Trump’s IRS “settlement” wiped out a past $100 million tax bill he owed.

Waste, fraud, and abuse actually increased 15% in 2025 under the Trump administration despite Musk and DOGE’s “promises” to cut $1 trillion in spending.

Good news! The lawsuits have begun to stop the slush fund. Two officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6th filed a lawsuit today arguing that the creation of Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were victims of political prosecutions was collusive.

BREAKING: A handful of Senate Republicans are finally starting to join Democrats to pull the emergency brake and end Trump’s war with Iran. Now is the moment to keep pushing. Call your members of Congress.

Yesterday, Trump announced a $1.8 BILLION taxpayer funded slush fund for his allies & friends. Today, I asked acting AG Blanche if Jan 6 rioters who assaulted police & committed violent crimes, would be eligible for payouts. He couldn't say no.

Another NDA-style agreement has surfaced as Washington County faces mounting scrutiny over secrecy surrounding the proposed ICE detention warehouse. blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/ndas-are-sur...

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

Once day a major outlet will manage to write about the rise of misogyny as a unifying ideological project in the American right without a viscous little aside about how it’s actually all women’s fault for buying “male tears” mugs in 2015.

Hawaii first, then the rest of the country! We need to end citizens united and get corporate money out of our politics. Without this corporate interests will continue to control our politicians Credits: @kanielaing

So exciting! Tax Zuckerberg's & Ellison's bunker estates to pay for lawsuits. apnews.com/article/corp...

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

It's time to ban members of Congress from lobbying for life. I have a new bipartisan bill to get it done.

Two Senate Democrats just voted with the GOP to advance a bill that serves the bad actors at the center of today’s crypto chaos. The CLARITY Act would only help Trump, billionaires, and foreign governments profit at our expense. Demand that your senators vote NO: indivisible.org/actions/stop...

Federal officials are now acknowledging the proposed Washington County, MD ICE facility requires a formal environmental assessment and additional tribal consultation before moving forward. Subscribe to our substack —> blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/dhs-finall...

Immigration enforcement is inching closer to Southeast Baltimore schools www.thebanner.com/education/k-... And in Ohio HSs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Purge Palantir!! @purgepalantir.bsky.social

"Hospices and home health agencies are also halted from new Medicare enrollment for six months...""About 850 agents and brokers suspected of fraud were reinstated under the Trump administration..." Dead eye distraction from their own fraud & incompetence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

24 sources told The Atlantic that Kash Patel’s heavy drinking impeded his ability to do his job. He denied it. He also told provable lies during this hearing. And at the end, he refused to acknowledge that is a crime to lie to Congress. It is.

Bird flu spreading, hantavirus popping up, measles spreading, public health systems gutted, and Trump appoints Don Jr.’s turkey-hunting buddy to oversee the FDA. What could possibly go wrong?

According to 404 Media, ICE officials have admitted that Palantir has helped build a database of 20 million people for the agency to use for raids and arrests. Yet another reason why Palantir is America's most dangerous corporation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88

Kash Patel looked senators in the eye today and said, under oath, that the FBI is “targeting and investigating no journalists.” Let’s check that against reality, shall we?

The Senate voted 49-50 on a resolution to end Trump’s war in Iran, the seventh such vote to fall short since the conflict began in February. Three Republicans (Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul) broke with their party to support the measure,

Links: fortune.com/2026/05/12/l... calmatters.org/economy/2026... www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

As people struggle to cover medical bills, put food on the table or gas in the car, it's obscene that Congress is about to hand another $70+ Billion to ICE and CBP. If you want your tax dollars to be used to improve lives - not terrorize immigrants - let your Rep. know: https://bit.ly/49BSbJE

"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...

The Trump administration just finalized the rescission of the Public Lands Rule and it’s as bad as it sounds. The Public Lands Rule was a protection that put conservation, cultural sites, clean water, and outdoor recreation on equal footing with oil, gas, mining, and grazing on BLM lands.

Republicans are hoping you don’t remember when they were putting Biden stickers on gas pumps when it was $3.00/gallon. Feels like those were the good old days, doesn’t it? #TrumpsGasFailure

I’m so proud of these folks ✊🏽 Alabama Dems have had enough of Republicans’ bullshit. They’re standing up against the attack on their political power. 🚨 Alabama state organizing manager Dee Reed escorted out of the Alabama House gallery Friday as lawmakers debated redistricting.

Unlike Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, & Florida, Virginia put its redistricting referendum up to the will of the PEOPLE. They voted & the redistricting amendment won, fair & square.

This ruling throws out their votes and ignores Virginians’ will.

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

Most people will blame John Roberts, Samuel Alito or even Donald Trump for SCOTUS eviscerating the Voting Rights Act and ushering in a modern Jim Crow era But it was Mitch McConnell and his MAGA Senate traitors who stole two Supreme Court seats Were his actions based on racism We may never know

If you would like to help catalog Flock cameras that connect to Palantir and also spy on you and give your information to the police, you can help! Get involved. Your privacy depends on it. deflock.org

This is hypocrisy at its finest. Trump's gold-encrusted ballroom has gone from costing $200 million funded by shady donors to $1 BILLION from TAXPAYERS—snuck into the ICE bill by Senate Republicans. But Trump wants to prosecute Powell for cost overruns of the Fed's renovation.

We have truly gone back in time to the McCarthy era. This is such an obvious retaliation against Louise Lucas for her important leadership during Virginia’s redistricting fight. Punish your political enemies, smear dissent, weaponize government power.

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

“Once again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives put their thumbs on the scale for Republicans. And once again, they’re very mad that people noticed.” @lizdye.bsky.social x @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

More distraction from pedophilia, war, corruption, & incompetence. Who doesn't know a transgender person by now & how could they possibly affect your life that you feel a need to ban them? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I wrote about this weekend’s pair of federal rulings that curtailed, then restored, mifepristone access—and the reality that the abortion war isn’t over even if the American public has largely forgotten about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"In 2017, the movement briefly appeared capable of uniting women across class and racial lines... creating a shared understanding of “gendered vulnerability”, according to Moira Donegan...”. @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The thing about this insistence that rape victims have some terrifying moral power that ruins men’s lives and compels the public to do anything to avenge them is that it has never once happened. What actually happens is that victims who disclose are ruined and men who are accused gain.

"Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is more likely to collapse than previously thought. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises."

I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kevin Warsh was warned about the risks of predatory mortgages. He said subprime assets were getting a "bad name," and said he had no regrets about his time on the Fed Board during the 2008 crisis. Why should Americans trust him to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve now?

Why do we need to #PurgePalantir? Have a listen: www.thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge... @gilduran.com @mediajustice.bsky.social

The financial structure underwriting the global AI race deserves as much scrutiny as the technology itself, Hera Hyeonseo Lee writes.

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social Palantir is calling for universal military service for all Americans.