BREAKING: The rookie federal prosecutor and former GOP committeeman who brought the James Comey seashells photo case to the grand jury has stepped away from the prosecution. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Really gotta hand it to the Iranian propagandists. They so have his number: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lLX...

damn we only line up like that for BBQ

Trump gets his revenge on Nancy Mace for signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein files by endorsing her opponent.

Holy - look at this. On May 26th, someone opened nearly 5,000 contracts of the drone maker Unusual Machines, #$UMAC, $20 calls expiring 7/17/2026. Then literally YESTERDAY, the Pentagon reported possible stakes in the industry. These contracts hit a 570% gain. Unusual.

“The ideal leader of a hard-hitting investigative journalism operation is someone who is smart, driven, and virtually unemployable in any other context due to their pathological hatred of the corporate niceties used to obscure the lies of the rich and powerful.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-you-tak...

In the wake of Louisiana v. Callais, Republicans are moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority-Black districts in the Deep South between now and 2028. That would trigger the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction.

At this point I don't see how I could in good conscience advise any graduate student or academic researcher with other options to take up a position in the United States.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

In 2024, Trump surged among Latino voters in California's Central Valley. Now a key House primary pits a Bernie and AOC backed college prof vs a moderate state legislator supported by the DCCC and pro-Israel spending. Here's what it looks like on the ground. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

And this is all before they started smashing journalists cameras and fingers!

The racism is the point.

@ariberman.bsky.social on the new Jim Crow: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Honestly, go ahead. Feel the force of every airline union, worker, CEO, and lobbying group united as one to say FUCK TRUMP. Getting 1,100 planes out of position for even a single day will cost billions, alienate donors, and enrage voters. Try it.

Ok, Californians, the last poll before the election is out. Do what you will. BUT take note that you should really drop that ballot at a ballot box, not just stick in the mail, or at least drop at an actual post office. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Sentence starts bad, somehow ends worse.

Insane video from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I see people upset about this but this is nothing short of an obliteration of this freak by Tom Llamas.

if one removed people who obsessively talk about teenagers' genitalia in public, a huge swathe of the conservative movement would simply vanish

Getting hot and sweaty in a British heat wave, volunteers from home and abroad have been hard at work all week to restore a historic naked chalk giant dubbed "Rude Man" on a hillside in southwest England. u.afp.com/SDfJ

read this excellent piece by @nlanard.bsky.social on a Central Valley candidate fighting to win back over Latinos who went for Trump last election: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons. Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

👀👀👀👀 wow Cal Academy is in a world of self-inflicted hurt sfstandard.com/2026/05/26/c...

The "No Kings" movement has just announced plans for nationwide protests on June 14, which just happens to be Trump's birthday. He's made us miserable. It's on us to return the favor.

The great thing about the Trump $250 bill is, it buys a whole gallon of gas.

Whaaaaa? sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/s...

Horrific. The entire piece is well worth a read. These are PEOPLE. This part jumped out: “Delaney Hall is managed by the private prison firm GEO Group, which in February received a $1 billion, 15-year contract from ICE to hold immigrants there.”

oh

a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

Lucy keeps putting that football out and the Times keeps trying to kick it

@billmckibben.bsky.social has really helped move the needle on rooftop and plug in solar. CA is also inching toward better policies. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

I'm hearing reports that the NY State Assembly just passed the plug-in solar vote by a wide margin, joining the State Senate. Assuming the governor signs it, that will be the 8th state making it legal (and the biggest). A groundswell across the country, and so many thanks to great organizers!

"Mr. Bilton is also set to publish a true-crime book about a Hawaiian crime syndicate with Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson. (He also wrote the screenplay for its film adaptation, to be directed by Martin Scorsese)." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

The popular convenience chain Foxtrot liquidated and then reopened a virtually identical version of its old self within weeks: same name, some same locations, same top executives. How? Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a wonky tactic growing in popularity for startups backed by VC and PE cash.

If you're a journalist, odds are that Google has turned your job upside down over the past 6 months. It's only gonna get worse, @drewmagary.bsky.social's latest www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

“Americans should not have to wonder whether ICE enforcement priorities are being driven by the financial interests of politically connected detention contractors,” Elizabeth Warren wrote in a letter shared exclusively with @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Your periodic reminder that cretinous Trump sycophant Rep. Andy Ogles, whose district Republicans just further gerrymandered to protect, raised $25K from a Go Fund Me to create a cemetery and park for stillborn babies and their families. He took the money and never built the park.

!!! Trump appointees at Treasury push for $250 bill with his face on it. Director of Bureau of Printing & Engraving, who resisted the effort, said she was involuntarily reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye. wapo.st/4fM4Hei

Bread and circuses but the bread costs five hundred whatever the fuck Rome’s currency was and you have to be one of the emperor’s ultra wealthy patrician friends to attend the circuses

The Ellisons are testing the very limits of even their incredible funds and the entire thing hinges on whether Oracle gets paid by OpenAI! Larry Ellison has $21bn+ in personal loans with his stock as collateral. Oracle needs OpenAI to pay it $70bn a year

JUST IN: Trump refiles libel suit v. WSJ & Rupert Murdoch over Journal report on bawdy note Trump allegedly wrote for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th bday. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Amazing work coming out of U Michigan!

People enter and exit a subway station on 34th Street as the sun sets on the Empire State Building and an 89 percent illuminated waxing gibbous moon rises behind it in New York City, Wednesday evening. A blue moon is coming on Sunday #newyork #nyc #newyorkcity #sunset

This is the systemic execution of democracy carried out in plain sight.