund" and demand millions of dollars. I recommend that every American flood the system. Thanks @muellershewrote.com for the tip. I am no longer a silent victim!

Fascinating how the Trump Administration always gets its inspiration from the Nazis...

Do not be fooled into thinking Trump is all-powerful. The truth is he's never been weaker — and America is on track to deliver him a historic midterm rebuke.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans just voted AGAINST my amendment to stop Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund from bailing out the convicted felons who assaulted cops on January 6th. You read that right. They blocked us from even debating the issue on the House floor. Beyond shameful.

Graham has helpfully informed us that the Epstein files contain something capable of destroying the President of the United States. We await the explanation of why this is an argument for keeping them sealed rather than an argument for releasing them immediately.

DESTROY TRUMP. BRING IT ON. RELEASE THE FILES!

Is... is this a blanket retrospective self-pardon for federal crimes that is trying not to call itself that? It is *not* limited to the IRS or to tax evasion/ fraud.

Community members detained at Adelanto’s Desert View Annex have begun a hunger strike over inhumane conditions. 🫂 They’re demanding due process, medical care, and an end to inhumane conditions, while already facing neglect. Detention centers must be shut down now! #ShutDownAdelanto #NoDetentions

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Over the past year, I all but disappeared from social media. I all but disappeared. Period. I stopped answering messages and returning phone calls. I talked to almost no one. I barely left the house. I stopped doing just about everything other than walking.  That… I did a lot. 1/

San Diego law enforcement officers have responded to reports of an active shooter situation near the Islamic Center of San Diego in Clairemont Mesa.

What makes this moment historically significant is not simply the scale of protest, but what it reveals about the collapsing legitimacy of institutional neutrality inside the global art world. READ MY LATEST BELOW 👇

There is absolutely no reason for prediction markets to exist. None.

Trump had no clue…& his royal entourage with no diplomatic experience likely had no clue, either. You know what? @radiofreetom.bsky.social was right. Experts ARE important. 🙄

Please take a moment Juniper Blessing only 19. A beautiful & amazing young woman! We must not let ourTrans Sisters and Brothers be put on the back burner TRANS GENDER PEOPLE ARE 4 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE VICTIMS OF CRIME Please stand up to TRANS HATE Please be an ally For Juniper & all

MAHA? Make America Healthy Again? Beef up 14%. Fruit & veggies up 6.5%. Groceries just had their WORST month in 4 years. You can’t eat healthy when you can’t afford food. Trump’s war. Trump’s prices. Our pain. #WeCantAffordTrump

What’s up, San Francisco?

🚨🚨 MORE INFO ON THIS SMART SWEET BEAUTIFUL GENTLE HUSKY IN NEED OF A HOME

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Alabama jailed a woman for endangering her fetus. Then jail staff forced her to give birth in a cell with only other incarcerated women coming to aid her and her baby, according to a lawsuit.