Last year, Trump and DOGE gutted funding for thousands of USAID programs, including monitoring and containing New World screwworm in Central America. Now, the parasite has moved north and infected American livestock. "Efficiency."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime

NEW: In a win for Virginia voters, a federal judge approved an agreement that prevents state officials from rejecting college students' voter registration applications solely for missing certain address information. The change will be in effect for the upcoming August primaries.

@robertgarcia.bsky.social: "We've said we don't really care who is called out here. We don't care who has to face justice, whether they're a Republican or Democrat. We just want justice for the survivors, and for the truth to come out about why there was a cover-up and who abused women & girls."

NEW: Blackwater founder Erik Prince is Chairman of drone company Swarmer which operates in Ukraine - Swarmer has just signed an MOU with drone company Powerus that plans to merge with a firm where Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are investors. My latest:

My state is being stupid, and this is why I didn't vote for the establishment Dems. California will not continue to stay with the Democrats if they keep being dumb. Yes I know, the GOP is worse, but California will eventually vote for change if Dems keep failing to meet the moment.

Our farmers and ranchers are the backbone of our communities, & across the West, they have warned of the devastating impacts of a potential screwworm invasion in the U.S. Well, the first reported case is here with a screwworm fly found on a calf in TX. We will do everything we can to support them!

primary every democrat

If one group is discriminated against, anyone can be discriminated against. I learned that the first time I read the Constitution. I was 13. Don’t make excuses for bad Representatives. They know what they are doing. ☠️☠️☠️

Posted 4 days ago by @usdailypost (on IG) " #Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed the No Kings Act into law on May 13, 2026, which will take effect on October 1, 2026 This new law allows Maryland residents to sue ICE agents & other federal officials who violate their constitutional..." Threats 2 👇

Trump will direct $700 million in taxpayer funds to the coal industry. $425 million to 13 coal projects $185 million to build two coal power facilities $75 million to build a coal export terminal Why are we funding outdated, dirty fuel? #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.citizen.org/news/trump-a...

Great thread:

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Today, the Senate is voting on Republicans’ attempt to ram through funding for ICE and CBP without critical reforms. My Democratic colleagues and I are forcing votes on amendments to tackle the affordability crisis and hold the Trump-Vance Administration accountable.

This is amazing. Can’t wait for the results:

Derrick Coleman declined his Mobile Sports Hall of Fame induction, saying he could not accept the honor while Black voters face diminished representation under newly approved congressional maps. “We cannot settle for silence,” Coleman said.

Indivisible turned the tide in Arizona💙⚖️💙

Gov. Pritzker: Trump has failed our workers with high costs, empowered wealthy corporations to treat them like garbage. GOP have been acting like lapdogs, letting the WH trample your rights & rubbing elbows with Musk & Ellison. Time for Republicans in Washington to cut the BS!

Many people On Here say there's never a reason to be on Xitter and there are FEW reasons. But Hunter is, for the moment (his follows are going up >50K a day, maybe more) making a stink there that is useful.

I want to make it clear that as with the NIH and CDC, the USDA has tons of legitimate scientists that are still working there under horrific conditions. It’s the political appointees handpicked by Trump and RFK Jr. who are destroying our scientific and public health infrastructure.

No one is saying this out loud in the Middle East Trump’s stupidity and greed broke the Petro Dollar.

Walz: Let's be very clear, this president is a failure at business except when he got elected to office and can use corruption…

"The message from those still risking retaliation in Delaney Hall and other detention facilities is clear: the costs of looking away are higher than the costs of speaking out." Free Press' @ruddock.bsky.social is with @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the urgency of bearing witness:

Epstein Victims deserve transparency & Justice Everyone involved/named in the Epstein Files needs to be held accountable, no matter who they are & their popularity Thank you, @raskin.house.gov 💙🗽 Stop protecting predators, pedophiles & rapists just b/c of their wealth, social status & reputation🤬

Diversity matters.💪💪🏻💪🏾💪🏽

This should be a national scandal. The Texas Republican Party publicly promoted a group that supports prosecuting women who have abortions for homicide. No exaggeration. And most Americans never even heard about it. #SheShed

Amanda Ungaro has come out and said Paulo Zapata did not introduce Melania to Trump, Epstein did. She also says Melania was working as an escort for Epstein at the time.

Pathetic.

In the US we still have the punitive legal and education biases from England. ☠️⚖️☠️

“Mr. Secretary, I may have to get you a new pair of glasses.” @marcorubio hilariously pretends not to be able to see Trump and his family are enriching themselves off the presidency.

A extremely dangerous maggot that eats human flesh called Screwworm has just been found for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966. This comes after Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs. apnews.com/article/scre...

Thanks for keeping it real. She is a brilliant photographer and the emotional intelligence of Curtis and Lemon is hilarious.

Smart countries can have nice things. Stupid countries, not so much.

If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.

Hilarious.

The National Review is upset Scott Pelley interviewed me in an episode on Trump’s attacks on lawyers. But nothing that he said wasn’t accurate.

Trish Owen DDC Follows you @trish0116.bsky.social And we thank you for this post.

I remember Bari Weiss losing the paper gig and trying to get people to pay him as an influencer/pundit on X…..☠️

“Weiss was installed at CBS News as a compliant mouthpiece for the Trump-allied Ellisons, who bought Paramount and now need government approval for a merger that would also hand them control of CNN. Government collaborators are on the verge of controlling a massive share of American news…

Art Matters. When so much has been taken from you, this sort of thing is a big deal. 💙💛💙💛💙

The Biden Administration pushed the Build Back Better bill that greatly benefited working class families and it was completely gutted by Republican lawmakers. Biden wanted student loan dept relief… gutted by the right. Expanding healthcare, gutted by the right… I could go on.

Sky over Kyiv now and a view of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery. Built in 1108-1113. Blown up by the Soviet regime in 1937. Restored in the 1990s.