The the cost of the continuing destruction of our research and scientific infrastructure is incalculable. All part of the project to make America as dumb as Trump. Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

I think as a substitute they should name the DC landfill after him. The Trump Dump. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

News from Ghostland re Trump’s America 250 debacle. The ghost of Elvis said he’d be honored to perform and he loves Trump as much as he loved Nixon. The ghost of Johnny Cash said “Fuck no, unless Trump is an inmate in Folsom Prison. They love me there.”

GOP dirty tricks substack.com/@lisa581325/...

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

Nothing speaks to the continuing need for Section 2 of the VRA and highlights SCOTUS’s abominable ruling as much as what is going on right now in states of the Old South.

Turns out the New South had those white hoods and robes of the Old South in storage and ready to go.

Like Trump Airlines www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They really are. 1956 to 2026.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭

Good job, Hungary! You’re showing the way. Now it’s our turn to run with the ball and turn back the anti-democratic tide. www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/w...

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... HCR, brilliant as always.

Man of the people. Probably will get tricked out with faux gold trim.

Trump can only be removed under the 25th Amendment with the actions of this Republican vice president, this Republican cabinet, and this Republican-controlled Congress. So, if you're asking what Democrats are doing today, I'm not sure you understand how this all works.

THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Pam Bondi was fired because she was not good enough at criming and hurling invectives.

What else is he making up. 🤡 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

The mythology is so contradictory. So Trump is both a decisive strongman who others fear, and a weak-minded weakling who can be pushed around by a tiny country. Make it make sense. A Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official Resigns, Citing the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

Iranian regime is murderous and a global threat but that regime has layers of contingencies and they are not stupid. Trump is incredibly stupid, ignorant, high on his own supply, and depraved. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

The war will end when he feels it in his bones. (AI generated image)

Mavis Staples, Warren Haynes, Elvis Costello, and Hozier perform The Band’s “The Weight” from Thursday nights Love Rocks concert. youtu.be/j5UvFL_v3lM?...

The relentless Julie Brown of the Miami Herald continues to peel the layers of this onion. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

I guess we won’t have to put up with this today.

Khamenei’s death will be celebrated by many Iranians. He murdered Iranians by the thousands. And targeted many others around the world. But this action by two mendacious men desperate to change the subject is a big fucking roll of the dice that a better Iran will emerge. History has its doubts.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.” This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate." #TrumpSyndicate

New via WSJ: French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel was secretly negotiating in 2016 with lawyers representing Epstein's victims, according to DOJ files. Brunel's lawyer told them his client recruited girls for Epstein and had incriminating photographs. Then Brunel went dark.

Hey! Maybe we will revive smallpox while we are at it. This is lunacy and criminal. Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

Julie Brown, the reporter for the Miami Herald who broke the Epstein story and continues to work it, is interviewed in the New Yorker. Probably the most eye-opening part is where she absolutely does not think Epstein killed himself. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

Only the best people. Snake pit, clown show, Peter Principle in action. Call it what you will. I call it a kakistocracy that is bringing down this flawed but great country. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Boring game but fabulous half-time show #badbunny

The wrecking of Kennedy Center is a fitting metaphor for what Trump is doing to this country. Trying to own it and then burning it down when that doesnt work. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

“Golden age” economy. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

“If the public were aware of how much of the deliberations affecting millions of people are made by 27-year-olds after happy hour, they’d be shocked,” he said. A catastrophic SCOTUS, Citizens United, Dobbs, presidential immunity, shadow docket, wants more opacity. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

My ongoing series on public radio. esweku.org/art-shechet-...

On brand

Remaking America in his own image open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free