Is Trump’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund legal? @preetbharara.bsky.social & I discuss on a new @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider episode: cafe.visitlink.me/Mw71-D

Trump Decimated Our Global Health Network. Then Ebola Hit. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

ICE detains DACA recipient Karla Toledo, drawing community outcry The agency has not provided an explanation on why officers detained Toledo. news.azpm.org/s/103370-ice...

Virginia is for lovers… Kentucky is for ped0 lovers… #Massie #Kentucky

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Xavier Becerra on HHS under RFK Jr. and Trump: “They’ve decided to use politics, not science, to make decisions… And now we’re seeing the results.”

Ever since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Trump’s gerrymandering war has kicked into high gear. Multiple states’ congressional maps are up in the air, with new developments coming down by the day. Our redistricting map tracks all the latest updates LIVE:

Former DC police officer Michael Fanone slams Trump for creating a slush fund to compensate the Jan 6 terrorists. First Trump pardoned them and now he pays them. Trump's goal is incentivize others to commit violence on his behalf. My interview of Mike: youtu.be/ZWm01UxwEe4?...

Russia launched attacks on several Ukrainian regions overnight on May 20, striking multi-story residential buildings, businesses, and other civilian targets, while injuring at least 11 people, officials reported.

So voters were upset at Massie for rallying for justice for victims on the Epstein files - while Trump protects the perps that bought them for sex? What does that tell you about Kentucky?

The richest man in the world gutted USAID and bragged about “feeding [it] into the wood chipper.” Remember who is responsible for this suffering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

Cowardly journalists treat Trump as if he’s a political maverick “upending norms.” No, he’s an old-time mafia-style crook who somehow got into the White House. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

She betrayed her trust for the purpose of destroying our social compact of peaceful governance. Such an attack on democracy should not be considered a non-violent crime. It is playing with fire, threatening society with violence on a scale more massive than any mere assault ever could.

"Especially over the last 15 years, the Court's corrupt majority has more & more openly adopted the stance that you have a powerful presidency for Republicans & a weak one for Dems. They won’t allow Dems to enjoy the fruits of political power when they win it, & that’s just an untenable situation."

We've seen the largest attack on multiracial democracy in a generation as well as their assault on women, girls, LGBTQ community. Now we're seeing the assault on civil rights and voting rights. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Each of us needs to step up and do our part.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

May 16, 2026

While everyone's watching Hormuz, the Epstein files are being buried. The law says release them. Trump is fighting it. Massie may lose his seat Tuesday for pushing it. And now a $1.7B slush fund for Jan 6 defendants? Don't go quiet. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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More staggering corruption www.propublica.org/article/clea...

Trump bought $1 million-$5 million worth of Nvidia stock a week before Nvidia announced a major deal with Meta. The previous month, Trump bought $500,000-$1 million worth of Nvidia stock a week before the Commerce Department approved the sale of Nvidia chips to China. www.notus.org/money/donald...

In the USA today corruption is not just a widely accepted part of the system, it is the point of the system. Go ahead Americans, shrug your shoulders as the President turns the office into a vehicle for illegal enrichment. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

NEW: Trump’s counterterrorism strategy blueprint makes multiple mentions of Joe Biden and other political opponents of the administration while not once mentioning violence from the far right even though the FBI has repeatedly called it a top concern. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

Just another day of Trump corruption! Excellent reporting by ProPublica. Support them if you can. www.propublica.org/article/clea...

THREAD. Just another day of Trump corruption!

Ever week!

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Glyphosate application in CA’s forests has quintupled over the last two decades in a year 266,000 pounds were sprayed a record. WHO classifies glyphosate as a carcinogen. The Forest Service is using it at industrial scale, on public land, to benefit private timber interests.

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of

This is what “multiple use management” looks like when timber wins every time. Ecological health, wildlife habitat, native plant communities all of it gets written off as competition. Link: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Support an org that is challenging the new Republican maps and getting out the vote!

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BREAKING: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed a congressional gerrymandering plan designed to strip Black voters of political representation and upend the ongoing primaries into law. The measure won't immediately go into effect, as it can only be implemented if federal courts allow it.

More on Palantir's two-faced fascism. "Two weeks ago, we wrote about Palantir going mask-off for fascism, specifically about Karp’s company posting a 22-pt manifesto that included some ugly stuff about how “certain cultures” are “regressive and harmful” and how pluralism is a “shallow temptation.”'

Per @justinlevitt.bsky.social, "It’s not a great look for this to be a 4-3 decision to overturn the will of the public + it’s really not a great look to lecture Virginians about the evils of partisan gerrymandering w/o mentioning the larger national context." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/virgini...

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Excellent read! I would argue that the end goal is permanent Republican control of Congress & that will affect all of us. The black vote, and minority vote across the country, was the sacrificial lamb to achieve that goal. I’ll add here that purity protest absolutists were a hand on the knife….

ktla.com/news/califor... This breaks my heart When so many go hungry

Early voting is underway in Georgia and we're all-in on sending Dr. Jasmine Clark (a mother, biologist, educator, and state legislator with a long history of standing up to Republicans) to Congress. No matter where you live, you can help us contact voters in GA-13 and get out the vote for Dr. Clark!

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It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Excellent read! I would argue that the end goal is permanent Republican control of Congress & that will affect all of us. The black vote, and minority vote across the country, was the sacrificial lamb to achieve that goal. I’ll add here that purity protest absolutists were a hand on the knife….

⚡️ Moscow has warned foreign diplomats to leave Kyiv before May 9. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Update on ICE's "Detention Reengineering Initiative": GEO Group's CEO said today that "the warehouse project has been paused, and [DHS] is evaluating how to proceed with this initiative..." He also acknowledged that, as part of the plan, ICE is looking to buy upwards of 10 of GEO's existing jails.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

This is what Elon threw into the wood chipper: “Gawande cited an analysis in The Lancet that estimated that USAID assistance—aimed at combatting diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, & polio, reducing maternal & child deaths, & fighting malnutrition—had saved 92 million lives over 2 decades.“

Corrupt Trump passes $1 trillion of our tax dollars to the top 1%, paid by destroying our healthcare & social services. Consumer prices keep going up, while wannabe king Trump builds a vulgar, gold ballroom. He's happy to exploit us & lie to us. Say NO.

Heads up! CA governor debate AND Los Angeles mayoral debate - BOTH TONIGHT!

The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen seized US funded supplies and equipment, including vehicles, after the Trump administration suspended and slashed humanitarian funding around the world and began dismantling the US Agency of International Development. https://cnn.it/4t4LRSF