Lots of betting by people who know exactly what Trump will do a few hours later. “It’s one thing if you go after bread-and-butter insider trading and you catch an investment banker,”

"The Lincoln Project, for all its satisfying anti-Trump advertising, was never in the business of dismantling conservative infrastructure; it was in the business of saving that infrastructure from Trump." abovethelaw.com/2026/05/form...

I can’t stop thinking about just how many Republicans out there must fear what just happened to Bill Cassidy—so much that they won’t speak up or disagree with Trump because are scared of their own voters. To be a Republican simply means total subservience to Trump only.

It would be hilarious if for the next seven months Cassidy showed as much loyalty to Trump with his votes in the Senate as Trump showed him.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The thing with Cassidy — who is a gastroenterologist — is he has proven he knows better. His past statements on vaccines were grounded in science. But he voted to confirm RFK Jr in a cynical move to help save his own political career. Trump didn’t give a sh*t.

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.

💔🤍💙😢 "Spare a moment, please, for the lame-duck superpower. It calls itself the leader of the free world, but the free world no longer believes it. When it extends its hand, nobody rushes to accept. When it threatens, nobody trembles."

it’s honestly so embarrassing that we have to talk about trump’s ballroom in a serious way. someone in his circle didn’t immediately tell him it was the dumbest fucking idea in the whole world and now it’s become our mortifying problem. clown shit.

Federal funding for Trump’s $400m ballroom in jeopardy after Senate ruling

BREAKING: Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg endorses The Montana Plan and will visit Butte, MT for a Town Hall event on May 17. For more information & to RSVP go to pete.montanaplan.org — link in bio! #politicsnews #darkmoney #themontanaplan #transparentelections

While everyone's watching Hormuz, the Epstein files are being buried. The law says release them. Trump is fighting it. Massie may lose his seat Tuesday for pushing it. And now a $1.7B slush fund for Jan 6 defendants? Don't go quiet. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Trump has spent the day angrily posting about Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert due to their role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. That says a whole lot. His latest post: "Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?"

After we are done laughing, we can start crying.

From the bottom up, GA. They cannot gerrymander every single race. Reclaim your State.

really hard to beat this as a symbol of institutional decay. the SEALs — a unit that has become infamously loose in discipline — escorting a corrupt politician without any discipline (Patel) on a party inside a hallowed watery graveyard for the fallen

I remember how many red states voted to make abortion legal while at the same time voting for republican state legislators. Who then promptly made abortion illegal overwriting the voters. That's why it makes no sense for any democratic politician to try and pursue republican voters

Hi Bluesky 👋 I finally deleted my X/Twitter account today after years of going back and forth about it. Walking away from nearly 4k followers was honestly terrifying. Washington photographer obsessed with wildlife, ferries, storms, and dramatic Pacific Northwest light ❤️

leaving the science/public health implications aside for a moment, from a purely political perspective "Biden would've been more popular if he'd pushed for longer lockdowns and insisted that people keep wearing masks indefinitely" is an especially bluesky bubble-level piece of delusional thinking.

😕 In fairness he’ll probably pocket most of it

The part of Colorado that wanted to secede and join Wyoming, a state that that tossed out Liz Cheney Weld County residents propose leaving Colorado again, this time to join Wyoming Associated Press 2:04 PM MST on Jan 27, 2021 coloradosun.com/2021/01/27/w...

Wiggins is in Morgan County, apparently one of only three Colorado counties to VOTE FOR THE REELECTION OF HERBERT HOOVER lmfao

Also lmao “about 25 miles southwest of Wiggins” oh you mean driving straight toward the center of Denver, CO, and getting about a third of the way there?

Maybe Reuters should stop asking these people what they consider themselves & start asking the people in the towns they live in what they consider these people because I can guarantee you that how they perceive themselves is not how they are being perceived

The best present-day class analysis of these regions is “American Gentry” by historian Patrick Wyman patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-g...

Stop calling the leisured provincial gentry "working class"

You can be the richest white guy in the world, but if you own one (1) truck, you’re actually a hard on your luck economically anxious person verging on poor

Obama was the future. Until the US electorate decided that racism, misogyny, corruption, disrespect, a lack of empathy and a lack of humility was a solution for a fractured imperfect nation that needed more time to heal the ills of the past. Now it may be too late

OMG!!! Does the Wall Street Journal think we didn't know already??? What an insane post linking to... an article they think is an exposé??? "A WSJ analysis of thousands of posts found that President Trump uses Truth Social to spread conspiracy theories and attack his adversaries."

And their stupid dogshit looks like this

I don't think execs want writers. They want formulaic dog shit they don't have to pay a human to write, star in, or produce, and then they want to print money from it. They'll never get it, but that's definitely the goal they're chasing

every single ad or recommendation for AI I ever see is the most pathetic shit I've seen in my life 'use AI to explore a town while you're laid over between flights' you mean a brochure? 'we can use AI to determine if there's a contaminate' how about using base code with limits for our needs?

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

“All roads lead to the South”

I've said it before but it bears repeating: human trafficking usually looks like this, having your housing, food security and income relying on a single person, being controlled and exploited by them. It often looks like normal employment or normal romantic relationships to the untrained eye.

again,

For the second year in a row, Louisiana voters delivered a stunning defeat to Gov. Jeff Landry by overwhelmingly rejecting a slate of constitutional amendments he supported. Landry spent $1m trying to get the amendments passed. #lalege lailluminator.com/2026/05/16/f...

Filings: in Q1, Trump traded $220M-$750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and others; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Bond set at $1.25m Lolol Watch his face when he hears..

Every person on that ship should have been quarantined by the WHO. This was so mishandled, and all because the passengers are rich. Disgusting

Canadian officials have reported that one of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has a "presumptive positive" test result.

Ergo, Americans can't have those things, because then we'd be giving Black people those things. At the root of everything in this country is white supremacy. EVERYTHING. You abolish and undo white supremacy, and that's when we can finally have better livability for everyone, not just the rich.

Racist voters rather vote to keep Black people from getting anything than getting something for themselves. It’s why the Democratic Party hasn’t won the majority of White voters since the Civil Rights Act was passed.

Hi. 😊 Black American here. Norway is an almost entirely white country. The United States is racist as fuck. That's why we don't have a social democracy or, like, healthcare. Follow for more glimpses into a racist society where white people* would rather die than see a Black person succeed.

Vulnerable House GOPers are leaking word that they're unhappy with the slogan "MAGA majority" for the GOP midterm strategy because it puts Trump too front and center. He's toxic. On the pod, @monacharen.bsky.social is great on the deeper reasons for his toxicity: newrepublic.com/article/2104...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

This is truly heartwarming, especially the joy when the camera pans to students. Every senior university administrator should watch this interaction. Queued up in official video: youtu.be/zwYkHS8jvSE?...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...