The administration does appear to be doing a Sicario in Mexico. www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/p...

Here we go. youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA?...

He’s lying. US rig count is as low as it’s been in years and has been flat since last fall.

So between the RI hospital and NYU Langone, who has a statutory duty to declare under the shield law, it makes me think a broad swath of hospitals received these subpoenas, but many are in states where they don't have shield laws, so we aren't getting press releases.

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

DOGE-linked Jennica Pound publicly warned anti-ICE app GTFO ICE would "learn the hard way," and hours later nearly 18,000 users received messages claiming their locations and contacts were forwarded to the FBI, ICE, and Homeland Security. Totally normal data security stuff. 1/2

12 MAY 1776, VERSAILLES: Louis XVI dismisses Turgot, his controller-general of finance, who has spent his two years in office angering entrenched senior interests within French society & government by his reforms aimed at rescuing France’s desperate fiscal state.

"Going to make it hard for Warsh to maintain an easing bias..." Nah. He has a more important master to serve than economic reality.

See also, the Progressive Movement.

That describes the community where I live to a T.

They may not feel like voting for anyone this year, and they may feel that Trump is not really helping them right now. But, they'd reelect Trump.

Tomorrow, in Pultneyville, Wayne County. This talk I expect will be part of the concluding section to my current book project, a history of the Sullivan Campaign and dispossession in New York State. Stop by and say hello.

Ah, Sudan. Checks.

Historians sometimes describe the French Revolution as having begun with the « aristocratic reaction » of the 1780s that tried to undo social change and ignore new realities. We’re currently experiencing something similar

Ok.

I spent a year in graduate school studying the French Revolution and a year before that reading on 18th century riots.

No better way to commemorate the intersection of AAPI Heritage Month & Military Appreciation Month than with the story of Japanese American baseball legend turned war hero Joe Takata, & the Aloha team & 100th Battalion he helped lead. That & more in my new column! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

DOJ has subpoenaed WSJ for its sources on the story about the warnings Dan Caine gave Trump before he ignored all those warnings and started a war anyway. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

No. They should be specifically talking about how when they have power, they will blow apart the court, and if they capture the executive, they will use the full weight of the law to go after them and everyone around them. No more pointing out bad behavior. That doesn't change things. Talk action.

Just don't call SCOTUS political.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Lost connotation? I mean, Virginia*is* tobacco country, not cotton, so it had a different enslaved-labor based agricultural economy. /s/

These two things are completely unrelated, so don’t even think of trying to make a connection between them

Maine is weird.

Wait, wasn't that John McCain's quip on Russia's failing kleptocracy - "a gas station masquerading as a country" ??

Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

This is today

Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:

Rage against "foreign" truck drivers (most are citizens) has been ongoing for over a year on right wing media and social media. It's an extension of the Know-Nothing's anti-immigrant hate.

And encourage more gas use which would drive prices up and FFS.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

Well not *all* ideas, clearly.

For the same reason, the places which memorialize Japanese-American concentration camps must be considered inviolable and protected forever. We must never allow this injustice to be forgotten, denied, or minimized.

Left: Maryland Processing Facility Right: Dachau Processing Facility

No matter the era, the NYT will treat the GOP not only as a fundamentally serious party full of serious people, but they will defer to them as the "grown-ups in the room" on The Economy™️ and National Defense™️—even when they are in full-on Clown Car mode. It is a thing that cannot & will not change.

Apparently entered the US *without a passport*, which would mean a team of ICE/BP cops would be aiming automatic weapons at him and he'd disappear into a concentration camp if he was brown skinned. But hes not.

These states, Kevin? These states?

God damnit.

This is what normalisation looks like.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

I wonder if the market’s credulous reaction to the administration’s lies about events, coupled with the media’s lackluster reportage, has delayed demand destruction from consumers and will therefore make the ultimate reckoning even more painful.

A blatant lie from Rep. Van Orden

"We are totally NOT doing that thing that our holy book expressly told us NOT to do, even if it might look like were doing the exact thing it said we WOULD do when confronted with this precise situation" is less comforting than you'd think.

Sounds like Israeli SOF may be operating inside Iraq (presumably setting up FARPs and the like for aircraft that en route to/from Iran or ground launched munitions)—and some of them may have gotten into a shootout with Iraqi forces

The greatest lesson I've learned from studying history is that people don't like planning and will wait until something is a crisis before they take action.

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

In a week in which Republicans were sprinting to eliminate Black representation in the South, that's the headline they go with?