1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Trump winning all seven swing states with margins that didn’t trigger automatic recounts is enough for me to go with Ashley St. Clair’s claim that Musk manipulated the 2024 election.

We had this back in the day. It was called asking the dumbest person you know who also won’t shut the fuck up

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

“The global-health backdrop is simply different in 2026, largely the result of a series of public-health decisions made by the United States in the past year and a half—among them, dismantling USAID, withdrawing from the WHO, and ousting infectious-disease experts en masse from the CDC.”

Paper art 🖼️

Anyone saying “history will remember this” needs to understand that our collective wormhole around Reconstruction shows that to be a lie. We’ll remember whatever history fits. Everything else will be cast aside, downplayed, or outright banned. History remembers what it’s told to.

Shorter Trump (if he were coherent): “The ballroom is a shed for what’s being built under. We’re building a high-security hideout with extensive defense systems to protect us from fed-up Americans coming at us for crushing living conditions and stolen elections.” A militarized bunker.

i cannot. I CANNOT.

Everybody here

I like how the $8 million in staff cuts could easily be offset by the recent $80 million in donations coming from Steve Ballmer and his wife, but that money won't be used to save human jobs, and is instead earmarked for "technological innovation" (read: given to Microsoft for enterprise services)

A lotta folks don't want to admit we ain't free. We ain't. Not when Marco Rubio is using the State Department to pulp the First Amendment.

This crew is the picture of health

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

One of the most pernicious parts of this is that data show people of color have lower rates of morbidity and mortality when they have a physician of color ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

1.7 billion is pocket change. The actual scandal is that Trump has long been looting the Treasury when he’s not shaking down other agencies. Inspector Generals were fired posthaste, and the “power of the purse” was yanked from Congress. We’re not being governed. We’re being fleeced.

Trump couldn’t be bothered to attend. He sent a video. But he couldn’t be bothered to record a new one so they sent an old video he recorded for a previous event.

And this is why they are so desperately trying to entrench themselves in education and government. They’re hoping to create generations of captive users who have no other choice but to use their tech if they want to read, work, write or think

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This is 70. 🖤

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Dark meat chicken McNuggets years old

Reminder that only 8% of law students are Black, and only 5% of lawyers are Black. Erasing diversity from law schools and their admission practices is exactly how we bring that number to 0.

*taps the sign*

I'm willing to test this theory

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Tax revolt when?

I love how real the elders are being about marriage.

And the flip-flops. I zeroed in on those.

Yikes.

AI can be used to rewrite history and the present, shift beliefs, and redirect desires. The evidence is already in. Much of this tech is testing social control,* especially with public-facing LLMs like ChatGPT, and your use of it teaches it how to do it better. This tech is being/will be weaponized.

yeah, already clocking www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

long hot summer coming

This is why they really hate him — because he’s showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people

🙃 “‘It’s interesting because the same gender group that’s constantly complaining about how women are gold diggers who exploit them for labor and money … It turns out even they [men] can’t think of what they bring to the table other than money,” she observed.”

Ah well next year's crop will surely be a bumper one, what with all this water available for farming, and fertilizer too, not to mention the abundance of cheap gasoline

I want to be very clear about what's happening at FDA: The Trump Regime pushed out the most incompetent fuckup of a Commissioner in the agency's history so that they can install someone who **will be even worse for the health of America's children**

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

Okay, I love this and her. I’m still not watching that roast. But Sheryl Underwood is one of the nicest and realest women in Hollywood.

"If you think you're hungry now....wait until July, girl!" - Bobby Womack if he was an activist

NYT says it's Kyle Diamantas, currently the FDA’s chief food regulator. Diamantas is an attorney who represented infant formula industry clients such as Abbott. Oh, wrong side on that one, guy. Abbott's Similac caused fatal necrotizing enterocolitis in premature babies & they didn't warn parents.

So trump just falls asleep in public and shows up with a new bruise on his hands or neck every other day yet no reporter is asking about his health???

The US Dept of Health & Human Svcs says someone has to be symptomatic to spread Andes hantavirus, but the European CDC states clearly on their page abt this outbreak that presymptomatic spread can occur. Also, this strain is transmissible via respiratory aerosols. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/infectiou...

It’s already over $7 in California.

GRWOM. 😆

If you entered college in 2022, one of the most popular majors, the kind of boring field that was supposed to guarantee you a lifetime of stable employment, was comp sci. Four years later anyone who enrolled in that is facing a labor market apocalypse because of AI. Students do not like this!

Most of their support is “bot” and paid for.