NEW: After being asked to testify behind closed doors before Congress, Howard Lutnick made a $5M donation to House Republicans. After his testimony, Jim Comer said he was satisfied Lutnick was truthful. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

The Broadview Six should absolutely apply for compensation from Trump's "weaponization" slush fund and sue when they don't get it. In fact, they'd arguably have the strongest case for standing of any possible plaintiff. slate.com/news-and-pol...

We need a law that requires the president to divest from all stocks that could generate a conflict of interest. Trump’s recent disclosures show why. bit.ly/4dXnm4z

Questions Grow Over Mystery Of Missing Legislative Branch

MUST READ: One of the finest pieces written to date about the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Calláis. @cristianafarias takes it back to Mobile v. Bolden and the dissenting warning from Justice Thurgood Marshall. nymag.com/intelligence...

BREAKING: The judge has DISMISSED the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds! A MAJOR win for Mr. Abrego. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This guy quote-posted me and said I was crazy for saying that the fascist tech VCs talk about putting GLP-1s in the water supply. (They do.) This is an issue I have had for more than a decade, which is that people think *I* am crazy when I accurately describe what the tycoons are saying or doing.

Juan’s #DACA expired while he was in ICE detention, and his renewal — which he submitted in November — still appears to be pending. Many other #DACA recipients are facing losing their work permits and deportation protections due to these intentional delays: spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

I salute Judge Edward Chen for this. He hits the nail on the head. Because the future of the profession is in peril in my view, as a generation of young lawyers witness the unethical and shameful conduct of far too many of their experienced and “successful” supervising attorneys.

“They will not silence me at all,” #DACA recipient and essential healthcare worker Yenniffer England said following her release from ICE detention yesterday, “and I will be the voice for every single one of those men and women in there that do not have a voice.” www.krgv.com/news/donna-d...

This guy is a total menace. Don’t get distracted by the “swinger” content. He’s long been one of the craziest standard bearers for the “constitutional sheriffs” movement. Read this 2021 Politico piece about Lamb. And I bet @jesspish.bsky.social knows more. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The Broadway Six would be the perfect vehicle to fight this in court. I hope Congress will find a way to shut it down but this should happen too, in case they don’t.

They would seem to be good candidates to apply for a compensation from Trump‘s weaponization fund. When they are denied relief, they will have standing to sue and challenge the whole slimy apparatus.

People need to stop whining about Elon Musk's mission to do a Mars fly-by. This is the advancement of science and exploration. In fact, it's so important that we should send our best people. Every billionaire should be sent on a Mars mission. Right now. You know, for the science.

New restrictions on voter registration in several states will make it easier to push spurious challenges to voters’ eligibility. bit.ly/4dzRNNM

This bill, literally called the “CHARLIE Act,” imports definitions from Trump's odious EOs on race (EO 14190) and sex (EO 14168) into the federal statute for K-12 funding. It's not savvy centrist politics, it will not get them more votes. They know; they're bad people who like these parts of MAGA.

PROTECT TRANS KIDS

In honor of Colbert's final show... "Part of the reason so many of these fools hate Stephen Colbert is that he lives his life as the faithful and humble Christian they constantly claim themselves to be but are too selfish and fearful to actually be." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-inconv...

Good night and good luck

I consider human teeth to be incontrovertible evidence of evolution. Ain't nobody 'designing' that. It's like a car that explodes if a pebble gets stuck in the tire treads.

“This is what the drinking water now looks like, next to that data center,” she continued. “And I think both of us can agree that neither one of these things are drinkable. These families now have to ship — in a rural area — have to ship water to their house in order to cook and bathe themselves.”

It really is hard to be more blatant than what is openly happening. Those of us who long warned about this plan/goals aren’t surprised but, still, damn.

“White reclamation” captures this time well. Building since 1960s, Reconstruction really. Watch white male reclamation of media especially in the South. Who is richest, making business, editors and acquisition decisions? Don’t look back some day and say: “why didn’t we notice that as happening?”

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."

