Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

Welp *USDA CONFIRMS DEADLY SCREWWORM IN US CATTLE

If screwworm is confirmed in Texas from the sample that was sent for analysis, I have a sneaking suspicion that the incompetent Brooke Rollins will be toast, keeping Trump’s rate of throwing women out of his Cabinet steady at 100%.

Derrick Coleman declined his Mobile Sports Hall of Fame induction, saying he could not accept the honor while Black voters face diminished representation under newly approved congressional maps. More 👇

The president’s outward physical appearance, coupled with his tendency to fall asleep on camera, don’t inspire confidence in his health. It’s very difficult to dispute what people can see with their own eyes. trib.al/kr4Eiz1

This is really important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…” and its members believe deeply in “principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, and the peaceful transition of power.” Follow @astronauts4america.bsky.social

At Delaney Hall I met with a woman who was taken from her newborn baby, an American, who was not getting the proper medical care she needed. This for-profit facility and Trump’s cruelty is a moral stain on our community and nation.

I’m excited to join Shari Dunn on her Substack Live on Friday at noon PT to discuss President Trump’s Freedom 250, his hijack of America’s birthday. Hope to see you there! Details 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-25...

Scott Pelley is a hero, and it really makes you wonder: where has this spirit been? In other media figures, other executives, other people who have seen these oligarchs degrade everything of value in this country? Why is it so striking & unusual for *anyone to fight back*?

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

I am here for all the stories of people pointing out that the shitty people working for Bari Weiss are shitty.

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

Peter Thiel, the right-wing tech billionaire and Trump donor, has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina. His new roots there are said to be partly motivated by concerns about the future of the U.S.

Permanently extending the ACA subsidies would cost $350 billion over 10 years. Incandescently angry doesn’t begin to describe it.

80% of Americans are concerned about AI, yet tech oligarchs have completely merged with the Trump regime to override that concern. A massive political realignment is happening over AI. It’s time to decide which side you’re on. Shouldn't be a tough one for Dems! Except for all the g-damn money.

hey if you want to see posts from the creator of this bot, @nora.zone, you'll need to do this in your moderation settings, they got the "rude" label, presumably for the crime of mouthing off to plagiarists bsky.app/profile/aest...

wtf is going on here

The plan is to literally steal the mail

The successionists believe AIs could become our moral superiors, so they argue it’s actually wrong to try to keep them down or align them with our values. Instead, we should usher in AI as a successor to humans and hand over the world to it. Even if that means we go extinct. 3/n

“As the admin moves from cutting budgets and attacking elite universities to dismantling the foundations of the US research enterprise, pharma CEOs have remained silent. Their silence is a choice.” www.biocentury.com/a...

“Several” is doing a lot of work here. TWELVE. Noem bought 12 planes! Two of those sales continued under Markwayne. DHS paid way more than market value for at least seven of those planes, per a source at Avelo (see link next post). We won’t recoup those public funds even if we offload them now.

Trump ordered limits on voting by mail. The Postal Service is moving to make states comply missouriindependent.com/2026/05/29/r...

just a relentless, laser-focused commitment to destroying everything that actually does make this country great

I don’t think there has ever been a country, post WWII, that has taken its comparative advantage & set on fire like we’ve done in the last 2 years. It almost reminds me of what happened to the Ottomans & Safavids from the mid 15th C to the mid 16th C. And the Islamic world never recovered.

New: A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to respond to “grievous allegations” that his deal with the government to create a $1.8 billion fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was the result of a “fraud” on the court www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The White House has yet to release any results from President Donald Trump’s most recent physical exam, a break from its own past practice that’s likely to fuel further questions about his health and fitness. https://cnn.it/3RSGBoe

The latest on Trump’s $1.776b slush fund: Judge Williams orders Trump to respond to allegations of fraud on the court. It’s starting to smell like there’s justice in the air as she calls out the admin in the footnotes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The stunning array of white graves blanketing Arlington National Cemetery reminds us of the collective sacrifice of generations of American service members. President Trump's arch would replace that view with a monument to his ego. I'm supporting Rep. Don Beyer's bill to block it.

The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board just endorsed James Talarico for U.S. Senate: "We Texans need someone in the Senate who'll stand up for us, who'll fight corruption, and who'll bring us together to get our country back on track. We need James Talarico."

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service funds. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects.

How Trump's giant slush fund sparked lawsuits, roiled Republicans and revived Jan. 6 wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/05/28/r...

Trump is stealing your entry fees to national parks.

UFC fight on the White House lawn presented by Freedom 250. 11 Senators led by Sen. Schiff are investigating Freedom 250, demanding answers about allocation of $100 million in taxpayer money. Freedom 250 sponsors include Mastercard and United Airlines. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mag...

Our NIH-funded research - including as part of CREID - developed, deployed, and established capacity for many of the core tools and countermeasures used during outbreaks. Diagnostics, sequencing, monoclonals and vaccines. As we're facing a new foe with none of those, all that work, defunded. Gone.

No one from corporate sponsors of Trump's Freedom 250 has responded to inquiries. 16 companies listed on the Freedom250.org website include Mastercard and United Airlines.

Your periodic reminder that cretinous Trump sycophant Rep. Andy Ogles, whose district Republicans just further gerrymandered to protect, raised $25K from a Go Fund Me to create a cemetery and park for stillborn babies and their families. He took the money and never built the park.

When we have a real president again, he or she will have to waste inordinate amounts of time cleaning up the terrible mess created by this awful mistake of a human who never should have been allowed near the levers of power.

The fact that McNally did not let a Black woman vote on the measure to strip Black Memphians of their representation in Congress is just a BIT TOO ON THE NOSE, even for him.

A senior CIA official was arrested last week after investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million stashed in his Virginia residence, a small fortune that he apparently brought home from work, according to court papers.

Reporter: Ken Paxton is calling you 'Talafreako.' Talarico: He just released child rapist Adam Hoffman from jail after his wealthy atty friends got involved. Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life. He served less than a month. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

HAPPENING NOW: Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation to protect ballots and voters from Trump administration political interference and intimidation

Springsteen just announced Power to the World festival in DC on Oct. 3. He’s playing. Also— -Dropkick Murphy’s -Dave Matthews -Tom Morello Details out tomorrow.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

This is the systemic execution of democracy carried out in plain sight.

Any news orgs digging into claims in the Epstein Files that our current president allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl? Did we forget about that?

The Trump/Israel Iran war has seriously depleted American weapon stocks and upended the nation's ability to fight another war: "U.S. military contractors need at least three years to replenish stockpiles of three key weapons systems." Via AP