SEN. TILLIS (R): “These people don't deserve restitution. Many of them deserve to be in prison. This is just stupid on stilts. Republicans need to speak up. This is beyond the pale… This is bad policy, bad timing, bad politics.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

Even Elsbeth has a little jab on Fascism and immigration tonight.

NY ❤️ Mamdani. Adams would have secured a private party space for himself and his buddies.

I get frustrated like everyone else with Dems but I’d like to believe that some of these votes we (rightly) find offensive may be how they keep their seats instead of giving it up to MAGA (and a more progressive stance would be even worse). *All politics is local.

If there were a church of Colbert, I just might go. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I can’t read any of these articles about weight-loss drugs without thinking of Stephen King’s Thinner and Ryan Murphy’s The Beauty (though I would not recommend either).

And they are spending hundreds of millions of our taxes to let him do it.

I can just imagine Trump saying “OK Marco, you can go after Cuba next after Iran. Talk to Pete.”

Every time I hear the life insurance commercial (on MSNow repeatedly) when a woman says "have you seen how expensive groceries are?", I think Trump is bound to come after them.

And after $38 billion from US taxpayers. www.congress.gov/119/meeting/...

a company claiming to be worth $1.75 trillion reporting a $4.9 billion net loss on $18.67 billion in consolidated revenue for 2025, all run by a white supremacist fake engineer with a head full of cottage fucking cheese I'm sure it will go fine

A friend told me that, in a college visit to an elite liberal arts school, a student told them that every exam was self-proctored except economics because of widespread cheating. So they only cheat in economics???? (Her daughter didn’t choose that school.)

Why can’t reporters/anchors say Trump supporters who were convicted — because they were — not prosecuted (which leaves culpability an open question)???!!!!

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

June 1, 1933: The "Fund of German Trade and Industry" is created, a massive slush fund administered by Martin Bormann in the Führer's name. Officially meant for "reconstruction", the regime instead used the funds to enrich SA Stormtroopers, the SS, and Nazi party officials.

We need more of this and less AI!

Started watching Greenland 2 because nothing satisfies like the end of the world.

Now they take taxpayer dollars. “From 2011 to 2016, Eric Trump’s organization moved at least $500,000 of charity money into his family’s properties through a series of transactions, most of which never appeared on the nonprofit’s tax filings and, therefore, remained out of the public eye—until now.”

I've been thinking a lot about the death of friendship lately. "Somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...

If you send gifts (holiday/birthday) to someone or their children and they never acknowledge it, can you just stop? No hard feelings but a quick text would be sufficient.

Why are so many otherwise smart people promoting the spectacle of AOC and a Trumper for 2028? We don’t want politics as entertainment (and I love AOC). The country wants calm, experienced leadership that will focus on putting all the guardrails back for good so we can get back to real policy.

Mike Johnson is a featured speaker today at Trump's white Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 rally. On this day in 1954, the landmark Brown v. Board decision was a celebrated victory in fight for civil rights. White Christian nationalism is a racist movement. www.linkedin.com/posts/nancy-...

So Trump will create a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to hand out cash payments to his political allies.

US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison

This does not surprise me

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Finally watched two films this week that I missed in the theater and I’m sort of glad I saw them at home because they made me cry. Hamnet and Sentimental Value will stay with me for a very long time.

Trump’s Border Patrol chief abruptly resigned amid allegations he traveled abroad to solicit sex workers

#Artificial #intelligence is #fabricating references to #medical research that does not exist, according to recent findings:

This is so great to watch. Two true leaders with children. #USDemocracy

For those who think the NYT is pro Trump.

We (even we atheists) are happy to be rid of Dolan in NYC. I wonder what Pope Leo thinks of this?!

Is it me or is predictive text/autocorrect getting so much worse? It’s trying to insert/change things in inane ways. Is this what “better” Ai gives us?

Having a second glass of wine because I no longer can imagine when things will be normal again.

When I can’t bare to listen to the news by go-to diversion is the old classic L&O and, if I think of it, the quality of the acting (let alone the scripts) blows away almost everything on now.

Trump admits to criminal acts.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Reflecting Pool Costs Balloon to $13.1 Million, Records Show www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

590,000 people paid $59 million for the Trump gold phone. A year later, not a single one has shipped. No one has received a phone. The original release date was August, 2025. Now all info about the release date has been removed from the website.

Will Trump deport this Nazi? www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/10/v...

And, of course, all benefit cuts are for the employees who are least able up afford them. Execs still get it all on top of big salaries.

Grandparents who fought in WW2 and who will deliver an ass-kicking for any kind of Nazi talk.

I’m not saying the person on the right deserves the same fate as the person on the left, but maybe you are?

Watching the spot on Ted Turner on CBS Sunday Morning and can’t help but think he was the exact opposite of Trump in every way.

They are coming for our public lands. Trump’s plan to dismantle the US Forest Service is illegal, but it will happen if we stay quiet. It takes literally 60 seconds to flood your Rep's inbox using this tool. Send your letter right now, then repost:

I think I’ll be visiting now.

Me too mate. Me too.

Not now, TB www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Pocket change.

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ~Attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Image: National Portrait Gallery.