Nothing is confirmed until the Kremlin or the Trump admin denies it.

It’s amazing the difference between how some Republicans speak 5 minutes after their political careers are over compared to the time when they wanted the cult leader to love them.

NEW: The $1B ballroom provision has been STRIPPED from the Republican budget bill.

Thomas Massie in his concession speech: "While gas is almost $5 a gallon and diesel is almost $6, they're talking about this big ballroom...It looks like the Roman Empire. I see a few analogies there..."

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

I intend to make a claim that the federal government was weaponized against me by collecting taxes from me to pay people who claim the federal government was weaponized against them

BLANCHE: Do you think President Trump called and asked me to go interview Ghislaine Maxwell? REED: Yes I do, frankly. Because the deal was in. You're the president's consigliere.

Here's an excerpt -- read the whole thing and tell me what you think

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

And what of the secretive, shadowy family enterprise that controls the United States?

Why They Don’t Want You Driving a Chinese Car Politicians in the US say they have “national security concerns.” In fact, Chinese cars are better and cheaper, and American corporations know they can’t survive market competition. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-the...

Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters: a county clerk who spun a web of lies to help a self-proclaimed tech wiz access sensitive info on her county's voting machines, hoping it would prove lies about the 2020 election. What are we doing here? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

Polis remains a strong candidate for the Dem with the most negative WAR in the entire country as the governor of what has become a solidly blue state just an absolute clown, freeing an unrepentant wannabe election thief at the behest of a failing tyrant with a 35% approval rating

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

The “great compression” in the United States after WWII, was not marked by “eating the rich” but it was characterized by high marginal tax rates, low levels of inequality, high levels of unionization, and public investments in infrastructure and education.

Asking myself why this is so satisfying, I'm realizing some of the anger I have about AI mania is having worked for people like this, who thoughtlessly inhale the latest BS, present it as deep thought, and then use it to impose extra work on employees for their own resumes and self-aggrandizement.

I'm willing to test this theory

Microsoft researchers find that for non-programming tasks, LLM agents aren't ready for work. For long, truly complex work, they're only currently ready for Python programming. It's great that MS researchers have the independence to publish papers like this.

Trump does not live in the real world. Through "the power of positive thinking" he lives inside a carefully cultivated anti-reality bubble where he is always winning no matter what. Thus, Trump is more preoccupied with repairing the bubble than opening the Strait

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

Why does everyone hate the Democrats?

"If you resurrected Ulysses S. Grant...and told him, 'hey, the Supreme Court is nullifying the 15th Amendment again'...he would be like, 'yeah, that sounds right.' He'd probably be surprised it was Republicans, but that's about it." Adam Serwer on Tennessee's redistricting grab.

Every syllable of this. So absolutely refreshing to hear the truth spoken. A political party tries to court your vote. And an authoritarian regime tries to keep people from voting because they know they cannot win.

We should fully fund science.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Pope Leo XIV gifted Marco Rubio a plant of peace. In return, Marco Rubio gave the pope a crystal football. The pope’s response? “Wow. Okay.”

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

Pay attention to language: when Trump says he needs a "ballroom", he means the belowground part - the bunker. The aboveground section, with gold drapes and fancy tiles, he called that the "ballroom section of the ballroom". What he's urgently demanding is a bunker. That would cost $1B dollars.

Well that’s a little on the nose. Message I just received from the New York City Bar Association:

Elon did what now?

So much for talking down Mexico, huh?! 👇 Shine on MEXICO, shine on. 😎✨

Courage prize winner Sharyn Alfonsi, the “60 Minutes” journalist who went public about Bari Weiss’s decision to hold her story on CECOT.

John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights. Today’s SCOTUS decision takes the sacrifice and fight of all who marched before us and throws it away. We must keep marching — too many have fought too hard to give up.

Woke up and am still fucking livid at the Alex Jones shit. Yes, we all know the rich and powerful have their own rules, but usually it’s with a veneer of our shared reality. This is just pulling legal proceedings out of thin air. All so *Alex Jones* never has to face a consequence.

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

SCOTUS rules that intentional discrimination required to find race discrimination under VRA, which is nearly impossible to prove. This will weaken VRA to point of irrelevance. Though Alito wrote majority opinion John Roberts has been trying to gut VRA for 40+ years since he worked in Reagan DOJ

Hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.

‘A false narrative around a paedophile’: Michael Jackson biopic criticised by Leaving Neverland director

The NYT has literally never asked any Republican “Has it been counterproductive to your goals to have enthusiastically embraced a racist rapist?” Seems like a glaring omission!

The average new car in the ‌U.S. in March had a list price of $51,456, according to Kelley Blue Book. - www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Doge was literally just the private equity model applied to the public space- take over, loot, leave. Coincidentally it was also the British empire model

Reminder that Trump, Jeanine Pirro, and MAGA members of Congress are working to undo gun safety laws in DC every way they can. Last night's shooting in Ward 1 is a clear example of why those efforts are dangerous and wrong 🧵

Wait, I thought we brought in trillions of dollars of tariffs and were going to erase the deficit with it? He lied again? GASP!

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

This sounds bonkers and then you realize it’s merely a boringly factual statement of what actually happened. He needs to marched in chains & an orange jumpsuit to jail for the rest of his life.

two related thoughts: i suspect that many tech companies get away with utterly ratshit, incompetent leadership because you've got a fat middle section of competence holding up the roof AI is an existential threat to that middle section of the workforce, and will lay bare a lot of incompetence

The Onion giving us the news we need

Robophobia... Sometimes I just need to just pause and admire the sheer audacity of people.