The NY Times apparently thinks fairness in journalism means having no values at all. Trump assaults one of the key factors in America's rise to global leadership — immigration — and the best the Times can do is call it a “risky pivot.”

This is inaccurate because it's not a pivot. I've witnessed for months now ICE agents physically drag immigrants out of 26 Federal Plaza as they were following the legal requirements to work here, as immigration judges were confirming that they were following the rules.

As Fox News releases some of Trump’s worst polling ever, the writer of a piece on his unpopularity explains why his coalition is imploding—and why his only way out is massive cheating. trib.al/OUZpva2

The outbreak has already reached major urban centers, including Goma in the DRC and Kampala in Uganda.

Trump’s unnecessary, illegal war is the clearest sign yet that he has lost the capacity to govern.

“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the U.S., or any of them.” [i.e. state govs]

Tillis on Trump's taxpayer-funded insurrectionist slush fund: "There's no way we're gonna be in a position to fund $1.5 billion for an anti-fraud division when we've got this bogus payout pot for punks. Whoever did it should be fired."

The person who did it is Acting AG Todd Blanche.

📌REPEATING: If Trump hadn't unilaterally withdrawn from the Iran nuclear agreement crafted by Obama it would NOT have a stockpile of highly enriched uranium today. Iran was IN FULL COMPLIANCE with the agreement. This mess was created ENTIRELY by Trump. This isn’t reported near enough.

Tillis: "To call Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He's gonna be an anchor on our caucus"

Tired: Celebrating 1776 by giving guys attacking America $1.776 billion Wired: Celebrating 250 years by giving Iran $25,000,000,000

Sickening. It still infuriates me that most Republicans painted this as just a protest and supported an ex-president who tried to overturn an election. Trump encouraged these criminals and then sat back while they attacked and vandalized the U.S. Capitol.

Something crazy happened to @micahloewinger.bsky.social this week while preparing the final episode of his deep dive investigation into FEMA.

Listen to that interview and the entire series here: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Cameron Hamilton, Trump's nominee to lead FEMA, called us this week and asked us to delay the release of our latest episode so that it wouldn't negatively affect his upcoming confirmation hearing. We said no.

I've never had this type of convo with an official before. But it was clear that my future access to Hamilton was contingent on fulfilling his request. I don't need access but it did illustrate for me the pressure that beat reporters are subjected to

The Atlantic (gift link) "On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. .. Trump no doubt hopes that he can slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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No it the fuck was not.

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

omg this is insane

I knew the United States had major issues and political divides. But I never thought our country and democracy would die at the hands of a moron, bloviating bankrupt conman with the intellect of rotten cabbage.

@maryltrump.bsky.social says the president is engaging in “gobsmacking corruption” with the IRS. “What is mind-blowing is the long line of people who continue to be willing to engage in the most abject sycophancy and corruption in order to help him.” #Velshi

I swear MAGA has more easy marks than the Funky Bunch

“No one will stop him. The only people who can stop Trump are Republicans. They’re not going to stop him. They’re going to let him keep crashing and killing and destroying.” —Stuart Stevens trib.al/YVlqJXR

Republicans moved heaven and earth to pass tax breaks for billionaires and mega corporations—and then Trump walked away from minimum wage and overtime protections for nearly 4 million workers.    This is as anti-worker and pro-billionaire as it gets.

Are the GOP in Congress going to say they don’t like the fund but there is no remedy for stopping it? Bullshit. The remedy is impeachment.

The US Forest Service is treating our national forests like a commercial tree farm. It is now spraying tons of toxic herbicides, literally on the ski slopes by Lake Tahoe. This stuff kills wildlife. It kills everything but conifers

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Trump-endorsed MAGA candidate Mark Lamb running for Congress in Arizona on a family values platform has been accused of destroying his best friend’s marriage by introducing him to a swinger lifestyle. 💃🏻🕺

GOP scatter like roaches as more 💡 shines on the latest dirty deal their corrupt criminal leader wants them to help force down the country's throat. Keep 📣📣MoCs abt it: 202-224-3121, democracy.io/#/ Operation Epic Failure: still giving 🤡 bragging rights for 'the best failure anyone has ever seen'

Trump absolutely cratering in new Fox poll: 29-71 on economy 24-76 on inflation He's underwater among whites *and* rural voters (!) Among independents he's at 24 percent (!!) On the pod, @jamescdownie.bsky.social is good on the collapse of the Trump coalition: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

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I figured there would be shady conduct with the Broadview Six grand jury, but it's unreal. Vouching is bad enough, but dismissing grand jurors who disagreed with them, hiding a no true bill, and hiding pages of the transcript from the judge? That should be disbarment. That's WAY beyond sanctionable.

Okay, so obviously this is very dumb, but for an explanation of why: The "rules being eased" is really "unwinding the phase-out of HFC refrigerants." HFCs are responsible for the extremely high global warming potential of refrigerants, and our previous saner government was working to fix this 1/x

SEN. TILLIS (R): “These people don't deserve restitution. Many of them deserve to be in prison. This is just stupid on stilts. Republicans need to speak up. This is beyond the pale… This is bad policy, bad timing, bad politics.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

BREAKING: Votes on the Republican ICE/ballroom funding bill are CANCELLED. Thune sending everyone home for 10 days. Why? Republicans don’t want to vote against an amendment to stop Trump’s new $1.7B slush fund. The problem? That amendment doesn’t go away for them in 10 days.

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

The December 2025 National Defense Strategy, lead author "Taiwan must be the #1 Priority" USD(P) Elbridge Colby, argued for reducing our footprint in the Persian Gulf and for increasing our arms sales to Taiwan so they are better able to defend themselves with less US combat help.

/8 Next, the judge tells them that (1) she wasn’t inclined to find vindictive prosecution before but now she’s revisiting, and (2) there are sanctions and findings of ethical violations coming.

/27 Anyway, once again, decent humans who are AUSAs now: get out. Get out now.

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

NEW: The transcript of today's sealed hearing in the "Broadview Six" case IS IN. Read it here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b7...

Can't get over the utterly farcical language used in this NYT reporting, which indulges the fiction that DOJ and Trump are independent, self-standing entities.

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell just slammed the Trump slush fund: "So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick."

President Trump just turned a lawsuit he controlled—against himself—into a $1.8 billion slush fund with no congressional approval, no independent oversight, and no appeals. The 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' is more weaponization, explain Cato’s Tad DeHaven and Molly Nixon. https://ow.ly/QQV850Z2Wv8

Perry told attorneys she was open to again hearing the issue of vindictive prosecution and said there's potential for sanctions for prosecutorial misconduct.

.@thomasjoscelyn: "This is the single most corrupt politician in the history of America... This makes Aaron Burr's corruption look like an ant mound. This is the Himalayan mountain range of corruption."