Renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are nearly $12 million over Trump’s initial budget and the White House ballroom could cost $1.4 billion, up from $200 million.

“On an annual basis, the index was up 6%, the biggest increase since December 2022.” www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/p...

Thank you @maiasz.bsky.social for this: the Trump admin likes to tout its success reducing overdoses but is cutting money to PREVENT those overdoses taking place, replacing hard-won harm reduction policy with yet more stigma. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/o...

“The possibilities for the Iranians to ‘MacGyver’ their way around Trump's blockade are endless because the country has thousands of miles of land border to work with” oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Good riddance.

“The Interior Department reportedly added $6.2 million to the previous cost of the no-bid contract on Friday” thehill.com/homenews/587...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

NEW: Today we’re releasing a framework that lays out a roadmap for replacing indiscriminate mass deportation with a safer, smarter, and more humane approach to immigration enforcement.

I found the cat on the hot tin roof

It isn’t enough to say “get rid of ICE”, immigration laws that make the worst ICE policing possible need to change.

“Also, I didn’t give out the contract, ‘Interior’ did, to a contractor I did not know, and have never used before,” the president continued. Atlantic Industrial Coatings previously repaired swimming pools at Trump’s golf club in Sterling, Va.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

“Consumer prices rose 3.8% annually in April, the highest since May 2023…real average hourly wages slipped 0.5% for the month and fell 0.3% annually.” www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/c...

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

The US is now spending more on its interest payments on the National Debt than it is on defence.

These charts tell the same story nearly every time: Trump created the mess, Biden inherited the worst of it, and did the hard work to fix it. Yet MAGA still blames Biden for the damage Trump caused — while pretending Trump is the one who cleaned it up.

Mario Kart World uses a patented technique to make distant objects easier to see by enlarging them using a shader. The enlargement starts at 20 meters from the camera and increases until the object is 500 meters away, where it is twice as large as it would be normally.

Feeling adventurous so I will try out riding the D for the first time. In an act of generosity, LA Metro has made riding the D free for the weekend so everyone can experience the pleasure.

Ask Ethan: How empty are the depths of space? We often talk about "the vacuum of space" as being a place where pressures and particle densities drop to zero. But outer space is never truly empty, even in the emptiest places. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics #cosmology

#Colorado: "We have a lot of folks who've worked and lived here for over 20, 25 years," Loya said. The Deportation Data Project found that immigration arrests of people without criminal convictions increased eightfold. www.9news.com/article/news...

ICE Arrests Violated Order Requiring Warrants in D.C., Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

President Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

BREAKING: The Court of International Trade has just ruled AGAINST Trump's alternate method of reintroducing tariffs. Trump just lost again! This is great for Americans who didn't want to be taxed. A Win for us all!

After more than 150 days in ICE detention, Allan Dabrio Marrero is back in New York and reunited with his husband. Read more: http://specne.ws/Rc7K5T 

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The United States carried out strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas but a senior U.S. official says this is NOT a restart of the war. - Fox News.

BREAKING: The U.S. military just carried out strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas, per Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, citing a U.S. official

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

Despite the Verrazzano's best efforts, I finished the 48th Annual 5 Boro Bike Tour. See you again next year!

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

Khanna: "Someone obviously got to Lutnick from the administration. In fact, he said he talked to people in the administration and that's why he's changed his tune. The question is why he's covering up."

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Lancet predicts 14M more deaths in the next 4 years. That includes almost half a million children under the age of 5. www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

On Saturday, Leo Garcia Venegas was wrongfully detained by ICE for a 3rd time in a year. Officers followed him home; he said he’s a citizen and had his REAL ID in hand. But they didn’t care. They tackled and shackled him, no questions asked. We’ve got a hearing tomorrow on our prelim injunction.

Update 5 May 2026

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

Costa Rica passed a law in 2018 that required electric utilities to install fast chargers every 50 miles on national highways. Tax breaks have made Costa Rica a pioneer in electric vehicles. Costa Ricans are buying electric vehicles at 3 times the rate of Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/b...

So that 400 million ballroom funding by private donations will cost 1 billion in taxpayer dollars

My Met Gala outfit (see: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...)

“Project Freedom” getting off to a rough start

The same person who worked on alternating current for Westinghouse also developed the vacuum steel bottle: Stanley! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William....

Seashells cases!

Shahed drone camera tear down www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXf...

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

“In the first 15 months since Trump returned to the White House district court judges ruled the administration was violating an order in at least 31 lawsuits over a wide range of issues, including mass layoffs, deportations, spending cuts & immigration practices” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Permits Issued For Residential Development In Bronzeville Read more: https://chicagoyimby.com/2026/05/permits-issued-for-residential-development-in-bronzeville.html

Density bonus law in California responsible for 47% of all multifamily housing built in 2024 timesofsandiego.com/housing/2026...

How a planned Disney World vacation turned into four months in immigration detention: A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. (Published Feb.)

Yesterday on CNN NewsNight, former Rep. Peter Meijer interrupted Kat Abughazaleh after she said, "We are turning our military into pirates," arguing it’s not piracy to seize sanctioned Iranian ships. Then today, Trump flat-out says, "It's a very profitable business. We are like pirates."

Australia is aiming to be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer.

McMahon got absolutely roasted in the Senate. Ogles got clowned by his own constituents. A Trump judge just killed the voter data heist. This was a very bad week for the regime.