The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Attention: If you live in Rep. Derrick Van Orden's (R-WI) district, here's what your costs will look like if Republicans don't extend the tax credits:

If JD Vance has to obey Hegseth's "No more beardos" proclamation, his career in politics might be over.

Trump 2005: "...when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything." Trump 2025: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States.” He's always been this bad, but In 2005 he didn't control nuclear weapons.

Lemme speak with directness and a sense of urgency about our most important economic threats, and what history teaches us about moments like this.

They’re optimists.

As constitutional scholar Larry Tribe put it to me recently: “The presumption of regularity rests on what has become a counterfactual assumption of normalcy.” It is time to make the presumption of irregularity (i.e. bad faith) when it comes to the Trump crowd. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The new head of US labor statistics recorded a podcast promoting Project 2025.

Y’all gotta’ see this.

As RFK Jr kills Americans, remember Trump told us that he has Trump's blessing to "have a good time." "He wants to do some things and we're going to let him go to it... Bobby stay away from the liquid gold, other than that go have a good time Bobby." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMv...

Why didn't Todd Blanche talk to the victims to get the names of the perpetrators?

A guy whose fraudulent university was shut down is telling the Ivy League what to do. A guy whose businesses went bankrupt multiple times is telling the Fed what to do. A guy whose best friend was a child sex trafficker is telling the DOJ what to do. That it’s all the same guy is pretty wild.

the idea that “DEI” is to blame for racist assumptions about the ability of nonwhite people and not actual racism is such a perfect example of racecraft www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Love these women

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Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile, by Pablo Picasso, 1931, 📸 via @pbs.org

Accessible masculinity is the aesthetic of the new institutionalized terror in our burgeoning $200 billion police state. Members of this goon squad look like the guys who roam around America’s dead malls.

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe" www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

MAGA is Murder. They want the ill and disabled dead. They want America unhealthy. They want to kill minorities. They cut all support to underprivileged people … they hate us all. #HandsOffMedicaid We. Must. Stop them.

How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

The rightwing hates me because I fight. They fear me because we win.

This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030. Half a million kids. Kids. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

Trump administration stopping NOAA data service used to monitor sea ice off Alaska, reports Yereth Rosen, @yjrosen.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/07/t...

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

This election is not about Trump. It is about standing up for Canada and defying the rage-baiters, conspiracy trolls and those who trash our nation to score points. This election is about you Pierre Poilievre. We reject your hate politics. Canadians do your best. Don't accept the worst.

African Elephants are my favorite land animal species, by far. During yesterday’s earthquake, my babies at the San Diego Zoo reacted to the quake, immediately protective of their most-vulnerable Community members. Humans could learn SO much from these beauties, if we’d just humble ourselves. 🐘🐘

This was three months ago.

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

Very accurate...

These aren’t “reciprocal tariffs” and the media is lying if they present them that way. This is an insanely stupid obliteration of the global economy. It is the economic equivalent of setting off a nuke from the floor of the NYSE. Framing it like anything else is a lie.

Economic Suicide by Dipshittery

The institution is not more important than its mission: what child sex abuse and American universities teach us about dealing with fascism Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

Turning dehumanizing conditions and ritual humiliation into a US government propaganda video. This makes me ill

“But no one in the wider world can appreciate how stressful it is to confront an executive order like this until one is directed at you.” --Brad Karp. Fuck you, you coward.

Bravo to YouTube’s “Play” button!

There's a way to audit a government agency that actually works. What DOGE is doing is... not that.

Outside the right-wing American/Russian disinformation.. "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor." - French Senator Claude Malhuret

“Congratulations, American taxpayer: You are going all in on crypto,” @annielowrey.bsky.social writes:

Won't Forget It If democracy survives, this is the one Trump line that will go down in history, like a phrase from the Gettysburg Address. It's his confession, and now it is our mantra. We can never forget or forgive what these two men have done to our democracy.

“The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.” Words from Frances Perkins, FDR's labor secretary and an architect of Social Security. Remember this as the program is under attack.

Lech Wałęsa expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy

WOW. After yesterday’s Oval Office ambush of President Zelensky, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s leading marine fuel providers, announced that it will no longer refuel U.S. Navy vessels, urging other European firms to follow suit. The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.

Origins of Trump wealth. Explains a lot. Friedrich Trump moved from Germany in 1885 and became wealthy "from alcohol and prostitution... Trump returned to Germany to find a wife, Elizabeth Christ, and moved back to New York to have three children and buy real estate" macleans.ca/news/donald-...

Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.