Yes, I'm suing Matt Taibbi.

big team of tech reporters peeling out what you need to know about the SpaceX IPO plan here... SpaceX spent $131 million on Cybertrucks y'all.

NEW: Trump has once again done something that is obviously corrupt but may prove impossible to unravel—unless a Congress controlled by his own party finds the rare gumption to buck him. Me and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social on the president who sued himself: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Presidential Records Act is likely constitutional, issues preliminary injunction requiring compliance with the law. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, opens his opinion with an Orwell quote.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will introduce an amendment to the GOP’s budget reconciliation bill to prevent child sex offenders + criminals who assaulted police officers from getting payouts from Trump's $1.8B slush fund. "It’s time to see where Republicans stand." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

Fitzpatrick is a republican, FYI. Keep calling your reps.

So, uh, DOJ believes a federal official should be prosecuted for taking documents they’re not entitled to? abcnews.com/US/doj-charg...

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in U.S. history, you could make a persuasive case that about a dozen things he has done this term would earn him that title even if he’d done nothing else. And we’ve learned about two of those things just in the past week.

might be time to reconcile with the fact that fascists are preternaturally good at reality tv

Now that we know Trump's "settlement" with IRS will nix audits, potentially saving him millions, Jamie Raskin's push to force Repubicans to vote on this whole fiasco looks more urgent. Make Rs defend this with Trump 31 points underwater on the economy: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) offered amendment to block Trump’s newly-established $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money from "making any payments to convicted child predators" Multiple pardoned Jan 6 rioters have been accused of child abuse Amendment was blocked

The Trump administration is finishing the alley oop from Governor Polis, with VP Vance suggesting that Tina Peters will get a taxpayer-funded payout after her release

MSM, some quick notes: 1. It’s not a settlement (the case was dismissed). 3. It’s not a ballroom (it’s a bunker). 3. It’s not a library (Trump said it will be a hotel). It matters that you get it right.

State Rep. @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social wins the Democratic primary in the vacant #GA13, @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social projects. Clark is now poised to become the first Black woman PhD scientist to serve in Congress. My interview with her here: 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor...

VoteHub projects Chris Rabb to win the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania U.S. House District 3.

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

MOULTON: I'm not asking you to talk about the Iran nuclear program. I'm asking you to talk about the English language. What's the difference between 'obliterated' and 'significantly degraded'? Are they the same? ADM COOPER ... MOULTON: Why did we start this war? Was President Trump lying to us?

i think, looking back, we will discover (god willing) that the second-most-afraid donald trump has ever been was when BLM came knocking at the front gates

"If Americans don't like kings, how come 'The Lion King' is so popular on Broadway? Huh? Explain that to me."

JUST IN: Over Trump admin objection, Judge Royce Lamberth (Reagan/DC) extends block on transfers of federal trans women inmates to men's prisons. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.

Good breakdown of the background and bottom line: "If you paid 2023 federal income taxes in the state of Connecticut, $3 out of every $100 you paid is now set aside for reimbursing people who a committee of people allied with the president decide were treated unfairly by government actions."

It's getting really hard to design poll questionnaires that don't prime people against Trump, just because of how crazy all this is. You cannot ask a "neutral" question about the president of the United States directing the Department of Justice to settle his case against the IRS. This is just crazy

The last time I can remember DOJ signing a sweetheart deal like this it was, well, Jeffrey Epstein

It's the underscore waiting to fill in the date that really does it for me.

It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

"A German court in December 1926 awarded...the military leader of the Kapp putsch, back payment of his pension to cover the period when he was a rebel against the government and also the five years that he was a fugitive from justice." - William Shirer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. p. 109

Earlier this year, I wrote for @ajc.com about the candidacy of @wootenforga.bsky.social, one of the prosecutors who helped build the Trump case in GA. He’s running against Trent Brown, the judge who authored the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis from the prosecution. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

This is one of two pieces of FP news yesterday that deserves a GREAT DEAL more attention. Landau harbored a Polish fugitive who is broadcasting right wing propaganda into Poland, then DOD withheld 4,000 soldiers scheduled to deploy to Poland.

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

1. On March 11, Trump toured a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility in Ohio and repeatedly praised the company. On *the same day* Trump bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of Thermo Fisher stock. The purchase was "UNSOLICITED," meaning it was requested by the customer, not recommended by an advisor.

NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

This is BIG. These are the first charges relating to an incident that occurred during an enforcement operation.* The officers involved were accused of lying under oath about this shooting, as the Trump admin admitted. *the previous indictment involved an ICE agent who road raged while on duty.

You should all read Brian's excellent analysis re the dubious legality of this "settlement." Since we're apparently scholarly live-skeeting this disaster, here are my two cents from my research for a book I'm working on, about how we got here. 🧵/1

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

Probably should be a bigger deal that the Trump Administration used taxpayer dollars to host a Christian Nationalist event in the nation's capital, but, nah. www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

when liberals make bad arguments like this it literally makes the world we live in worse. it gives fascists a green light. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

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...

Say what you will about the godawful takes on Briahna or Aaron Maté (née Matt Taibbi)'s podcasts, but you can't accuse them off inaccurate branding!

This is entirely warranted and justified. And I really don’t want to see anyone complain this is a result of antisemitic double standards from the ICC, which also issued a warrant for Yahya Sinwar. One legacy of the Shoah is that international law matters. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic