I…worked on this story for a decade…and…he just…he blurted it out on teevee.

FP: “.. You do not need to think Trump is the end of American democracy, or that everything he does is evil, to see this for what it is: the biggest grift in American history.” @thefp.com www.thefp.com/p/trump-fina...

@riveraveblues.bsky.social patreon email is cut off for me, after “this is what losing 7 games in 7 days does to your playoff odds.” And then it’s just pictures without any more words. I’ll reload, maybe it’s just me.

@pinstripealley.bsky.social this guy Doval needs to go yesterday. I’d rather see Lagrange make these mistakes.

These candidates are winning with Democrats because the corporate centrist weakling approach has repeatedly failed to deliver the programs we hoped we were voting for. We wanted Mamdanis and got Schumers and Merrick Garlands and it sucks. The voters are not wrong. The party has failed us.

Disabled students in this country are about to get bounced between three different federal agencies just to get the education they’re legally entitled to.

Trump on an executive order he's about to sign that he clearly has no clue about: "Quantum ... cryptography. Does anybody know what that is?"

I think people are focusing too much on the starmer aspect of this when like colombia, chile, brazil, & peru are right there. the whole world has become south america where the demos swings between socialism and fascism every election

You told people to report their coworkers for being insufficiently mournful of Charlie Kirk

Jesus Christ, I have a kid in this program and it's his whole life, we're just tearing up massive chunks of America, throwing it in a pile, and lighting it all on fire

This is bombshell stuff.

@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social if Carlo didn’t spray you, you wouldn’t have that fond memory 20 years later. And that’s really what our time on this giant rock is all about, isn’t it?

@mikeaxisa.bsky.social your patreon is the highlight of my Tuesday and Friday mornings. If you published 4x a week and charged triple, I would pay it. Thanks for all you do. Always a really insightful and informed read

March: +3.6% April: +4.4% May: +5.1%

That’s called a bribe.

A real page on the White House website

Honest to goodness, there was a time not so long ago when this would have been a massive scandal.

Breaking News: President Trump formally nominated Todd Blanche as attorney general, setting up a confirmation fight. nyti.ms/4oqonqr

Breaking: A comprehensive United Nations assessment of ocean health has a dire prognosis: the world faces a “deepening crisis” as climate change, pollution, overfishing and biodiversity loss threaten marine ecosystems crucial to human survival. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RFK Jr. is reportedly focusing solely on his pet projects and has "checked out" of broader public health concerns and policy issues

This is the second time this has happened. CBS News's Investigative unit got a retired ICE agent to break down the Good shooting frame-by-frame. On the record, he said the agents were entirely out of line. The piece was only posted online and never broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywL...

This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

As a reminder, Pulte is the guy who goes through the mortgages of Trump’s enemies, looking for mistakes, which he then uses as a basis to refer them for criminal prosecution. See, e.g.: Letitia James

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

Trump withdraws his lawsuit against the IRS demanding at least $10 billion in an effort to skirt oversight by the judge in the case as he moves toward arranging a fund to funnel taxpayer money to his allies and supporters. @aduehren.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.

@pinstripealley.bsky.social get rid of Doval. He has no idea where the ball is going.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

Trump DOJ Sues to Overturn Assault Weapons Ban In City Plagued By Mass Shootings

i write abt this in my book: J6 was so bad that initially GOP blamed violence on antifa "provocateurs." Eventually 58% of Trump supporters believed J6 was a "mostly an antifa-inspired attack." but GOP discarded this scapegoat when it felt fine to take credit for the insurrection, to celebrate it

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wow, to think, if you spend dozens of billions of dollars and evaporate a watershed, you too can have a search engine that requires 1400 words of prelude and warning before you can trust it to answer the question "when will The Odyssey be available for streaming"

I think the category error here is assuming that we should have run this like a complex prosecution rather than an extra-constitutional moment of exception.

“.. There is no refund,” he said. “Only a handful of people are going to be able to access this, and I can almost guarantee it will not trickle down to me. It’s just maddening.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/1267...

This administration is a great lesson for every moderate democrat who thinks slow incremental improvements to a broken system only when they hold power will fix it

JPMORGAN: “.. While the Trump 2.0 DoJ increased prosecution of immigration cases, it also terminated pending investigations involving organized crime, white collar crime, corruption, labor racketeering, violent crime, healthcare fraud and national security at a record pace.”

the 2024 election was probably the easiest combined morality/IQ test ever created and yet so many Americans not only failed it, but are now acting like they’re the victims after doing so

I grew up in Franklin, and if David French is just realizing this, then he is the least observant person ever born

James Talarico: We are living in an era of corruption. I don’t just mean illegal activity. I mean corruption in the deeper sense — the rotting of something from the inside. This is, at its root, a spiritual crisis. And it will require a spiritual solution.

He’s barely beating @killthecomputer.com lmfaooooooo

Suddenly Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber just can’t stop making big bucks off shrewd investments in companies making a fortune off connections to the government. They are experts in every industry now.

Not only is this not happening, the Chinese dominance of EV’s is a terrifying development for US auto manufacturers.

from the latest Nate Silver newsletter, this is a pretty darn striking chart it does seem like Dem voters and what exists of a Dem party apparatus are expressing some real and new preferences post-Biden www.natesilver.net/p/democrats-...

This isn't gestapo. They actually believed their hate. This is fascism-as-farce. (A minor detail: They stripped the man & drove him to a court in Greenbelt, MD, created during the New Deal as a kind of low-key utopian town planning project for low-income workers.) www.science.org/content/arti...

In case people didn’t know: This is the leading scholar behind the very first big legal challenge to Obamacare, and is now among the leading theorists supporting Donald Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship as spelled out in the 14th Amendment. There’s probably a throughline there.