Somehow this is fitting. "The display, which utilizes about 2,250 amps of the dam’s hydroelectricity, will be activated every evening until July 4. Behind it, Lake Mead continues to experience ...severe drought and recent algae blooms have caused portions of the lake to become potentially toxic."

"China’s policing in the Solomon Islands has gone hand in hand with the growth of its mining and other businesses, and the need for Beijing to protect its interests overseas."

"The approach is a stark contrast to the way previous administrations responded to outbreaks, during which health care workers and other U.S. citizens exposed to the virus were brought home to be treated at specialized medical units. "

I may be hitting the limit on how much corruption and bad deeds I can take from this administration.

Insanity, parsed.

OMG

Follow the money

A Trump effort to exclude Dominion voting machines collapsed after aide failed to deliver proof of vote-rigging

They've found another way to upend the economy... “If you thought the economy was bad with Trump’s war driving prices at the pump up … just wait until international travel is halted at some of the busiest airports in the world,” California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press account posted to X.

"After the 2014 outbreak, which killed +11,000 people, the world strengthened systems to catch and contain Ebola outbreaks early. Much of that infrastructure has been dismantled over the past year, as the US abdicated its longstanding role as a leader in global health and humanitarian response."

I don't care what your politics are, this is bullshit.

The abrupt cuts to USAID in early 2025 are associated with significant increases in violent conflict in regions covering most of the African continent, a new study reports in Science. The sudden, rather than gradual, USAID cuts undermined democratic governance and precipitated civil unrest.

“We are so far behind in this outbreak,” a current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employee tells @wired.com. “This is a perfect storm.” new from me and @knibbs.bsky.social on how aid cuts from last year are already fueling the sudden ebola outbreak:

"Almost any time Trump talks to a foreign strongman, he seems both charmed and intimidated, and ends up defending his autocratic friend rather than his country. Trump will not change. He will never take a robust stand against America’s top-line enemies: He saves that kind of rancor for our allies."

Each cut takes us closer to autocracy. "The Justice Department has created a $1.8 billion fund to compensate supporters of Trump who felt they had been mistreated by Democratic administrations. The announcement came as part of a settlement with Trump of his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS."

The fact that the same people doing this also oppose minimum wage increases reveals their preference for maintaining a permanent underclass.

A fabulous account of the spider that bit a racist. Simetimes you just need a little humor.

"True democracy was ushered in and kicked out in my mother’s lifetime. When she was 15, Black people like her finally were granted the right to vote and now at 76 saw 6 members of SCOTUS declare that, for all intents and purposes, especially now as a FL resident, she no longer has those rights."

HCR on the Trump family grift. How do we recover from this much corruption?

An important race affecting affordability for millions is totally off the radar. Jane Kim, candidate for California insurance commissioner, is pitching a single payer program for disaster insurance, to align insurance with homeowners. prospect.org/2026/05/14/j...

The Big Grift continues

Trump's war on clean energy has cost US households $1,508 each since he was reelected. "The big story here is corruption. Trump is doing the bidding of the fossil fuel industry and enriching his friends because they got him elected," says UCSB prof Leah Stokes. No paywall.

SCOTUS, which ordered Alabama to create a second Black opportunity district just 3 years ago, has lifted that order a week before the primary. The Purcell principle says courts shouldn't permit chaos too close to an election—it's now an open question whether there will even be a primary on schedule.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The use of terms related to “American decline” in official Chinese sources nearly doubled in 2025, according to a study by two Brookings Institution researchers.

“He would be terrible! He is someone who was very quickly insanely frustrated with how government works in reality. He comes in with these incredibly wild ideas, wants them all to happen instantly, isn’t interested in compromise, and when it doesn’t happen he throws his toys out the pram.”

Through the CDC alone, the cost of this project is estimated at $40-50 million. Just the latest example of how one supremely unqualified person is wrecking our public health systems. (No paywall)

I'm sure this is boosting morale among our troops. Thanks, President Grift!

DOJ indicting someone for posting 86 47 on social media is far more dangerous to Americans than someone posting 86 47 on social media. The real crime is the indictment itself.

Are Americans wakin up? "If you deploy indiscriminate violence, bust into people’s homes, kill Americans, terrorize cities, deport neighbors and workers, and depress business activity, Americans suddenly want to be much more selective about who gets deported."

Meanwhile they've doubled the military budget request to $1.5 trillion.

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

Mad MAHAians, what did you expect from Trump--elysian fields and blue skies?

Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.

Justice Thomas' remarks about progressivism "display the sort of ideological arrogance and intellectual incoherence that have become characteristic of the right wing of the court under Chief Justice John Roberts." We need term limits for justices, at the very least.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

"I don’t think Americans fully appreciate the extraordinary cost of Trump’s bluster. It should go without saying, but once you threaten to invade an allied country, you don’t just place the existence of the alliance in jeopardy; you raise the possibility of allies turning into mortal enemies"

The weaponization of ICE deportations will continue to grow--as will the loss of trust and respect for the US immigration system. Definitely making America uglier and meaner.

A new, dirty industrial revolution will upend efforts to break our fossil fuel habit. And these projects represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential climate cost of the AI boom.

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...

"This is an important thing to think about."

"Some at the FBI are concerned that Patel’s behavior has left the country more vulnerable." Some? Are there any at all who think he's made the US less vulnerable?

"Ron Filipkowski said it well: nobody declares victory after losses more often, or more loudly, than Donald Trump."

Just no

WTAF? The trump theocrats are not likely to win this war of words (nor the other war ), so what is motivating them? Wake up guys, you're shedding supporters with this unholy crap. #leavethepopealone

This isn't being talked about enough: President Trump is hosting a gala at Mar-a-Lago next week for the top 297 holders of his #$TRUMP memecoin. Not only is this blatantly corrupt, it's a national security threat.

The definition of hubris