Continued thanks to ProPublica for its health reporting. Parents are declining vitamin K shots for their newborns, and the babies are dying. The current mistrust in science & medicine is so tragic. www.propublica.org/article/more...

The journalist who is being sued by Kash Patel and reportedly being investigated by the FBI is out with a new story. Is there a Pulitzer for being a fearless badass? If so, she should win it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Jesus. The fact that they tipped off Fox News seems like a red flag that this is bullshit.

It's a huge problem that the administration is systematically going after Black political leaders and that the outrage from white people on the left has been muted. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Art of the Deal is confusing

F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Soil at D.C. Golf Course Where East Wing Debris Was Dumped Contains Toxic Metals www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/c...

Trump can call this war over all he wants… Americans know the truth. It’s way easier to get into a war in the Middle East than it is to get out of one. We’re still deep in this one.

Operation Epic Fury, Meet Operation Colossal Blunder www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

FIONA HILL: Massive weakness of Trump that Russia exploits is that Putin knows Trump himself is very prone to conspiracy theories. Putin knows that Trump lives in a world of memes and tropes on Truth Social, and he will take on board almost anything that is fed to him.

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

NEW: Trump aides declared an emergency to bypass Congress to sell arms valued at $8.6 billion to Israel and Arab nations. That means less weapons for the US since munitions take years to make. Pentagon officials are alarmed at low supplies and war risks. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/w...

Abughazaleh: One of the most egregious aspects of this is Hegseth saying that this conflict that we started is ordained by God. Is bombing a school full of schoolgirls ordained by God?

Osteoarthritis has no cure, but researchers have developed new therapies that help aging or damaged joints repair themselves in a matter of weeks. www.wired.com/story/osteoa...

Meanwhile, our national political media continues to report on him as if he were mentally well. He is not. And that is crucial context for every single thing he does.

Lets be clear. This is about stealing an election, this time, with SCOTUS on their side. House Speaker says, “you’ve got to keep the grown ups in charge.” GOP doesnt care what the voters want. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump’s border wall construction has now damaged a 200-foot-long Indigenous etching in Arizona believed to be at least 1,000 years old.

Thank you, Rep. Garcia. You're the right guy for this tough job in this incredible moment.

Being the way I am, I have looked up the etymology of “86” before. There are myriad theories, ranging from rhyming slang with “nix” to some elaborate numerical code developed by soda jerks (e.g. www.stlmag.com/dining/Ask-G...). But I’ve never seen the one Trump floats here in print before.

We’re running low on key munitions that will take years and billions to replenish. Trump gutted Medicaid but still keeps finding billions more for a war of choice.

Media partially moving on from the Iran war—Correspondents Dinner! King Charles!—and markets taking it in stride feels almost like gaslighting. But what Trump broke he can't fix. Major economic disruption is already locked in and a deal isn't close. I've got a reality check on the war, in @ms.now:

Trump posted this insanity at 4 in the morning

Looking forward to this being entered as an exhibit in the Comey case.

The Justice Department seems to be going out of its way to avoid saying that Cole Allen didn't fire any weapons at all inside the Washington Hilton — and that the officer hit was most likely hit by friendly fire. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-jus...

They are silencing all the whistleblowers, muzzling all the watchdogs.

Not to "Actually...." here, but actually, it was the current Vice President that compared Trump to Hitler.

Melania Trump whining about Jimmy Kimmel’s “hateful and violent rhetoric” is about as hypocritical as it gets. Clean up your own house, Mrs. Trump.

when the interview is going great

🚨BREAKING: Virginia court REJECTS Republican lawsuit in challenging the legislature’s authority to alter the 2021 congressional map. A HUGE victory for our client the DCCC and the voters of Virginia. Another defeat for the GOP. www.democracydocket.com/cases/virgin...

In this video, Trump cannot get out of his chair, struggles to stand, takes a few steps, falls to the floor, struggles to stand again, and then walks off the stage. The question should be: what about Trump's health is being kept from the public?

MAGA accounts tweet in unison about the need for a White House ballroom following WHCD incident

Years from now when your loved ones are dying or bankrupted by the results of this…remember who did it and who enabled it

This is expert trolling from Jamie Raskin. If Republicans are suddenly angry about losing in the gerrymandering wars, then they're welcome to join him and Dems in passing bans on gerrymandering in the next Congress, he tells me: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

Not a big deal — it’s not like the U.S. Navy has any large-scale operations going on right now or anything.

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

The child caught measles as an unvaccinated baby and recovered. But the virus stayed in her brain, and she died of terrible complications at age 10. Herd immunity is essential w measles. When Your Child Dies of Measles www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

With the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week demanding 2024 election records from Wayne County, Michigan, the Trump administration is now aggressively targeting the voting process in perhaps the country’s three most pivotal voting jurisdictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past. Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic. emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

Again, it's not just that it is targeting MI, but Harmeet is targeting Wayne (Detroit and Dearborn) and not Oakland or Antrim, where there were criminal shenanigans by Trumpsters in 2020 or Washtenaw, where a non-citizen did unwittingly vote in 2024 (but got prosecuted after the fact).

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

2 days ago.

Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

This is the life-saving technology Trump and his administration are canceling. www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

Horrible and inexcusable . Thank you AP for documenting this. ICE went on a hiring spree. Sterling credentials were not required, AP investigation finds apnews.com/article/ice-...