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"I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody." Tuesday, May 12, 2026. ~Trump 142 days until the midterms. VOTE.

So basically being a trillionaire is a license to kill. #Consequences #USAID

For old timers like myself I still remember the video of Walter Cronkite fighting back tears as he announced the death of President Kennedy. The cartoon here is so appropo....

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

What happened to sensible Republicans? Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan, that's what.

This raid is an alarming & desperate move by GOP. Only 1 reason this administration’s FBI would attempt to intimidate & suppress OH voters. What a full-frontal attack on the millions of Ohioans who are ready to reject efforts to inflict additional harm on them. www.statenews.org/government-p...

Donald Trump is still hiding at least 3 million pages of the Epstein files. Donald Trump turned the Situation Room into an Epstein crisis communications room. And yet the simplest, most moral solution remains: Release all the files NOW. Give the survivors the justice they deserve.

Children are 25% of the population, but they are 100% of our future. The Child Safety and Well-Being Act would make sure the federal government promotes the interests of children through policymaking, ensuring they are represented when we make decisions that impact their lives.

Public schools welcome and educate every child regardless of their background or income, and public funding should stay in public schools. 🧵

EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES HE DESTROYS!

I saw Spielberg’s Disclosure Day in IMAX this afternoon. The entire theater stood/clapped at the end. It had me weeping for its message and humanity. 💕💕 (The final scenes of “Disclosure Day” are among the most emotionally riveting of Spielberg’s career in ways you won’t predict-RogerEbert.com)

Let women run the world.

Talarico: It looks a lot more like professional wrestling, right? You've got these old guys lathered up in their fake tan, throwing cheesy nicknames at each other. And those nicknames, they don't lower the cost of groceries.

Geezus Chryst on a cracker. I just heard Marco Rubio compare the moon landing to a UFC fight on the White House lawn. As some GOP Senator said last month this is, "stupid on stilts." Everytime I think we've hit bottom we just go deeper.

So this is the 39th time Trump claims a "deal" is immenent with Iran. 39th. He has claimed 9 times the war was essentially "over." Trump and his team must think his followers are the stupidest people that ever walked the earth. And he's right.

The Hawaii thing is a big deal so of course the Koch’s want to kill it

BREAKING: Trump Announces (The 39th) “Imminent” Iran Peace Deal: Trump Says It’s Done, Iran Says It Isn’t, Israel Says It Isn’t, And Oil Just Did The Thing It Always Does. IN-SANE.

I wouldn't watch that #UFC fight at the White House even with a gun to my head. F*** David Ellison, his kid, and Paramount+

"I don’t care about the midterms." ~Trump, May 27th, 2026 144 days unitl the midterms. VOTE

"I love the inflation." ~Trump, June 10th, 2026 144 days until the midterms. VOTE.

Trump just told me on my TV that the UFC White House lawn fight will the most highly ratings draw ever. Should I go to Kalshi on that one?

White people. He means white people.

The good news: just got my passport renewed and Trump's mug is NOT on it.

#Trump's corruption is making the Tea Pot Dome and Credit Moblier scandals look like parking tickers. COMBINED.

A fun fact I just discovered doing research: only four people have ever won more than one Nobel prize: Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, and Frederick Sanger. That's a pretty elite group.

For some reason my news feeds on all the social platforms I'm on INSISTS on telling me what @billmaher 's opinion is on any myriad of issues. Maher is a bigoted pos. Thats MY opinion of this waste of oxygen.

Can Bill Maher be a bigger piece of s***? Geezus. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Its day 56 of my Civil War real time Daily Tracker on my American History Blogmanac. If you haven't been following my blog on the American Civil War you need to as President Lincoln acts to save our nation. ahblogmanac.blogspot.com/2026/06/amer...

149 Days until the mid-terms. Make sure you are ready to VOTE. In Florida my choice of candidates are: @alexvindman.bsky.social US Senate @rachelgrage.bsky.social Florida Congressional District 5 @donnadeegan.bsky.social Mayor Jacksonville, Florida @fladems.bsky.social

Honoring D‑Day — June 6, 1944. Today’s Blogmanac post follows Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and Norman Cota through the fire on Omaha Beach. Read the full story on the Blogmanac. www.blogger.com/blog/post/ed...

There sure are a lot of "clean-up on aisle #47" announcements here. The next announcement? The clean-up after gutting the #USDA and the #APHIS [Animal & Health Inspection Service] to protect us from things like,....you know the #Screworm & #Ebola www.rawstory.com/markwayne-mu...

I don't ever get excited about jobs numbers. Remember, the trump administration fired every independent number cruncher and just puts these numbers out on their own. So we KNOW they're bullshit.

We don't want X devotees here. The majority are Trump loving White ChristoFascist scum and bots. I realize why newsmedia (both MAGA propagandists & credible sources) are on X & FB. Bluesky could use more credible journalists. But I refuse to support Musk & Zuckerberg when I can avoid them.

Friday jobs numbers being better than expected is like the aft of the #Titanic rising up out of the water before it breaks in two as it sinks. So let's not get too excited here.

Watching #Trump trying to remake Washington, D.C. in his image reminds me of Roman Emperors doing the same to Rome only to have the following Emperor take it all down. #History in its wash, rinse, repeat cycle is axiomatic.

#Maine is gone. If @thedemocratsmv.bsky.social have any chance to take the Unites States Senate its going to have to go through #Alaska, #Iowa, #Texas, and #Florida. #midterms #elections

Well, here we are 150 days out from the #midterm elections....we've got to hold on for a little longer to see if our nation can in the end survive the corrput #GOP...

Update: Louisiana voters tonight have rejected all five constitutional amendments that were on the ballot today; they were there with the support of the GOP legislature and Gov. Landry.

Louisiana’s Republican voters just ousted U.S. Senator Cassidy in a primary. Cassidy (who voted to convict Trump over Jan. 6 and has since been a Trump target) comes in third in the primary and so won’t move to the runoff. (Julia Letlow and John Fleming move to the runoff.)

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American aviator Harriet Quimby the first woman to fly across the English Channel, 1912. Her only instruments were a hand-held compass and a watch. She was the first woman in the US to obtain a pilot's license, 1911. She was born #OTD in 1875. #aviation #AvGeek #AviationHistory

My American History Blogmanac Civil War Daily Tracker Day 31 for May 11th, 1861 is live. Tension deepens as border states struggle over loyalty & move to secure key routes. Follow today’s entry here: ahblogmanac.blogspot.com/2026/05/amer... #WhatsHistory #Discover #AmericanHistory #CivilWar

My American History Blogmanac Civil War Daily Tracker Day 31 for May 11th, 1861 is live. Tension deepens as border states struggle over loyalty & move to secure key routes. Follow today’s entry here: ahblogmanac.blogspot.com/2026/05/amer... #WhatsHistory #Discover #AmericanHistory #CivilWar

At this point #MAGA, #Trump, and the former Confederate states are just waiting for the Robert's Court to overturn the 13th amendment and make slavery legal again.

Martha Washington was NOT the first "First Lady." Find out who was here at American History Blogmanac: ahblogmanac.blogspot.com/2026/05/harr...