Republicans have unveiled a $72 billion spending package that includes tens of billions of dollars for ICE, billions more for DHS immigration enforcement and, for good measure, an extra billion dollars for Trump’s White House vanity project. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...

The Education Department has launched an investigation into Smith College, one of the nation’s most well-known women’s colleges, for its policy that allows transgender women to enroll.

This isn't constitutional. But changing the size of the Supreme Court, requiring them to hear all appeals from the circuit courts, or requiring them to ride circuit definitely are constitutional.

"Unless the government presents some extremely important facts not in evidence, then what Comey did was not just legally sound, but also well within the bounds of wisdom and civility."

David Attenborough turns 100 in three days and this from @dannychau.bsky.social is quite good

Jeff & Lauren Sanchez are the lead sponsors and honorary chairs of the Met Gala anntelnaes.substack.com/p/lead-spons...

Proud to have the endorsement of SEIU CA and the working people who power California every single day.

How about he gets to wear the cool costume... ...And Pedro Pascal gets to be President?

Impeach and Incarcerate Trump

New data contradicts the Trump administration's arguments to justify a sharp rise in violence by federal officers against migrants in detention centers.

Trump: "No president has ever taken a cognitive test except me. I've taken three of them. One in the first administration. They're hard. The first question is easy. You have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a squirrel. 'Which is the squirrel?'"

Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway shine in frothy sequel that smartly comments on struggling media industry

Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.

The private detention centers ICE contracts with to hold thousands of people — including journalists it arrests — shouldn’t be off-limits to FOIA requests. Use our action center to tell your member of Congress: FOIA should apply to private facilities.

The wait is over. 🏆Congratulations to the 2026 #Pulitzer Prize winners – from scrappy local newsrooms to moving immigration coverage, we’ve put together a full list of the distinguished winners and finalists. Read it now: www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

For once most Americans are right.

John Kelly, head of the social media analytics firm Graphika, showed 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl how hate groups, foreign governments, and influencers exploit natural disasters to manipulate people on social media. cbsn.ws/3PjtueX

NEW: A Republican U.S. Senate candidate said he's recruiting off-duty police officers to serve as poll watchers in Detroit for the 2026 midterms — and suggested they could flash their badges at voters. Intimidating voters is illegal. Interfering with someone's right to vote is a federal crime.

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

Jeff Bezos and his wife are the lead sponsors of tonight's Met Gala. Now seems like a good time to remind folks of all the ways Bezos is shafting American consumers and Amazon workers — and how his wealth is putting our democracy at risk. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos

JPMORGAN: “.. While the Trump 2.0 DoJ increased prosecution of immigration cases, it also terminated pending investigations involving organized crime, white collar crime, corruption, labor racketeering, violent crime, healthcare fraud and national security at a record pace.”

😂😂😂

Sean Duffy Incompetence .. IMHO I wouldn't fly in or out of Newark

Newsweek: Senator Thom Tillis sharply criticized the DOJ prosecution of James Comey, breaking with Trump and raising fresh questions about whether the case amounts to political retaliation. Yes, yes it does! #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

Energy costs are skyrocketing, the highest level of concern for people in decades. But Trump is using tax dollars to pay companies *not* to produce energy that could lower costs—a promise he made to his Big Oil donors.

Sorely disappointed that Giuliani won’t die in prison like he so richly deserves.

Ma’am 🔥🔥🔥 “The Congressional Black Caucus is going to be making its way down to Louisiana… Clarence Thomas… should find a piece of his Black self and come on down to Louisiana with us.” ~ Rep Kamlager Dove “We will force a House vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” ~ Rep Pressley

As you may know I keep tabs on the Moms for Liberty shitbirds as a side quest, and they are currently all het up about a lib-owned brewery in WI because the owner has worked to keep them off local school boards So, good people of Bluesky, please find a way to support the Minocqua Brewing Company

Daily Beast: Entering the Iran war was idiotic. So was seeking to change the regime with air power alone, not having a clear rationale, not having global support & circumventing the law. Leaving the military to an idiot like Pete Hegseth was double idiotic. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

$63 MILLION. GONE. ABC, Meta, X & Paramount paid it to Trump’s “Presidential Library Fund.” Then the Fund quietly dissolved. No report filed. No explanation. No disclosure. Sen. Warren asked the CEOs: Where’s the money? This isn’t a mystery. It’s a pattern. #TrumpCorruption #USDemocracy #Pinks

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

No wonder Trump laments Robert E. Lee's loss at Gettysburg. After multiple defeats on Northern soil, POTUS 47 looks to the ex-Confederacy to indict his enemies and save Congress by deleting Black districts We shall overcome the new Southern strategy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Gosh.

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Wow... 2026 World Cup Travel Advisory www.amnestyusa.org/blog/2026-wo...

Trump on the Civil War: “If Gettysburg didn’t happen, Lee would’ve won.” The Confederate Constitution explicitly protected slavery in perpetuity. A Confederate victory meant slavery continuing into the 20th century. Trump knows this. He said it anyway.

Here’s how the Editorial Cartoonists are reacting to Wednesday’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais. Some of the most accurate commentary during the Reconstruction period came from Cartoonists like Thomas Nast. Needless to say, the reaction to the decimation of the Voting Rights Act has been pointed…

Trump underwater on everything but let’s hear more about that taxpayer-funded ballroom

James Talarico: We are living in an era of corruption. I don’t just mean illegal activity. I mean corruption in the deeper sense — the rotting of something from the inside. This is, at its root, a spiritual crisis. And it will require a spiritual solution.

The day after Trump has a secret, 90-minute conversation with Putin which Western press only knows about because the Russian media bragged about it (Trump intended to keep it secret) Trump fulfilled Putin‘s lifelong dream & withdrew 5,000 US troops from German & raised tariffs on most NATO members.

My dad, who's been serious about horse racing for as long as I've known him, calls me yesterday and goes, "You gonna watch the Derby?" I say, "Probably not." He goes, "Well anyway, a horse named Golden Tempo is going to come from way behind to win it. Write it down. Golden Tempo." Me: "Ok, sure."

i find it HILARIOUS that he identifies with the name of 'tweedle dee' or 'tweedle-dummer' - - - he knew exactly who ron was referring to . .

Trump talks about withdrawing US troops from Germany, possibly also Spain and Italy — what does it mean? Watch full Onestly: Weekly News Q&A | May 1 on YT youtu.be/NDl89KFzCpg

My New One at Slate: Justice Alito is a Coward (and Possibly a Liar) slate.com/news-and-pol...

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

is this for real? Trump is giving taxpayer dollars to keep a right-wing propaganda organ in business?

Under his eye