BREAKING: A Frontier Airlines flight departing Denver International Airport for Los Angeles appeared to strike a person on the runway Friday, an aviation source briefed on the incident told ABC News. Fire crews were dispatched to the aircraft to extinguish the engine fire.

A judge ruled that Maurene Comey's wrongful termination suit against Trump's DOJ can go forward. Comey, a long-time prosecutor, says she was fired without cause. Comey's Attorney, Ellen Bain says, "in 18 months, this administration has dismantled 100 years” of civil servant protections #Velshi

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Trump is spending more than $6 million of our money to paint the bottom of the Reflecting Pool blue, using a no-bid contract to spend funds intended for urgent needs. His emergency? July 4 celebration. Meanwhile, 35 million Americans live in poverty. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Virginia was a setback But the math still points to a pro-democracy pickup The South is rising up — protests in Tennessee Alabama & beyond And a national mobilization in Montgomery is set for May 16 The movement is growing and here's how to join on my Publisher's note on @contrariannews.org -TN

Your weekend read! Growing Cracks in Putin’s Dictatorship Predictions of Putin’s demise have been wrong many times before, but something is happening in Russia now that deserves more attention. Full story:

Rep. Jim McGovern This isn't some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein's sexual abuse. I personally witnessed Defendant Trump telling the Plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything

Giving billionaires and corporations the green light to buy our elections. Making it easier for polluters to destroy the planet. Stripping millions of reproductive freedom. Granting presidents immunity. Gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The shame of the John Roberts court.

Drone attacks disrupt operations at 13 Russian airports More than 14,000 passengers are stranded, while 80 flights have been delayed or canceled. Airports in Astrakhan, Vladikavkaz, Volgograd, Gelendzhik, Grozny, Krasnodar, Makhachkala, Magas, Mineralnye Vody […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Trump slashed funding for researching infectious diseases like hantavirus and made deep staffing cuts to the CDC and other agencies that coordinate outbreak response. His disastrous decision-making cost us during the last pandemic — and continues to put us in danger. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

Old enough to remember @emptywheel.bsky.social pointing out the FBI 302 where blackmail was mentioned by a survivor who overheard Epstein and Trump discuss it, and how that same month, Kash and Bondi put out their memo closing the probe and adding that there was no blackmail. Seems blackmaily.

More Corruption For Supremely Corrupt Court Members,And Don't Forget Injustice Thomas And Harlan Crow's Free Jet Rides ETC, And Robert's Wife's $10.3 Million In Commissions,FROM Placing Lawyers Who Had Cases Before Her HUSBAND'S COURT !? W T F .

Hegseth in March: “Never before has a modern, capable military, which Iran used to have, been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective.” They lied through their teeth. Just straight up fabricated shit.

Total shocker. Alito’s argument for why black people don’t need voting rights protections is based on fraudulent statistics.

Every one on Bluesky should listen to this story……we are at a turning point in history……we collectively are going to save America or lost it…….protect yourself for the long haul www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8U0...

ICYMI: We obtained the grand jury testimony of Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, Brian Kemp, Brad Ratffensperger, Cassidy Hutchinson, Marc Short, Greg Jacob, Boris Epshteyn, Michael Flynn, Chris Carr, Lin Wood, Mark Meadows, Cleta Mitchell, and more. You can read & search the transcripts on our site👇

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

Democracy Docket is currently tracking: Active Voting Rights Cases: 161 Active Redistricting Cases: 44 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 80 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 78 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 www.democracydocket.com

A Georgia couple who terrorized a Black family at a child's birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs, guns, and death threats were sentenced for a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years; Kyla Norton got 15.

“There are weightier matters of state on which to confront Trump at this moment than his ballroom. But the billion-dollar ballroom is a potent symbol and a teachable moment. It’s a good fight to have.” www.thebulwark.com/p/whose-hous...

This is the scene at the Tennessee Capitol as we get closer to a final vote.

The golden age of corruption.

A A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight attendant has been hospitalized in the Netherlands with a suspected hantavirus infection after reportedly coming into contact with a woman who later died from the deadly Andes strain of the virus, per Dutch health authorities.

Cries of “No Justice No Peace” erupt at an Alabama House hearing on a bill to set new primaries should federal courts allow the state to revert to maps previously deemed discriminatory to Black voters.

Through 60 days, the US spent an estimated $71.8 billion on the Iran War, or $1.2 billion per day on average. This includes the cost of operations, munitions, combat losses, and arming co-belligerents.

Airline ticket prices are surging. A major culprit? Rising jet fuel costs due to Trump's Iran war. But there's also the underlying concentration in the industry. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Less competition makes it easier for the biggest players to price-gouge.

🔥 sekou franklin: “This proposal is racially discriminatory, unconstitutional, and undermines the election administration system… BLACK VOTE DILUTION AT AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE.” @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee @SenJohnson #Memphis

Trump is using taxpayer dollars to bribe huge corporations to abandon wind farms that would lower consumer prices by displacing expensive polluting fossil units — a political pay-off to his big fossil fuel donors. youtu.be/O73_qd8YQus?...

Humpback Whale 'saves' biologist from shark - BBC News 2018

NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

Hundreds of farms can’t survive under Trump. His chaotic economic policies—including his tariffs and war against Iran, which have driven up costs and caused a fertilizer crisis—are hurting our farmers. I’ll keep doing all I can to reverse this trend.

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

🚨🚨 A new report from The New York Times reveals FDA officials blocked publication of taxpayer-funded studies showing COVID-19 and shingles vaccines are SAFE, with serious side effects extremely rare. Health experts are calling this an act of censorship. Calls for investigations are already growing.

A hedge fund manager pays a lower tax rate than a teacher. That's not an accident — that’s this Administration handing out tax cuts to the rich at the expense of working people, all while stripping away your health care and raising your bills with a war in Iran.

the optics of this Oval Office event are absolutely insane. get a load of this. crazytown.

We have a mob boss in the Oval Office who uses power & loyalty rather than institutional norms. From his language to his actions, he threatens anyone he deems not loyal to him. He is doing this on the world stage threatening to blow up Iran to individuals like Marjorie Taylor Greene. #25thAmendment

Republicans want a billion dollars for the ballroom now. That’s your money.

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is calling on Chair James Comer to record and make public the testimony of Pam Bondi when the committee grills her about the release of the Epstein files this month.

Free universal childcare. Free UCs and CSUs. Eliminating income tax for those earning under $100,000. Californians deserve a governor with a plan to make life more affordable.

I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

One of President Donald Trump’s top fundraising lieutenants has been enlisted to solicit money for his personal endeavor to develop a new golf course and sculpture garden on a prime piece of land along the Potomac River in Washington, DC.

Get ready. As the Iran War spirals out of control, Trump is going to get more desperate. The new attacks on ABC for airing criticism of Trump is a sign of what’s the come. We cannot shrug it off as “Trump being Trump”. He’s trying to build a censorship state - plain and simple.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Why is it so hard to get the people we love back to what’s real? Because propaganda doesn’t feel like propaganda. It feels familiar.

NEWS: MAGA influencer Craig Long has been arrested in a human trafficking and prostitution sting in Florida, along with Ryan Yates, a Trump supporter who pleaded guilty in Feb 2024 for his involvement in January 6. Long posted this photo with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. just a few weeks ago.

SCOTUS in the Prize Cases (1863): "The proclamation of blockade is itself official and conclusive evidence to the Court that a state of war existed..."

Even FOX can't hide this reality. Pay attention to what is happening in Louisiana. Canceling the election is going to be his only option. Start preparing NOW!!! WE THE PEOPLE WILL VOTE!!!

"We will litigate the issue" -- US Attorney Jeanine Pirro does not close the door on reopening a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell

More than 40 global media outlets are coming together as the One Free Press Coalition to bring attention to fellow journalists who are being threatened for seeking to tell the truth. #OneFreePress

Californians are concerned about the corrosive effect of money in politics. I’m the only candidate in this race who has not taken corporate contributions.