Just came across this, from @bylinetimes.bsky.social March. Well worth a read …. bylinetimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

I love that the response of the FBI rank and file to the initial story was not only "fuck that guy" but also "hold on it gets weirder"

VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...

The lead plaintiff in Callais v. Louisiana said on social media that he was at January 6:

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

it's not immediately visible in the US unless you are in DC, where practically everybody is—at maximum—one degree of separation away from someone who got DOGEd

The administration is ramping up its attempts to seize election materials and voter data from states. Protect Democracy's @alexandrachandler.bsky.social has 3 concrete steps for state election officials to take now to protect the midterms. Read it here and share:

The crazy part is how much money $10 billion doesn’t sound like, when it is actually the same as writing: 10,000 million for Trump If you work 40 years at $100,000 a year, that’s 4 million dollars in a lifetime. This a-hole wants 2500 lifetimes of money just because people saw his taxes.

MS NOW: The Trump admin has been making taxpayer payouts to people connected to Trump world: $1.25 million for Carter Page $1.25 million for Michael Flynn $5 million to the estate of Ashli Babbitt Lawyers for Trump and the IRS are in talks to settle Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS

We’ve got the full list of #Palantir recipients here: purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

"The men and women told AFP on Wednesday that they arrived in Kinshasa after a 27-hour flight which they spent with their hands and feet shackled." The human rights abuses of the Trump era must be prosecuted when Dems are in power.

All adults and some children on ICE flights—some 50 flights a day now—are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists. I have spoken to migrants and their attorneys who report being shackled for 50, 75, and 82 hours while being deported. Flight data backs this up.

So he spiked his own drink to make it look safe to offer to women. I bet he got that tip from the "r*pe academy" website. & The men blaming her know better & protect eachother by blaming her. I really do hope she's okay now. I was reminded of this...

When it comes to women, men will sexualize anything, even womens sweat ffs.

The type of dude support Therapy Jeff

Apparently there was a site where women could anonymously name the person who hurt them & it was taken down within days. Meanwhile "rape academies" stay up so long they can track which months had the most traffic.

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

Warner Bros. shareholders have approved an $81 billion Paramount merger. What does that mean? It’s a very scary time for the media. CNN may fall under the control of associates of the White House. States’ attorneys general are suing to block the deal. #ProudBlue #Paramount #WarnerBros

🧵 I can’t stop thinking of how Versailles-on-the-Potomac it is for White House reporters to party with Trump, Hegseth & Stephen Miller this weekend despite their assault on the free press. If Trump’s masked thugs led the press away in handcuffs, the arrestees would negotiate for the exclusive. 1/4🧵

They don’t even really have the story right, because they are acting like the G650s were a new purchase with the expansion under Mullin. But those were brought under Noem! The new purchases under Mullin are two more 737s from Avelo. gillianbrockell.com/water-is-wet...

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

“Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s husband exchanged text messages with young female staff members, as did her father.” Come on, now. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

There’s a study that found that participants would rather hire a man with a history of perpetration allegations than a woman who had been a whistleblower.

I was reliably informed by a law professor that the Shadow Docket existed to punish homeless people. Just today, in fact.

James Talarico (D-TX) explains how #TrumpRiggedYourTaxReturn with his Big, Ugly Bill. The top 1% get $177 billion in tax cuts while the bottom 95% pay more. On top of paying more in taxes households are paying about $1700/year because of tariffs and now fuel is at $4 a gallon. Shameful!!

It's not just about coffee and banana prices. We can't afford to buy homes. Student debt & healthcare bills are crushing us. We're told we're "middle class" but we're living paycheck-to-paycheck. Egg prices going ⬇️ can't fix what decades of trickle-down economics broke. #TrumpRiggedYourTaxReturn

The ultra wealthy pay less than ever under Trump's tax policies. You pay more through hidden mechanisms like tariffs and eliminated health credits. This system extracts from workers to fund billionaire slush funds. #TrumpRiggedYourTaxReturn

Column by Philip Kennicott: An AI-generated image of President Trump as a saintly figure sparked outrage for its blasphemous implications and desperation. Its swift removal from Truth Social revealed the instability in his relationship with supporters. https://wapo.st/3OtNcEe

Taxation without representation is no longer a metaphor. Structural minority rule, voter engineering, and weaponized governance are driving states to act as sovereign protectors—testing whether the American national bargain can still hold. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-coming...?

what do you even fucking do with this, man? the president is beefing with the pope while posting AI sop pictures of himself as jesus and the catholic vice-president is telling the pope he is doing theology wrong. i am not and have never been religious and this shit shocks and bothers me.

imagine joining a religion and then five years later criticizing the leader of that religion, who has dedicated his whole life to that religion, and who that religion says is infallible, about said religion

Grab a box of tissues before you read this one.

This morning at 10 ET, the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on … the Second Amendment: www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the... I’m the minority witness. My written testimony offers some thoughts about what the Committee ought to be talking about instead:

“You see people spending thousands and thousands of dollars for services that are not rendered." The scammers profiting off Trump's immigration crackdown.

BARTIROMO: Jerome Powell said he's not leaving TRUMP: Then I'll have to fire him BARTIROMO: And you think Warsh can get confirmed? You think Tillis is gonna give you a vote? TRUMP: He might not, but that's why Tillis is no longer a senator BARTIROMO: Okay

Trump: "Powell is a bad chairman, and I was surprised when Biden extended him" (Trump appointed Powell)

BARTIROMO: Could AI be the type of technology that undermines confidence in the banking system? TRUMP: Yeah, probably BARTIROMO: So should government have some safeguards? TRUMP: There should be, but we're leading in AI. We're leading China by a lot.

Savagely tortured, then sentenced by the Russians to 13 years for letters to her Ukrainian defender son khpg.org/en/1608815673

In 2005, Russia gave up FSB control of its prisons to join the Council of Europe. Twenty years later it's undone that. For hundreds of Crimean political prisoners on fabricated charges, the agency that built the cases against them now also controls their cells. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/14/r...

TODAY: The House is expected to vote on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens. Tell your representative to vote NO and stop the regime from gobbling up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants. 👇

Sheinbaum’s embrace of universal healthcare—as well as her support of Cuba—shows us what is possible when the well-being of people is championed unconditionally.

Trump: "I had the greatest year, the greatest opening year. I ended 8 wars. The greatest economy ever. But even when you have a great president, they tend to lose the midterms. It doesn't make sense to me. We've had the greatest year in the history of the presidency. We should be given credit."

National self-harm www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Trump on Artemis II: "I started that program. NASA was closed."

⚡️Ukrainian drones strike major Russian petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, media reports. Ukrainian drones reportedly struck a petrochemical plant in Sterlitamak in Russia's Bashkortostan Republic on April 15, independent Russian Telegram channel Astra said.

Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler lies that small business is "booming" (new data shows actually small business optimism at its lowest point in nearly a year)

HUGE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former personal lawyer who was also responsible for Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a cushy club fed — has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my Finance Committee team.

It is very crazy a judge ordered the DOGE depositions removed from YouTube. Watch more, subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtMn...