Another thing that gets missed is that between Nixon and Trump, every major party candidate released his tax returns when running for office *and* every sitting president and vice president had their taxes audited by the IRS with the results released. I wrote about this nearly a decade ago:

“Up to 70% of rooms reserved by Fifa in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle have been cancelled, the AHLA said” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Interesting: D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee says he’s leaving his post at the end of the school year. (He came in 2018.) That will leave DCPS with an interim chancellor into the next school year; mayoral candidates say they would replace him regardless in 2027.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure this is right?

A man spent 37 days in a local Tennessee jail over a Facebook post about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The local government now has to pay him $835,000: tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/20/p...

The whole premise of this "ballroom" is that you've got the nation's most secure military command center in the basement, and a top-security military drone installation on the roof, and between the two is an impossible-to-secure quasi-public space for foreign spies to have dance parties.

Genuine question: what exactly are we all doing.

There is a certain level of wealth that cooks the human brain

Good morning! Rep. Scott Perry is continuing his personal vendetta against DC traffic laws, so Free DC is at yet another House Oversight markup today. This time he's aiming to ban congestion pricing, which isn't even a thing that exists here?

The AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.

Urban Garden Brewhouse (in former Right Proper Shaw near 7th and T NW) grand opening on Juneteenth. Preview party this Saturday www.eventbrite.com/e/lotus-flow...

NEWS: In the first public poll of the D.C. mayoral race, @citycastdc.bsky.social finds that @janeese4dc.bsky.social has a five-point lead over @kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social, , just outside the margin of error. But: Ranked-choice voting could help McDuffie more; he's ahead voters' second rankings.

Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in U.S. history, you could make a persuasive case that about a dozen things he has done this term would earn him that title even if he’d done nothing else. And we’ve learned about two of those things just in the past week.

Nothing would better illustrate the problems with corporate media than them seeing a president who's so unpopular he has to hold events in a bunker ballroom and deciding, yes, we should take our place alongside him in the bunker, maybe throw a little black tie party while we're hiding with him?

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Many unanswered questions. Questions like "what on earth are you talking about", "is this some kind of joke" "how much have you had and where are you hiding the bottle", things of that nature

To be clear, because I keep seeing posts by some on this, it does NOT forbid DOJ from pursuing action for FUTURE acts. Not that it makes the situation good, this is all grossly corrupt, but it’s not a lifetime “get out of jail free” card.

When our data gets leaked, we get a subscription to a shitty identity fraud insurance scheme. When Trump's data gets leaks he gets a two billion dollars to give to pedophile insurrectionists and a get-out-of-jail-free card.

This sounds like an opening of a “To Catch a Predator” segment. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/w...

Is anyone going to ask him what he's actually going to do to reduce crime? Or are reporters just going to accept that he can conjure 1,000 police officers from thin air.

She wasn't even targeted by the federal government! Come on, man.

Unfathomable levels of corruption.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Tina Peters, following a jury trial, was convicted of 4 felonies and 3 misdemeanors According to VP, she’s a prime candidate for the Trump Slush Fund

You can undelete it, you were prematurely correct. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

All of this AI integration stuff in shopping from Google I/O sounds great until you think for a few seconds about how people might try to game all facets of it.

Important: Dems will seek to force Republicans to vote on a bill blocking Trump's illegal $1.8 billion slush fund, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Dems will use discharge petition. Hakeem Jeffries is supportive of Raskin's efforts, I'm told. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

Interesting: Per a presentation Frumin gave, here’s how his proposed 3% tax surcharge would play out. Say you make between $100-150,000; you’d pay an extra $211 a year. Surcharge would being in some $85 million a year.

one thing that went wrong in our political media culture is that journalists so deeply internalized a backwards version of 'the cover-up is the crime' they assume that anything that's being done out in the open is just 'a thing that happened' that needs to be subjected to the 'objectivity' standard

The entire Republican strategy is that Trump will do some new awful thing today, so they’ll never be questioned about this awful thing Trump just did. So they just need to play dumb for a few hours.

this honestly sounds like an excited six-year-old showing off his crayon drawing of the cool new building he just thought up "it has triangles!" "drones bounce off it, but they also launch from it!" "the soldier men can stand on the roof and protect us all!"

Who will the candidates rank second? McDuffie says he's not ranking anyone else: JLG says she's "still assessing" who to pick. Gary Goodweather, actually answering the q: Hope Solomon.

AND MORE: Now Frumin says he wants a NYC-style pied-a-terre tax, essentially increasing property taxes on homes owned by wealthy folks but who don't live here year-round to avoid paying D.C. income taxes.

A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.

There are fuck-ups, and then there's this krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa...

Fuhrman was a dirty, racist cop. But people can surprise you. In the early 2000s he went to Oklahoma to interview cops and prosecutors for a book celebrating the death penalty. He was so appalled at what he saw that he changed his mind. He wrote a book condemning the death penalty instead.

I know you’ll be shocked to learn that Trump has issues that a judge in his case looks like this:

NEW: Sports Illustrated was accused of publishing an AI-generated article the content of which was plagiarized from a competitor -- and when we reached out with questions, it deleted the author's profile and entire archive of work futurism.com/artificial-i...

I feel bad for the 100+ creators fucked out of an Eisner nomination by one AI douchebag, but this was the right call.

This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

i dunno, i think masked armed squads going into neighborhoods and dragging people away from their homes and shooting people in the face for disagreeing is pretty bad for "national cohesion," Greg

The officer, Christian Castro, is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

That Hispanics appear more likely to obfuscate their Hispanic ethnicity under Trump has an important implication for polling, if it exists there, too. Presumably Hispanics fearful of Trump's policies would be those more likely to obfuscate their Hispanic ethnicity

The Catholic University of America (CUA) denied “sponsoring…an event featuring Peter Thiel…in Rome,” calling the “Cluny Project…an independent initiative incubated at the University.’” CUA later admitted that CUA “provides administrative & fundraising infrastructure to support [Cluny’s] work…” 1/

One of the things that makes me the most fearful for the health of our democracy is this bizarre behavior by the press in twisting stories to make Trump's activities fit within normal frameworks that are completely inappropriate for the circumstances.

Siri, which party is in control of the White House, House, Senate, and Supreme Court?

really, really need understand how one person with two 12 ounce water bottles can *not* get into @nationals.com park, but three people with a huge white nationalist banner can. maybe shift from maximizing revenue to keeping patrons safe from those garbage people.

"the United States has no liability whatsoever for the protection or safeguarding of those funds" So, if the funds go missing, there's nothing anyone can do. Unreal.