Pitching for the pro-Scrooge vote -- at a time when he's losing even white working class support. Genius move.

In Trump's second term, Bezos has received... -Huge new tax cuts for himself and Amazon -$260M+ in new Blue Origin federal contracts -A slap-on-the wrist FTC settlement for Amazon -A gutted NLRB led by a union-busting corporate lawyer No wonder he's been singing Trump's praises.

This is straight up fascist judicial overreach. The American Dirty War.

First time as tragedy; second time as farce, etc.

Folks, as a number of people have noted, if Trump IS the guy who got special access to a new obesity drug, the more important detail is that he may have pulmonary hypertension, which might explain the swollen ankles and the constant sleeping in public.

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)

The Department of Justice is trying to get the NAACP’s Clean Air Act suit against xAI tossed because it claims the government should be able to block *all* citizen suits it opposes to avoid “Article II” concerns. As today’s “One First” explains, this argument is as scary and alarming as it is novel:

A female protester waving an upside-down American flag outside an ICE detention center was struck from behind by a car entering the facility.

We murdered two more people in a boat today. Six survivors.

The AP's new code, I guess: Fascist = "conservative outsider." bsky.app/profile/newn...

Because nothing scream success like deploying the National Guard to keep people away from a national monument. bsky.app/profile/dang...

Over 770,000 Kids No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Food Program www.propublica.org/article/snap...

They might be willing to settle for Apartheid + Bantustans ---> bsky.app/profile/hele...

Trump's family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision, made by the Trump administration, that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president.

More than half of the 27 corporate donors to Trump's ballroom have received government contracts over $50 BILLION in the last 6 months. 16 of them are facing federal enforcement actions or have had these actions suspended. This entire project is a conflict of interest.

CBS analyzed the available files (only 3M out of the reportedly 6M pages collected) to determine which documents appeared to be missing, and found a number of notable omissions. Notably, [email protected], from the early 2000s—the time when Epstein was most in touch with Trump. trib.al/SIeCUBx

I think this whole thing was lifted from an episode of The Sopranos that never aired because the show runner decided it was just too silly. bsky.app/profile/moll...

It kinda got lost in the madness, but the federal conspiracy case against anti-ICE activists in Minnesota - the Minneapolis 15 - is a big deal It's not just the 1st Amendment abuse. It's part of their plan to crush dissent ahead of a stolen election My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The murders continue. An attack on 6/18 killed three more people. The campaign has left 213 civilians dead, in total. We're tracking every strike @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

A comprehensive charting of the tech bro conspiracy. authoritarian-stack.info

DHS has sent 180 press releases since the start of 2025 branding immigrants "rapists," while employing agents accused of child sexual abuse and rape.

The incentives that created Wall Street’s worst excesses are spreading into everything else. Housing, healthcare, even wages and subscriptions are being shaped by trading logic, fees, and new layers of extraction that siphon value out of everyday life. 🎥 This is the story of financialization:

I've always made it clear the abundance movement is an op to pre-empt genuine progressive reform as the obvious response to authoritarianism, and replace it with more 00s era deregulatory corporate earlobe nibbling

DHS routinely describes undocumented immigrants as sexual predators while employing men accused of child sexual abuse, rape, and other gender-based violence.

The crimes of this regime are endless. But few are as grotesque as this one: importing only white Afrikaners as "refugees" while sentencing millions of Black Africans to death.

The White House is officially a billionaire cash grab. The UFC’s “Freedom 250” event is packed with sponsorships, ring-side advertising, and merchandise sales. While Americans are struggling, Trump and his billionaire friends are cashing in.

Who funded every business venture Elon Musk has launched? US taxpayers, involuntarily. What have they gotten from the investment? Nothing whatsoever.

After the tarp was cleared away...

Hey Maine: "Collins’ billionaire donation total 'stands in stark contrast with the fundraising of her opponent... whose campaign has mostly attracted smaller amounts of funds but from many more people.'” Collins is a huge sellout! www.commondreams.org/news/susan-c...

Makes them the perfect target for fascist demonization --> bsky.app/profile/norm...

At least 88 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax last year. Those 88 corporations also happened to spend $852 MILLION on political lobbying the last three election cycles. They're essentially making a 3,000% return on investment. The system is rigged.

Trump's inner circle went to extraordinary lengths in order to protect the president from the Epstein files.

War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

In a 149-page report it issued this afternoon, Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank with the intention to annex the Palestinian territory.

Trump's military spending increase dwarfs the size of the projected Social Security shortfall cepr.net/publications...

If it promotes phony centrism and/or genuflects to stereotypical Red State cultural values (which no editor on the NYT op-ed page shares), then yes. bsky.app/profile/josh...

The Epstein coverup, of which Blanche is the chief orchestrator, has revealed the moral and legal rot at the core of the Trump regime in a way no other scandal, lawless escapade, or assault on constitutional norms has. In direct violation of the law, Blanche refused to release all documents.

WaPost: "Trump Walks Out of Meet the Press Interview" BBC: "Trump Abruptly Ends NBC Interview" Fox News: "Trump Storms Off Meet the Press Interview." NYT: "Trump Says He Never Promised No New Wars, and Defends Compensation Fund" The actual news isn't mentioned until the 8th graf. WTF NYT??

I think we are all underestimating how central insider stock trading has become to MAGA and Congressional Republicans. Trump is sending a bat signal here to his corrupt allies that he has their back, keep going, we are all in this together, looting and pillaging and stealing.......

Harry Litman, a former deputy assistant attorney general, argued in a new Substack essay that Trump's "[lurching] from scandal to scandal like a drunken sailor" had effectively distracted the American public from his intensified bombing campaigns in South America.

The Supreme Court has eliminated the last vestiges of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—and with it, the primary mechanism for protecting multiracial democracy in the American South. Now, racial gerrymandering effectively impossible to challenge in court. trib.al/zWTjEFp

Foundation for the Defense of Israel: Try to hoodwink the voters again until after the midterms, THEN invade Iran. No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up with these bastards. accounts.theatlantic.com/products/

Israel's refusal to grant ICRC access to Palestinian detainees after October 7th—despite the exhortations of the Biden administration—was a flashing red light. ICRC access is a basic safeguard for humane treatment, one mandated by US law for LOAC detainees. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/w...

started / going

This Pro-Israel Group Paved the Way for Trump’s Disastrous War in Iran And that’s not all. Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is now apparently helping write the script for a fusion of the U.S. and Israeli militaries. @premthakker.bsky.social writes: zeteo.com/p/trump-fdd-...

A tour through one of Trump's concentration camps, called Delaney Hall, near Newark, NJ.

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

The idea that only nuclear or gas can provide "firm power" -- the last line of defense against the relentless advance of clean energy -- is going the way of the dodo. There are no arguments left. The only reason to fight progress now is corruption & raw political power.

Democrats need to prepare themselves for unprecedented and previously unimaginable levels of records destruction. Vought will ensure paper trails are wiped clean, with pardons dangled for those doing it. Or they'll say Grok did it and you can't charge an AI with the crimes.