Traitors’ Payday

Fascinating how the Trump Administration always gets its inspiration from the Nazis...

After this Thursday’s show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful, and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his regime. Farewell, and thank you, Stephen. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/farewell-and-thank-you-stephen-colbert

Attacking the rule of law domestically and internationally is a through line for this administration.

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...

This is also illegal -- I don't care what they claim www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

The largest federal reparations fund in US history goes not to indigenous tribes or descendants of formerly enslaved people or interned Japanese-Americans — but to J6ers who smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol and attempted to hang the Vice President.

I know we're long past the point where this should be shocking anymore, but I still can't get over official government accounts stating that Jesus is "our Savior."

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Trump glazes Xi and menaces Taiwan. It’s Russia/Ukraine in the Pacific. He loves our adversaries and hates our friends because he idolizes autocrats.

Trump on saying he doesn't think about Americans' financial situation: "It's a perfect statement. I'll make it again. Everybody agrees."

(Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday declined to comment on a Reuters report that the U.S. has cleared about 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, saying that was a Commerce Department matter. @reuters.com #$NVDA

We need to flip four senate seats this November to overcome the Fetterman problem.

If you’ve ever swallowed an aspirin, put milk in your coffee, fed your pet, or filled a prescription, then you’ve relied on the lifesaving oversight of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (cont.) 🧵 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation" 175 more days until you get to vote against this and every Republican who enabled it to go on this long.

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

A Super El Niño is approaching, potentially the strongest El Niño we’ve seen in a century, and Trump is proposing to cut weather agency NOAA by 26 percent to save money for taxpayers Meanwhile the amount it’s proposing to cut from NOAA is equivalent to 1.3 days of taxpayer spending on the Iran war

The FBI has raided the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas. This comes weeks after she spearheaded a redistricting effort in Virginia, netting up to four new blue seats.

This is what the Supreme Court calls “race neutral.”

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

It happened again. The most corrupt administration in history.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

No wonder Trump laments Robert E. Lee's loss at Gettysburg. After multiple defeats on Northern soil, POTUS 47 looks to the ex-Confederacy to indict his enemies and save Congress by deleting Black districts We shall overcome the new Southern strategy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️ If you needed any more proof that the Voting Rights Act is still necessary, just look at what’s happening right now: red states rushing to wipe out Black representation the second SCOTUS gutted it. What went down this week is going to have devastating consequences. 🧵

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

There it is. Any questions?

Absolute truth from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. We warned you. You did it anyway. At that one moment, all you had to do was check the right box for a thriving, peaceful and successful life. And now every decent American is under complete, life-threatening assault.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In news that absolutely everyone predicted…

🚨BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court kneecapped the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the landmark civil rights law that restricted racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting for more than fifty years. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“It leads people to believe that all they can do is sit back and wait to find out whether these technologies turn out to be civilisation-ending demons, or utopia-gifting messiahs."

Just a reminder...

The National Science Foundation is the main source of funding for basic sciences in the US. For decades, they have supported a scientific R&D ecosystem in the US that has been an engine of economic growth and competitive advantage. Destroying the agency is no less than an act of sabotage.

The entire board behind the National Science Foundation was fired on Friday. They were planning to release a report on how the U.S. is ceding ground to China on scientific endeavors. The Trump admin likes to say we’re competing with China but in reality this is just an excuse to not regulate AI.

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

HARDER: What are the health harms of this repeal? ZELDIN: It could be 0 HARDER: You think doubling the amount of mercury pollution is going to result in 0 health harms?

By this same logic, Donald Trump bears direct personal responsibility for the murder of Melissa Hortman, the assault on Paul Pelosi, the guy who showed up armed at the Obamas, the attempted pipe bombing of several prominent Democrats, the January 6th rioters who assaulted cops, and many many more.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

So, the mentalist didn't know what was happening?

PabloReports: Donald Trump is complaining about the results in Virginia. He seems to be very distressed. AOC: I’m sooo sorry for his heartbreak at this moment, and I look forward to adding ten more Democratic colleagues in November.

ALSOBROOKS: I have the recording. I can play it RFK Jr: I do not believe that every Black kid should be re-parented on a wellness farm and I have never believed it ALSOBROOKS: Well you said it, sir, I have the video RFK Jr: I'd have to see the transcript

Acting CDC head cancels publication of a study showing Covid vaccine sharply cut odds of hospitalization and ER visits. Agency veterans say they've never seen an article pulled after being cleared by scientists and scheduled for publication. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...