We have a winner.

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

The total value of Trump’s transactions in the first three months of this year—again, $750 million—is higher than the value of all trades by all 535 members of the House and Senate combined in an average year. www.thebulwark.com/p/trader-in-...

to recap: this crypto exchange has helped finance the Iranian military that has killed 13 Americans in the war Trump started Trump pardoned the exchange's criminal founder after the guy put money in his pocket www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Reading one of the most important books I will read this year. Got it yesterday will finish it today. I want to encourage all to read it to better understand how we can deal with political liars. Andrew has answers!

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

Short-run discomfort ≠ long-run harm.⁣ ⁣ Phone bans make students feel worse at first — then better. By year two, well-being rebounds above baseline. Turns out kids (like all of us) just needed time to adapt.

Who else signed the crooked Trump Family Tax Amnesty? Only Trump’s stooge Blanche? Representing who? Who represented Trumps in the amnesty scam? Inquiring minds want to know.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Gov. Newsom @governor.ca.gov sounds the alarm: "Our democracy is in real peril right now."

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.

The modern United States has experienced 11 recessions. Ten have happened under Republican presidents. This isn’t a coincidence. They screw things up because they try to impose a fairy tale on the country. trib.al/a8oDeWy

Two things are for sure - we will eventually remove his name from every building he's so grossly slapped it on and we will keep demanding he release all the Epstein files. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

NEW: Trump is one step closer to creating a giant slush fund of taxpayer dollars for his MAGA buddies. This is corruption on steroids.

the corruption is staggering -- Trump bought the stock a couple weeks prior to this 2/27 *TRUMP: GO OUT AND BUY DELL COMPUTERS

A bedrock principle of America’s founding was religious freedom, not a national religion. Theocracy is the stuff of ISIS. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

"I argue here that this three-pronged assault constitutes the most antidemocratic and morally reactionary series of judicial acts in the Court's history." https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/callais-caps-the-roberts-courts-comprehensive

The Civil War ended 161 years ago. The South lost, slavery was abolished and Black voices soon had the right to be heard as citizens and voters. This Supreme Court and numerous southern states may still try to change that--as if their Lost Cause remains righteous--but we can stop their immoral wish.

While average Americans are hurting with inflation and a slowing economy, somehow corporations are able to raise their earnings.

"The filibuster disproportionately impacts Democrats because Republicans generally want tax cuts and judicial appointments, which the current filibuster does not affect. So it doesn’t cut into what Republicans want, but very much affects the reforms Democrats would like to make."

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, holding spending level while closing a $12 billion deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit year over year by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

At least 15 former elected officials and co-conspirators with corruption offenses have been pardoned by President Trump in the last year, undermining the fight against public corruption.

Waste, fraud, and abuse in the flesh. Donald Trump wants to settle his joke lawsuit against his own IRS department to hand out $1.7 BILLION of OUR TAX DOLLARS to Jan. 6th insurrectionists and his cronies.

BofA: A blended average of wage, fuel & commodity costs implies the Food at Home CPI could accelerate to 8%

Insider trading is against the law. We're going to need advances in quantum computing to keep track of all the crimes Trump and his Republican cronies are commiting.

The President admits he does not think about "Americans’ financial situation."

When I heard the theory that the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak originated at a landfill in Argentina that is popular with birders, I had questions. I visited that dump on a bird-watching trip last year. It seemed like an unlikely infection site. So I did some digging. Here's what I found out 🧪 🪶

Release all the Epstein files already, this is getting crazy!

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Do people not understand the difference between policy and politics? Policy is what you do, and politics is what you say so you can have a chance to do policy. For instance, does anyone actually believe that Obama really "evolved" on the issue of gay marriage? 😂

If Democrats can't win by enough to retake the House, despite the setback in Virginia, then there are bigger problems.

It’s actually very difficult to keep a distance from all this rather than be hardened to it — to remind yourself this man is a demented freak, that his followers are shitbird cultists, that his aims and the aims of his supporters are un-American and evil.

@crockett.house.gov: "For me, this is obstruction of justice. That's what it is."

If racists who support authoritarian government are trying to steal democracy and impose minority rule, it's....war.

All 50 state constitutions have ways to help the people overcome gerrymandering. Here's how in Virginia: retire the state Supreme Court. Virginia's Article VI gives the Assembly the power to set the retirement age of the Court. Dismiss them, and the voter-approved redistricting map can be law again.

Trump's approval rating is finally cracking a bit, but not over illegal bombing campaigns or dead children. Because Republicans did the math on gas prices and a global recession. 84% still approve though. It's the economy, stupid. Always the economy. Watch the full video: youtu.be/3K4Y1XVxyAU

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things

"NICE" people don't kill Americans.

The captured court is delivering for its fossil fuel captors.

The non-shooting from a floor away at WHCD worked out perfectly: The GOP can now push thru the $400m to pay for the ballroom and the private donations, rather than merely skimmed into Trump’s pockets as kickbacks for favors, can go entirely to him. Win/win.

We did! We passed a bill to fund the Secret Service and TSA and FEMA 100-0. If Speaker Johnson would just call it for a vote, it would pass. That’s the problem.

Sarah Longwell wants us to focus on the big tech oligarchs.

The video version of this is behind a paywall BUT the transcript is free for anyone to read. I went through the version that aired on CBS and the full 40 minutes that was included online and show exactly what was cut and what wasn’t. open.substack.com/pub/decoding...

Melania attacks satire and the First Amendment anntelnaes.substack.com/p/melania-at...

Blackmail has become a key tactic of Republican public policy.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.