Is the White House running a pay-to-play loyalty program for wealthy donors? More than HALF of the known companies bankrolling Trump's ballroom have won new or expanded federal contracts. I have a bill to stop this.

Timeline cleanse: handses! Video captured on my after-work walk today in Acadia NP, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot territory. Be sure not to mistake the tail for a lily pad.

I'm just going to say that one more time. NASA has $7.25 billion in FY26 for Science (astro, planetary, all of us). SpaceX is on track to run at a loss of ~$8 billion. TL;DR Sources: www.planetary.org/articles/adv... finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...

That is, 500 MW all the time for 550M average users. The city of St Louis is 2.3M people (~4x higher), and the city uses 12.8 MW per EnergySage. xAI serves 1/4 the population of St Louis and uses at least 40x the power. That feels ethically wrong, especially when you consider waste heat.

The entire campaign for Spencer Pratt in California is not difficult. He's an MTV reality TV star who knows the game, and he's backed by this: 👇🏼 MTV network is owned by the Ellison family. You know, CBS, Paramount. If you vote for him, you're voting for fascism.

Chris Wright has a master's in electrical engineering from MIT and absolutely understands "batteries" as well as any five-year-old child, but you see, he took a job in the Trump administration so he has to pretend he's just as stupid as the boss.

Medicaid work requirements were always going to be cruel. Then, the White House intervened (likely) and made the definition of who can be exempt based on disabilities/health much stricter. This is going to kill people. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨BREAKING: The Senate blocked another Republican attempt Thursday to attach the anti-voting SAVE America Act to an immigration funding package, marking the second failed GOP effort to move the sweeping voting restrictions bill through the chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨BREAKING: A lawyer who was active in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and later represented the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is the latest attorney to be hired by the DOJ’s Voting Section. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The new Trump Presidential Library, the entity responsible for preserving White House records, says it cannot find a single Twitter direct message sent by a president who tweeted more than 25,000 times during his first term — raising questions about compliance with the Presidential Records Act.

Once again: Trumpism is asymmetrical warfare. Trumpists win if they take over an institution or if they destroy it. Trumpists can win a vote or win by destroying public confidence in voting. And they have no compunction about which they do.

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Epstein Class will obliterate still unknown deep ocean ecosystems that have existed unchanged for millions of years & will never recover Long term effects on marine ecosystems, ocean fisheries, climate, & humans are unknown but almost certainly earth shattering www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m still not over how that power company told the community that they’d have to find a different company to provide their electricity because the data center would take too much of theirs. They didn’t tell the data center to find a different power company. They told the humans.

they sure as fck better!!! any dem that doesnt block this is a magat and needs to be treated as such. no excuses. none!

I'm sure it will come as no surprise to you that the global sea-surface temperature hit yet another new record daily high yesterday. Let's get ready to party like it's 1929!

What we confuse about CBS is we think about ratings and think they care about how many people are seeing it. They don’t think about ratings or profits. They think about how many people they can prevent from seeing the truth. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap

President Trump just made it extremely clear that: 1) His $1.8 billion slush fund is on hold due to scrutiny, not dead. 2) He really wants it to happen. 3) The money is 100% intended for J6ers.

Terror and retribution are a core part of how the Trump administration has governed. DOGE whistleblower had threatening note taped to his door and his brakes cut after Elon Musk accused him of lying. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

MEMPHIS — Elon’s xAI is draining resources after scrapping the promised wastewater facility. www.instagram.com/p/DZGHJLIjIp...

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BREAKING: The United States House of Representatives has passed the Florida Safe Seas Act, which bans baited shark dives in Federal waters off the coast of Florida. Now to the Senate. 🧪🌍🦑🦈 I wrote about this bill here: www.scubadiving.com/will-banning...

Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers as Schedule F (now Schedule Policy/Career) begins. What I told @npr.org - this is the first step of a much broader assault on the civil service system. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Page One: “.. the appointment .. has raised alarm internally among staff who question how anyone convicted in the assault on American democracy could be trusted for such a sensitive role ..” @washingtonpost.com

Why is Melania embarrassed about how she met Trump? So what if it was through Epstein. So what if Epstein sold her at a discount? She should be proud of who she is. Embrace it. Be best.

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

Very cool that the new Director of National Intelligence is paranoid and self-important. Perfect qualities for the gig.

Kevin Warsh has tapped two outside associates as advisers—in as temporary contractors for now. Both are budget policy specialists, and one wrote the Fed chapter of Project 2025, which endorsed a radical restructuring of the central bank.

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

Feds to Open Tens of Thousands of Acres of Colorado Wilderness to Oil Drilling Wildlife habitat, endangered animals and recreation could all be at risk in state’s biggest public land sale in modern history. capitalandmain.com/feds-to-open...

Wow. A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter has been hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information. Elias Irizarry was hired to work in the DOD’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and internal alarms are going off. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Every member of Congress who remains silent on Bill Pulte’s appointment as director of national intelligence is actively choosing personal political survival over the literal safety of the United States.

Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023

This is the same person who tried to weaponize mortgage information to go after the President’s enemies. This man has no business being anywhere near our national intelligence and security agencies. ⬇️

why do dogs (& cats) follow us into the bathroom??? whyyyyy??? our bathrooms are small. fine & usable for 1. but not 2 or 3. i’m rarely alone - 2 dogs who insist on joining the trek. at my age i’ve learned where *everything* is located. so i dont need your help thankyouverymuch

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

there is zero ZERO truth or reality in the magat/gop world. appears like it’s toxic masculinity/incel cult. but thats being generous to their weird warped little brains. they’re just fcked up children looking for the approval they didnt get. and we humans are stuck in their weird fantasy world.

Mortgage guy named as Director of National Intelligence. What could go wrong? Trump Administration Live Updates: President Names Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

@catgyoung.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/06/01/n...

Cartoon by Steve Breen

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith

FLASHBACK: Barbara Walters called out Trump for being $3 BILLION in debt, infidelity, not talking to his son, reading the works of Hitler, etc Real Journalism used to be a thing! (Now ask yourself what long-term promises you might make to people if you were billions in debt…)