The rapid descent into Idiocracy …

Judge Williams reopens the Trump IRS case and it’s a bogus settlement, acting on advice from 35 former judges. This is going to be very interesting.

Williams order references Rule 11--sanctions for lawyers who commit misconduct & abuse the judicial process, which here cd include top DOJ brass. Orders Trump to file a response by 6/12 on whether the case is collusive and sh be reopened b/c of fraud. DOJ to respond by 6/19. Fasten your seat belts!!

First step in Trump’s damnatio memoriae

My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.

WATCH NOW: A 3 judge Alabama Federal Judge panel has for the second time found that Alabama INTENTIONALLY discriminated against its black residents, and struck down the State's use of the racist maps for the upcoming Midterms. Popok reports.

The premise of the 2004 comedy-drama Melinda and Melinda was that any given story can be told as either a tragedy or a comedy. I submit that Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World" and Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" validate that thesis.

Donald Trump is now responsible for 28% of the US national debt. That's $11 trillion. In 250 years of American history, no president has added more. That's not an opinion. It's math.

The American-led negotiations in Ukraine prolonged the war by encouraging Putin. The Russians dangled ludicrous business"deals" in front of Witkoff and Kushner who were too gullible to understand that they were being manipulated. Good to hear the US has abandoned this failed policy.

One very good nugget in Raskin's new bill is it bans any/all payments to the Jan 6 insurrectionists:

LOTS of new reporting here GOP is turning against the Trump $1.7 billion fund for convicted crooks and cop-beaters youtu.be/c58Qoc6YYbw?...

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

Raskin: "The whole administration now just just corruption -- highway robbery every day"

OMG!

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

The MAGA collective death wish at work

Massie's primary race has broken all spending records - a shocking $32 million due to massive spending by pro-Israel groups. And it's all about destroying a member of Congress who dared to challenge Israel & force the release of the Epstein files. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

In order to stay ahead of the curve here, I'd like to note that the U.S. has no grounds to invade Cuba, arrest or change its leaders, take control or directly influence its actions or, for that matter, to be blockading it right now forcing its people to suffer. Nor is any of that in our interest.

🚨BREAKING: A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent visited the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director earlier this week in an attempt to question her, the county clerk has said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

🚨GOOD NEWS: A US court has SUSPENDED Trump's sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. This is the RIGHT decision. Opposing genocide is NOT a crime.

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

Transcript of an interview of Juan Cole by Ian Masters.

Courtney Wild was 14 when Epstein started abusing her. While she waited for justice, the feds were negotiating a deal with Epstein's lawyers behind closed doors. She found out years later through a legal fight. The emails showed the government wasn't protecting victims. It was protecting Epstein.

"We're seeing Israel repeating this playbook in the war on Lebanon...Now the wholesale razing of border towns and villages in southern Lebanon, including my own hometown, Bint Jbail," @mbazzi.bsky.social tells @tcambanis.bsky.social. Listen for more: thecenturyfoundation.podbean.com/e/erasing-bi...

As Trump desperately tries to make a deal with Iran, will Israel be the spoiler? Featuring @origoldberg.bsky.social, Israeli author, academic, and political commentator. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

“Trump shelved ‘Project Freedom’ after Saudis refused use of bases and airspace” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The AI cannibals

It’s like the Russian Duma.

Going live with Katie Phang in a minute. Come hang out! www.youtube.com/live/EACi4dq...

It really is just pay-to-play. Let’s look at the backdoor deal that got a foreign company access to mine near the Boundary Waters.

Trump is paying off big corporations, with taxpayer money, to stop inexpensive clean energy, forcing the grid to buy more expensive polluting energy from Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel donors. It’s a racket, raising costs on purpose, to enrich political donors.

Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.

Welp, we ain’t getting real scientific guidelines for a while.

A 6-3 SCOTUS DECISION in favor of WHITE VOTERS who challenged a black majority district in Louisiana As Justice Kagan just said "Now- completed demolition of the VOTING RIGHTS ACT This ruling now states Louisiana must redraw it's Congressional map.

Stalin fundamentally crippled Soviet #science in the 1930s and almost a century later it still hasn't recovered. That's what Trump, RFK Jr., Vought, and MAGA are doing right now to the United States.

Weird shit happening in Russia!

I’m sure the people whom Kash fired couldn’t have helped.

it blew my mind when i learned (from @ucsdave.bsky.social ) how much oil "driving oil around in trucks" uses up

breaking: 80-student encampment up at Occidental College in California, demanding the Board of Trustees commit to divest from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar amid the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine at an upcoming meeting on Monday.

"Science is battling conspiracies, confusion & vested interests: From Big Tobacco to Covid-19 & climate, misinformation & disinformation are on the rise" | Review of #ScienceUnderSiege (by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me) via Sylvia Thompson of @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...

Yesterday, reporting from Denver confirmed that ADL was the source of a tip IDing Evergreen shooter Desmond Holly. Kash got a tip from the ADL, failed to use it to prevent a Nazi shooting, then cut ADL and SPLC off. Oops. Gonna make for AWK trial. emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/k...

BBC fails to name Israel in 50% of reporting on attacks in Gaza Shockingly but unsurprisingly, the BBC has never reported on various genocidal statements made by Israeli officials either www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

This isn't accidental oversight by our media. It's malicious complicity.

We're going live now! www.youtube.com/live/Od0I2AX...

New Republican with more context. newrepublic.com/article/2091...

MeidasTouch host Katie Phang testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the proposed merger of Paramount-Skydance and Warner Bros.: "Democracy cannot survive if powerful people get to decide which facts are allowed to exist and what version of the truth they want to peddle for profit."