After defense officials got a request to push through a deal with a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr., Pentagon staff moved at an unusually rapid pace. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

Ours was a computer (except that I got to read the names of the doctoral candidates- yay), and it was fantastic to hear the names exactly as the students pronounce their own names since they recorded them and then the machine read the QR code. Way better than faculty trying to figure them out.

Exactly as predicted when the administration started these illegal strikes.

We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses. (Published Nov. 2025)

Destroying American science is part of the GOP's plan to take down America

BREAKING: A Russian drone struck an apartment building in NATO-member Romania, its defence ministry says.

This is an actual Thirteenth Amendment violation, because they have not been convicted of any crime.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.  About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

Rep. Pallone reports a woman detained at Delaney Hall suffered a miscarriage before being transferred out.

I just biked past this on my way home and was wondering wtf was happening.

I spent two hours yesterday at Delaney Hall in Newark where 700 detainees are being held by ICE. What I saw and heard was horrific: worm-infested food and no access to medical care. Many of the detainees were lawful visa holders. This is not America. This is unacceptable, and it has to stop now.

The bottom line is that there will never be any meaningful congressional oversight or investigations into the blatant corruption of the Trump family enriching themselves as long as Republicans are in control. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Young MC has dropped out of Trump’s Freedom 250. He suggested he was deceived. Were corporate sponsors of Freedom 250 — including Mastercard and United Airlines — told about Freedom 250’s political involvement? Were they told about Freedom 250 Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 event?

Seems like she’s now eligible for some of the 1.8 billion.

The description of how we used to do research when we went into the stacks and looked around at what else was on the shelves is really well done here.

⚡️Russian strike on Kherson playground kills father, injures family. The injured included a 36-year-old woman and her two daughters, ages 3 and 6. The girls' father was also killed in the attack, police later confirmed.

Iran is not going to surrender completely, and this isn’t about Iran being masterful. It’s about this president having no idea what he’s doing and making us pay a huge price for it.

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

I’m sure they are furious, but really what did they expect? I mean, cmon.

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

And now mainstream media has picked it up. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

Just throwing spaghetti at the wall at this point.

People, don’t get mad at me for saying there’s really no way to undo the cost of Trump’s tariffs to U.S. consumers, even if you refund the tax to those who paid it. I’m just describing reality, not trying to excuse it.

“the opening of the Strait will be phased. In the first phase the U.S. will release $12 billion in frozen Iranian assets, minesweeping in the strait will begin, and the U.S. blockade will lift, the Iranian official said.”sounds like a good deal for Iran www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Epstein files...

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tearful Kostyuk reaches French Open 2nd round and speaks of missile attack back home in Ukraine

He lost a war that made us worse off. It’s embarrassing and painful. Quite the combination.

just had Kyiv mayor asking everyone to stay in bomb shelters. Russia is massively attacking Kyiv with missiles . Already been about 10 missiles . It’s a lot

SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis Donovan visited the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

“Inconsistent with reality” is the brand.

The terms of Trump’s surrender to Iran.

The first thing wasn’t an issue prior to the war. The second thing is an agreement to continue a pre-existing conversation. The third thing is the carrot to get the first and second things. That’s a great job of bargaining, just first rate stuff. 🙄

Plus substantial economic pain for Americans (and others). Trump lost a war he never should have started. Hubris gets you every time. Ask Putin.

Making money while encouraging the unnecessary deaths of young children.

Here's a reality the SECDEF ignores--most of these cadets will never engage in close combat. 100% of them will be responsible for taking care of soldiers and their families. For me, that meant soldiers whose families were undocumented, trans, and just about every other disfavored identity.

My best friend gave his life for this country. He's buried less than a mile from that podium, and two of his children, whom he loved fiercely, are trans. This is just a giant middle finger to a man who was 1,000x the soldier the secretary could ever hope to be.

NEWS: U.S. Consumer Sentiment has officially fallen to the lowest level ever recorded in data going back to 1952, plunging another 10% last month. Consumers now expect inflation to hit 4.8% over the next 12 months. Sentiment is down 21% since February 2026, before the Iran War… 1/

Another month, and another set of record-high stock prices paired with record-low consumer sentiment @stockcharts

#BREAKING: US asked Lithuania, Poland & Ukraine to allow the transit of Belarusian potash through their territories. For Kyiv the request borders on geopolitical absurdity: facilitating export revenues for very regime that helped launch the war devastating Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/worldbri...

And by "truce," NYT headline writer, you mean active and ongoing complicity in an authoritarian attack on the Constitution and the rule of law?

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

Shorter version: It’s not that they want immigrants to “do it the right way.” They don’t want a right way to exist. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Mariupol highways logistics nightmare countiues for russia M14 Mariupol'-Melitopol' road looks like a shooting gallery Multiple russian logistics vehicles can be seen burnt out or on fire. 🔥🔥🔥

🤨 Russia announced the delivery of nuclear warheads for Iskander-M missile systems to field storage points in Belarus during ongoing nuclear exercises.

The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower. That audit could have cost him more than $100 million. (From May 2024 w/ @nytimes.com)

UPDATE: The Colorado Democratic Party's central committee is now considering a measure to censure or otherwise punish Gov Jared Polis (D) for giving clemency to Tina Peters. I'll thread details here.

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