A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

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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?"

The case for Trump's bloated Pentagon budget, to the degree there is one, is that military competition with China will be expensive. But now Trump's basically said we're not going to contest China near its borders. So what's the $1.5 trillion for? Blowing up drug smuggling boats?

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.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

And so Trump is off to China, accompanied by his billionaires, all of them going as supplicants to China's dictator whom Trump admires as "a Leader of extraordinary distinction." It would be nice if the American president would speak for America. But in fact he will be kowtowing to Communist China.

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) admitted it has no evidence that Vermont is not complying with federal voter roll maintenance laws — an admission that could further weaken its case for amassing voters’ sensitive data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Czeslaw Milosz "Though everyone bowed down before you, Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way, Striking gold medals in your honor, Glad to have survived another day, Do not feel safe. The poet remembers."

Today, Hungarians are voting. These elections loom large the world over. Viktor Orbán is a central figure in the international far right and his loss would be blow to familiar figures like JD Vance and Donald Trump, who are his pupils. snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war. Art of the deal, baby.

They can declare anything they want, and seem to, but that doesn’t make it true.

Some people are treating this like it’s a close legal question. It isn’t. The precedent here is unusually clear—and that will matter in court. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Investors placed an approximately $950 million bet on oil prices falling just hours before the US and Iran ceasefire was announced, per Reuters:

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"The Peace President." This madman must be removed from office. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-threat-whole-civilization-will-die-iran-war-deadline-hormuz-rcna267059

Donald Trump's threat to strike Iran's bridges and power plants has raised the prospect of war crimes. The EU insists all sides should respect international law and exercise "maximum restraint". #EuropeNews

Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

US State Dep has launched an official Russian language account on both Instagram and Telegram to share the updates in Russian

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

“You’re far more charitable than I am. I think the dude is coo coo for coco puffs! “ Yes, @hcrichardson.bsky.social you’re absolutely right! He is not mentally ok. And since he’s not ok and the GOP is letting him “steer the ship”, what does this say about them? Thank you HCR! #MEPolitics #NoKings

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“The inquiry on behalf of the high-profile potential client was flagged internally at BlackRock, according to the people familiar with the matter.”

You might forward this story to every Marine you know.

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Republicans say one of these individuals is the "most divisive president in history"

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“In his book On Strategy, U.S. Army Col. Harry Summers Jr. recounts a statement he made to North Vietnamese Col. Tu in 1975. “You know,” Summers said, “you never defeated us on the battlefield.” Tu replied, “That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.” @markhertling.bsky.social

Before the start of Trump's war, the president knew he was risking the shutdown of the world's most vital shipping lane—which would throw the world into chaos. But the 79 yo real estate developer assured White House advisers that Iran would surrender first. www.wsj.com/politics/nat... (gift link)

Noem handed mega deal to firm accused of smuggling migrants and arming them for shootouts

Brendan Carr is threatening the media to cover the war the way the Trump regime wants. It’s one of the most anti-American messages ever posted by a government official. 1/

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

If anyone wasn't of the belief that he's trying to create a state-run media, the fact that he shared this should take care of any hesitation on that front.

It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift

Sounds like a great candidate.

Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."

It's just impossible to keep up with the stupidity of our government

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Wow: under the radar special election in Arkansas tonight for House District 70, a GOP-held seat in suburban Little Rock. Democrat Alex Holladay with a huge 27-point win over Republican Bryan Renshaw. Another red to blue flip for Democrats.