In other news: JD Vance and the Walton family are the largest shareholders of Acretrader. This is why they are deporting farm workers. They will buy all foreclosure farms to control the food market.

It's always been that way... trying to take away votes from Black folks. Why? Because they vote against Republicans.

Stephen at "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" recruited his predecessor, David Letterman, for a very important task: to throw CBS property off the roof. The final episode of "The Late Show" is set to air on Thursday, May 21. We will miss this show. It got us through Trump's first term.

Civil rights activists have returned to Alabama today in the wake of SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act and Confederate states rapidly gerrymandering to erase Black-majority districts. #FreedomSummer2026

‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

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NEW: At stake in Georgia's Tuesday primaries are a series of races - most notably, for governor - that will determine whether gerrymandering that advantages Republicans and dilutes Black voters' power becomes a permanent feature of Ga.'s political landscape.

“It’s just frustrating to see them come into our community and run all over us like the citizens don’t matter, and then they’re above the law when they do break it,” resident, James Clifton said. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Red states who vote for red politicians will be seeing red, but don’t act surprised. You just thought others would be hurt. Not you. You get what you vote for. Vote blue.

📌The Jim Crow South has returned, and I just don’t think most people outside of the Black community understand how maddening and truly terrifying this is. We all must rally to their defense RIGHT NOW, and stand with this nation’s most dependable patriots. My God, we owe them at least that …

Yes, I'm glad they're doing this, but it also breaks my heart that they have to do this again.

When a German chancellor — a lifelong admirer of the US, a man formed politically by the postwar alliance that made modern Germany possible — says publicly that he wouldn’t want his adult children to study or work in America, the world should stop & listen. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/german-cha...

Listen to the women from elevate Utah on the humongous and horrendous data center Kevin O’Leary is trying to build in Utah Also they’re on this episode of fast politics pod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

TODAY — and every day until we have justice for all: We fight for equal rights and we join together to support each other in this battle. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

The rescue of a turtle caught in a fishing net in the Canary Islands [📹 neptunowhalexperiencetenerif]

Donald Trump bought $220 Million+ Q1 Financial Transactions, Including Purchases of Paramount, WBD, Netflix, Disney and Comcast Securities variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Tennessee Republicans pretending not to know Memphis is majority Black is just as absurd as it would be if Tennessee Dems pretended not to know Wayne County is majority white. 🤷🏼

www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/cour... Last night SCOTUS denies Virginia’s new Congressional maps... The PEOPLE VOTED YES The court issued without any noted dissent VIRGINIA must pivot to use this as a central campaign issue FIGHT !! This ruling "nullified" the good faith of over 3 million

At least 15 former elected officials and co-conspirators with corruption offenses have been pardoned by President Trump in the last year, undermining the fight against public corruption.

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.

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Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict President Trump. Now he's running for reelection in a race that will test Trump's hold on the GOP.

This is the correct headline. (How much will Rep Ogles get?) www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-backla...

Can a presidential pardon be voided if it was bought with a bribe? Democrats just launched a sweeping investigation into Trump's pardons to find out—and they are demanding the financial receipts. This could make history. Read what happens next: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/everything...

There is a specific law designed to instantly undo Trump’s destruction of federal agencies, and Senate Democrats are already using it. They just forced Republicans to go on the record about gutting consumer protections. Read the brilliant strategy: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/everything...

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Amazon AMD Axon Boeing Microsoft Nvidia Palantir Just a few of the major corporations and government contractors Trump has bought stock in lately. Many of his trades directly coincided with regulatory decisions his administration made that affected their profits. Insider trader-in-chief.

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Trump said his little project painting the bottom of DC reflecting pool blue would cost taxpayers "just $1.8 million" As it ends up, taxpayers are gonna have to pay at least $13 MILLION for that little stunt! #WeCantAffordTrump

Trump: -Dropped fraud charges against an Indian billionaire after he hired Trump's personal lawyer -Pardoned Binance's CEO after he boosted Trump's crypto business -Scrapped consumer protections after the airline industry hired Trumpworld lobbyists Pay-to-play corruption.

Many of you keep asking how you can see the film that captures my final semester of teaching, The Last Class. Well now you can, because it's available to rent. Learn more here: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/take-my-classroom-to-your-home

Trump and Hegseth thought this war was going to be won with bombs. Iran had a different plan.

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In the last 72 hours, Taiwan has gotten a heavy dose of the reality that Ukraine, Poland, Denmark and others have seen up close and personal. Just because you have been an ally for decades through admins of both parties, the US is not your friend as long as Trump is president.

In 90 minutes, join me and @lincolnsbible.bsky.social for a "neat" show. The topic? Money money money. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4e9...

Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.

Florida Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map violates a voter-approved state ban on partisan gerrymandering, voting advocates argued Friday, asking a court to block the state from using the map in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

How about Trump peering at Xi’s private notebook when Xi left the table?

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MAGA is winning its war against American elections, with the universe of people pressing debunked theories now so broad that it’s a feature of the system, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Shane Harris, and Sarah Fitzpatrick report. theatln.tc/23ft01qg 🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic

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Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy was one of seven Republican senators who voted to impeach President Trump. Now he's running for reelection in a race that will test Trump's hold on the GOP. n.pr/4dnEsIo