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Your tax dollars paid for this free swag I got when I arrived at Trump's Prayer Jubilee on the National Mall

Hegseth is asking for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.

This gave me chills. Watch.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

$15M for painting the Lincoln Reflecting Pool electric-blue. $100M for a giant Arch named after Trump. $1B for Trump’s ballroom. If this administration is interested in rooting out government waste, they can take a look at Trump's taxpayer-funded vanity projects.

www.commoncause.org/texas/texas-.... “Everything you need to know”

The voters have the power.

Texas’ extreme immigration enforcement law, Senate Bill 4 (2023), is partially in effect. What you should know as our lawsuit continues:

The glamorous job of a DOJ attorney; trying to bankrupt undocumented immigrants with no savings, just to make their life even more of a hell. Congrats to every lawyer involved, now quit your job.

Trump just put him in charge of the FDA. He has no medical background at all. But he does turkey hunt with Don Junior so ok. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The 2026 primaries are upon us. Go vote!!!! And make sure your friends and family do the same!! BlueVoterGuide.org can help guide your choices.

An awful example of how our legal immigration system is getting progressively worse.

SpaceX is preparing to launch a new version of its megarocket, a prototype of the system NASA could use to carry astronauts to the moon’s surface.

Heads up #BrazoriaCo #OldOcean #MontgomeryCounty #Conroe #Willis #TX #Texas! Politico reported Quality Technology Services (QTD) in Fayette Co, GA guzzled 30M gal of water without paying DURING a water-restricted drought via 2 unmonitored industrial water hookups. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Stand Up to Greg Abbott! TX use your Voice! The next anti- #ICE #protest in #Houston led by #PSL, supported by #50501Houston and others is happening 🗓 Saturday May 30th 2026, 1pm 📍 CoreCivic-Houston Processing Center, 15850 Export Plaza Dr, Houston, TX 77032! #demonstration #action

Harris County flood control leaders plan to ask for a deadline extension to use federal grant funds after a recent report revealed several post-Hurricane Harvey disaster relief projects won't meet a state-imposed deadline early next year. 

Defund ICE. Defund War. Fund Care.

We don’t have to wait for 2028 to determine the future of the Democratic Party.

The FBI gave a "First Look" at crime in the US in 2025 which confirms that the US had the lowest murder rate ever recorded. One can decipher just how many crimes of all types there were in the US last year if you've seen Rent & don't mind a little long division. jasher.substack.com/p/figuring-o...

Eight years ago today, eight students and two teachers were killed and 13 others were wounded when a 17-year-old gunman armed with his father’s pump-action shotgun entered Santa Fe High School in Texas and opened fire. The teen purchased ammunition online, even though he was legally too young.

A new EPA memo threatens Superfund cleanups — disavowing IRIS hazard values and opening the door for less-protective data at hundreds of NPL sites. We can't let potentially responsible parties trade public health for lower costs. Read more:

House bill restores funding for TraCSS A House appropriations bill would reverse plans by the administration to stop development of a civil space traffic management system.

Maryland just became the first state to make data centers pay for the grid upgrades they drive—instead of spreading those costs across every household. Gov. Wes Moore signed the Utility RELIEF Act last week. Expected savings: ~$640 million for ratepayers over three years.

So vote today or tomorrow before the rain starts! spacecityweather.com/a-very-soggy...

2026 is the year we're going to make change in Texas. But I need every single one of you in this fight with us. Text TEXAS to 80191 or visit ginafortexas.com to join our campaign.

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

“.. an early test of what a retreat in Western health funding might mean for global pandemic preparedness.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Early voting starts today, Monday!

MAY 16 rp IndivisibleTX24❌👑‬ @indivisibletx-24.bsky.social All Roads Lead To The South Street Protest on this National Day of Action! #Southlake TX #goodtrouble #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth #BlackVotesMatter #RefuseFascism #TrumpMustGo #Resist #RATR 46 bsky.app/profile/indi...

I am tired of defeatism. www.patreon.com/posts/voting...

As suspending the federal gas tax gains traction in Washington, a prescient reminder from our Senior Fellow @pkrugman.bsky.social: gas tax holidays are largely a windfall for producers that barely move prices at the pump for the consumers suffering from inflation.

“.. This is an insane amount of trades,” he said, adding that it looks more like something done by “a hedge fund with massive algo trades” that buys and shorts securities than a personal account. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dr. Oz & VP claim there's "fraud" in hospice program. Evidence they cite of this? Dr. Oz: "low mortality rates were one of the clearest signs of a hospice that isn’t truly providing for those at the end of their lives" So living too long is "fraud"? So did Jimmy Carter "defraud" hospice program?

Architecture review: The Ismaili Center is a flat-out masterpiece that embraces tradition and modernity www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainmen...

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Joe Panzarella beats Nick Hellyar to take Houston City Council District C seat in special election www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

A really interesting analysis. Why energy is cheaper via electricity than gas in some countries but not others seems to be down to government energy policy.

A growing number of states are using their health agencies as arms of immigration enforcement, requiring them to report recipients of Medicaid to DHS if their legal status is in question. @arjonesreports.bsky.social has the story⤵️

New & important from CNN: "Deadly outcomes in more than a dozen cases could be linked, in part, to substandard treatment by at-times understaffed medical teams dealing with escalating detainee populations [...] failures by [DHS] and its contractors have helped to drive that deadly trend." 1/2

Sans paywall: archive.ph/yrjJ6#select... 2/2

TODAY — and every day until we have justice for all: We fight for equal rights and we join together to support each other in this battle. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

Primary runoff early voting starts Monday. Check where to vote www.votetexas.gov/voting/where...