A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

Stephen Colbert ended his show with more joy and happiness than Donald Trump has ever felt in his lifetime, and more than he will ever feel in the rest of his days. Thank you, Stephen. May this country follow your smiling lead to better days. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Bari Weiss offered Anderson Cooper a bigger role at CBS News, but he chose to leave 60 Minutes instead. "I'd prefer less rather than more of you." It's a hard message to miss. I'll say it again: She had no detectable experience in broadcast news. Hers was a political hire. From @status.news:

1. One of the clearest examples of pay-to-play politics you will ever see in last night's MAGA Inc. FEC filing.

Sports fans — and sports franchises — have never been more valuable. And so now private equity and other "institutional investors" are gobbling up everything. A delight to have @kentremendous.bsky.social and @joeposnanski.com help us explain the twilight of sports fandom: youtu.be/jC7f5v6CoWw?...

NEW 🧵: Here's how Dems could redraw 9 congressional maps by 2028 & target more than 20 GOP seats. The GOP tried to rig the national map in 2026, & Dems had few ways to respond. But Dems could fully counteract them by 2028. We have example maps for each state www.the-downballot.com/p/how-democr...

We got it started by naming JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi. The War Secretary's Office, SOCOM, and the Army all tried to get us to withhold her name but it's critical that we know all personnel involved. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/b...

RFK Jr. has fired the two leaders (Dr. John Wong and Dr. Esa Davis) of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force the expert panel that determines which medical screenings and preventive services insurance companies must cover at no cost to patients under the Affordable Care Act.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

Let's call it the "Stop Trump from Robbing Our Country Blind Act"

Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

this is so much more powerful than a bunch of politicians opposing it. it puts real human faces on the gop ethos of “back the blue … oh and also pay off the thugs who brutalized the capitol police” (gift link: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...)

conservatives are being pretty clear that they see anything more than a token black presence as tantamount to "anti-white discrimination," and even then, they view that as suspect

Trump hasn't shot anyone in the middle of 5th Avenue - yet - but ordering his tin soldiers to blow up human beings from Nigeria to the Caribbean is all a video game to him To the impoverished fisherman and farmers getting obliterated, it's no game My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

(Reuters) - The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the beginning of a "systemic agrifood shock" that could trigger a severe global ​food price crisis within six to 12 months, the United ‌Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said on Wednesday. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Is this bad for Trump? It seems pretty bad! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

Breathtakingly corrupt and indefensible theft of taxpayer money. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This place is amazing. Make an appointment to see it here: trumpsonian.us

noted profile in cowardice wants his old colleagues to stand up to the guy he kowtowed to back when his choices actually mattered www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

Tim Burchett said straws are for women only, RFK Jr works out in jeans, J.D. Vance didn't know how to order donuts, and the president thinks you need to show photo ID to buy "groceries" which is an old-fashioned term only he rediscovered.

The U.S. government requires visa applicants to make all of their social media accounts fully public or risk being denied entry. This is straight out of 1984. Your right to privacy doesn’t just disappear at the border for millions of people, it disappears before they ever set foot here.

Finally, Ronald Reagan can rest in peace, knowing that children will no longer have to learn that some white people were the bad guys in that whole slavery thing.

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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.

Yes, they noticed this, fixed it and the data centre paid back the bill - but 100 freaking percent it is a huge, huge error and can only happen in the context of rushed, corrupt data centre development Imagine all the stuff like this that hasn't been detected yet? www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Nice analysis of the climate costs of Chrome pushing a 4GB Geminin nano to people's devices. Even just looking purely at the download (ignoring inference, re-downloads etc) it's substantial (not sure it's 'insane'), and shows the Google is just kinda doing stuff pretty thoughtlessly

🔥 @redstateupdate.bsky.social (MURFREESBORO): “The Supreme Court said there’s no racism anymore — then every state immediately started figuring out the most racist way to keep Black people from voting… things were real racist and bad, then Trump somehow made them worse.”

If the FBI and its director Kash Patel thought they could intimidate The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick with lawsuits and federal investigations, they have been given a resounding wake-up call.

Jeez, things are not great inside Google www.linkedin.com/posts/amshal...

Worth thinking about how basically everything about legalizing sports gambling has been awful while the worst thing about legalizing marijuana is, like, restaurant revenue is down because people drink less.

Trump's billion-dollar ballroom is now so toxic that some vulnerable House Republicans don't want to vote on it. This is important, because to Trump/MAGA, the ballroom represents a potent symbol of his imperial/dictatorial presidency. 1/ (new piece from me) newrepublic.com/article/2101...

Nah, Ross, the primary relationship of AI to religion is a continuation of the longstanding "sanctimonious people are always corrupt and will always serve the rich and powerful," as Ross himself shows by routinely promoting Silicon Valley TESCREAL cult nonsense, including in this column.

The other guy realized he'd said the quiet part out loud and tried to clean it up. But the idea that the 14th Amendment wasn't legitimately ratified is something that's been bouncing around in far-right and neo-Confederate circles for a long time. Not a random gaffe, he's surely encountered that.

The New York Times is playing the Republicans’ theft of Black political power — the return of Jim Crow —primarily as a sporting event. “Bullish Republicans are back in the game,” writes NYT.

Virginia has a Democratic attorney general looking for ways to challenge or counter the slapdown of its new House map. But that almost didn't happen. My argument for backing imperfect candidates in crucial elections. @thecontrarian.bsky.social www.contrariannews.org/p/virginias-...

compared to what actually needs to be done, dems in va steamrolling the state supreme court in this gerrymandering fight is very very very easy and they need to do it just to show us the entire party understands the assignment

This is the golden age for pedophiles and rapists. 🤢 🤮

A very Strength In Numbers-coded article today: It looks like Republican Supreme Court justices made a very rudimentary, but willful, statistical error in their effective invalidating of the VRA in the Callais decision. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...

Mostly children and seniors, I assume. These people only go after easy targets.

The 15 largest health care conglomerates charged an average of 282 percent more than the Medicare rate last year, resulting in $22 million in profit per hospital. This is possible because 3-5 corporations control the majority of hospital care in most states. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has more.

"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"

I think this is a reasonable disclaimer to run when Trump rants: "Trump’s erratic behavior and extreme comments, wild threats, and abrupt reversals have led a growing number of experts and observers to conclude that he is mentally ill and unfit for the presidency." presswatchers.org/2026/05/jour...

I wrote about all the useful idiots (like Matt Stoller and Ro Khanna) that told us we could strike useful alliances with fascists and how disastrously wrong they were

the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

Josh Marshall: "No Democrat should get elected to any federal office without a credible plan to reform the Supreme Court and rid it off its corruption, along with the willingness to enact such a plan."

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Cruise company says 29 passengers left hantavirus outbreak ship on April 24, after 1st fatality on board. @apnews.com

Justice Barrett has joined the bandwagon complaining that folks only describe as “big” cases those that divide #SCOTUS ideologically. That’s not only belied by tons of actual evidence, but it obscures the extent to which it’s often the holdings the Court *chooses* to adopt that provoke such splits:

So let me get this straight… What’s in: tanning beds, flavored vapes What’s out: vaccines, anti-depressants RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists