Meet Bill Pulte, the guy Trump picked to replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intellegence. Here’s video of him in 2024 accepting what appears to be a pedo trophy.... enscribed with “Bill Pulte F*cks... Only the Young” 👀

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

This comic is 5 years old now. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fsd

EFF advisor @reitman.bsky.social joined @taylorlorenz.bsky.social to explore the terrifying reality of financial censorship as explained in her new book, “Transaction Denied” from @beaconpress.bsky.social. youtu.be/tyqEYDisiZA

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.

Perryman: They want to make the conversation about how much money is in there, who’s going to claim it—you know, like, let’s start with the fact that you have no authority. You don’t just get to sit at the White House and create these types of funds. There’s no authority to do that.

This is bad. Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, and now face 6 years. Six others took plea deals rather than going to trial. newrepublic.com/post/211138/...

Montage of clips of Trump talking about how hot and handsome he finds various young men that he encounters over the years while praising their muscles and other body parts.

We scaled “attention is all you need” into an industrial‑scale stochastic parrot farm, then bolted on agents and tools until it started to look somewhat more like thought. Now the engineering reality—fabs, power, and eye‑watering token bills—is asking whether what we are doing is worthwhile... 1/

(cartoon Steve Sack) #politics

Enemies Are Exploiting Unregulated Data Broker Location Data To Target And Kill U.S. Troops There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected industries…

Trump's recent disclosure of his stock trades is a tale of profiteering, with telling connections between his purchases and his public support of companies. bit.ly/4dXnm4z

Trump just confused Iran for Venezuela. Venezuela still has a navy, an Air Force and intact leadership. The U.S. only removed Maduro. Trump was describing Iran but he called it Venezuela.

Republicans are now scrambling to delete years of posts exposing Ken Paxton’s scandals and corruption. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is scrubbing old press releases and attack ads that torched Paxton for alleged misconduct, incompetence, and scandals.

Francis Maxwell: "The one thing America needs at this moment while a war is going on and affordability crisis is here is an octagon on the South Lawn — cage fight, at the White House, for Trump's birthday. Just take a second and imagine you were in a coma before 2016 and woke up to that sentence."

Place your bets #whitehouse

I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns. Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.

Cartoon by Nurk

Jan 6 terrorist plans to use Trump insurrection support fund to pay hush money to the children he molested after Trump pardoned him theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

The FDA Takes Its Turn Burying Studies Showing The Safety Of COVID, Shingles Vaccines The fuckery that is going on across HHS and vaccine programs is just plain incredible. As the Trump administration continues to provide whatever cover it can so that RFK Jr. can wreck shop on the health of…

Ok, Imma explain the admiral neck shadow thing. (Spoilers: it's not a rubber mask, ya weirdos)... 🧵

Trump announces plan to literally flat out *steal* unlimited amounts of tax dollars from Americans and give it to whomever he wants for any reason. Let's see if the entire Republican party decides to stay as accomplices in this treason. m.youtube.com/watch?v=tIBC...

The key is that Trump's organizational ecology simply does not permit principled people to exist. You will be forced to "prove your loyalty" by betraying your principles. Anyone walking into that environment thinking that they can stay *and* not become damaged goods is fooling themselves.

🔵 Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.net - The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket steps out of the shadows, and REVEAL THEIR TRUE IDENTITIES! - boingboing.net/2026/05/20/t...

The Senate could vote as soon as tomorrow on the MAGA spending bill that would shovel $70 billion more to the regime’s secret police — and give Trump the funding to build his billion-dollar ballroom. The House is preparing to rush a vote so they can get this bill to Trump’s desk by this weekend.

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.”…

Have you been injured? #slushfund

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Kyle Clark: I should say there are more Republican county clerks in Colorado than there are Democrats, but they have spoken with one voice to say: Don’t do this.This will make our jobs harder and potentially less safe if you let Tina Peters out.

Most Americans: "we should make it cheaper and easier to own and use an electric vehicle." Congress, whose policies these days are all about culture wars: "nah, you're going to pay more a year than most people pay in gas taxes."

Trump Just Created An Unconstitutional $1.776 Billion Loyalty Rewards Program For MAGA We discussed the rumor of this on Friday, but it's now real: Donald Trump has handed himself a $1.776 billion fund of taxpayer money — unappropriated by Congress — to dole out to friends in the MAGA movement who…

noted profile in cowardice wants his old colleagues to stand up to the guy he kowtowed to back when his choices actually mattered www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.

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Sean Duffy's corruption is palpable. Boeing and Toyota donated $1 million each to help fund a new reality-television inspired show starring Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy with his family on a road trip. Others contributed services and goods. All are regulated by Duffy.

A GRATEFUL TRUMP IN CHINA Cartoon by Marian Kamensky

Trump Just Loves, To Feel Important !

The $500 Million Dollar Deal That Could Land Eric Trump a 200 Year Prison Sentence. Speaking of pardons.. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Governments are selling age verification as a silver bullet for online safety. It's easy to see that we're just being sold a bill of goods. EFF's EFFector Podcast explains why age gates won't fix the internet, and what they'll break: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

NYT: “The pool is the latest in a string of cases where Trump’s government invoked special powers to shut down required competition, and then handed contracts directly to his preferred vendors.” Endless grift at taxpayers’ expense. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...