Importantly, as she points out, the certificate was created on April 10, before the DoJ told Judge Nichols that the infrastructure didn’t exist. Nichols used that info to deny the plaintiffs standing and refused to block Trump’s order. 2/ apnews.com/article/trum...

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

Using this as the headline on every piece I file from now on

Fashion tip of the day: To deal with clothes moths, fill your wardrobe with thousands of tiny spiders, the moth's natural predator. To deal with the spiders, fill your wardrobe with scorpions. To deal with the scorpions, fill your closet with RFK Jr. This way, you avoid harmful chemicals.

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

jeezuz "What this office is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, your voter registration, your passport, your federal login, out of the agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure."

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Did you see this??? An entire 50 PERCENT of Democratic voters under 30 want the party to MOVE TO THE LEFT on transgender issues. Comparing with other issues polled, it's second only to healthcare as an issue younger voters want to see the party move left on.

I visited my constituent Carlitos at the Adelanto ICE facility. ICE shot him in October. His gunshot wound is infected, his hand is purple, and he’s suffering immense pain—and ICE refuses to give him proper care. I won’t stop fighting until he gets the care he desperately needs.

Does that mean billionaires will be handing out their stocks to working people?

Orange County got a state of emergency this week over a chemical that *might* leak. But San Diego’s South Bay has breathed measured toxic gases beyond chronic air standards for YEARS, with no such response. Same law, stronger evidence — the same standard should apply here. #TijuanaRiver #SouthBay

Why do men sexually harass women? In new research, behavioural scientist Morgan Weaving, philosopher of biology Kate Lynch and I look at how two very different explanations stack up against well-established criteria for a good scientific explanation. theconversation.com/why-do-men-s...

Thank you for explaining the physical layout. I prefer photos. The link to the NY Times article with its 3D rendering and videos helped me greatly. Everyone should take a look if you have access. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... For those w/o access, a summary of the perspectives being disrupted.

I like how every data centre proposal has to include how it's not going to be as horrifying on the environment as you'd think rather than what societal benefit it'll provide in exchange for strangling the last of our dwindling resources

Those who wish to make an ideology dominant and unimpeachable must first pretend it doesn't exist.

White House lending credence to a weaponization of govt claim right there.

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

This is why this outbreak really worries me. It's far further advanced before it being identified, which means way more cases yet to develop and transmission chains yet to be interrupted. For those who have closely followed previous Ebola outbreaks those are the exact ingredients for a big epidemic.

“.. American officials did not learn of the outbreak until Thursday, nine days after the World Health Organization did, and almost a month after the first person died.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/h...

The Elon Musk outbreak

“The delay in confirming the outbreak was in part because samples were taken to the national lab in Kinshasa, Congo, at the wrong temperature. That task previously would have been managed by U.S.A.I.D.”

Interesting how fascist republicans falsely claimed all Jan 6 terrorists were paid actors, undercover FBI agents and Antifa to pretend it wasn’t MAGA voters but now they’re okay with paying them nearly $2B in stolen taxpayer dollars. Funny how that works.

This is wild.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A potential House Democratic majority should use the next two years with the gavel in the Oversight Committee to compel testimony, secure documents, and turn over evidence to state law enforcement authorities until a new DOJ under a Democratic president can pursue federal charges in 2029.

Operation Close the Strait of Hormuz is over. Time to launch Operation Open the Strait of Hormuz.

And “WIVES SUBMIT” is much bigger than the other two. The Kirk gang really showing priorities.

Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

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.

I looked it up. The targeting of trans people and supporters is listed in the 2026 White House statement of anti terrorism strategy as well. See page 7. It’s weird, because I’m a news junkie, and I’m just not aware of a violent pro trans terrorism movement. Hmm. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

A good source to follow.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

Trump—ironically sundowning at dusk from the portico—is publicly admitting that he appointed his personal fixer to be Attorney General of the United States, because he is very good at shielding him from legal consequences for decades and decades of his high crimes and misdemeanours.

6/ These weapons are especially toxic to children, who breathe more rapidly than adults, pulling in more contaminated air relative to their body weight. There are no studies of long-term effects on kids, but studies on adults show lingering eye issues and respiratory illnesses.

2/ We found at least 79 children hurt by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation blitz. It’s likely a vast underestimate. Kids were at home, sitting in strollers or attending a daytime protest with their parents. Then, chemicals left them gasping for air.

A gentle reminder that the guy who beat Orban was the “lesser of two evils.” So vote your soul in the primaries, then please, in the name of all that is good and holy, vote for the Democrat in the general.

huh. when i had a cardiac incident in july and no insurance, the triage nurse asked why i decided to come in and i said i was scared my kids would find my body but I suppose this is scary too

You can find all the work I have done on the subject here: www.strongwilledproject.com/purity-cultu...

It's really nice to see so much of my research on Dobson in one piece (for Religion Dispatches). If you want to check out my original reporting on the Meese Commission and more, check out my STRONGWILLED project. religiondispatches.org/2026/05/07/n...

You can read more about the normalization of these incredibly creepy beliefs here: www.strongwilledproject.com/inside-the-m...

Like this: from the guy who wrote Left Behind: “Show me a little girl of five/six who can run into her daddy’s heart, sit on his lap, and kiss him any time she likes and in fifteen or twenty years I will show you a young woman who is emotionally prepared to be a sexually responsive wife." Tim Lahaye

Obsessing about rigid gender norms, joking about young daughters being sexually appealing to boys, telling 12yos they must dress modestly or men will lust, telling dads it’s their job to make sure their daughters grow up to be sexually responsive wives -- this happens CONSTANTLY in these spaces

My thesis is that serial child predators are drawn to conservative Christian communities for several reasons. One of the biggest ones is that these communities normalize viewing children and teenagers as sexually appealing.

Excellent article, pointing to multiple books I would like to read.

I feel like if Spanberger just drew new maps without a constitutional amendment, she'd run into the VA supreme court again. And if she ignored them and did it anyhow, what would that even look like? She'd just keep running into the court. Anyone have any ideas? END/

Even if they repeal relevant state laws, can they apply the repeal to something that's already happened, or do they have to start again? Further, how do they get around the VA Supreme Court's interpretation of Article VII, Section 1 of the state Constitution? 2/

Alright, there has GOT to be a way to get the Virginia maps back. The state constitution bans gerrymandering, and per the VA supreme court's interpretation, there's no time to amend the constitution before the midterms. So what are the other options? 1/

US House Democrats will hold public hearing on Epstein files controversy, with testimony from Epstein survivors, on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.