Note: One reason Trump may be saying "we have to act fast." The comments Jim Comey made to Congress they want to prosecute were made on September 30, 2020. They've got 8 days to charge it.

This does look like a DM, but Trump has learned that if he does corrupt things privately and they get exposed, that’s bad — doing them openly, you can’t say “REVEALED” or “EXCLUSIVE,” and he believes (with reason, I think) that bad things seem less bad without the stink of secrecy

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Will the list of journalists who sign this be officially released information?

It’s been a little over a week since Spencer Cox poignantly reminded us that millions of people just saw a living human being’s neck get ripped open, a collective trauma not experienced since JFK — though 9/11 comes to mind — and far as I can tell that’s essentially the only public remark about it

“So far for 2025, the Trump Organization has posted to hire 31 foreign temporary workers for its winery.”

at the zenith of RFK Jr. breaking medicine, science and trust forever, Olivia Nuzzi is named West Coast Editor of Vanity Fair.

Good points raised in this report— including the politicization of the military and concerns about a potential recruit drop (while Trump & Hegseth say the opposite)—but the obvious concern to me is that Charlie Kirk was murdered by an American, so what’s the real military recruiting pitch here?

Nine months into Trump’s second term and it seems like we’re about where we were 47 months into Trump’s first term

This is what happens when all you really care about is avenging your own social media draggings tit for tat

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Stop treating pretextual claims seriously

Whatever this “ANTIFA” move is going to be and no matter how legally dubious, this administration has shown that when it is actually capable of moving fast, it can break a lot of stuff before the courts set things straight — in the instances they do set them straight

China drops Google antitrust probe during US trade talks on.ft.com/4gprP0o

One thing I’ll say about the Ezra Klein piece is he didn’t mention that Charlie Kirk was an prominent & unrepentant 2020 election denier who helped organize Jan. 6 and leveraged his nonprofit to raise money & bus people in. Still the most baldly antidemocratic single act in modern US history.

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Karl Rove speaking up against the effort to turn Charlie Kirk into the pretext for a Reichstag-style crackdown - to his great credit www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

“despite investigators so far failing to find sufficient evidence supporting such charges [after five months of investigating], according to sources familiar with the investigation.”

Not suprising exactly but whoa: abcnews.go.com/US/trump-off...

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

NEW from me: CBS News staffers who spoke with The Independent said that new owner David Ellison has "lost the trust" of the newsroom because he "lied" to them about not wanting to politicize the network and company. "He's just a liar," one told me. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Deputy AG Blanche: RICO is available to all kinds of organizations committing crimes and committing wrongful acts… So is it sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant where the president is trying to enjoy dinner and accost him with vile words?

“He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe.” - Charlie Kirk on MLK

NEW: Miss USA files restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills. Details are rough, text messages from Mills reveal him to be who people say he is. Story for Drop Site @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social

This @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social story is just insane. The same day Trump signed a law making it a federal offense to publish or threaten to publish nudes (which the congressman voted for), he threatened to send his ex's to her new boyfriend: www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-unite...

🚨NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills Lindsey Langston reported the Florida Republican to law enforcement for harassment last month. By @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-unite...

NEW: Florida GOP committeewoman Lindsey Langston filed for a restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills, her ex, after filing a police report alleging harassment and threats to release sexual videos of her & harm future boyfriends. My first for @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-unite...

NEW: Judge Boasberg grilled the Trump administration over Trump’s public claim that he could bring back migrants from El Salvador with a phone call. DOJ says Trump’s view of his own influence isn’t legally salient. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

NEW: The Trump administration has reached a "settlement in principle" for a financial payout to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a Jan. 6 rioter who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer while trying to enter the House chamber. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Congrats to Joe Biden, personally responsible for saving over 2.3 billion American lives just from fentanyl seizures at the border alone! The free-to-read newsletter has more. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

Looks like Rep. Cory Mills flew Turkish Airlines to Syria (logo on seat in pic 1) but apparently returned on an ExecuJets Middle East fleet privately chartered jet — which has apparently been shuttling him around DC & Florida all week. “Personal funds”!

This isn’t a “lie” from Trump — it’s crazier. He truly *believes* the letters & numbers themselves are real tattoos, not added in to explain the alleged tattoo “code” or whatever. He’s believed it for days. The guy’s brain is flushed and the people around him, showing him this stuff, they know it

Mills visits Dubai a lot. He took a Valentine’s trip there this Feb, for instance. Right when this license expired.

Cory Mills, who sits on Foreign Affairs & Armed Services committees, has raging conflicts of interest across the Middle East. And yet he just went on a two-member delegation to Syria, where only Mills met with Syria's foreign minister and new president. 1/X

Trump take FEC. Previously: "FEC Moves Forward With Rulings—Despite Trump’s Contested Firing Of A Longtime Democratic Commissioner"

NEWS: The Senate has learned Federal Election Commissioner Allen Dickerson, a Republican, is stepping down at the end of April, per a senior official with knowledge. This would "break" the FEC, one commissioner shy of the voting quorum required to enforce campaign finance law

Man this is a song music.apple.com/us/album/the...

Karoline Leavitt’s failed 2022 campaign is still reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, much of it inexplicable. She refunded her mom for some reason, and an entity called “EMJ Holdings” that didn’t donate to her and … doesn’t have an address? docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

Just starting out on Bluesky, so this will be my first. I’ve been posting a bunch of absolutely crazy stories about GOP Rep. Cory Mills on Twitter—he’s like George Santos, but it’s far more serious. Some folks have compiled them on ThreadReader. Here’s the first. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19108...

Confirmed 99-0

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

GOP Rep. Cory Mills is on Foreign Affairs & Armed Services. He also bashes Ukraine. He also has an international arms company that has made millions sending weapons to Ukraine while he served on those committees — including to state-owned arms maker SpetsTechnoExport. x.com/Sollenberger...

Here’s from tonight. In 2021 Cory Mills created a secret nonprofit he hasn't disclosed to House Ethics. His own congressional office promoted it. He used it, apparently, to fund rescue missions in Afghanistan & Israel—missions he & others told reporters were funded by others. x.com/Sollenberger...

Here’s some info about the chief legal officer of Mills’ international arms sales company, who was COO of Blackwater during the massacre, involved in Jan 6 Pence plot, and a Project 2025 guy. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19111...

Just starting out on Bluesky, so this will be my first. I’ve been posting a bunch of absolutely crazy stories about GOP Rep. Cory Mills on Twitter—he’s like George Santos, but it’s far more serious. Some folks have compiled them on ThreadReader. Here’s the first. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19108...