Trump seemingly calls a reporter who asked him about soaring gas prices "a bitch"

Y’all should really read this entire piece— it’s even wilder than what’s been said here. This should be massive international news

Mafia ass country

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

A bracing read from @lebassett.bsky.social on the hantavirus outbreak and what it reveals about the dangers of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary — delivered in her signature acerbic style. www.laura-bassett.com/p/hantavirus...

Unrelatedly, “panican” is a made-up Trump word that’s supposed to mean a panicking Republican and I find it hilarious that even his own administration is misusing it

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

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It’s kinda sad that the Washington Post is going after New York’s mayor because there are so few other politicians talking about taxing the rich. They should have more bogeymen than Mamdani

I wrote about one today that ICE wants to use, the infamous "Rape Club" outside San Francisco.

This is blowing my mind

Because they know exactly what they’re doing. Chaos and confusion is how they win.

“The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Fees from cruise ships companies pay for the program, which is supposed to inspect large vessels at least twice a year.”

"It was at this moment he truly became president"

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

And they’re so real for that.

John Roberts increasingly the Susan Collins of SCOTUS. Always very concerned, swears he and his colleagues aren’t doing what they’re obviously doing, provides a veneer of moderation when all the others are flying insurrection flags over their houses.

Also because the vast majority of congressional districts are so uncompetitive that the member doesn't have to worry about losing reelection. They're much more worried about losing primaries.

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. 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 ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Last July, the pope called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller told him that any changes had to be made in person with an ID. Knowing that was impossible, he asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him.

Louisiana GOP is obviously & severely harming the public by nullifying the election of Calvin Duncan but also my jaw dropped, when researching, seeing how much Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill are like 'fuck this one Black man in particular' ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

No more cruises babe. Gonna have to knit at home

“More blue districts” is not the same as protecting Black voting power - this is something that must be made clear as the VRA is demolished and redistricting wars continue to escalate

Elon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online

Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products

The government is doing its level best to try to punish black women for our vote and a hypervisibility in the culture that we did not ask for. But the real tell is not in who they punish, but in who they elevate.

I think they still would have supported it tbh

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

100% retaliation for this tweet that went viral

42,000 Louisianians voted absentee before Gov. Jeff Landry suspended primaries for the state’s six U.S. House races

The Trump administration is moving to evict nearly 1,000 bison from federal grasslands in Montana. Handing the land over to cattle ranchers at heavily subsidized grazing rates.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

We know that if and when Iran reopens the strait, Trump and every bad faith actor in his orbit will pretend to believe Trump is vindicated—and that really, only he could’ve triumphed so exquisitely. It’s thus very important to set the bar now: a humiliating, pointless, eternally discrediting defeat.

Is he. Is he quoting Ice Cube

So, shouldn’t blow up boats, shouldn’t murder your own citizens. Got it.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

That was not the purpose of this.

“I just now realized how corrupt this state is… they’re also cowards.” Tennesseans at the legislature for the first time just watched the shambolic Lamberth-presided *rules* committee — as Republicans move to strip representation from majority Black MEMPHIS🎪

If Democratic candidates don’t use Republicans in Congress forcing taxpayers to pay a billion dollars for Trump’s ballroom against them bigly in the midterms it will be political malpractice.

How, exactly, did we go from a $200 million privately-funded ballroom, to a $1 billion taxpayer-funded one?

I don’t have hope for much these days but I genuinely think this will backfire. Don’t fuck with women’s colleges

It's barely been two years since Sam Alito just came out and said: We will win or they will win. Not sure I can come up with a more inappropriate or disturbing comment from a justice on the land's highest court. badfaithtimes.com/samuel-alito...

Getting everyone’s ship attacked in hopes of drawing them into a world war seems like a sane plan

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Janelle Monae wore her "transhumanist Amazon worker of the near future" costume, complete with the wires that Musk and Bezos use to control your every thought and movement under late stage capitalism.

NEW: A Republican U.S. Senate candidate said he's recruiting off-duty police officers to serve as poll watchers in Detroit for the 2026 midterms — and suggested they could flash their badges at voters. Intimidating voters is illegal. Interfering with someone's right to vote is a federal crime.

Yep. Platner sucks and should have been turfed out of the race. If he wins the primary the most important thing is fighting for control of the chamber. Both are true.

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

Running as a candidate against data centers and concentration camps feels like a no-brainer