"Goodyear plant in Fayetteville closing, 1,700 jobs lost" 🤔 www.wral.com/business/goo...

AXIOS: “.. The bottom is falling out on Trump's economic credibility .. The inflation crisis that doomed his predecessor suggests he may not recover.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/05/13/t...

Iran Army Spokesperson: “Our people’s and armed forces’ resilience stopped the enemy from achieving any goals. Controlling the Strait of Hormuz will bring us economic revenues twice as high as oil income, while strengthening our foreign policy power. After this war, there will be no retreat.”

On May 13, 1862, enslaved man Robert Smalls took control of the Confederate ship he was piloting in Charleston Harbor & liberated himself & family members aboard by navigating to US Navy waters. Smalls later served in both houses of the SC Legislature and in US House of Representatives. Image: LOC.

".. allies are deeply concerned that President Trump will bend to Xi’s request to delay arms sales to Taiwan .. it would suggest that for the right price, any partner’s fate may be for sale.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/156b...

"Carr's latest campaign to menace hosts of The View & destroy the independence of broadcast media may make him a household name. Because this time ABC & Disney are fighting back, exposing his blatant misconduct as he schemes to censor outlets for refusing to toe the MAGA line." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Biggest m/m PPI jump since March 2022... 2nd-largest in the lat 10+ years +1.4%

6.0% PPI y/y is the highest since Dec 2022... time to tote out those 1970s inflation charts!

DC Casino

Albrecht Weinberg spent years teaching students about Nazi atrocities after being imprisoned at Auschwitz and Belsen

So happy to see the servicemembers of the Ford CSG returning home! Congratulations on a successful deployment amid multiple extensions and challenging circumstances. Welcome home!

QUIGLEY: What group has 'extra rights'? TURNER: We want to go after real discrimination & not phantom discrimination Q: Who is being 'phantomly discriminated' against? T: We are going after real discrimination Q: I'm going to take a wild guess that you think LGBT people are getting extra rights

It was great joining @jamestalarico.bsky.social and @ginafortexas.bsky.social today in Texas. They're working hard to make a difference in the lives of all Texans, and will be able to do even more as your next Senator and Governor. Let’s get it done, Texas!

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

US politics has for decades been dominated by a party that is fiercely opposed to any concept of shared responsibility, of caring for our fellow citizens, and that foments a deep level of distrust that makes it ever harder to operate as a society. Paul Krugman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

US politics has for decades been dominated by a party that is fiercely opposed to any concept of shared responsibility, of caring for our fellow citizens, and that foments a deep level of distrust that makes it ever harder to operate as a society. Paul Krugman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Breaking News: U.S. inflation shot up to a 3.8% annual rate in April, as the war in Iran raised energy prices and costs across the country.

TODAY: Help us make sure Republicans hear from constituents about their plan to shovel up to $70 billion more to ICE and Border Patrol. We’re contacting voters in key states and districts to connect them with their GOP Members of Congress.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

VAN HOLLEN: Have you ordered polygraph tests of members of your team to determine how that story came about? KASH PATEL: The FBI conducts polygraph tests all the time VAN HOLLEN: I'll take that as a yes

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation" 175 more days until you get to vote against this and every Republican who enabled it to go on this long.

Trump has publicly championed the U.S. steel industry, and yet, the White House just secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for Trump's $400 million ballroom project.

President Trump said he does not know the contractor that is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it.

“One post even falsely attributed the strategy to Heather Cox Richardson, a political historian.” “That erroneous post was the first one Evans-Reber saw and forwarded. She later had to follow up with a disclaimer that Cox Richardson was not the author.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

Here's an excerpt. Read the whole column and tell me what you think

They said it was just Bluesky panic: fears the GOP would try to cancel the 2026 midterms. Really? Across the South, FOUR elections have been halted or nullified so far in May "Southern change gonna come at last. Now your robes aren't white, but black" My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Holy shit, the CIA is doing targeted assassinations in Mexico now, like, semi-officially:

Checks out.

“Fight for the things you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” ~U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2016. Image: U.S. Supreme Court.

I would prefer not to I reject your assumptions I deny your premises I refuse your authority I do not capitulate Be ungovernable my friends

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DOGE-linked Jennica Pound publicly warned anti-ICE app GTFO ICE would "learn the hard way," and hours later nearly 18,000 users received messages claiming their locations and contacts were forwarded to the FBI, ICE, and Homeland Security. Totally normal data security stuff. 1/2

Alabama asked the Supreme Court for permission to abandon court-ordered maps and go back to using ones the Court ruled were in violation of the Voting Rights Act, just three years ago, in the wake of Callais. Today, the Supreme Court said yes. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"the gap between rich and poor a major problem:few voters, even those who describe themselves as moderate, really support what pundits call “centrism.” there are big opportunities for leaders willing to pull an FDR and declare, “I welcome their hatred.” Paul Krugman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Moderate Democrat Ruben Gallego comes out in support of packing the Court. Also popular with a plurality of Americans, including independents, according to our Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io polling: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

Disapproval of Trump's management of the economy hits 70%

So pleased to have fought for this funding to make our community safer.

Trump Admin has cut aid to Ukraine by roughly 99 percent and shamelessly cozied up to Putin. Even allowing Russia to benefit financially from our costly war with Iran. Good news: Ukraine is becoming more self-reliant and mounting a more effective defence against Russia. Slava Ukraini! #MEpolitics

A lie. A big one.

The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

You’ve probably had your limit at this point, please read this explanation of what happened yesterday and share it widely. It’s more important than ever to make sure people understand why we have to vote for democracy and we have to get started now if we want to be able to vote.

Any questions about why the GOP is desperately trying to cheat before the midterms?

This is important and happening today. @katiephang.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com @meidastouch.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social

Over on Xitter, @harryjsisson.bsky.social (who seems not to post here anymore) catalogued one part of Trump's batshit meltdown overnight. Note how many of them focus on Trump's 2016 conspiracies, which are probably responses to Brennan and Comey appearing on MSNOW.

Senate Republicans on Monday defended their plan to include $1 billion for security funding for President Trump’s ballroom project as they prepared to take up a politically charged budget bill that faces stiff opposition from Democrats.