Mark Bingham was on one of the 9/11 flights and he fought the terrorists -- stopping them from crashing into likely the White House or Capitol, and instead crashing into a field. Mark Bingham was a gay man who demonstrated astonishing bravery on behalf of his country.

SpaceX is subsidized by your tax dollars. Musk built his fortune on what is effectively welfare for billionaires.

I’m sure it’s fine. Frank Bisignano— who reportedly oversaw a program at JP Morgan in the 2010s to spy on JP Morgan employees using software from Peter Thiel’s Palantir—is both the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration & the CEO of the Internal Revenue Service under Trump 2.0. 1/

Incredibly naked corruption! In case you needed another reason to give up tobacco…

NEW: Sixteen Trump-appointed EPA officials were paid more than $2.8 million by chemical companies and trade groups before they joined the agency that oversees the industry, according to CREW analysis.

Democracy cannot survive a state treasury that subsidizes its own destruction.

An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel money to his criminal allies. He will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before.

NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Even Trump appointees know how disgustingly corrupt this is, and it still has not received 10% of the coverage and attention it deserves as media moves on to other things.

The Senate confirmed Steve Pearce as director of the Bureau of Land Management. Pearce spent years in Congress arguing the federal government owns more land than it needs. He co-sponsored legislation to speed up public land sales.

WHO CONGO REPRESENTATIVE: DECREASE IN HEALTH FUNDING HAS HAD A 'TREMENDOUS IMPACT' ON ITS ABILITY TO COUNTER EBOLA

Essential viewing. Anne Applebaum's speech to the ERSTE Foundation function in Vienna is essential viewing. So few Beltway talking heads appear to grasp the changes that Trump has made in US foreign policy. Applebaum understands them and senses where they're going. www.youtube.com/live/WEnUruu...

In 2022, Peter Thiel bought a Senate seat for JD Vance with $15 million in campaign expenditures—a pittance for a man whose net worth has increased by about $12 million a day. This year, a handful of cryptocurrency billionaires may be on the verge of helping to secure one in Alabama for even less.

From Monday 12p to Tuesday 12p, there will be a 24-hour public reading of the (released) Epstein files In New York epsteinfilibuster.com#stream

From @steverattner.bsky.social: “This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career.” Gobsmacking corruption no previous president would even try, without getting impeached and removed. 🤯 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Preach!! 🔥🔥🔥

Zohran Mamdani has fully balanced New York City’s $12 billion deficit — an uncomfortable reminder to the political establishment that governments can, in fact, function when taxpayer money isn’t funneled toward lobbyists wealthy benefactors

Zohram Mamdani closed the $12 billion budget deficit that he inherited in less than 6 months, while making transformative investments in programs that benefit New Yorkers. Is Democratic socialism the new fiscal conservatism?

The South Carolina Republican Who Defied Trump on Redistricting www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Good stuff. But important to remember that even though proportional representation is constitutional, it is quite likely that this Supreme Court will strike it down anyway. In many areas, we already pretty much know what Congress should pass. The harder question is how to deal with SCOTUS.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

“A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.”

The only people that benefit from Trump dying or being killed at this point, are MAGA themselves and those in his inner circle. His death would benefit the same crowd who benefited from Epstein’s death; like Epstein, Trump is the face of the operation but not the mastermind.

A Purple Heart recipient, Sae Joon Park is among a number of noncitizen US military veterans who have self-deported or been expelled from the country they fought for. https://cnn.it/4nEf2et

Drop & Divest to end the era of Denial of Care Harm-for-Profit and Board Room Violence by the commercial health insurance industry. Americans have angrily pivoted to a tidal wave of support for passing Senate Bill 1506/HR 3609 - Single Payer Universal Healthcare. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Employer-sponsored commercial health insurance is antiquated and ineffective. Why? Because when Americans lose the jobs or get sick, they lose their already-restricted access to medical care. It’s time to pass Single Payer Universal Healthcare/Senate Bill 1506. www.8newsnow.com/news/local-n...

Future Pulitzer winner?

#Seaweed - based plastics are emerging as a viable, sustainable alternative to traditional, petroleum-based products. 🦑

This is a really neat & effective use of #seaweed:

As state GOP leaders in South rush to redraw lines, they’re being accused of trying to “bleach” and “whitewash” and disenfranchise Black districts ====>

Attention all men. More of this, please.

The MAGA regime has officially closed the office that investigates abuses in the Immigration Detention system. They want to freely harm and murder immigrants without any consequences, even more crimes against humanity. All who voted for this or didn’t vote are disgusting.

Kushner and Witkoff have everything covered. Keep things in the family.

TORTURING CHILDREN!🚨 Trump/ICE have contracted with MVM to do wellness checks on immigrant children. This is a company with many allegations of torturing, abducting & severely mistreating children. Last year, they locked an immigrant woman & her baby inside a hotel for five days. #ICELawlessness 🧵

The correct response to today’s Burning of Entrails by the Wizards in Robes is not only that we need 25 SCOTUS justices & these charlatans need to lose their clerks & building & ride the circuit, but also that we need to get rid of single member districts entirely if we want to ever be a democracy:

Facts matter.

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Are you kidding me? 😲

Dr. Michael Osterholm on what’s unfolding in his home state, describing the situation as a bellwether for the entire country. 🎙️Ep. 1 of One Crisis After Another: youtu.be/_pxfhFS7gsk?... @drejoanneliu.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

I think I'm done being played. youtu.be/vuZS_StV1EM

Sexual assault predators & their enablers are walking freely throughout our Government & the Powerful Elite Don’t let them distract us from them Epstein files.

Within minutes of the WHCD events, leading MAGA social media accounts where publishing textually identical messages about how the incident demonstrated the need to finish Trump's ball room project. Hoe exactly could something like that even happen?

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We don’t have to wait for perfect conditions or guaranteed safety. We were born with wings —the strength, the faith, the courage inside us.