The National Park Service is using at least $67 million worth of park entrance fees to help fund President Trump’s beautification projects in Washington, D.C., according to a New York Times analysis. nyti.ms/4nQ6Uau

Happening now at Delaney Hall. Protesters are outside the facility demanding the release of Martin Soto, the leader that started a hunger and labor strike to protest inhumane conditions. iCE has rolled in a tank and is pointing their weapons on peaceful protesters that are forming a human chain.

STATEMENT by Gov. Mikie Sherrill: "My request for access to Delaney Hall was formally denied this morning, raising serious questions about what they are trying to hide from public view." "In New Jersey, we believe in the rule of law and that everyone deserves to be treated with basic dignity."

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

Includes education research, community schools, magnet schools, and more.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Pitiful.

I am in good company , AOC, MLK. findmypolitics.com?e=-69&so=-59...

If you are a member of the scientific community wondering how to meet this moment, check out this excellent discussion between @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social. youtu.be/IWNDMwimUP0?...

Trump bought up to $5 million in NVIDIA stock in February. This week, he flew the NVIDIA CEO to Beijing on Air Force One. On day one of the trip, his administration approved NVIDIA chip sales to 10 Chinese companies. 🧵

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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Zohran Mamdani has fully balanced New York City’s $12 billion deficit — an uncomfortable reminder to the political establishment that governments can, in fact, function when taxpayer money isn’t funneled toward lobbyists wealthy benefactors

A common trait among GOP candidates? Hypocrisy. The guy running against @ossoff.bsky.social owns a trucking company with a higher than average number of crashes. www.propublica.org/article/mike...

Of course, Scalise makes an Idiotic Argument…..

We’re getting there.

“.. Lower Snap payments and a drop in the number of recipients had ‘a negative impact on consumers’ demand for our products,’ Kraft Heinz .. said in a filing last week.” @financialtimes.com #$KHC #SNAP www.ft.com/content/df83...

$1 billion for a Ballroom, $10 billion for vanity projects in DC, $15 million for an arch in front of Arlington Cemetery. Meanwhile—they are proposing to cut over $1 billion in tribal programs, tribal housing, education, water and other basic programs, while opening sacred sites like Chaco Canyon.

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Trans people 🤝 Cyclists Getting lied about by the press

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

In other words, despite all the happy talk and propaganda there is no end in sight to this so Republicans have to pile on more debt in addition to increasing the national debt with the cost of the war, more military spending, a fortune for ICE, and a ballroom.

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

Giving billionaires and corporations the green light to buy our elections. Making it easier for polluters to destroy the planet. Stripping millions of reproductive freedom. Granting presidents immunity. Gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The shame of the John Roberts court.

The Trump administration refused to implement the last transportation bill as Congress intended; should they really pass a new one before communities get what they're owed? usa.streetsblog.org/2026/05/07/t...

John Lewis said it best: In a democracy, the right to vote is the most powerful, nonviolent tool we have. People marched, protested & bled for that right. But today it's under attack. We must defend the right to vote & we can start by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

Excellent thread on Farm bill insanity!

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen mother & leaves 2 little kids in backseat. "I was shouting: I'm a citizen! I have my children in the car—9 year old girl and 1 year old boy!" She was held hours before being released, despite proving she was a U.S. citizen. Incident occurred in Asbury Park, NJ.

Trump just fired the entire National Science Board. The members will be replaced with the most malignant anti-science shitbirds imaginable. I thought science wasn’t supposed to be political, right?

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

The Trump administration is removing protections for over 59 million acres of the National Forest System, opening untouched land to logging.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

Why is the House not holding Bondi in contempt? Why is Oversight not holding Epstein hearings? Why is Oversight not doing more in this case? Good Question! (1/3)

Martin Heinrich D-N.M. “I can tell you, as somebody who has been a natural resources trustee, who has had to negotiate with copper companies in my own state, that this type of copper mining has never been done without polluting the water. Never, not once,” he said in a floor speech before the vote.

My statement on reports that the Trump-Vance Administration may send Afghans, including those who served with the U.S. military and more than 400 children, to the Congo:

1/x Here's a thread about the tariff refund scam, and how much the oligarchy cashed in on it. The Supreme Court ruled that dipshit's schizophrenic tariffs were illegal, and the government must refund the money paid by businesses that imported goods while he was tossing darts at a map to