A contractor that administers the military’s healthcare benefits to more than 4 million people issued a broad apology to its beneficiaries this week for problems with its coverage. It came two weeks after an NBC News investigation into the benefits program.

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

‘A New Level of Corruption': DHS Bought ICE Warehouses From Trump Cronies For 10x Markup "Folks very close to the White House... were sitting on properties that were causing them losses... The decision was made to buy them at taxpayer expense.""

Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns.

lemme get this straight: 1. Commit a bunch of crimes 2. Get elected President of the United States 3. Order the Justice Department to retroactively absolve you of all crimes forever

Breathtakingly corrupt and indefensible theft of taxpayer money. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"While she wasn’t short on resources or help, she realized how emotionally fraught and all-consuming raising a newborn can be." Thinking tonight about this great @maustermuhle.bsky.social story on the need for free diaper programs.

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

South Carolina’s top court overturned murder convictions against Alex Murdaugh, who had been found guilty of killing his wife and son. The decision, in which judges cited jury interference by a court clerk, upends one of America’s highest-profile homicide cases. nyti.ms/4eJ3pQX

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

"Rural states in the Midwest which rely on farming have been especially hard hit by Trump’s reckless, billionaire-first policies. There’s a lot of discontent, and you can see it in polls and election results which show GOP support collapsing in areas traditionally thought of as the Republican base."

ICE appears to be seeking a new facility near Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y. The search for this facility began under the Biden Administration.

Six DACA recipients tell NBC News that while the renewal process was previously painless for them, this year they have seen long delays. Those who applied months ago said they are still waiting — and losing their status in the meantime.

Didn't the Supreme Court say Texas couldn't use their old maps back in December because it was too close to the primary elections? But it's okay for Alabama, where voting has ALREADY BEGUN?

Independent scientists who reviewed the results said most samples were contaminated with Pfas or phthalates

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Judges have been fired or taken buyouts, and those remaining say they toe the government line

RFK Jr might want to read this study before continuing to claim that people who died from COVID would have died soon, anyway. UK study determines that most of those who died at 65 and older were unlikely to have been close to death journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin shot. By @deldeib.bsky.social

This is what “multiple use management” looks like when timber wins every time. Ecological health, wildlife habitat, native plant communities all of it gets written off as competition. Link: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

If enacted, the rule change will require intellectually disabled young people as well as very elderly people to file multiple 20-page reports if they want to continue their benefits even at the reduced level.

Judge rules DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal

The Trump administration lifts the hold on immigration applications for doctors, but leaves others waiting.

“Everybody in this room knows that most staff will leave because of this announcement,” one employee said. “So I’m curious, how does the departure of most staff equal better customer service and continued good work?” Workers from regional offices and HQ would be moved to 5 locations across the U.S.

They’re cutting off hundreds of thousands more, further restricting what they can buy and now making it much harder to get help.

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

Isn’t that funny? That sounds like the same result that the CDC got in the study that Bhattacharya decided not to let them publish, because he criticized their methods. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

BREAKING: An FBI agent interviewed a high-ranking Wisconsin election official in recent days about the 2020 election. The agent wanted to know how elections are carried out and about various 'theories'. The election official had to debunk false claims and clarify how elections work.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

An immigration judge has ordered the expedited release of a Chicago teen’s parents from immigration custody so they can reunite with him as he battles terminal cancer in Mexico. on.nbcboston.com/wgpOc34

“.. Democratic state representative Justin J. Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson are removed from the gallery after taking part in a silent sit-in protesting redistricting efforts by the state's Republican leadership in Nashville, Tennessee.” @reuters.com #TN09

ICYMI — After Republicans stripped majority-Black Memphis of representation, this was @brotherjones.bsky.social in the rotunda. Damn. (From NC5)

Fed trade court ruled that Trump’s near-universal 10% tariff is unlawful, marking another legal setback for the White House. The admin had introduced the duties earlier this year as a temporary substitute for a broader set of harsher tariffs that were previously struck down by the Supreme Court.

Olivia Andre, a 19-year-old woman from Congo who remains detained in ICE custody in Texas despite her family’s release in March, says she was “in shock” and overjoyed about a judge’s order for her release by Friday.

"Trump is now effectively blocking any new wind projects in the US, according to the main renewables trade group, using the federal government’s power over all things air and sky to grind a routine approval process to a screeching halt," reports @jael.bsky.social: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig... 🔌💡

LOOKOUT reports on a woman who miscarried in an Arizona immigration detention center after ICE claimed she was lying about being pregnant:

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

RED FLAG: The Trump Justice Department has demanded the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, according to court records. The demand targets employees of Fulton County elections as well as volunteer poll workers, who likely numbered in the thousands.

ICE shackled a U.S. citizen while they checked his papers -- again

Same. I'm grateful beyond words for antidepressants. That's why I'm so angry at the framing of this piece—"help" Americans "quit" antidepressants, as though they're a bad thing. This is psychotic and dangerous. For the NYT to abet RFK like this is appalling.

ICYMI: The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-25 yesterday to advance a bill that would underfund WIC and cut fruit and vegetable benefits for almost 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, new moms & pregnant women in low-income families.

Reminder: ADL tipped off FBI about this guy in July, but didn't prevent the shooting. Weeks after the shooting, FBI cut off ADL and SPLC, then decided to burn SPLC to the ground.

The flotilla was intercepted while sailing in international waters near Greece, hundreds of miles from Gaza and Israel.

"Under Trump and the contemporary GOP, a great national Southernization of politics appears underway." Interesting big picture look at the aftermath of the SCOTUS debacle:

Stopping an in-progress election because Republicans have been empowered by the highest court in the land to make elections as racist as possible. bsky.app/profile/phil...