1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Remembered fondly?? WHAT

Yeah man. 0 x 2 =0

"Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol from an attack by a mob of Trump supporters sued on Wednesday to block anyone—including Jan. 6, 2021, rioters—from receiving payouts from a new $1.776 B settlement fund for people who claim to be victims of politically motivated prosecutions."

"The Justice Department on Tuesday expanded the just-announced settlement of President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over the leaking of his tax returns to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue any claims it may have against Trump, his family members and his companies over unpaid taxes."

Great news! I donate monthly to ACLU to support work like this.

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

CDC refuses to confirm or deny rumors that Americans in east-central Africa have been exposed to Ebola Virus. Highly unusual Sunday briefing insidemedicine.substack.com/p/cdc-refuse... "The [news] media would not let it go. At least two other reporters followed up..." "lack of transparency"

"i hope not" a profound level of lying to yourself or lying to us

"A country of 330 million people—stretching from New England villages to Mid-Atlantic cities to Texas oil towns to Montana ranches to California tech hubs to the glaciers of Alaska—is forced to act as if one set of laws, one political culture, and one vision of morality can... apply to everyone."

the way to think of this is that it is the judicial version of “you’re the real racist for noticing my racism or even thinking about race”

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

"Public officials should pay for their own vacations, not ask for handouts from the industry players that they are supposed to regulate,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Banking Committee. “That’s ethics 101. How did Duffy miss that?”

Honestly one of the most baffling MAGA talking points. The GOP's anti-NATO stance is totally fake: Republicans *know* when Article 5 was invoked! They now pretend our allies have failed us only because it pleases Dear Leader. Rubio and many others were very pro-NATO until they bowed to Trump.

sorry, man, if a politician talks to you like this in your role as a journalist, and you do nothing but sit and grin at it in response, what, exactly, do you think the public should think of you. why should anyone else care what trump says about you when you don’t appear to be bothered by it

194 people killed by US military boat strikes. No trials. No public evidence. Ever. Some were fishermen. It took 20 journalists 5 months just to name and identify 13 of the dead. This isn’t a drug war. It’s the blatant execution of poor people. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AFeRtpmL6Qba...

Recasting insurrectionists as patriots has been a central MAGA commitment for years now: honoring them as the J6 choir, minimizing the carnage as protest, blanket pardons. Now they're victims deserving of payment? It's a propaganda project designed to erase the history we all witnessed firsthand.

Update: the GOP continues to be the WORST

Corporate sponsors of this Sunday's Christofascist carnival in Washington include Deloitte, Mastercard, SAP and United Airlines. Spend your money elsewhere.

Mad about the $1B ballroom? That's nothing! He's suing the IRS (which he oversees) for $10B and—great news for Trump—looks like 'his' IRS might settle! Also: "One of the settlement terms under review is for the I.R.S. to drop any audits of the president, his family members and businesses."

"what do you mean by that" failing to ask the real question here - how are you doing it? Camps? Forced state violence? Pogroms? What's the plan for mass expulsion of undesirables? Lay it out clearly or stfu.

As the Confederacy rises again, I think of my ancestors who were attacked by dogs and beaten with billy clubs and harassed with poll taxes and literacy tests. They fought for their civil rights over multiple generations, and we'll do the same. We will win it all back. But we're TIRED out here...

It’s extremely weird Gallup has changed their entire operation to cater to Trump. They know better than anyone Trumpism is dying and unpopular!

Doing research on corruption in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Found a FB post from Stars and Stripes promoting its report on the Pentagon awarding the $1 billion contract to run the Ft. Bliss detention facility to a tiny company in Virginia. Clicked on the link. The report is gone.

"There are likely consequences for me, personally, taking the position that I am right now. I’m comfortable with that. I may not like it, but I’m comfortable with it." —the SC Republican state senate majority leader He's also worried a gerrymander will backfire, but still! Some courage!

"The Alliance of Democracies’ Democracy Perception Index, which was released on May 8, puts China’s net global perception at +7%. Meanwhile, the international perception of the U.S. has collapsed. Two years ago, it sat comfortably at +22%. Today, it has plunged to a dismal -16%."

It's so exhausting to live in a state of perpetual outrage at your government.

In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.

We will not let them cheat their way to a win. The analysis misses one very important variable: rage. I have been filled with an incandescent fury since the SCOTUS VRA ruling, and I'm far from alone. We will not let them steal this election.

The media says Democratic Presidents have to be above reproach. Republican Presidents can be complete deranged as long as they keep waving the flag and a Bible.

@aoc.bsky.social OH HELL YES #AOC Don’t run to “BE” something Run to “DO” something‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

First CDC press conference was today, an invite-only telephone briefing for reporters. Doctors just received a health alert Friday. The US team that would normally lead outbreaks on vessels was dismantled. Everything Trump touches dies. Disastrous for public health.

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

"Millions of enslaved people lost their lives during the long night of American chattel slavery, without so much as a hint of dawn... Whatever enlightenment may come, those who suffer most in this era are unlikely to see it. Their children are unlikely to see it." Bleak. And tragically correct.

More election-related shenanigans... the courts have not sided with democratic norms in so many instances.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

sounds about right

I hope the rest of the world, subjected to Trump's chaos and just as anxious for Democrats to win the midterms as we are, at least sees that we tried? We tried, but the GOP and the courts defied democracy in order to cheat and let a madman retain power. How shameful. How utterly depressing.

This guy should be able to garnish Stephen Miller’s wages

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

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NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Thursday.

This is sickening: "The government would seek to use the Westfall Act to swap Trump for the U.S. as the defendant in the lawsuit. That would require dismissal of the case because the federal government can’t be sued for defamation."

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

Protesters are singing civil rights songs in the Tennessee Senate State and Local Government Committee.

Dems have flipped 30 seats since the tragic 2024 election and the GOP has flipped NONE. Very encouraging!

This should be offensive to everyone who values democracy.