Republicans make us pay more for gas, groceries, and a multitude of other things, make us pay for their wars and bombing campaigns, want us to pay for Trump’s ballroom, and now want us to pay $1.7 billion to “compensate” convicted J6 criminals he pardoned. Vote them all out.

It’s 2026, in Oklahoma has finally made child marriage illegal. Congratulations? Also WTF.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 367. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

“.. U.S. President Donald Trump attends a maternal health event in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 11, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein” @reuters.com

the White House menu today as administration officials brag about kicking 4.5 million Americans off food stamps and gas is over $4.50 a gallon -- Caprese salad -- Chicken Paillard -- Vanilla panna cotta (Kevin Dietsch/Getty)

Priorities. Had enough yet?

New in PN: The Confederacy rises again "But this is more than a tragedy for voting rights. It’s a kind of revival of the Confederacy, in a way that few liberals thought was possible. The Lost Cause doesn’t seem so lost anymore."

And Gorka shouldn’t be talking about Low T.

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Stunning. @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social

L - North Korea R - Miami

Is this illegal?

He can put his name on coins, notes, buildings, roads, passports all he wants… All people will remember is that his name was all over the Epstein files.

The new “I’m not a crook.”

$400M for Trump's ballroom? On top of: -$1.5T for the Pentagon -$170B for ICE and Border Patrol -$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet -$496M to send National Guard into cities -$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" -$100M for Trump's golf outings But nothing for working people.

Mexico didn’t pay for the wall, Trump gold cards didn’t balance the budget, there are no $2,000 DOGE or tariff refund checks, and donors aren’t paying for the ballroom.

Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️

I think Franklin Graham is a nepo-baby charlatan who weaponizes the Bible to advance his political agenda.

Thank you Donald Trump 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Another inside job! A setup! His approval ratings are down. There had to be something to get the attention back on him in a more positive way! To Quit talking about Iran War and Epstein. If it were a real threat, why let it event continue

Close up of Trump as he disembarked Air Force One today. 📸 REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

Iran’s consulate in Hyderabad just posted this video mocking Trump and his “ceasefire extension”

Did we forget about this one ?

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That’s why bishops and priests from Vance’s religion denounced it so forcefully. Because it’s no big deal. Almost makes you wonder if the lifelong atheist became a Catholic for political reasons before running in Ohio.

To be fair this is a photograph of my actual doctor.

Hey remember this post? Wtf happened...

Folks….

All of Trump's policies have been--to one degree or another--inflationary War: inflationary Deficit: inflationary Tariffs: inflationary Politicizing the Fed/loose money advocacy: inflationary Immigration: inflationary Cuts to renewables: inflationary Corruption: inflationary

If you sided with Trump during his litany of sexual assault allegations, rape adjudication and pedophilia connections, you should probably sit out the Swalwell debacle.

A viewer named Debbie got the phrase “nut cuttin time down on the ranch” banned from my program. Debbie ruined it for everyone.

a visual depiction of Fox News's commentary tonight

i want to remind folks that while a third of Americans still support Trump, our history shows that 1/3 of citizens opposed leaving the monarchy in 1780s, 1/3 were good with slavery in 1860s, 1/3 opposed womens right to vote in 1900s, 1/3 opposed civil rights in 1960s.

Republican Timeline: “There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war” - Lincoln “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” - Reagan “Open the fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah” - Trump (on Easter)

He means it this time.

This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social

Trump’s new budget adds an extra $500 billion to fund wars abroad — about $3,700 more for every household in America — while cutting health, jobs, housing, and education. Put simply, it takes more of your money for foreign wars, while making life in America even more unaffordable.

BREAKING: Donald Trump meets privately with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth to assure them their jobs are secure, amidst swirling rumors that they may be the next cabinet members to be fired. #KashPatel #PeteHegseth

The American people deserve answers.

The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.

True story!

WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Donald Trump’s America

“.. Ten years ago today, Donald Trump said he would pay off the national debt in the span of just eight years.” @reason.com reason.com/2026/03/31/1...