Republicans love child molestation and do everything they can to encourage and reward it, including electing an adjudicated rapist and alleged pedophile as president.

Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.

anyway I checked the first statement just to confirm an intuition, and of course prominent Democrats all condemned it in the strongest possible terms. They didn't bring a motion of censure in Congress because *they can count,* I assume.

you rarely get as clean an example of 'everything Republicans do is Democrats' fault' in the wild

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

TRUMP: Routinely falls asleep on camera, has unexplained injuries on his makeup-caked hands, regularly makes genocidal threats, posts nonstop AI slop, compares himself to Christ, goes on unhinged rants every time he appears in public THE ATLANTIC: "He's becoming purer"

Threat actors infiltrated popular edtech platform Canvas this month, disrupting operations at more than 8k schools during finals week. @ist.org.bsky.social’s Michael Klein spoke to Higher Ed Dive on the decision: www.highereddive.com/news/canvas-... #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

List of some people eligible to get payouts from taxpayers from the Trump/Blanche Criminal Slush Fund: Steve Bannon Peter Navarro Rudy Giuliani Mark Meadows Stewart Rhodes Enrique Tarrio Sidney Powell Jenna Ellis John Eastman Jeffrey Clark Boris Epshteyn Joe Biggs Walt Nauta

One interesting detail about slush fund: SOME of these people were paid by something akin to fraud (w/money raised for election integrity to pay defense fees of witness who'd, um, not hurt Trump). Also on list? FBI Director, who testified he would go to prison if he testified w/o immunity.

So, note to the news media: don't call it a "settlement". It's not a settlement at all. It's 100% self-dealing with no legal basis at all.

Reminder: THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT. There can't be a settlement because Trump voluntarily dismissed the case before any notice of settlement was filed. No lawsuit, no settlement. Any news article that refers to a "settlement" is not telling the truth.

BREAKING: The Colorado Supreme Court, by 5-2, orders Children's Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care to a group of trans plaintiffs. Justices Boatright and Samour dissent. Story coming soon.

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.

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.

“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

Remember the lawsuit was dropped. That pretense is gone. This is just a payout he’s choosing to make. Backing up the trunk to the treasury, loading it up, and headed straight for a Proud Boys gathering to split the loot.

So, I am but a humble Law Dork ... Trump voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit with prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Blanche says there's a settlement. www.justice.gov/opa/media/14... Is there a secret settlement, unmentioned in the dismissal filing, or were there crossed wires?

The way the Judgment Fund is being used for the Trump “settlement” creates a profound loophole in the Appropriations Clause, allowing an administration to fund any program it wants without an appropriation. Sort of thing the Court needs to stop.

There is no way the republicans would be anything less that outraged if Obama had taken almost $2 billion of taxpayer dollars and given it to people he pardoned for trying to steal an election. Every republican in congress who doesn’t speak up and prevent this is complicit

Unreal. Now that Trump dropped IRS lawsuit, DOJ just announced a new slush fund for alleged victims of "weaponization." Two Qs: *Will there be *any* congressional oversight? Most reporting suggests not. *Would payments to J6ers violate 14A? Raskin explains here: newrepublic.com/article/2105...

The central issue is if the 14th Amendment is really part of the Constitution. It's the most important and substantive and longest amendment, purchased in blood. It explicitly does a bunch of different things, and they've violated and nullified effectively all of it. Not the first time, of course.

Trump didn’t just pardon his followers who stormed the U.S. Capitol. He’s now set them up for payments through a slush fund he created to reward his allies—out of your tax dollars. You could not make this up.

(That said, I think the candidates who would be most willing to push for such measures are the same ones who would push for single payer healthcare, so this isn't much of a conflict for me)

Sadly, policy like single payer will never happen if open corruption is not punished, we have a SCOTUS that plays Reactionary Calvinball with the law, a House that is comically gerrymandered, & a Senate that's set up to allow 40% of the US to overturn the will of 60% of the US.

