TODAY: Trump is poised to steal $1.7B of our money to pay his criminal friends, SCOTUS restores mifepristone by mail (for now), and Kash Patel is in more hot water. News without Scott Jennings: the-daily-beans.simplecast.com

Ben Shapiro's audience is down 70% and his staff is down 13%. The Daily Beans audience is up 26% and our staff is up 50% over the same time period. Yay, facts!!

☕🎤Saturday, May 16, Chicago: Come to "WHAT'S NEXT? Justice and the American Map Redistricting" hosted by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition at their HQ, 930 E. 50th St. 8:30am/doors & breakfast. 10:00am/program.

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"1982 is a big far distance away" when he means "a long time ago." Donald uses words like a confused toddler.

Someone Mentioned End Stage Syphilis,What Say You,Chumpster?

The love shack is a little old place where We can get together Love shack, baby

The Intel chair hasn’t read the treaty. If he had, he’d know there’s only been one time NATO was required to help the U.S. and that was after 9/11. And they did.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH: Saturday May 16 in Selma, AL. Even if you can't be there, follow the day of action and all the work that follows. Defend the Voting Rights Act and proudly do your part! #AllRoadsSouth

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We're All Standing With Ted Lieu....

I made you a very important sticker. eatf.art/sticker

The Trump admin is withholding $1.3B in federal Medicaid payments from CA. This is illegal. The administration claims CA failed to combat fraud in the program, but unilaterally cutting Medicaid funding without congressional approval isn’t something the executive branch has the authority to do!

🚨🚨🚨THIS CONGRESSMAN GETS IT. THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. PLEASE BE LIKE THIS CONGRESSMAN. 🚨🚨🚨

"All 48 of Trump’s appointees to the federal bench so far this term refused to acknowledge his defeat and incur the ire — and potential withdrawal of their nominations — by the petulant president suffering through sensitive feel-feels about losing in 2020." — @schaller67.bsky.social

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

As the war with Iran pushes its munitions stocks to dangerously low levels, the Defense Department has not signed new contracts to replenish its supplies, according to two U.S. officials and two people familiar with the matter.

A quick minute of #scarf #knitting on 5/14/26. #knitsky

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

"The Gestapo tactics of this president will not stand here."

Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Just yelled at a skunk to get out of my fenced in back yard. It did not pull a stinky on me. It had to have found a hole in the bottom of the fence. Will fix this weekend! It found the hole and ran off like I was mean or something. 😅

Good morning and HAPPY FRIDAY! Answered some work emails at 4:30am. Hubby has to finish off a job in Chicago this morning. Knock on wood, we call an early weekend this afternoon. Who's ready for the weekend? 🖖

BREAKING: The DOJ is now 146 days overdue in releasing the Epstein files.

Independent candidate Bill Hill running to represent Alaska in the House: I’m a lifelong Alaskan Dena’ina Athabascan. I grew up in a real bush-frontier lifestyle. I have spent my entire life commercial fishing since the age of eight. I’ve been a 25-year educator in our state...

HAHAAHAHAHAHAA! They keep coming up with better and better midterm-election slogans: "Gas prices are high, but that's life." YOU GUYS ARE DOING GREAT, KEEP GOING!

Corrupt cheating lying bastards

Whoa.

My third novel is done. Took me six weeks to write. 101k words (draft 2). Planning since April 2025, this prewrite began in February. I've written Raising Judy Kata. It's my life's work. If I were to drop dead tonight, my one regret would be not having waited until this was published.

Apparently, one of the benefits of flying on Air Force One is that no one checks your carry-on for drugs.

Inflation is spiking, outpacing wages for working families. Trump promised to bring it down, but his own policies keep pushing prices up — and now he doesn’t even care.

It’s 2026, in Oklahoma has finally made child marriage illegal. Congratulations? Also WTF.

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

Papa Johns is testing drone delivery. We have a right to defend ourselves. My column on food terror from the skies: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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There's so much projection in MAGAland -- complaining that Democrats did something, then doing it themselves a hundred times over -- it can get a little numbing. But their complaints about family members profiting off the presidency might be their biggest bit of projection ever. It's a crime spree.

I'm doubtful she can get the nomination -- second chances are rare in presidential nominations these days, Trump excepted. But she's currently the front runner in polls and anything she can do to force the presidential field to follow her on this vital issue is real leadership.

Enten: "We're talking about a record. President Trump -- 79% of Americans disapprove of him on gas prices. This is a record high in terms of looking back at every single president this century. It's scary if you're a Republican looking at these numbers."

Hey my muchachos, I was a guest on the latest episode of "Hackers Podcast". I'd be honored if you listened. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

JUST FILED: The frustrating reality for Trump His China trip is getting overshadowed, and comes with some tough optics My DAY AHEAD newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

McGovern: I think Trump is seriously ill. He needs medical attention. There needs to be an intervention from his family or someone in his cabinet—I would say some of the Republicans here, but they don’t have the balls to confront him on anything.