I have never in history read of a greater collection of gutless self-serving cowards, than the Republican Senate and House. Can any legitimate objective historians out there offer an example of greater cowardly historical scum? #Congress #gop #maga #usa

Images of Israeli police forces beating up and dragging Italian aid workers is going over very well in Italy

Anybody can wave their hands and claim they'll lower costs. Voters are done with vague promises. They deserve real plans and specific steps to cut child care and utility bills. That's how we build credibility—and that’s what I’m fighting for.

1/ I wrote this is a corrupt settlement, brought in a case that was due to be dismissed. You don’t have to take my word for that-lawyers at the IRS thought so too. But Trump was in both the driver’s seat & the beneficiary’s seat. That’s the very definition of kleptocracy substack.com/@joycevance/...

Headline may as well read: “King Trump and his princely sons declare themselves above the law, scrutiny, and justice — grant themselves divine right to pilfer public coffers for life.”

"My illegal Iran war isn't paying off and is making me look real bad, so I'm gonna bully a weaker place where I think I can win and everyone will love me."

Who will free up America?

World, take note. #soccer #USA #FIFA #ice #sports

Workers at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles have decided to go on strike if federal immigration enforcement agents are deployed at the venue when it hosts FIFA World Cup matches in June and July. www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/...

We’re such a cruel, awful country.

Communities have been terrorized. The men who killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good have seen no accountability. Yet Republicans in Congress want even more billions for ICE at the cost of SNAP and Medicaid. Tell them no. act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

60,000 people are in ICE detention centres. Why bother travelling to the United States?

EXCELLENT news this morning: Officers Dunn and Hodges sue to dissolve the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that will most certainly be used to fund further insurrectionist activity www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

NEWS: Capitol Police officers sue to block Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund in a lawsuit that I think will work. GOP concerned that Massie's election loss could backfire--and that he could spoil their 2028 chances. The Murdoch family buys Vox in more media consolidation. Subscribe to support:

We found the Swamp.

Donald Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund isn’t just reparations for insurrectionists, it’s a downpayment on the next insurrection.

Israel's war on doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers. Ten years since UNSC Resolution 2286 warned of a growing pattern of assaults on hospitals, ambulances, and medical personnel during hostilities, the problem is intensifying, with Israeli attacks in Gaza epitomizing these war crimes.

Political operative and longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo files the first known claim for the Justice Department’s new “anti-weaponization” fund, seeking $2.7 million in restitution.

The Trump administration is planning to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities that the U.S. would have available to assist the alliance's European nations in a major crisis. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

It’s a pardon on steroids for Trump & his family businesses. The gov't has agreed that it won't prosecute or pursue civil claims against any of the Trumps, “whether presently known or unknown” that could have been brought as of the date of the settlement agreement. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The actual lawyers at DOJ concluded that the Trump $10 bn suit against the IRS was utterly meritless and would lose in court. This explains why Todd Blanche will shortly be on the fast track to disbarment, and after the next regime change, will likely face a criminal prosecution, conviction and jail

A look at what dismantling USAID has cost us—today in fact, and tomorrow in risk. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-deci...

The US-Israeli plan for regime change in Iran at the start of this war was apparently to replace Khamenei with… Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! The most insane-sounding story you will read today:

🎉Congratulations to ECU-endorsed and #NoCorporatePAC candidate Paige Cognetti on her primary win for #PA08. She has a record of rooting out corruption and is committed to working only for her constituents, not the special interests. We look forward to helping her win.

NEW report shows Trump is spending $1 billion a day on war with Iran while military families pay the price at home. With sky-high grocery prices, military families are relying on local food pantries and emergency grocery support programs to put food on the table. Disgraceful.

When all this Trump stuff becomes overwhelming- i dream-

Yes, that’s because people died still owing money on their student loans you ignorant B word.

Tennessee Brando on Trump voters waking up: "I'm glad they're speaking out, but I can't give them a full pass. If you got duped the first go around in 2016, that's one thing ... but if you lived through Jan 6th and you still hung with him ... then, I mean, you're the reason we're here."

We can’t be afraid of big, structural change. That means affordable, high-quality child care for every single American family. I'm at Center for American Progress' IDEAS Conference talking about how to get it done.

DOGE gutted USAID’s Ebola response programs and never fully restored them, according to the advocacy group Protect Our Care.

Attempts by the Trump administration to win over Greenlanders went south. Dispatched envoy Gov. Jeff Landry flat refusals while trying to distribute boxes of MAGA hats in the capital. With Greenland's Prime Minister firmly rejecting the pressure, America's Arctic ambitions are hitting a wall of ice.

As Christian nationalists gather in D.C., polling shows broad opposition to far-right vision Taxpayer-financed “Rededicate 250” gathering: The American mainstream isn’t buying what its organizers are selling. Corporate sponsors include Mastercard and United Airlines. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Most people will only see the spin around Trump’s $1.8b settlement fund. But once you walk through the timeline, the level of corruption becomes impossible to dismiss. Read this one all the way through. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has spent years dehumanizing Palestinians & boycotting events critical of the Israeli Govt. Now in the wake of a horrific tragedy in San Diego in which white supremacists killed 3 Muslims he hears it from a San Diego resident. Video credit: @andrewmercado.bsky.social

Marco Rubio keeps reminding us that we don't want scientific researchers if they have the wrong skin color. And he acts on it too. It's clearing out the labs at Indiana University. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

This should not have happened!

And now he's rewarding the thugs who assaulted our Capitol on Jan 6.😡

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue & shoot somebody & I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Trump said it during a campaign rally in Iowa, in Jan. 2016 while talking about his supporters. And it's true. His loyal thugs shot down two innocent citizens in Minneapolis & he still has support. #maddow

Trump spent a life time failing and doing things he couldn't finish. Now he started a war he he can't finish. Maga and non-objective thinkers voted for the reality TV image. They got the man the woke folks knew was a narcissistic disaster from his personal history. #maddow

Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from the most dangerous cancer-causing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have been removed by the Trump administration. https://cnn.it/43i6QXC

Colorado Governor Jared Polis’s release of Tina Peters, a former local election official convicted of seven crimes, from prison “weakens the rule of law, and it will encourage those who wish to undermine elections,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

When Jack Smith charged the stolen document case, Stan Woodward ALL OF A SUDDEN accused Jay Bratt of misconduct wrt Walt Nauta case. It didn't pass the smell test. And now Walt Nauta stands to make bank from the terrorist and sex predator slush fund!!!!!

The Destruction of the Dept. of Education

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NEW: More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a new Brookings report.

It is vital that everyone internalize the fact that it was not Trump who destroyed American liberal democracy, but the entire Republican Party from Trump at the top all the way down to rank-and-file voters at the bottom.

Taxpayer dollars should be spent on helping you. Instead, Donald Trump wants to take $1.7 billion of your money to help his political allies, election deniers and insurrectionists.

He is obsessed with using the Presidency to steal from you and enrich himself and his cronies.

Israel’s navy intercepts an activist flotilla in the waters off Cyprus, halting the latest attempt to challenge a naval blockade of Gaza and draw attention to the grim living conditions for Palestinians.

You don’t think Trump and his Big Oil donors are screwing you on purpose? Seriously??

More evisceration of civil rights in favor of "religious freedom" for anti-abortion, anti-contraception, and anti-LGBTQ Christians. HHS restructures Office of Civil Rights and elevates the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, first created under Trump I. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...