It's wild that my most important issue in the next POTUS election won't be single payer healthcare. It'll be the question of whether any given candidate seems truly serious about prosecuting every single criminal in this administration, & if they're willing to push for massive institutional reforms

The Trump presidency has validated every suspicion I ever had about how capitalism works. And so much of it is just people with money handing it to their friends while insisting they can’t afford to pay for labor or a social safety net. This $1.6B impunity fund for J6ers is the latest iteration.

Absolutely horrified at this planned study from my own institution: www.404media.co/researchers-... >>

$1.776 as in 1776. As in celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by robbing the Treasury to reward those who are destroying the country

This piece could be called “why removing @colorado.gov Jared Polis is so important,” but I went with something more melodramatic. Polis is just a symptom, after all. www.offmessage.net/p/bracing-fo...

Jake Lang, one of the 1,600 or so January 6ers pardoned by Trump, unfurled a white nationalist banner at yesterday’s Washington Nationals game. It refers to the racist great replacement theory and calls for deporting 100+ million (non-white) people. He’s now banned from Nationals games.

In Callais Alito claimed racism was over. Now Southern states rushing to revive Jim Crow, eliminating or set to eliminate at least 5 majority Black districts in TN, AL, LA, SC, MS. This is bigger than partisan politics. Multiracial democracy under all out assault www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Pretty rare to see reporting about an Embattled Liberal Politician in which the writers explicitly concede that they are participating in a narrative astroturfed by conservative activists www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

part of the reason for that is that our justice system is really racist...and I think that racist insurrectionists getting pardons at the demand of the racist president is an example of that injustice?

A tripling of emissions by 2100 was probably never plausible. But a doubling was. The fact that we're no longer on that path is progress — not, as some pundits claim, an indictment of climate science. And we still have a long way to go get emissions to zero and stabilize global temperatures 11/11

lol this is not going well for Hegseth

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

Paul Krugman called this “wingnut welfare.” the Veritas guy is a failed actor Chris Rufo a failed journalist Ted Cruz failed to get anyone to like him so embraced the right Lindsey Graham failed to stop Trump Amy Barrett: Starr to rightwing law school to Fed Soc advancement

nearly a decade ago this was common wisdom, accepted amongst pundits. “a bunch of mediocrities with puffed-up credentials due to affirmative action for conservatives” Let’s get back to saying that!

Authoritarian regimes benefit from people who are not smart enough to get promoted in traditional ladders but ambitious enough to commit crimes in their efforts to get ahead. Regimes give them a path. As we reduce education, as we reduce real opportunities, we are creating perfect conditions.

This is not just government . It is is the ENTIRE CONSERVATIVE ELITE. Brett Kavanaugh, JD Vance, Sean Duffy, Jeanine Pirro, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Mike Johnson, the Federalist and DC Examiner ppl, staffers in Congress and GWB admin… These are ppl not good enough to get ahead in mainstream places.

A judge in WY just dismissed 9 cases w/o prejudice bc Trump's US Attorney told the GJ: 1) They were all murderers (just one is accused of murder) 2) They “did what you are going to hear about.” Deliberations won't take long 3) Told grand jurors they were getting slam dunks.

The Supreme Court's own precedents say that federal courts shouldn't make big changes to election laws close to an election. But experts say the Supreme Court is wielding — or disregarding — the principle unevenly in ways that aid Republicans. minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/18/r...

If you actually want to stop fraud, investigate fraudsters and prosecute them. You don’t withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments from a state where 14 million people, including qkids, seniors, and people with disabilities, depend on that care.

White Nationalist event promoted by Trump with a sea of empty chairs - the press: "Thousands attended." Nationwide anti-Trump demonstrations that draw millions to the street - the press: "Thousands protested."

I shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s amazing that maga haven’t put 2 and 2 together that the reason Donald has been attacking Thomas Massie and now Lauren Boebert is because of their support for releasing his pseudo-biography — The Epstein Files. There’s a reason he’s fighting it, people! 🤷‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

New: A racist streamer shot a black man. His fans rewarded him with cash. My look for @MS.Now at how Pump.Fun, a memecoin site with livestreaming, and GiveSendGo could enable Chud The Builder — who films himself calling black people slurs — to receive nearly $175,000 www.ms.now/news/chud-th...

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)