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Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

This is outright theft. Trump is stealing $1.7 BILLION of your money to set up a totally unprecedented, first-in-American-history political slush fund that he can use to dole out cash to win loyalty and favors for him and his family.

It's a fridge with a bottle of champagne in someone's kitchen until the camera zooms out. ​I often see similar things in Kharkiv: a ceiling lamp hanging by a wire in a dark, shattered room; a kitchen cabinet still hanging on the wall when the rest of the room is gone;

this story documents something I've heard described anecdotally in the last few months: cishet fathers drawing a hard line against vaccination and other routine medical care for babies using social media misinfo. I don't feel like we hear as much about that as a likely trend

The Epstein files changed me forever. I read them in painstaking detail over months, realizing in real time that we are not ruled by laws equally applied. We are ruled by wealth, access, and protection networks. America is a syndicate. I’ll never get over it, so don’t ask me to.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“1.776 Billion” is a nice touch — Trolling us with fake patriotism as he steals our money and gives it to people who attacked the Capitol to end democracy for him How much will Rep. Andy Ogles get? @MarshaBlackburn?

Fuck this. #fuck

In case everyone is wondering, Mike Solana is a self-loathing venture capitalist vampire and Chief Marketing Officer for Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Yes, this blank slate of a tech-oligarch brain is in up to his eyeballs in Palantir, SpaceX, and every other evil thing Thiel throws dark money at.

Straight outta da gate.

An insidious danger lurks within all of this... Why are so many data centers being built across the country? Ask yourself, what data are they collecting? 🤨

So incredibly corrupt. A slush fund for his friends who attacked the Capitol, ogles, etc. - and himself. www.kwqc.com/2026/05/18/t...

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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You say it won’t work, but I don’t really see anything being done to stop it. Protests? Writing/calling your elected representatives? Yeah, good luck with that. It’s the end of an empire and the privileged are looting as much as they can before it collapses.

. Mark Davis is quickly becoming my new fav politician. In #FLORIDA no less 😳 .

The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.

He did say before the presidential election, “Vote for me this one time Christians and you’ll never have to vote again, we’re going to fix it so you’ll never have to vote again” Am I the only one who remembers this??

The 1% have stopped even pretending to care. Everything is totally fine for them and never won't be. The rest of us will be incrementally priced out of homes, necessities, healthcare and food and they do not care. We have solutions at our disposal. Now is the time to start implementing them.

Corruption watch

The Trump administration is quietly building a national voter database to help implement the president’s latest anti-voting order ahead of the midterm elections, despite its recent claims in court filings that it wouldn’t. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump allies keep bringing meritless lawsuits against the government, which Trump's DOJ then "settles" for enormous sums of taxpayer money now Trump is personally getting in on it, negotiating with himself for a "settlement" in the *billions* we're being robbed ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

In light of Kash Patel’s ‘VIP Snorkel’ at Pearl Harbor, I’m guessing we’re days away from learning about ‘Pub Crawl’ at Ground Zero.

During the Biden administration, black people could vote and Americans weren't gunned down in the streets.

How to hire for the #ICE Gestapo while attempting to fly under the radar. (Unless there's this huge base of Stevenage supporters in Maryland, heretofore unknown)

WTF indeed! #NAFOArticle5

Citizens: We'd light a stop light at this corner. City: That will take three years to get approved. Corporations: We'd like to build a data center. Here is your envelope. City: Well, come on in. Fix yourself a plate.

ICE has been terrorizing communities across the country, and instead of reining in this lawless agency, Republicans want to give ICE another $70 billion. No guardrails. No oversight. No accountability.

Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.

As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

Dear Rest of World: You know exactly how much to believe this, right? Right??

Yep, nothing like admitting you’re a criminal.

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

www.wsj.com/business/ene... Supertanker docked in Long Beach just delivered California’s last incoming shipment of Middle Eastern oil. After it fully discharges its oil at the berth, another tanker carrying Middle Eastern crude won’t dock in California until months after Strait of Hormuz reopens.

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social

The Ku Klux Kourt

Priorities dontcha know

YOU, lied Sct. Justices. Alito, Roberts.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

America’s global power was built on confidence in U.S. rule of law, not just military might. That confidence has collapsed internationally, and the entire foundation of American prosperity has become fragile.

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

We have to dream bigger and our political leaders must start speaking to these dreams. This was the roadmap of conservativism. We need our own.

The brown shirts have changed their approach a bit. They are still violent thugs but they seem to make quick hits of arresting & getting out before the neighbors can get there. In #Massachusetts the rapid response team are not getting a chance to get in place. Wonder if this is the new way?