Felon Dump's Food Inflation Skyrockets - the highest in 4 years. Fresh produce is up 44% higher. That's what you call a Runaway Inflation. www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

Translating: The Trump administration is considering settling a lawsuit that Trump filed against the Trump administration (to get a huge payout straight out o from US coffers).

There are few things more difficult than departing from meeting with a client in I.C.E. detention. Wasn’t even permitted to speak with her because I didn’t have the funds to pay associated fees beforehand. To be clear, this is illegal. The Right to Counsel is clear. But the Rule of Law is dead. 🇺🇸

WTF?? He's gonna RENAME the war? Like it's a TV series or a video game? He thinks the problem is BRANDING?? The guy with the nuclear codes is insane.

172 reports of sexual abuse and assault at the Tacoma’s Northwest ICE Detention Center. And instead of accountability, survivors were met with failed investigations, ignored evidence, and a system that protects private prisons over human lives.

Mockler: He took office and spiked 2.9% inflation, up to 3.8%. Gas prices are up to $4.50 in most states, and he did this all while stripping insurance away from 10 million Americans. I think the most impressive part is the deficit hasn't decreased at all.

Rock In Peace Jack Douglas, known to many as one of the great rock and roll producers of all time - Douglas worked with Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, New York Dolls, Cheap Trick, The Knack, and dozens of others. Gone to that big control room in the sky.

“HHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2” This might be the most insane thing yet. www.science.org/content/arti...

Sizzling May heat in the Valley today! Phoenix tied the record warm low this morning and ended up just one degree shy of the record high this afternoon. Our Extreme Heat Warning will expire at 8 p.m. tonight. #abc15 #abc15wx #azwx

More than 29 million gallons of unbilled water flowed to Quality Technology Services’ data center campus under development in Fayetteville, Georgia, after two industrial-scale hookups went unaccounted for. ground.news/article/data...

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

It's simple, Americans can't afford this president's agenda.   But instead of working to address the rising cost of living, this president would rather use your tax dollars to bankroll his billion-dollar ballroom & give ICE another $70 billion. www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/e...

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

I did a search on the company's name, "Acquisition Logistics." That turned up articles that mention the contract, but *not* the shady way it was awarded, the company's complete lack of experience, or that its HQ is a family home in suburban Virginia.

It’s not stopping, folks. It’s not stopping despite Noem being 86’d.

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

Senate Democrats have another chance to live up to their demands for presidential ethics on crypto.

The American people deserve to know what is happening inside these facilities. Congressional oversight is how they find out. A policy designed to make oversight more difficult is a policy designed to keep the public in the dark.

Intimidation, full stop.

The cost to repaint the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC blue is now estimated to be over $13 million. Trump initially promised it would cost only $1.8 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries sends letter to Dem colleagues alerting about a Thursday briefing to "discuss the steps Democrats are taking to advance the largest voter protection effort in modern American history".. Adding "Democrats will take control of the House"

The Trump administration is dismantling legal pathways for immigrants and threatening to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of Americans.

You may have heard that there's a huge shortage of gas turbines now across the board from the massive turbines used in power stations to the comparatively smaller ones in jet engines. I knew it was demand-related but I didn't know why manufacturers couldn't just scale up. Now I do....

WSJ sounds alarm on 'extortion' deal Congress cut to bail out Trump's tariff mess

Many facing economic pressures and frustrations have begun shopping at budget grocery stores and warehouse clubs in lieu of traditional supermarkets, with priorities shifting in pursuit of good deals. n.pr/4tuPAJE

"... there are incubators which have to be manually ventilated in the blackouts. There are newborns fighting for their lives while the government of the United States decides which countries can sell us oil and which cannot." westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/world/o...

From @laurie-amen.bsky.social: Did you know that many observed black holes theoretically shouldn’t exist? Today’s paper gathers gravitational wave evidence for how these impossible black holes might have formed. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/05/09/many-mergers-might-fill-mass-gap/

US national on repatriation flight tests positive for hantavirus

I was curious about this... it says they fell off a cliff and ended up in the ocean. So, I looked up the cliffs in this area. I mean, that doesn't look fatal. Dealing with the ocean/currents may be another story though.

American passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship, including one presumed positive, arrive in Nebraska for evaluation. https://cnn.it/4uFJ6IS

11. May 1968 French police begins assault on Paris's Latin Quarter which had been barricaded by student protesters. They manage to evict protesters, but anger at police-violence causes protests to escalate. #OTD #history #France

🦠 AP: Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship began flying home aboard military and government planes Sunday after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands, with one American testing positive and a French traveler developing symptoms for the pathogen aboard their separate aircraft.

One the 17 American passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms. The Americans would first be taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which has a federally funded quarantine facility…

11 May 1914 | A Ukrainian, Marko Hwedorenko, was born. In #Auschwitz from 17 November 1942 No. 75772 Shot in the camp on 6 January 1943.

Relevant to our discussion of generational anthems

The reflecting pool is going to look like a repainted motel pool behind a highway casino. And unless they installed a brand-new filtration system and keep the water balanced, it’s going to turn into a green swamp within two months. 4/4

Death and destruction follows the current U.S. push for fossil fuels. Black lung surges in coal country as Trump slow-walks protections www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Kevin Gonzalez has died just hours after reuniting with his parents, NBC Chicago/Telemundo Chicago reports: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

The president said children were being given upwards of 80 vaccines and falsely linked these inoculations to autism.

The remains of a U.S. soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco a week ago were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean, the army said Sunday. Military teams were still searching for a second missing soldier. https://to.pbs.org/4tpwynC

One of two US service members who went missing in Morocco has been found dead. www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

Trump's J6 Pardons Reward Political Violence! youtu.be/UAZWnb4tCGk?...

And at the time, most white people called them terrorists and demanded that they be executed or imprisoned forever. Just something to remember.

Just in case anyone forgot, the National Guard is still in DC ans ICE is still in Chicago, LA, Portland, Minneapolis and beyond…

The US did NOT contact airline passengers who flew with people known to have been infected with hantavirus. Cool cool.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”