If you’re a follower of mine in the United States, please take a look at the post below, and please consider sharing it. I presume it WON’T be covered in American media.

"will not be counted..."

Janey Godley is still right. RIP Janey.

One thing candidates, electeds, and particularly our political press needs to get is how broken the system now is, who intentionally broke it, and that there is no undo button. There are no half measures that will correct this and you don’t get to ask the Baileys what might be acceptable.

You are not a serious news org if you continue to write headlines like this with no fact checks or context. Everyone at CBS News knows Trump has made a whirlwind of false promises about the end of the war but here they are 60+ days later amplifying his BS. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

https://www.love-and-hisses.com/5-4-26/ The Love & Hisses blog post for Monday, May 4th. 🙂

He's also still using "excursion" because six weeks ago some general told him this would be a "limited military incursion" and he was too dumb to understand it. Now none of his bootlicking staffers are willing to correct him. So we all proceed as if this is normal.

Just remembering the time that Roberts' Supreme Court gave Trump totally immunity from the consequences of *gestures wildly* all this but ruled that Biden couldn't even forgive some student debt

VInay Prasad tried to prevent the FDA from even reviewing this vaccine.

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

Neil Gorsuch was on Megyn Kelly’s show today.

Was blessed today (I didn’t take these pics; someone in my group with a telephoto lens is sharing 😊)

RIP Project Freedom (May 4, 2026 - May 5, 2026)

Today we not only get news from the New York Times that the Trump Administration stopped the publication of a study showing the shingles vaccine is safe, but there’s another study showing that vaccine may offer some protection against dementia.

BREAKING: Former Sen. Sherrod Brown wins Ohio Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

The combination of El Nino, drought and a warm winter have Gov. Tina Kotek and state agencies predicting a lengthy and difficult wildfire season for Oregonians. Read more here: www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

This video shows *four* Hooded Orioles at the feeders! They really like grape jelly #birds 🪶

He really wants to kill us all. FRFKJR

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

No pretense.

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

Not only does the Roberts Court selectively apply the Constitution, even when they determine something is unconstitutional, they selectively decide when that matters

Let’s refresh: this same court slow-walked the Trump immunity case for how long, again?

5 days of this …

It's not quite that they pretend those killings never happened -- they developed an alternate narrative in which the killer was actually a leftist working for Tim Walz. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/aft...

I didn't realize Gov Landry in Louisiana is literally *using a natural disaster law* to invoke an emergency to suspend House elections in time to redraw district lines. "Hurricane Black People Might Get Representation" I guess is the name of the storm law.justia.com/codes/louisi...

You could say that May 4th is the bookends to the long 1960s. On May 4, 1961, the first Freedom Rides took place, when 13 students including John Lewis left Washington DC for New Orleans. And on May 4, 1970, the National Guard opened fire on college students at Kent State, killing four.

This talking point is now repeated as gospel truth across the MAGA right. Legal filings and public evidence make clear that the SPLC was warning about the 2017 white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally - not sponsoring it. Which is of course obvious to anyone outside of the MAGA media cocoon.

Right?

Sol is donating 25% of every sale on certain pieces (see her feed) to the charity of your choice. You could own a beautiful illustration or painting that makes you happy every day AND you could help someone ELSE be happy through your transitive donation. Win win!

Every time Todd Blanche opens his mouth, a defendant somewhere gets a better shot at motions for selective & vindictive prosecution.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

The edits CBS made here are severe, and depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest. trib.al/xaPuJZc

WELKER: On Amazon, there are dozens of "8647" products being sold and purchased right now. Should individuals selling or buying that merchandise be concerned they are going to prosecuted? BLANCHE: Of course not

MUST READ. I don’t have a disabled adult in my household, but as a taxpayer, I want society (our government) to provide the resources the law requires without requiring recipients to jump thru endlessly changing machinations that further complicate their lives. Playing immoral games is WRONG.

Carol Nelson, contemporary US painter known for her landscapes #WomensArt

Embroidered hanging of wool on linen depicting a pomegranate tree, roses and other flowers, foliage and birds: designed by May Morris, 1891, and worked by May Morris and Theodosia Middlemor. #Womensart

A few words on legacy media. Conference on World Affairs University of Colorado Boulder April 15th, 2026

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

Mississippi Republicans quickly began pushing to eliminate Bennie Thompson's district in Mississippi after the VRA ruling. This would leave Mississippi—where nearly 4-in-10 residents are Black—with four white-majority congressional districts. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

She wasn’t a public activist or a political figure. She was a physician in Baltimore working quietly inside a system that often restricted what women could even be told about their own bodies. Her name was Bessie Moses. #EternalLight #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth 1/10

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

But I was told we needed to tone down the rhetoric

I know everyone has seen comments like this so often they're inured to it, but that's really appalling. He's making statements that are plainly false at the most basic level, and rather than admit or correct that, he has convinced a large swathe of Americans to decide that he's actually correct

new Tucker Carlson gaslighting level unlocked

Of Course The Women, Have To Teach The Men, How To Share.....

hey i'm at a bar drinking whiskey and waiting for my wife to show up, AMA

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.