Team Trump keeps finding new ways to reward Russia: - yet another break on oil sanctions - shrugged off evidence that Russia has helped Iran - ignored Russian attacks on US interests in Ukraine - allowed Russia to bypass Cuban oil blockade And that’s just from the last couple of months.

BILLY BOYLE "...reminds me a bit of some of the older and hard-core mysteries like those from the 1930s...I found myself drawn to the characters and the search, and there are enough twists and turns in the plot to keep it interesting. This is a serious book revolving around a double. mystery."

I like my president to look like he's alive.

People forgot what the economy was like after Covid.

Blatant corruption is intentional. It is how authoritarians reward loyalists and consolidate power.

Today (May 19) only, my novel SOUVENIR is on sale in multiple e-book formats for only 99 cents. www.amazon.com/dp/B00J3EU3O... Available in the US, Canada, and Great Britain.

Big day for criminals to get a windfall payout from taxpayer dollars so they can retire early and put their feet up after beating cops and smashing windows to storm the Capitol - orchestrated by Republicans. A transfer of money from hardworking law-abiding citizens to scum.

It’s very depressing to think about how struggling Americans are being forced to visit food banks or cut medications in half while some Jan. 6 insurrectionist who took a shit in the hallways of the Capitol may get a payout from Looter-in-chief Donald Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund.

"Mike Johnson says we should have sympathy because Congress isn’t paid enough—so we should “allow” insider trading just so they can take care of their families(70% of Americans can’t afford a $1k emergency)" Source: old.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

Past time for a change VOTE!

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

FREEGIFT is a novel of the American Revolution involving Benedict Arnold and the burning of New London. SHARD tells the story of Ethan Shard, a forgotten man from the forgotten war. Both available in ebook and paperback.

18 hrs. ago, Credit @huffpost.com "A LA man gave an impassioned speech calling out state Republicans for their racist gerrymander. “I believe the country as a whole is rebuking your party. Y’all are in a death spiral,” he said. “That’s why y’all have to redistrict. That’s why y’all have to cheat.”

Just keeps getting worse by the moment.

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

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President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Trump is stealing your money with his policies by making everything more expensive but he doesn’t care because his priorities are wars, ballrooms, reflecting pools, and self-enrichment.

We....YOU & ME are Democracy. We have not yet been loud enough. @fairfightaction.bsky.social @staceyabrams.com

Donald Trump did a Mariah Carey on his reflecting pool contractor ☠️ “I don’t know him.” The same no-bid contractor that he said did Olympic-size pools for him before. He knows this is a disaster. ( H/T @ddale8.bsky.social )

This day in 1943 marked the surrender of all German and Italian forces in North Africa. Axis forces yielded over 275,000 prisoners of war, in addition to over 40,000 killed during the course of the campaign. German troops pictured await transport in a massive POW cage in Tunisia.

With a year of data in, the results are clear: the marginal ICE arrest is NOT a criminal. You can barely even tell on the right side of these charts of arrests of convicts when an ICE operation starts and ends. The spikes for noncriminals are massive.

Trump's war in Iran has eaten up and undone two-thirds of the inflation-adjusted wage gains since he took office. Between January 2025 and February 2026, inflation-adjusted wages grew at the same pace they had in the last two years of the Biden admin. Then Trump attacked Iran and spiked inflation.

He's getting more repetitive and simplistic than ever. Unequal to the task at hand.

With fertilizer, this planet feeds 8.5 billion people. Without it, we can feed around 2 billion. We have just disrupted 30% of global fertilizer supply through the Strait of Hormuz. And people are still talking about this as if it is an oil story. youtu.be/l0oHnwlDB5I?...

Maybe if he wasn’t up all night posting QAnon memes he would be able to stay awake during public events.

Your daily reminder, it's not normal for U.S. presidents to fall asleep at White House functions on national TV.

Oh look actual research consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/no-cause-for...

Priorities dontcha know

Voting rights organizations across the South are pledging to oppose the GOP’s efforts to rig congressional maps in its favor. “This is not the will of the people,” Matia Powell, executive director of CivilTN said.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Out like a light

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My heart is full seeing the images of Kevin and his family reunited. Our community made this moment possible.   As we celebrate Mother's Day, let’s remember all the mothers still separated from their loved ones by DHS. For all the families that have not been reunited yet, we continue the fight.

FREEGIFT, my novel of the American Revolution. "Freegift is a fantastic book. Deeply and engagingly intriguing, revealing, visceral, and compassionate." -Stephen Mack Jones, author of the August Snow novels

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

Was there ever a hand-wringing WaPo piece on “tree, rope, journalist, some assembly required” or any of the other psycho right-wing memes over the years? I doubt it. It’s only a problem when it’s pointed right.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Someday, our turn will come.

I just can’t. How does anyone support this lunatic?

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Never Forget as We Americans and other nationalities die.

Trump wanted a war with Iran because he thought Americans would rally around a war president and it would drive his poll numbers up. It did the opposite. So thousands of lives & billions of dollars were wasted, and the price you pay for gas is significantly higher, because Donald Trump is an idiot.

These deaths are on him as well as the parents he has misled.

"Let me see . . . should I listen to my child's pediatrician or the former heroin addict who cuts the penises off roadkill to take home? Yeah, the dude with the racoon penis, not the dude with an MD. Boy, that was an easy decision, y'all!"

Despite #Amazon's best efforts, the ranks of America’s indie #bookstores have swelled by 70 percent since 2020. From @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...