"People are forever changed by the experience of spending time in one of these detention centers." @ahylton26.bsky.social and @stephruhle.bsky.social discuss the realities of Trump's immigration detention centers on the #Nightcap.

The United States is being gutted. It’s intentional.

Just dropped my latest youtube-splainer: Let's dive in and really explore the economic costs of the war in Iran. I'm not just going to tell you what they are (a lot!!!), but also show you the thinking behind the numbers, as I'm doing my economics in the open. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYZS...

Working hand in glove with the tech bros, the Trump administration is working hard to silence all scientific research into the social and human harms that result from their manipulation of social media feeds. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

HUGE NEWS: ProPublica is launching a new investigative reporting hub in California, our sixth regional unit. Read more 👇

Can't get enough of the TrumpMobile scam: The First Family of Grift marketed a Trump-branded cell phone, collected $100 deposits from God-knows-how-many MAGA faithful, AND NEVER SHIPPED ANY PHONES. Straight-up affinity fraud engineered by the grinning offspring. www.thebulwark.com/p/1-800-trum...

Evidence of Trump's severe cognitive impairment was on display everywhere yesterday.

“.. The use of terms related to ‘American decline’ in official Chinese sources nearly doubled in 2025 ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

“.. CPI airfares +20.7% y/y in April … going back to 2000, only other times we saw faster increases were briefly in 2008 and the 2021-2022 inflation spike.” - Schwab #$JETS

"No wonder Trump keeps trying to cheer himself up with plans for vulgar monuments to himself. Goodness knows, if he doesn’t build them, no one else will."

Donald Trump’s Iran war is ripping across the US economy at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in lost output, as soaring fuel prices, rising borrowing costs and supply chain snags erode Americans’ prosperity. ft.trib.al/UBrpxHz

this looks quite bad but i'll believe it when they stop putting people like him in office bsky.app/profile/left...

1. This isn't an "online ad." I post these myself. 2. Donations via my fundraising pages DO go directly to the candidates, exactly as if you went to each individual website. 3. Not a dime donated via my pages goes to the DNC. 4. The only funds going "to" ActBlue are for the cc processing fee.

As Forbes shows, Trump is the first US president to fully monetize the value of the office of president. He's raking in billions every year. And it's all a felony, going on right in front of your eyes.

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

Following our story, Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress called for a congressional probe into the alleged drugs-for-votes scheme. ProPublica's reporting, he said, detailed "facts that no elected official — whether in Puerto Rico or in Washington — can ignore.”

Four senators wrote letters to Experian and TransUnion, requesting information on the companies’ dispute handling processes after ProPublica revealed they have been dismissing more consumer complaints without providing help.

This didn't happen by accident. Nearly every Republican in Congress made it happen.

If this survives a SCOTUS challenge, we will all need to say “mahalo“

Hey, so, weird thing: A few hours after we published this story my Bluesky account was suspended for what I was told was “suspicious activity” detected on my account, akin to being hacked.

Don't tell you-know-who about this. He might get upset.

JUST IN: US credit card debt hit record high of $1.33 trillion. And foreclosure filings jump to 6-year high due to rising insurance, property taxes, and debt strain on homeowners. Meanwhile… US Household Debt = All time high US National Debt = All time high Deficit Spending = All time high

Congratulations to Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, who reported a $405M loss in the First Quarter on sales of $871M, the most successful performance of a Trump-related company ever.

You want revenge? I do too. Their unemployment come November will be glorious. Be pissed, and cry if you need to. Then use those emotions to help you BREAK THE GOP.

More than two dozen passengers left the cruise ship before the outbreak was identified. The race is on to connect with them to monitor their health — and the health of those they've interacted with. n.pr/4wy7VrY

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

Can’t qwhite tell what he means

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump’s sons signed a weapons deal with the Air Force during a war Congress never authorized. Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania documentary, then won a $581 million no-bid Pentagon contract. The corruption is not hidden anymore. It is the business model. November cannot come fast enough.

"It's undeniable that the American people want [A.I. regulation]." @alexbores.nyc joins the #11thHour to discuss the threat of A.I. and the importance of regulating this new technology.

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.

i'm sorry any world in which this statue exists is one in which @dieworkwear.bsky.social needs an independent nuclear deterrent

Exciting news: ProPublica's new podcast is about to launch! The incredible team behind PAPER TRAIL has crafted something truly special. And it's true: Investigative journalism *is* an act of optimism. Find out the truth; tell it well; see what's possible. 💫

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

CNN’s Abby Phillip Bombards Trump With Video Receipts on $1 Billion Ballroom: ‘What in the Bait-and-Switch?’ #Mediaite

"Your buildings are slowly clearing, your pews gradually emptying, your congregations visibly aging away, your voice carrying less resonance than it used to. The reasons for this are complicated and interconnected, but here are a few broad strokes: You’re dying because of your hypocrisy."

This is your reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

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Scandalous on many levels: the cover up, the risk to troops, the material losses, the lack of preparedness, the losses to a much “weaker” foe, the cost, and the fact we brought this on ourselves, it was all so unnecessary.

Since the Trump FDA won't tell you, I will. Multiple studies show COVID and shingles vaccines are safe. The FDA kept those studies a secret. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

This is what Elon threw into the wood chipper: “Gawande cited an analysis in The Lancet that estimated that USAID assistance—aimed at combatting diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, & polio, reducing maternal & child deaths, & fighting malnutrition—had saved 92 million lives over 2 decades.“

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