This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Lawyers for Pete Hegseth argued that military retirees were subject to freedom of speech restrictions because of their connection to the military, and that if they didn’t like those restrictions, retirees could forfeit their pension and benefits. Let that sink in. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

President Trump has grown “bored” with the war with Iran, an outside adviser tells @jonlemire.bsky.social. But Iran appears comfortable with keeping the conflict going, possibly for many more months, Lemire reports. theatln.tc/mEY4mDW7 📸: Chip Somodevilla / Getty

We The People want this changed.

"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."

People liked to speculate about Biden not actually being in charge. But here's Trump actually TELLING us that he doesn't know what's being done in his name.

Voting in an overwhelming wave this fall is vital, but it's also important to understand that Republicans are no longer wedded to electoral outcomes or committed to liberal democracy. They have already begun using force to exercise power and alter democratic behavior. It's going to intensify. 🧵

“There is no free thinking here,” she said in a TikTok video last month about the movement she joined when she was 19. “They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit.”

NEWS: 30 former Ohio State football players—including Al Washington, Ray Ellis and Keith Ferguson—say they'll join class action against OSU over sex abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. It’s the first time any named FB players have gone public alleging Strauss abused them. www.sportico.com/leagues/coll...

New: The U.S. debt appeared to hit a worrying milestone and surpassed the total output of the economy, based on data we got last week. And yet, few seemed to notice in Washington, where under Trump, the debt is on track to worsen considerably www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...

John Roberts and Donald Trump share the same flaw. Roberts assumed that SCOTUS credibility was a hard fact of life, and Trump has done the same with American power. Both have spent down those resources not realizing they need to be cultivated and replenished. You see the results.

It’s simpler: by stalling clean energy, he forces the grid up the “generation stack” to expensive fossil fuel plants, which raises costs; the effect is to send billions of ratepayer dollars to his big fossil fuel donors. A) Corruption, and B) You paid for it.

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

The DOJ is now a grift store for Trump's friends and supporters.

This is great, but two friendly amendments. The consolidation of judicial supremacy began long before the 1990s. And even as the Court holds that Congress may not respond to its decisions, Congress *does not need this majority’s approval* to check the Court’s power and respond anyway.

"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth." And abject corruption on a mass scale, it turns out, is not politically popular. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Trump has pardoned at least four billionaires for fraud, failure to prevent money laundering and campaign finance crimes: Changpeng Zhao, Joe Lewis, Julio M. Herrera Velutini and Trevor Milton.

This is staggering. DOJ must be totally overhauled.

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE from @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social and @carolleonnig.bsky.social: @ms.now has learned that FBI agents are probing the reporter who wrote a detailed story of FBI Director Kash Patel’s alleged heavy drinking and erratic behavior. Read the full piece here ⬇️ www.ms.now/news/fbi-inv...

Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences and results of a war than we have seen from this administration on Iran. What we have here is an illegal unnecessary war wrapped in a strategic fiasco inside a huge cover-up.

I'm inclined to a harsher view, but not so much for parsing blame in hindsight. It's about what lessons have we learned and how are we going to do better next time, which isn't that far off. Which mostly amounts to: we must go much harder on accountability and much bigger on reconstruction reforms.

🚨BREAKING: The lead plaintiff in the case that destroyed the VRA has a history of promoting false election conspiracies and anti-voting policies, and was at the Stop the Steal protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to be preparing to drop a nearly two-year criminal investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, agreeing to return or destroy evidence seized from the diehard MAGA Republican before the FBI got a chance to review it. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe.

An X user pulled off a $200,000 crypto heist by tricking Grok with Morse code. The user pulled off a prompt injection, bypassing Grok's safeguards and exploiting Grok's integration with Bankrbot to execute a wallet transfer on the Base network. The user deleted their X account after the transfer.

PART 2 of MY INVESTIGATION: Watch how ChatGPT gave me chilling advice—as I simulated planning a mass shooting. This 9-minute video and story contain shocking behavior from OpenAI’s chatbot. OpenAI keeps saying it improved safeguards, but that's not what I found. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 🧵

I was told that the corporations bribing the president would pay for the ballroom.

Fuck your grocery and gas bills. Republicans want you to fork over $1 BILLION to help fund their mad king's ugly-ass ballroom: www.notus.org/republicans/...

The single most important geopolitical fact right now is that for the first time ever the US operates as a full-on autocracy, when it comes to foreign policy. All that matters is the president’s personal feelings, and that’s never been the case. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I’m sorry, based on what authority?

Exclusive: US intelligence indicates limited new damage to Iran's nuclear program, sources say - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

One of the more important skills I've developed as an adult is how to stop thinking. I'm not perfect at it, but I'm now pretty good at not trying to use my mind as a reciprocating tool on itself.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Trump: "No president has ever taken a cognitive test except me. I've taken three of them. One in the first administration. They're hard. The first question is easy. You have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a squirrel. 'Which is the squirrel?'"

In a call with reporters just now, Adm. Brad Cooper of CENTCOM says Iran has opened fire on U.S. warships and commercial vessels today, but declines to say whether the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is over. U.S. forces returned fire and destroyed some Iranian small boats.-WaPo

New in PN: The vanity presidency "America has suffered ignorant presidents, corrupt presidents, & incompetent presidents. Trump is all of these, yet something far worse: He’s the first to view the office not as a public obligation, but as a personal vanity project designed solely to serve himself."

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

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This Ohio county put a ban on wind and solar. Will voters reverse it? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/30/t...

The Secretary of Defense refusing to answer whether he would follow an illegal order to interfere in an American election is an answer.

Pete Hegseth was asked this week about whether he would follow an order from Donald Trump to seize ballots or voting machines in the 2026 election. He called it a gotcha hypothetical, but it’s not. It is not a hypothetical. Trump has said publicly he wishes he had done exactly that in 2020.

Trump Friday: maybe we’re better off not making a deal with Iran Trump Saturday: I’ve rejected Iran’s ridiculous proposal Trump this morning: we very well could resume strikes on Iran Trump right before futures open: talks very positive! US will escort ships through Strait! 🙄

BLANCHE: By the way, that wasn't a private message to Bondi. That was a message delivered to the entire world. So this isn't being done behind closed doors WELKER: But it was meant to be private initially BLANCHE: How do you know? WELKER: Based on my conversations with top White House officials

Calling Democrats “treasonous” and “human garbage” would’ve been a big deal in any other era. Now it’s just another fucking Saturday.

"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...