tl;dr: Alabama's ability to administer a new congressional map disenfranchising Black voters has been complicated by the fact that Alabama is celebrating Jefferson Davis's birthday today.

Important context for the Story of the Day:

His brain is applesauce at this point.

Donald Trump, three months ago: “I don’t get bored.”

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

I knew it!

We all know exactly who he means & the fact that this doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of the constitutional order.

Trump’s behavior on social media today is so unhinged even by his standards that I can’t help but wonder what the doctors really told him the other day. This is a deeply unwell person.

Folks, these are the rantings of a crazy person. Note how Trump resorts to attacking the wives of men he doesn’t like. The president is a lunatic.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

We are watching the worst president in American history at work

While Americans struggle to pay their bills, the First Family is treating the Pentagon like a private wealth accelerator. This is our money they are spending. This is corruption we pay for. Congress should issue subpoenas immediately.

Nah you can’t blame ADHD for this. You just decided to pick a fight.

remarkable that the State Department is amplifying Trump's insane threat to blow up one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East. we are governed by malevolent morons.

BREAKING: Vicious Serial Rapist Donald Trump Conspires to Revictimize His Rape Victim E. Jean Carroll, To Whom He Owes $100 Million in Damages He Refuses to Pay; Diabolical Plot Now Consumes Entire Trump DOJ, the Most Corrupt—Even Criminal—in U.S. History

Any other president since at least WWII would be immediately removed from office tonight for speaking about Americans & military families on Memorial Day like this. But alas, he is One Special Boy & we no longer have a functioning constitutional order.

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.

Unsurprisingly for the most corrupt presidential administration in history, the White House document sent to GOP senators to convince them of the fund’s justifiability also greatly contradicts the legal agreement that actually established it. trib.al/IdPMCts

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

The most corrupt Attorney General in history.

Two months ago. [March 15]

Headline may as well read: “King Trump and his princely sons declare themselves above the law, scrutiny, and justice — grant themselves divine right to pilfer public coffers for life.”

Every official who participated in this corrupt DOJ process should face termination or impeachment, followed by a full criminal referral for prosecution. Public trust demands consequence.

This is only the beginning. He has no plans to leave office or allow free elections. Nor are his plans hidden—they're all unfolding in plain sight. The Insurrection never ended and the Christofascists won't stop until our democracy is gone. Choose who you'll be in this moment.

Holy shit. Insane levels of corruption.

Trump couldn’t steal this much money or murder this many people without the aid of an entire political party full of fellow thieves and murderers.

This is no longer the country I know. We now have a president whose corruption is open and public, and no one seems to be able to do anything about it. And even the comics who might criticize it are being censored and removed from the air.

This is an unprecedented level of corruption. Trump is forcing the government to drop ALL tax audits of him, his family, and his businesses—giving him FULL IMMUNITY from prosecution. What is Trump hiding from the American people? Congress must step up and stop this corruption.

Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.

The most corrupt president in the history of the world and it’s not close.

NEW: The judge has weighed in on the $1.7 slush fund. I promised an update when she did. Please share widely.

Thom Hartmann: “The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”…

here's today's post: "the January 6 rioters are about to get millions, and We the People can go fuck ourselves" — why do we even have laws, if some shithead gets to ignore them? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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.

The President of the United States is a traitor.

Even Trump appointees know how disgustingly corrupt this is, and it still has not received 10% of the coverage and attention it deserves as media moves on to other things.

Not enough people understand how much a billion dollars is...if they did, things would be very different. $1.8 BILLION is enough to give each pardoned J6 criminal $1 MILLION... What the ACTUAL FUCK?!

This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

Total clown show. The entire world knows he’s bluffing. Iran knows he’s bluffing, and that’s why he can’t get them to make any concessions. He’s a complete fool who has no idea how to get out of the war he started by getting anything in return.

How better to prove you did not incite 10,000 criminals to storm the Capitol than to arrange nearly $2 billion of taxpayer money to pay them off without any support from your own party

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

Friends, I’ve been around politics for over 50 years. I’ve never seen anything as brazenly crooked and corrupt as what Trump and his cronies did today.

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.

Trump released the largest weekly strategic reserve distribution in history last week - almost 10 million barrels. Oil is still over $100 a barrel and gas is at record seasonal highs. This is gonna get ugly if it’s not resolved soon.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s VERY IMPORTANT that corporate media NOT frame this as a judicial settlement. Trump DROPPED the suit this morning. There is no lawsuit, and therefore, no settlement. you can’t settle a suit that doesn’t exist. This is just pure theft.