its wild to live in a time where you know if this case came up now it would not be unanimous, and I can't even say for sure they'd strike down segregation

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic

After Charlie Kirk's memorial in September, Erika Kirk and pastor Lucas Miles believed they were on the precipice of a nationwide religious revival. Months later, TPUSA's "Make Heaven Crowded" tour is a whiff. An analysis. www.salon.com/2026/05/17/t...

NEW from me: Everyone has a bad week but CBS News has now had 32 of them under Bari Weiss. Where's the promised innovation? Nowhere. Instead, her news operation had yet another rough week- even sending lead anchor Tony Dokoupil to the wrong China. Incredible. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo, Uganda thehill.com/homenews/ap/...

The dude has literally told us twice that he doesn’t give a damn, and the Times still writes it as “critics say.” Some say the NY Times is broken.

Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.

Marching in Alabama… same bridge, same fight, different century… (H/T @memphisforall )

Hey, trumpers...this is what you voted for.

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

NEW: At stake in Georgia's Tuesday primaries are a series of races - most notably, for governor - that will determine whether gerrymandering that advantages Republicans and dilutes Black voters' power becomes a permanent feature of Ga.'s political landscape.

He wants to be a special boy so badly. He’s desperate for autocrats to love and respect him. Such a needy fragile child easily manipulated and rolled.

Trump remains laser focused on making life more affordable for Americans.

It would be nice once in a while to see in one of these “Trump says that China will …” posts from American stenographers “covering” the president something about whether China actually agrees that his claim is true. Because we’ve seen this drill before a few hundred times.

Companies in the transportation business financing a road trip for the Transportation Secretary and his family.

This is like Meltdown Day 7 since a black actress was cast as Helen of Troy.

Trump and Hegseth thought this war was going to be won with bombs. Iran had a different plan.

The Pentagon can’t stop lying and undermining Congress, a handful of Republicans gripe and complain about it, not one of them ever does a damn thing about it.

Trump glazes Xi and menaces Taiwan. It’s Russia/Ukraine in the Pacific. He loves our adversaries and hates our friends because he idolizes autocrats.

In the last 72 hours, Taiwan has gotten a heavy dose of the reality that Ukraine, Poland, Denmark and others have seen up close and personal. Just because you have been an ally for decades through admins of both parties, the US is not your friend as long as Trump is president.

Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.

I thought it was unpatriotic to say things like this and it means you must hate America. bsky.app/profile/atru...

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday rejected Virginia Democrats’ emergency request to revive a voter-approved plan that would have allowed the state to redraw its congressional map in response to Republican gerrymanders in other states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Lol he said it twice. Clips at the link

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

What a national embarrassment. And an international embarrassment. And a risk to national security.

They misspelled “unfortunate.”

This is Trump repeating Beijing's own talking points.

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Notably, unlike the ABC report, the Times does not report this fund as an alternative to the $10 billion from the IRS. So Trump could try for both.

Xi Insulted Trump To His Face And In Front Of Cameras During Pivotal Meeting In China: Gordon Chang

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

It's boring to do this but still instructive: Imagine if Joe Biden told Alex Thompson or @jaketapper.bsky.social that their reporting was treasonous. I'm guessing that more than one member of the media would come to their defense. But when Trump does it repeatedly...crickets.

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

Raskin accuses Patel, DOJ of millions in improper settlements to former FBI agents

Rep. Jamie Raskin has proposed a special fund for officers injured and traumatized on January 6. More than 150 officers were wounded defending the Capitol. Democrats say if taxpayer money can go to January 6 settlements, it should also support the officers who protected democracy.

Australia’s Trump Tower plans scrapped as developer says brand has become ‘toxic’ www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/a...

There are members of this administration who will raise a glass to this news.

We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

SCHISM! SCHISM! SCHISM! All they need now is for Trump to claim authority to appoint their bishops. Every thing old is new again.

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social at the CA state capitol: “We chanted ‘we will not go back’ — I burned a confederate flag outside the chamber to send a message we will not go back to the times in which our folks were met with Billy clubs & the blast of the fire hose…” 🇺🇸

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

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.