One of Rome’s most breathtaking traditions took place inside the Pantheon today. Every year on Pentecost — the seventh Sunday after Easter — thousands of rose petals are dropped through the oculus of the ancient dome after Holy Mass.

And a Russian fighter jet flew about 6 metres in front of the RAF jet. These are dangerous events which are not highlighted enough.

Just a reminder: Trump's stock trades (which have almost been forgotten in the wake of the slush fund furor) are NOT official acts, they're just coordinated with official acts. As such, they are crimes Trump can be charged with. In both the city & state of New York. #KindaLikeAlCapone

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Crossover happens! Solar and wind provide more power than gas. Fossil fuel corruption won’t stop progress. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

Cartoon by @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social

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Dark, but funny from SNL... the latest polling shows Trump's approval close to the 20s too.

The $1.8 billion slush fund isn't simply old-school corruption, done on a bigger scale. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

How did a Facebook meme cost a TN county $835k? 💬 Former cop Larry Bushart shared a meme to Facebook featuring Trump’s "get over it" quote in response to a vigil for the late activist Charlie Kirk. Continued below ⬇️

Solar and wind met three quarters (74%) of the growth in electricity demand in the US in 2025. Solar alone met 65%. The US is back in a period of load growth. Quick to deploy solar, wind and batteries are the fastest and cheapest way to meet that demand.

Sometimes I get very vexed when people whine about uses of the passive voice that aren’t uses of the passive voice. This is a use of the passive voice.

Some relevant reading from today

www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pla... Good news

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

A new financial disclosure shows Trump has traded millions of dollars worth of stocks in companies that include Nvidia, Palantir, Meta, Disney and more.

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

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The Intel chair hasn’t read the treaty. If he had, he’d know there’s only been one time NATO was required to help the U.S. and that was after 9/11. And they did.

No American should be comfortable with the President of the United States accusing a reporter of treason for critical reporting.

All the car parks to the supermarkets and hyper markets in this area are done. Plus quite a few much smaller parking areas. All new agricultural buildings have solar panel roofs as well.

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

Trump and Putin

McGovern: I think Trump is seriously ill. He needs medical attention. There needs to be an intervention from his family or someone in his cabinet—I would say some of the Republicans here, but they don’t have the balls to confront him on anything.

Mamdani really shows up the venal, money-grubbing cartel in the White House.

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios has been released! She should never have been locked away by ICE. As an emergency and trauma doctor, she served patients in South Texas with dedication. I am grateful that she will be reunited with her 5 year-old daughter Milena and husband.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social at the CA state capitol: “We chanted ‘we will not go back’ — I burned a confederate flag outside the chamber to send a message we will not go back to the times in which our folks were met with Billy clubs & the blast of the fire hose…” 🇺🇸

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Monitoring channels are reporting a massive attack by Ukrainian drones across Russia. According to their preliminary data, around 260 drones may have been launched.

Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.

NEW: Missouri Republicans are doing everything they can to prevent voters from getting a chance to block a GOP gerrymander via a ballot measure this fall.

As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

As it should be. Kimmel and Fallon being classy and respectful. www.huffpost.com/entry/kimmel...

In case this wasn’t already completely obvious in every possible way. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Sanctimonious barely covers it.

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

Didn't the Supreme Court say Texas couldn't use their old maps back in December because it was too close to the primary elections? But it's okay for Alabama, where voting has ALREADY BEGUN?

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

Reform’s newspaper takeovers leaves readers and voters furious The party faces a backlash after buying front-page adverts that exploit a loophole in local election spending rules observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Yes! Now everyone else follow.

With our team of 60 lawyers, Elias Law Group is currently litigating 85 voting and election cases in 43 states plus DC. Perhaps someone should ask the law firms with thousands of lawyers how many pro-democracy cases they are handling. For most, the answer is zero.

DEVELOPING: DOJ is investigating $2.6B in suspiciously timed oil trades made right before Trump's Iran decisions. The corruption is finally catching up to them. Please like and share to get the word out! www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-t...

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

Guy’s face when he realises he’s being introduced as the wrong man…