Unless he manages to gain another five or six points as the remaining results come in (unlikely), Bill Cassidy just had the worst primary result for a Senate incumbent since 1944.

The Trump administration confirmed the proposed $400M White House ballroom project, with $1B for security, will include an underground hospital, bomb shelters, and top-secret military installations. If we find out it includes a tomb, I won’t even blink. www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...

In Louisiana, raising the mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75 has failed by 50 points, if you want another data point for how voters feel about the gerontocracy problem.

There it is. The Senate parliamentarian rules the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom in the GOP's budget reconciliation bill violates the rules + is subject to 60 votes vs 51. Via budget committee Dems:

Looks like Cassidy sold American children down the drain to vote for RFK Jr. for nothing.

The Physicians for Measles Caucus in the US Senate is losing its most prominent member, as Republican Bill Cassidy, MD and RFK Jr. confirmer, has lost the primary. Many Republican Senators have violated their oath of office. Bill Cassidy was one of the few to violate the Hippocratic oath as well.

NEW: Senator Bill Cassidy has lost his primary. He can always go practice medicine with his buddy, RFK Jr.

The thing with Cassidy — who is a gastroenterologist — is he has proven he knows better. His past statements on vaccines were grounded in science. But he voted to confirm RFK Jr in a cynical move to help save his own political career. Trump didn’t give a sh*t.

👇👇👇👇

Hope it was worth it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy just lost his Republican primary, the AP projects.

Cassidy voted for RFK Jr.; by doing so, harmed American — if not global — public health for decades; and still was opposed by Trump for once every few months actually remembering that he was in a branch of government independent of Trump. Do your job, or lose your legacy and your job.

BREAKING Bill Cassidy, a physician who abandoned his principles to help pave the way for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become HHS Secretary, has lost his primary race and finished in third place.

Imagine complaining about making $174,000 a year when all you do is work like 25 weeks out of the year and go on vacation.

Trump: “America is the hottest country in the world right now! Xi: “No, America is a nation in decline.” Trump: “You’re right. America is a nation in decline.”

Bill Cassidy thought he could have it both ways: his own opinions and the support of the MAGA cult. Tonight, he became the first incumbent U.S. senator in 12 years to lose his primary. There is no reasoning with the cult. Ever

One reason why violent men go unpunished is because right wing extremists see horrific acts of violence by men against women and respond by demanding deadly laws against women.😐

The Senate Parliamentarian has advised that the orange felon’s $1B trashy dictator worship ballroom will be subject to a 60-vote threshold. His demolishing of the White House for his own ego/vanity should be considered destruction of government property. I hate him.

The Byrd rule remains a real kick in the ballroom

Breaking: The Senate Parliamentarian just advised that the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom will be subject to a 60-vote threshold if it remains in Republicans' bill.

This morning, activists recreated the historic March from Selma, then congregated for a rally in Montgomery. #allroadssouth #freedomsummer2026 (01/07)

And like that, Cassidy is done

Trump posted that the UN just admitted climate change projections were “WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” and declared victory over what he called 15 years of Democratic fearmongering. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

The thing about Patel — and everyone in this admin — is that they do the *absolute worst fucking thing possible* IN EVERY SCENARIO. Like, “Patel went to Hawaii and then did a luxury snorkel trip” -somewhere- would he corrupt, but expected. Why, of all places, at a sacred site?? That takes effort

Tough break for the Trump Ballroom Senate Parliamentarian rules the $1 billion project will require 60 votes for approval, per Senate Budget Cmte Democrats Very very steep climb

🚨 BREAKING: The Senate parliamentarian struck the GOP provision that would have spent $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, according to Senate Budget Committee Democrats. The parliamentarian ruled that the provision violated the Byrd Rule.

🚨 PULL UP TO THE SOUTH #AllRoadsSouth #FreedomSummer2026

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.

Trump's insecure and childish inability to ever admit to making a mistake is really going to catch up with him on this very public, obvious mistake. He's making possibly the worst verbal flub in American presidential history even worse by stamping his little feet in foolish defiance.

Corruption should and likely will be a massive campaign theme for Democrats and these quotes should figure prominently.

Good thread here

We don't all disrupt the same way. Find your style, because your community needs them all.

Snopes reporting on unverified Trump affair rumors with aide Natalie Harp

I assumed the word "million" was accidentally dropped after the subbed note that he was fined "$200" for this but, no, the fine was two hundred dollars. For late disclosures on tens of millions of dollars. A fine of Two. Hundred. Dollars.

It’s really hard to describe how insane this story is. Of course Patel went snorkeling over the USS Arizona - that’s what happens when you put an irreverent internet troll in charge of a government agency. Disrespectful assclown.

“They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social in Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

Mock her at your peril. She has the X factor.

Tennessee Representative Justin Pearson who was apprehended by Alabama police with his brother while fighting against Jim Crow maps took the stage at #AllRoadsSouth and said: "you can rig a map but you can't rig a movement." #FreedomSummer2026

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

Remember how *hysterical* Republicans got when Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan in 2009? Well, here is Trump bowing before the President of China—and not a peep from the MAGA outrage machine.

JD Vance keeps lying about California's aggressive fight against fraud. We've walked the walk with nation-leading fraud prevention and have protected billions. Meanwhile, JD's boss is pardoning convicted fraudsters and literally stuffing his pockets with YOUR tax dollars.

Trump posted this morning that Maryland just “revealed 500,000 Fake Mail-In Ballots” and is now demanding Congress jam the SAVE America Act into a housing bill and a surveillance bill to get it passed.

Thou shalt not become ENRAGED that a mythological character in a movie will be played by a Black woman whilst loudly supporting the nullifying of all Black votes in the South and then pretend you’re not racist when I call you a fucking klansmen.

Remember to thank Donald Trump for those higher grocery bills.

Corrupt criminals will turn MAGA for a pardon.

Scared? Human beings often assume emotional certainty comes from removing uncertainty. But in practice, emotional security usually emerges from adaptability…and flexibility. Employ both. Both help.

The damage from this presidency is generational. And that’s the best‑case scenario.

Trump posted bizarre memes claiming his is getting younger, aging in reverse, and has more energy than before

President Trump is not pleased that Lauren Boebert and Rand Paul are campaigning for Thomas Massie in Kentucky. He's offering to back a challenger to Boebert.