Trump earlier this year bought as much as $680,000 in stock of Eli Lilly, the maker of blockbuster obesity drugs, as the agencies he oversees undertook an agenda that benefited the company. This is revealed in Trump's quarterly ethics report. In healthcare, however, the trades for Lilly—a company

Corruption at the highest level. The same kind of corruption Trump said he’d fight against. Total betrayal.

The photo that perfectly sums up the Beijing summit.

NEW: "Trump’s appointment of a veteran of the prison-industrial complex is a shocking display of how intertwined private industry and government bureaucracy have become over the last sixteen months." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-just...

New from me @notus.com: Internally, FBI agents are now referring to a "payback squad" based in NY or DC. Its remit? Targeting former government officials. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

“Arizonans cannot afford chaotic and dysfunctional Washington-style budgeting in our state government,” Gov. Hobbs said story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

For the past eight years, writer @robertdownen.bsky.social has had an inside view of the Southern Baptist Convention’s leadership and a community of survivors as they’ve dealt with an abuse crisis. Read his story of one man’s rise, rule, and downfall.

Despite its continuing success, the U.S. is becoming a less attractive destination for people around the world. Currently-ascendant nativists want to close America's doors and turn away the huddled masses, and the message is being received loud and clear.

Ukraine is winning right now. We should arm them, give them the intelligence they need, and let them strike deep into Russia. Instead we're making them beg for it. Democrat or Republican, the next administration has to make the decision: we want Ukraine to win.⁩ McCain Institute

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Supreme Court hollows out a landmark law that had protected minority voting rights for 6 decades

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

It’s never a good idea to sack the entire National Science Board ft.trib.al/EMDN6bE | opinion

A “former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public stmt, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the US government, & many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation.” 1/

Look who's defunding the police www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

5 years ago, Democrats introduced a bill to ban gerrymandering in every state nationwide. Every single Republican voted against it.

Proud to live in the most beautiful state in the country. We need to protect what makes Arizona special so our kids and grandkids can say the same thing. Happy Earth Day, Arizona!

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The Most Important Speech of Political and Constitutional Philosophy That Never Should Have Been Given By Judge J. Michael Luttig substack.com/@legalaf/not...

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

“Unserious leaders are unsafe” is a fucking banger though

Every presidential administration gets accused of corruption—sometimes with good reason, sometimes not. But the corruption of the Trump administration is of a magnitude that is not only without precedent in American history but so large and brazen as to be difficult to wrap one's head around.

An important read. [The Atlantic-gift article]: What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.By Josef Palermo www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

See key takeaways, including that the chief justice was the driving force in the shadow docket’s creation.

Congratulations to photographer Andrew Harnik who has won the White House Correspondents’ Association award for presidential news coverage with one of the greatest Oval Office photos ever captured.

We can't keep looking away from his emotional and cognitive issues. The attack on the Pope was the beginning of a full night of melting down. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"The rehabilitation of Viktor Orbán is the opening gambit in the attempt by American illiberals to prevent accountability and reform should Trumpism be defeated." Just say no. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:

🇺🇸🚢TRUMP WILL LOSE BABAL-MANDAB STRAIT IF HE TAKES ANY ACTION AGAINST THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, AN INFORMED SOURCE SAID(TASNIM NEWS AGENCY) (

(Bloomberg) - The UK will not take part in the proposed US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, setting up yet another point of contention between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the conflict in Iran. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Trump must be removed from office. He has no capacity to do the job, and he’s destroying the US and the world with incoherent flailing. He thinks he can bully and blackmail the whole world and will start WW3 or nuke someone eventually. He absolutely cannot he allowed to continue.

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

U.S. Catholics are losing faith in President Donald Trump, while Pope Leo XIV is becoming more popular among all Americans.

Spain PM Pedro Sánchez: "We cannot depend on the electoral cycles of the U.S. to know whether we will be protected or not — that is why the creation of a common European army must become a reality. Not in 10 years, not in 2 years, but tomorrow”

"At the geopolitical level, it’s clear that in the U.K. and E.U., the U.S. is now considered a rogue state, not only in the physical world, but also in the information space." They're Coming for the Billionaires Democracy finds a way. by @asharangappa.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Reagan’s OMB Director:

“Congress has a responsibility to ensure that all federal detention facilities operate in a manner consistent with the law and in accordance with basic human dignity. The conditions we observed are appallingly short of that standard and demand immediate remediation.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

Melania: I never cut child in half with sword. I never do this. The entire USA: what? Melania: not me.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made an unannounced visit to the Everglades concentration camp where she describes the inhumane conditions she witnessed.

ICYMI: AZ’s three public universities quietly dismantled DEI programs over the past year, following threats from the federal government to cut funds. When AZCIR asked what changed and how, officials declined interviews, records requests and ignored detailed questions. azcir.org/news/2026/04...

@repyassansari.bsky.social @repgregstanton.bsky.social and Rep Grijalva just conducted an unannounced oversight visit to this facility. Said there were at least 250 people (facility holds 157) with over 40 people in rooms with listed occupancy of 21. Deportation aircraft were there when they arrived

After being let go from the Washington Post, I publish most of my short essays on Substack. Follow me for free here! michaelmcfaul.substack.com

Donald Trump’s second big shock to the world economy since he returned to the White House looks increasingly likely to force central banks into a new round of tightening.

The Art Of The Deal

“An armed, masked man who showed up during an anti-ICE student walkout three months ago at Hamilton High School is a Phoenix police sergeant” “He’s a supervisor — to try to orchestrate a conflict with juveniles, in my view, is beyond the pale”

ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues. He had just asked to call his wife. They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw. Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Katie Lane, the Bozeman attorney nominated to U.S. District Court by President Donald Trump, has become the first judicial nominee of Trump's second term to be rated unqualified by the American Bar Association.

"Europeans long viewed the U.S. as the indispensable power," Amanda Sloat writes. "Now, hope and admiration have been replaced by fear and even disdain." https://wapo.st/4cmzuv8