The most benign explanation is that Trump knows he doesn't have long left and is desperate for monuments to his vanity. That's the best-case scenario. The others involve Trump refusing to surrender power -- just as he did last time.

AI makes it harder for humans to trust one another, which makes it harder for humans to work together towards shared ends, which is the greatest gift billionaires could ever give to aspiring authoritarians.

They said helping ordinary Americans costs too much. Then they moved faster to pay January 6 insurrectionists than they do to help working families survive. “This is white reparations.” ~ Don Lemon #SheShed

Time for a new name for a "DOJ" that "approves" over $1.7 billion in payments to felons pardoned by a felon who were convicted of attacking the Capitol and assaulting police officers, an agency that is now the vice protection arm of Trump's GOP criminal cartel. I'll start:

propaganda isn't used to prop up totalitarian regimes; totalitarian regimes exist to produce propaganda (i.e. to eviscerate the idea of a reality independent of what the regime dictates)

#Ageverification "is a gift to every future dictator, every identity thief, and every would-be sexual exploiter of children, who will have access to the hacked, leaked, and badly secured troves of data that this doomed effort produces." pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/s... @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Teapot Dome! That big corruption scandal we learn about in US history class, involved bribes worth $400,000; which works out to about $6.5 million in 2026 dollars. Trump's slush fund is over $1.7 billion. With a B. And it's only one of his corrupt acts. Off the charts corrupt in US history terms.

I’ve been invited to testify on what the House calls “Court Packing: A Threat to SCOTUS’s Legitimacy.” Drawing on research w/ Daphna Renan for our book, Supremacy, Congress has the duty—and all the tools it needs—to protect our Constitution from judicial supremacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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...

Sure sounds like Trump is trying to make the White House into a fortress for when he refuses to leave office.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Wow... data centers in a battle field where 3000 souls lost their lives during the Civil War. Sorta like building a data center over the World Trade Center...

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes, no media covering this should call it a settlement. There's no judge or court of law involved. Obviously no Congressional appropriation involved either. Trump simply ordered the DOJ to cut a check that goes to a sketchy non-governmental fund. This is flat-out theft of government funds.

Wapo article, gift link.

Colorado’s Jared Polis had plenty of time to come up with a coherent defense for his Tina Peters decision. The fact that he pitched transparent nonsense suggests that he really did succumb to Trump’s extortion efforts, but he’s reluctant to say so. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.

Extremely relevant today - our new report on the state of the rule of law in America brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t... Most notably, 91% of legal experts say Trump's DOJ provides favors or benefits to his allies, including 56% of legal conservatives. Findings thread below; please read & share.

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.

This week, the U.S. Senate will stage an argument so absurd it will be talked about for a thousand years. open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

Trump promised during his campaign filled with false promises and lies that our electric bills would be cut in half 6 months after he took office.

Another way of seeing this pattern: for the third time Americans punished a Democratic president for economic politics that benefited everyone. That's the problem. Black prosperity is a crime that demands that a Republican president restore "justice."

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Big announcement on March 3. No part of this ever happened.

Trump doesn't think about regular Americans' economic woes, so what is he focused on? His stock portfolio -- a stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months, in firms entangled in his government like Palantir, Nvidia, and Boeing Let's make this a big deal. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Trump’s Space Force/alien posting spree looks absurd. But it has a logic. He is merging three narratives at once: 1. Strongman command 2. Secret knowledge 3. Futuristic military dominance That is why the images feel ridiculous and dangerous at the same time.

Can you check the home pages of your favorite news aggregators to see if there is any coverage of All Roads Lead to the South? I have checked Ground News, Google News (from multiple accounts), AP, Reuters...and nothing appears.

wherever i go, whoever i talk to, people care about the price of eggs... but they care even more about accountability for these fucking people looting our country. some remarks, on how we might get there. oh, and we don't have to wait until 2029 www.liberalcurrents.com/prosecute-th...

m gonna post this video everyday so we NEVER FORGET what the INSURRECTIONIST Donald J. Trump did on Jan 6th

California’s jungle primary system was meant to weaken the voice of Democrats. It must be ended. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

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.

The ONLY thing this brings back is Jim Crow and a certainty that Republicans should never wield this much power again. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

And this is why they are so desperately trying to entrench themselves in education and government. They’re hoping to create generations of captive users who have no other choice but to use their tech if they want to read, work, write or think

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

"The moment you begin to censor the writer- and history bears this out in the ugliest of fashions -so begins a process of decay in the body politic that ultimately leads to disaster." ~Rod Serling Speech, Library of Congress (1968)

birth rate crisis discourse feels like a real "isn't there someone you forgot to ask" meme, but the person they forgot to ask is women as a whole.

Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.

Exactly! #Pinks

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“It’s just frustrating to see them come into our community and run all over us like the citizens don’t matter, and then they’re above the law when they do break it,” resident, James Clifton said. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...