This has been another episode in our continuing series, “How Much Shit Will America Eat?”

Again, this Trump IRS thing is not a “settlement” or a “deal” or something with any legal basis at all. It’s pure corruption; colluding with his Acting AG to loot the Treasury; pay off his mob; and preemptively immunize himself and his heirs against investigation for fraud.

The BARE MINIMUM you do to a criminal defense lawyer who signs a non-prosecution agreement with HIS OWN CLIENT is disbar him. But that is insufficient for Todd Blanche, who took an OFFICIAL ACTION as acting AG as part of a BRIBE to hold his job permanently. He must be indicted.

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

We need a landslide victory and those victorious need to have the courage to prosecute the current crop of criminals. We need to fight for it And the worlds needs to see us fight 168 days.

This is exactly the way. Find some awful Jan6 story from your state, your CD, and start talking relentlessly about it, asking people if they want to pay that criminal.

democrats vote to confirm trump judges on the day trump sets up a $1.7 billion pedophile slush fund with your tax dollars

👇🎯 Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

The San Diego mosque attack looks like another case of white nationalist "great replacement theory" terrorism, the deadliest source of terrorist attacks in the US, Canada, Norway, New Zealand and more in recent years. No central org, a movement of self-starters who inspire and reference each other.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

It is vital that everyone internalize the fact that it was not Trump who destroyed American liberal democracy, but the entire Republican Party from Trump at the top all the way down to rank-and-file voters at the bottom.

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Breathtakingly corrupt and indefensible theft of taxpayer money. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I don’t know that it’s appreciably worse than Anything Else Going On Right Now, but learning that my tax dollars are about to fund a billion-dollar slush fund for Trump sycophants and literal January 6 insurrectionists is filling me with a new and special flavor of rage

None of this treachery can be normalized. In fact, all of it *must* be *de*-normalized. That this cretin is waging open warfare against his own country, and committing countless crimes and impeachable offenses to do so, must be shouted at every opportunity and every single day.

Coloradoans should be organizing a recall right now. Put fear of God into anyone that might follow suit.

Worst Democrat in America. Utter garbage.

This is really the heart of my argument, and I hope it resonates widely. With shoutouts to Althusser, Machiavelli, @profmsinha.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social

This is Vira. She was only 17. On the night of May 14, russia killed her in her own home🕯💔 Vira died together with her 12-year-old sister Liubava. Overall 24 people died in the attack, including 3 children.

Democrats need to press the case against Trump's corruption if only to counter the bullshit they're spewing about Democrats' corruption. They have to own this issue.

7 year old giggling: when goku, gets super hungry, he eats like 30 meals in a row Me sounding exactly like Jesse Gemstone: I know how much goku eats

Good Lord. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My Dear Johnson, if you don't want to use the House I should like to borrow it for a while.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Zohran Mamdani inherited a $12 billion budget deficit and brought it down to zero in 6 months without cutting essential services by taxing billionaires. This is why they were in a panic about his candidacy.

I actually wonder if European nations don't actually have a stronger interest in seeing MAGA crushed as a political movement, banking on a reaction in which they both get more of a say in the geostrategic order and get the USA back on side as a partner in it.

The inevitable implication of this, and what's effectively their position, is that the president has all of the power to start a war whenever he wants and Congress has no say in the matter and can't do anything about it.

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

The Roberts court is, above all else, racist. They don’t like the reconstruction amendments and they don’t like the laws that enforced them. There is no legal, constitutional or separation of powers principle here. It’s just racism. joycevance.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

It’s way beyond parody at this point. #Unfit

American conservatism is pushing in all its chips holding a hand consisting of the most unpopular president ever, $5/gallon gas, a failing war in Iran, likely food shortages, a frenzy of last minute redistricting, and a government full of fascist creeps that's robbing them blind. Bold strategy.

it's all critically important & whatever we can do, we need to do, but getting control of the Senate is something we can do & *they can't stop us*

Once the Supreme Court eviscerated the Voting Rights Act Louisiana canceled an election where 42,000 people had voted to gerrymander Black members out of office Alabama did it while a flood raged But Virginia-which, unlike the others, actually let the people decide-can’t level the playing field

After Obama was elected there was a real media discourse about how we were now a post racial society.

Very plainly what's going on here is that they don't like the decision by the People of Virginia and have therefore found an excuse to say that it didn't really count This is ultra vires, beyond their authority. It is a usurpation of the sovereignty of the People. It is void.

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To sum up: the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed to remedy a century of attempts to disenfranchise and unperson African-Americans by any possible, often through voting-related tricks and tests and barriers. They worked -- for a while. But then..../1

This is like watching the Yankees hold open tryouts

There are a lot of bigger problems in the world (obviously) but Hegseth constantly wearing that American flag pocket square is so galling. He looks so stupid and clownish. It's pretty much President Camacho-lite. Like he's trying to constantly signal that he's a "real" patriot. He's a fucking joke.

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Above all they needed Trump to be an aberration which the Biden Administration could correct by setting the best example possible, by keeping everything absolutely normal & by the book. This started failing on day one (with Trump's documents fiasco) & was invalidated entirely by the Trump judiciary.

There would be absolutely nothing preventing the Republican Party from actually competing in DC and Puerto Rico for the support of the median voter, other than a total unwillingness to adopt policy positions anywhere near those of the median voter. And again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Some true statements: - It’s reasonable to have reservations about Graham Platner’s life choices - Janet Mills was going to lose to Susan Collins by double digits - Susan Collins being defeated would be good - My reservations don’t make me forget the other things because I’m not a child

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