Trump is still painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, racing to finish before a court can stop him. He skipped every legally required environmental and historic preservation review to get here.

This frequently happens in China. During Trump’s first term, they tried to block the aide who carries the football from entering the room. During one of Obama’s terms, they scuffled over armed USSS agents and press movement.

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Trump Unwittingly Breaks Chinese Taboo Against Napping Facedown In Soup Bowl

BREAKING AP: When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note he was not on vacation. Left out of FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what government officials described as a "VIP snorkel" around the USS Arizona.

“The discrepancy between the honorable conduct expected of prosecutors and DOJ’s tactics in this case is unsettling... “DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case... “This reckless disregard for the duty of candor owed the court is appalling www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, from Seattle, was filmed throwing a large rock at a Hawaiian monk seal. When confronted, he said, “I’m rich. I can pay the fines.” He was arrested and faces up to two years in prison and $70K in fines. people.com/man-charged-...

An administration so ignorant that it is indifferent to American history. Kash Patel goes snorkeling over a site where 2,403 Americans lost their lives. And when Donald Trump visited, his chief of staff said he asked what happened at Pearl Harbor and why they were there. apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

Abolish ICE.

PATTY MURRAY: Your budget cuts housing. Can you help more families with housing with $84b or $73.5b? SCOTT TURNER: Here's what I'll say. In the previous four years-- MURRAY: Ok. This is the go-to answer for every secretary is to go back to Biden. I'm asking you about your administration

JD Vance, the VP of the man who is currently shaking down the DOJ for a $10 billion "settlement" and the Treasury for an additional $1 billion for his tacky, vanity ballroom, appearing at a "Protecting Taxpayer Dollars" event, is shamelessly comical.

A 4th grader wrote Congresswoman Virginia Foxx about EVs for a school assignment. She sent back propaganda accusations and a lecture on the national debt. I served with Foxx for 10 years. This is what MAGA does to people, and to character.

"You gotta be willing to look at all fraud." Meanwhile: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

MAGA is currently celebrating the fact that… Trump took a sip of alcohol, and acting like he just cured world hunger. It’s a fucking cult.

I predicted many times that Trump is going to sell out Taiwan during this presidency just as he has tried to do with Ukraine and Xi is well aware he has the first US president who can be taken advantage of.

Kaine: "The administration is refusing to allow members of this committee to see the OLC opinion stating the legal case for war. We've always that ability. We're being asked to fund a $1.5t budget. What are they hiding?"

Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

We could have just not done any of this.

The GOP is doing that thing again where they pretend the JCPOA (Obama nuclear deal) wasn’t working, despite our intelligence community, the IAEA, and our allies all confirming that it was. And the fact that all Iran’s significant enrichment happened after Trump pulled out. 🤷‍♂️

This is what the Trump admin is focused on today while you pay more for everything because of his war and tariffs.

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My grandma used to tell me she was “just resting her eyes,” but I knew she had dozed off. The difference, she wasn’t the President of the United States in the middle of a televised meeting.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

“[Donald Trump] has created a permission structure for people to be their worst selves. He has taught Americans that it’s okay to be selfish and spiteful and hateful and angry and resentful and that is the most toxic thing he has done to the country.”

He's worse than Sleepy Ben Carson.

GILLIBRAND: What is your record?! I don't want to just hear about what you don't like about the Biden administration SCOTT TURNER: During the Biden administra-- GILLIBRAND: Stop talking about Biden! Talk about your record TURNER: During the Biden administration-- GILLIBRAND: Oh my God!

A national embarrassment.

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

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

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

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Dear China, No return policy. Thanks, JC

Trump and President Xi greet each other and pose for pictures. Note that Trump's hand is visibly discolored.

We’re living through a unique moment, when were Republicans are deliberately damaging the right to vote in plain sight for everyone to see. The question we need to be asking is why? This piece is an attempt to answer that question. Let me know what you think. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

reminder that Trump's hand looks like this every time he appears in public these days and we have never received a plausible explanation as to why (Alex Wong/Getty)

I quoted the Virginia Constitution and Republicans are losing their minds.🤯 Jonathan Turley suggested I am a "radical" and "Jacobian" for literally quoting the Virginia Constitution's Bill of Rights.😂

“Unfortunately for the vice president, there’s video” will be an increasingly common sentence.

#Utah Watch This!

Utah’s shadowy MIDA (Military Installation Development Authority) is backing the 40,000-acre Stratos data center project. But why, if Utahns don’t want it? Journalist @schotthappens.com joins me with the latest, incl. deep insight into the way-too-cozy politics at play. youtu.be/wY9HUJFEEcs?...

Hannity really missing his Fox studio lighting.

These stats Kash throws around are as phony as he is.

"A Beijing report said Trump's tariffs, anti-immigrant policies and attacks on allies and the US political establishment strengthened China. "It called Trump an accelerator of US decay toward dysfunction and 'Latin American-style instability.' " www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

highly recommend the new Platypus Economics Substack from @justinwolfers clear, simple explanations of economics concepts as applied to current issues like immigration, inflation, Iran War and many others also, @justinwolfers.bsky.social is an exceptionally pleasant human being. worth your time

They forgot the cover-up of the remaining Epstein files...🤷‍♀️