What a shitshow.

Scott MacFarlane reports on the THREE federal lawsuits challenging Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund

Wonder if it was Aileen Cannon. Regardless, private reprimands are BS. The public should know which judge did this.

Footage analysed by Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique shows unexploded Russian-made cluster munition bomblets found in northern Mali - Despite Mali being a state party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) which prohibits their use. www.bellingcat.com/news/africa/...

NEW: South Carolina senate republicans REJECT Trump's redistricting bid in the state. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

So South Carolina senate again just killed the redistricting bill. Given what's happened so far I wouldn't say anything is ever final. But another big reverse. I'm sure Trump will be stoked. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

No one in this regime will face federal criminal accountability unless we reform the Supreme Court first. That's what folks should be running on. That should be the lesson of the Jack Smith prosecutions: it doesn't matter who the AG is.

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By @mc00.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social

the Trump stock trades escalated dramatically relatively recently in this second term. has the look of a bust out. that you’ve decided to put the pedal to the metal and just take every possible dollar off the table … and as in the mob system, before you burn the place down.

For the first time in three years, Americans' wages are no longer outpacing inflation, further compounding affordability concerns. https://cnn.it/3R39Zbe

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A month before his death in 2019, when seen with red marks on his neck, Epstein said he was attacked by his cellmate Nick Tartaglione & that he wasn't suicidal. Tartaglione is serving four life sentences for four murders, and he claims to have found the suicide note. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

Candid photograph of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after walking out of a press briefing by President Donald Trump at the White House, following a shooting incident during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, in Washington, D.C. 📸 REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

How soon before Trump files notice with the court in the case over his ballroom that the WHCD shooting proves construction needs to continue?

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

MAGA accounts tweet in unison about the need for a White House ballroom following WHCD incident

While the administration has simultaneously ramped up approvals for nuclear startups.

A reminder that when Donald Trump threatens tariffs, he's threatening a tax on working families. He already owes Illinoisans $8,679,261,600 from his last round — and now he's waiting to throw in more to the pot.

While negotiations were cratering, Trump hit up a UFC fight, attacked the Pope as "WEAK" on crime and impersonated Jesus.

It’s almost like a coordinated talking point went out on Red Cross doctor Jesus H. Trump.

Yeah but they don’t get to worry about the price of brent crude

In the latest Iranian Lego propaganda film, Trump is shown in his bed with either a large doll or a small girl. Yikes.

It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

Yep. It was connected.

Right before the World Cup? If your first move is trying to shut down America’s busiest airports, you’re really hitting the ground running — blocking tourism industry and ruining our economy.

BREAKING! Excellent news!

If you're in Ohio, or know people there, today is the deadline to register to vote. Please CHECK to make sure you're still registered and weren't purged from the rolls.

Lots of focus on Trump’s unhinged language, but not many pointing out that he extended his own deadline again.

Discharging Trump under the 25th Amendment would ultimately require a 2/3 vote in the House and a 2/3 vote in the Senate. Impeachment requires a majority in the House and removal requires 2/3 of the Senate. If I’m reading 25A correctly, impeachment is easier. Please let me know if I’m wrong!

PSA (bc of a debate I saw): Some parts of Europe have a bank holiday tomorrow (including my teeny corner of it). Shit will go down tomorrow. But understand some people will be working weekend hours.

Tell Your State To Pass This No-ICE-At-Our-Precincts Model Law. Now. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tell-...

just succes to success in Trump's excellent adventure.

From Ellsworth, Maine.

Watch this episode - there are so many reasons it will make you feel less alone. Thanks to @lincolnsbible.bsky.social and @gregolear.bsky.social for being the people we all want to talk with about the demise of our democratic republic.

Meanwhile from today’s Telegraph…

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Donald Trump is threatening your health and well-being to reward his fossil fuel donors. While he sells out our nation's future, I won't stop believing in the science and fighting for what Illinoisans need — affordable energy, clean air and water, and good jobs.

@craigunger.bsky.social i feel like im taking crazy pills. You literally wrote multiple books, years ago, about Trump being an asset. We keep yelling & the msm says, settle down & pats us on the head. Just recently @polphilpod.bsky.social wrote about Cassandras. No one listened to us Then or now.

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

In the newly released Epstein emails, a victim reports meeting Peter Mandelson and Google co-founder Sergey Brin around the time she was raped and trafficked. #3E #OpDeathEaters #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverUp #Epstein

NEW: EXCLUSIVE: Epstein files tipster tells me about her friend who was trafficked from Trump's modeling agency to Epstein. She sat for a formal interview with the FBI, but her 302 is MISSING from the release of the files. I'll show you what I have in 20 minutes: www.youtube.com/live/xiSmcNV...

BREAKING: CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been IDENTIFIED: Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Read this. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!

Watch @chrislhayes.bsky.social face when he picks up what @asharangappa.bsky.social is putting down. Keep in mind that Giuliani advised Trump in Dec 2020 the only way the DoD could seize voting machines is if there were foreign election interference, which Sidney Powell then tried to fabricate.

Haha same thing I said on the pod. Remember when Rudy told Trump that DoD couldn’t seize voting machines until they had proof of foreign election interference and Trump tried to make Ratcliffe brief Jeffrey Clark that there was some but Ratcliffe said no an Jack Smith has texts to prove it? Hahaha

Our Digital Hate and Harms Team has just released a new microsite to document and share information about symbols used by hate groups from around the world. monitoring-glossary.bellingcat.com

I don't think people understand that if you shut down the government, ICE and CBP do NOT shut down. They're funded by supplemental money from the BBB. That's why dems are separating the DHS funding bill and asking for restrictions. I want them to demand a rescission of that funding or shut DHS down