Proud Boy and adjudicated terrorist Enrique Tarrio tells @emptywheel.bsky.social “Just pay your taxes so I can enjoy your money. Get fucked, ho.”

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Perry also said there was a "potential" for "sanctions for prosecutorial misconduct and for potential ethical violations, including lack of candor to the court."

JUST IN: The transcript of Judge April Perry's comments in the Broadview Six hearing is in, and it is as described. "I have never seen the types of prosecutorial behavior before a grand jury that I saw in those transcripts."

if they were intentionally trying to wreck the country, how could you tell the difference?

Rep. Jamie Raskin is introducing legislation to block the Trump slush fund. The bill would bar the use of any federal funds to back the settlement and would also create new restrictions on payouts generally — including barring anyone convicted of rioting at the Capitol from receiving funds.

Moreover, Charles Littlejohn leaked hundreds of thousands of records to shed light on how billionaires like Trump avoided taxes in 2019, when Trump was president. The theory of weaponization here requires one to accept a dozen false premises and lies.

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

“Assuming courts will save us absolves our political leaders of both responsibility and accountability for allowing this kind of mischief to continue, and it absolves all of us of our responsibility to refuse to tolerate those who would just as quickly shrug their shoulders and move on.” My latest:

A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.

Many of us have dealt with these men for a long time now. Been warning y’all.

End Citizens United's Justin Unga: "Corporations and billionaires poured billions into our last presidential election, and this is what they bought for themselves. We have a vot that has been auctioned to the highest bidders, and that means big oil and gas, they get to decide how clean our air is."

reminiscent of the open hatred many Republican members of Congress are expressing toward Rep. Sarah McBride today (www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...)

NEW: A California DA was prosecuting Stanford students for felonies over pro-Palestine protests. Bolts reported back in February that he was fundraising off these cases. Learning this, defense attorneys dug more, & filed a motion to force Rosen off the case for bias. A judge just removed him:

Crockett 🔥: "Some of y'all need to read up on your history books, the same ones Republicans have decided people shouldn't hear about bc you don't want real history taught in schools. You're afraid it's gonna hurt people's feelings to know their ancestors were so savage they would enslave Black folk"

Fitzpatrick is a republican, FYI. Keep calling your reps.

Spanberger has vetoed a bill that'd have set up a marijuana retail market. She also vetoed a bill meant to bar ICE agents from local courthouses, while signing a bill to ban them from wearing masks. www.ffxnow.com/2026/05/20/j... Reminder, this was another big criminal justice veto last month:

"Bc the agreement is cast as settlement of debt owed to Trump, it should be treated as $1.8b of income, which triggers tax liability. At his rate, it could run into the hundreds of millions, and the IRS lookback period is 6 years. The next IRS director has the chance to do *the funniest thing* ... "

Please send this message to Schumer and Jeffries. Call them. Keep calling all your reps and senators and ask them to impeach AND introduce legislation to dissolve this fund.

A federal judge has ordered White House personnel to continue complying with the Presidential Records Act after the Trump Justice Department argued in a legal opinion last month that the law was "unconstitutional" and that Trump has the authority to destroy presidential records from his term.

TO RECAP: President Idiot doesn’t know the word ‘cisgender’ so he is just saying ‘six genders’ all the time. His sycophantic underlings won’t correct him, so they’re all just saying six genders now.

this is a masterpiece

While most are stuck with stagnant wages and a national minimum wage that hasn't changed since (I believe) 2009, congress is whining it can't live on $174k a year AND wants back wages to make up the difference. That could be $400k+ per congress critter. We are done. Make life affordable again.

Happy World Bee Day! Here’s a list of how bees buzz in ten different languages… 10. Bzzz (Czech) 9. Bzzz (Bulgarian) 8. Bzzz (French) 7. Bzzz (Slovene) 6. Bzzz (Catalan) 5. Bzzz (Polish) 4. Bzzz (Portuguese) 3. Bzzz (Italian) 2. Bzzz (Spanish) 1. Wing wing (Korean)