Someone is insider trading on crude oil shorts using Iran War announcements from the White House…and making a LOT of money. You better bet we’ll be investigating ⬇️

NEW: French prosecutors are seeking criminal charges against Elon Musk for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation, and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform's artificial intelligence system, Grok. apnews.com/article/fran...

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

Kristi Noem was fired from DHS in March. It is May. She is still living in a Coast Guard house on a military base in Washington. The Trump administration cannot explain why. She needs to pack her bags and go home.

Can you even imagine what a better place our world would be in today, had Al Gore been given a fair hearing from SCOTUS in 2000? Gore has been a champion of climate science for decades. Instead, GW Bush made everything worse for eight years.

60,000 person trial proving mRNA flu vaccine superior to standard influenza vaccine (26% relative increased efficacy, over an already effective vaccine). More mild side effects, similar moderate ones. This is a better vaccine and needs to be approved www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

We are living with a Supreme Court where six justices now rule so openly in bad faith that their very oaths to the Constitution can no longer be taken seriously. Lies are not "differences of opinion." This all ends when we stop pretending they aren't lying.

They are the money, but we are the many, and we will persevere.

Another example of the shameful weaponization of DOJ against Trump's political opponents. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted President Trump, accused the Justice Department of having been “corrupted” by Trump loyalists he claimed were demolishing its credibility and seeking to undermine the rule of law. FREE NYT GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Don't forget: my old Yale Law classmate Clarence Thomas refused to recuse from Jan. 6 cases despite his wife's involvement in the plot. And he's taken at least 100 gifts worth over $2 million while serving, including from GOP donor Harlan Crow. He's a disgrace to the Court.

ICE concentration camps are deadly. Already in 2026, 18 people have died in detention — roughly 1 person every week. They need to be shut down. Instead, the GOP is trying to give ICE and Border Patrol up to $70 billion more.

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

🗺️ A.M. REDISTRICTING UPDATE 🗺️ 📍FL: GOP gerrymander in effect. 📍AL: Day 3 of special session to redistrict. 📍TN: Day 2 of special session to redistrict. 📍LA: SCOTUS allows redistricting. Voters ask to recall. 📍SC: House will vote today whether to redistrict. 📍GA: GOP confirmed no 2026 redistricting.

"In a maximum-gerrymandering scenario, more than 400 seats in the House could be safe and essentially uncontestable, delivering to voters year after year an unresponsive and unimpeachable class of lazy representatives with little incentive to represent them" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is the bizarro world the Supreme Court has created with its latest voting rights decision. Thank you Jon Stewart and & @thedailyshow.com You can watch my entire conversation with Jon here: youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

Gift Article NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

More legacy for the Roberts Court

Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.

Our first-in-the-nation Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office is just one step in the ongoing work to build a future where all our communities are safe.

Republicans are proposing $1 billion in taxpayer money for Trump’s White House ballroom—after the president repeatedly claimed it would be privately funded and cost Americans “not one penny.”

Trump said his ballroom would be privately funded. Then the price tag climbed from $200M to $300M to $400M. Now Senate Republicans are eyeing $1 billion in taxpayer money for the “East Wing Modernization Project.” Sam Stein on the ballroom bait-and-switch.

Article: "COVID-19 spreads year round" Tea Burns: "Even when local risk levels are lower, there is still good reason to mask at any event. Masking breaks transmission chains & saves lives from death, acute COVID, or Long COVID. It protects against various respiratory pathogens."

Senate Republicans have slipped $1 billion for White House Ballroom security enhancements into their immigration enforcement funding bill the one they’re trying to rush through Congress this month.

Codifying Roe, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and holding members of this administration criminally accountable are important goals, but none of it sticks without Supreme Court reform.

"Republicans propose $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to secure Trump ballroom. The president said repeatedly that the White House ballroom would be privately funded but has raised security concerns, particularly in light of the correspondents' dinner shooting." www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Trump’s ballroom is costing taxpayers nothing, just like he said. Unless you count the taxpayer money he’s shoveling under the table. A comically corrupt administration, from top to bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

Fetterman is going to vote to give him the ballroom, which is not a ballroom but a bunker that he will hide in for the rest of his natural life.

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

How about MINNEAPOLIS, Secretary Rubio? Do you mean THIS administration is a “vicious regime”, since its agents shot and killed Alex Pretti and Rene Good?

Since the Trump FDA won't tell you, I will. Multiple studies show COVID and shingles vaccines are safe. The FDA kept those studies a secret. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

worth noting that it has inertia. 600k is where we stand today, but even if we could flip a switch and instantly restore USAID to pre-doge, there are still going to be kids dying because elon did what he did. it takes years to build the networks and systems of systems we had with usaid.

When Donald's stupid, tacky ballroom was estimated to cost $200 million and be privately funded: Donald planned to pocket anything over the actual cost. He then raised the estimate to $400 million to account for this corruption. Now, he wants taxpayers to pay $1 billion so he can pocket even more.

Why aren’t reporters asking Rubio - “Who started this war?“ and follow up questions about how Hormuz was open and peacefully letting all commercial traffic through the Strait before we started bombing Iran.

A great @kffhealthnews.org article exploring the horrors of emergency room "boarding" — where patients remain in the ER, sometimes for 24 hours or more, as they wait for a hospital bed upstairs.

If your provider offers to sign you up for a medical credit card or loan, here’s why you should steer clear— and what you might want to try instead:

The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

Costa Rica passed a law in 2018 that required electric utilities to install fast chargers every 50 miles on national highways. Tax breaks have made Costa Rica a pioneer in electric vehicles. Costa Ricans are buying electric vehicles at 3 times the rate of Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/b...

And his company paid *no* taxes. #BoycottAmazon.

REPUBLICANS SAID THERE IS NO MONEY FOR MEDICAID but $1B for a ballroom? Go right ahead amirite?!

THIS WAS ALWAYS THEIR PLAN Gut the Voting Rights Act… then move fast to erase majority-Black districts across the South completely. 📌 Louisiana, 1 in 3 people are Black 📌 Mississippi, 2 in 5 people are Black 📌 N Carolina, 1 in 5 people are Black 📌 Tennessee, 1 in 6 people are Black

🚨🚨 A new report from The New York Times reveals FDA officials blocked publication of taxpayer-funded studies showing COVID-19 and shingles vaccines are SAFE, with serious side effects extremely rare. Health experts are calling this an act of censorship. Calls for investigations are already growing.

🚨BREAKING: The lead plaintiff in the case that destroyed the VRA has a history of promoting false election conspiracies and anti-voting policies, and was at the Stop the Steal protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“WHOSE STATE? OUR STATE!” Tennesseans sing the national anthem and @OdessaKelly leads a protest after a shambolic rules committee starts a dark week of Black voter disenfranchisement in Tennessee

Yesterday, the U.S. killed two more people in the Caribbean. 188 people have now died in 56 strikes.

Congratulations to my friend Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social on a much deserved Pulitzer Prize. One of the most ethical, authoritative, and genuinely caring reporters you will ever meet. This honor was earned the hard way and could not be more deserved.