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Today we all saw why Putin had to call Trump before the May 9 parade, so that he convinces Zelenskyy to allow a ceasefire. The Ukrainian drones would have caused absolute havoc in the Red Square.

/1. Our workshop is running non-stop. 🖨️⚡ Every day we continue printing components and useful gear for our friends on the frontline.
 📷 Photos from our friends after receiving the latest batch of drop components for their drone teams. Right now we’re setting a new goal:

VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝 🔥 Massive BAVOVNA in Moscow region! 🔥 Durikino, Solnechnogorsk oil station in Moscow region hit! ✈️ Sheremetyevo airport was also attacked in Moscow! ✅ Angstrem microelectronics plant and Transneft facility in Zelenograd; 1/6

“The White House’s 2026 US Counterterrorism Strategy is riddled with partisanship, misplaced assumptions, and a failure to grasp the nuance of terrorists’ ideology and modus operandi.”

This is nice but we must have missed when Senator Lamar Alexander did this himself 😕 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

🇺🇸 New financial disclosures show Trump or his advisers made more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter of 2026, totaling tens of millions of dollars and involving companies tied to his administration, - Bloomberg

The Source reports on complaints that Oregon police are violating the state’s sanctuary protections:

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this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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What is a Schrödinger's SCOTUS? It is a famous thought experiment where the same Supreme Court that told you ICE can consider race as a factor to stop an individual and question their immigration status, also told you lawmakers can't consider race when drawing congressional maps.

Republican C-SPAN caller: “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public it might help others… I regret my support for Trump, and I should’ve known better. He’s a con man. A liar. The worst, most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”

Louisiana Republican Senator Cassidy on losing his primary: “When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to — but you don’t pout. You don’t whine. You don’t claim the election was stolen.”

Buttigieg: "In my experience, Sen. Cassidy is a normal, honest, & very conservative Republican. It turns out people like that have less & less of a home in Donald Trump's Republican Party. We are seeing more extreme candidates. It's organized more & more around one man, who remains deeply unpopular"

Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

Labour MP Josh Simons on LBC: "One of the problems with our politics now is that is that we have become so constantly driven by avoiding the worst thing that can happen. 1/

Sen. Dave McCormick: "Putting troops on the ground is a whole new level of escalation, so I think the president is weighing that very carefully. If Iran in the coming days and weeks doesn't make the choice for a path to peace, I'm afraid we're gonna have to use our military."

Well, that was quite a night wasn't it? A late start for today's daily Ukraine thread, as the previous one threatened to never stop as a mass of Ukraine's drones swept across the land of the invader. It's Day 1544 of Russia's war of choice.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

The RNC used to send armed off-duty cops to hang around polling places and intimidate voters in Dem strongholds. Dems sued under the now-gutted VRA and the GOP entered a consent decree to knock it off. That was lifted in Trump’s first term.

KNOX NEWS: “Tennessee’s (Republican) supermajority is failing its people” www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

US Constitution Art 1 Sec 8: Congress shall… have Power to keep quiet about War Operations Powers Act (1973): The president may initiate military operations when he feels like it, and if he does not receive Congressional authorization after 60 days is obligated to change the name of the operation

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼 Axios: Trump advisers fear Xi will invade Taiwan within 5 years — and the US chip supply chain won't be ready. One adviser says Xi used the Beijing summit to signal: "We're not a rising power. We're your equal. And Taiwan is mine."

The civil war within the Idaho GOP continues on Tuesday: All members of the legislature’s ultraconservative “Gang of Eight” face challengers. We’re following these and many other key races:

FINISH RECONSTRUCTION 👏 AOC: “MAGA is the last dying breath of the confederacy. In response to a confederacy, we have this moment here of liberation, abolition, and revival of the values that make this country actually great.”

Yikes

The new mayor of Whittier, California, vows to adopt an ordinance restricting ICE activities. “We need to show the next generation that Whittier is a city that has values,” he said. “So getting that ordinance passed, that would be a value statement.”

Rep. LaMonica McIver says private prisons are profiting by jailing some who’ve already signed deportation agreements.

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.)

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.

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RESULT #2: Louisianans also just rejected a constitutional amendment that would have raised the mandatory retirement age for judges.

🚨 BREAKING: The Senate parliamentarian struck the GOP provision that would have spent $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, according to Senate Budget Committee Democrats. The parliamentarian ruled that the provision violated the Byrd Rule.

RESULT: Louisianans was voting on a constitutional amendment today that’d have made it easier to “reclassify” civil servants in a way that made them fireable. Voters just rejected that amendment (the AP has called).

Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.

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“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

Yesterday, the Israeli and Lebanese governments renewed the "ceasefire." Today, Israel carried out a series of bombings and issued new orders to displace civilians, continuing to pursue the same policy of ethnic cleansing in Southern Lebanon that they are in Gaza. crimethinc.com/LebanonHistory

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Nebraska Democrats outpolled Republicans in three legislative districts in the all-candidate primaries this week. They want to flip at least one in the fall to break the GOP supermajority, which in this state matters a ton. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

BIG STORY: ICE arrested, shackled and separated Israel and Max Makoka as they were about to board their school bus in Diamondhead, Miss. While one brother endured confinement and pressure to self-deport in a Louisiana prison, the other was sent to a youth home in Texas. Now, they tell their story.

Hello again, on Day 1543 of Ukraine's battle for survival. This is THE daily thread, with all the news of and about Ukraine and the aggressor, Russia. Welcome to the weekend -let's start this thing!

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, holding spending level while closing a $12 billion deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit year over year by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

Today is Election Day in Louisiana. We’re following a Trump-backed challenge to U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, statewide ballot measures, and a race for the state supreme court. Our May elections guide has more:

Please let Congress make money trading on inside info while Americans struggle y’all

🤔“Trump personally bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors early this year… Trump admin directly regulates some of these companies and many trades coincided with favorable regulatory decisions.” www.notus.org/money/donald...

Imagine hearing a 11-year old tell you this and going “nah, we want you to feel excluded” bsky.app/profile/capi...