It’s not quite smashing the cameras with a hammer, but denying Flock and cops access to this surveillance system while protecting people from further datafication is one form contemporary Luddism might take.

To give an idea of the scale of the stealing here, the annual budget for Yosemite National Park is about $30 million. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you

Menendez: Delaney Hall was supposed to be a place to hold the worst of the worst. That’s just not the reality of who’s there. We had a pastor who was there for several weeks. We have mothers, fathers. You have pregnant women who are there.

Calling for 'new approach,' CBS News leader Bari Weiss replaces executive producer at '60 Minutes'

Talarico: I'm an eighth generation Texan. I've been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton's first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.

“While I want to thank CBS News for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to also acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship,” Campos said in his speech at the Emmys, to loud applause.

WHAT THE HELL? tRump is blowing $5 MILLION in taxpayer cash to cover giant horse statues in 24-karat gold while families can’t afford groceries or rent. This isn’t leadership — it’s billionaire vanity on steroids for his stupid anniversary photo-op. Our money. His ego. 😡 mcsp.short.gy/l9UD

Ambulances are on the ground at Delaney Hall after reports that detainees (including kids) are being beaten and gassed inside right now. PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS

Marco Rubio: "Let me explain this in simple English: Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.” That statement would have so much more gravitas if Rubio's own country wasn't also run by religious fanatic lunatics.

Trump is using millions of dollars of your National Park fees to put golf leaf on horses and paint the Reflecting Pool. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

They clutched pearls over Dijon mustard. Over Billy Beer. Over Hunter repaying a truck loan. But Trump’s family is looting the Treasury in real time and Republicans are silent. Their selective outrage was never about ethics. It was always about power.

I just ordered groceries (you know, that old fashioned word Trump invented) and most of what I order had gone up significantly from where it was a month or two ago. A few frozen items were on sale or still low, but everything else cost more. Anecdotal, I know, but it confirms this headline.

They took your Medicaid. Your student loans. Your food assistance. Meanwhile Trump is personally raking in billions — pardons, crypto, a ballroom, an arch. You could buy a BATTLESHIP with his grift. We’re done pretending this is normal.

This is not how airports work. There are a finite number of slots and gates. You cannot take every international flight from seven of the biggest airports in the country and redistribute them to red states. That's not how any of this works.

US GDP: 2023: 2.9% 2024: 2.8% 2025: 2.1% 2026 YTD: 1.6%

Standard fare for Scott Bessent press conferences these days: lots and lots of words, usually contradictory or making no sense.

A key inflation gauge accelerated in April to the highest level in three years, squeezing Americans' finances and creating political challenges for President Trump and congressional Republicans with midterm elections just five months away. https://to.pbs.org/3Ptdpnd

CURRENT NEEDS AT DELANEY HALL as prisoners are being gassed and beaten inside. Two large garbage cans At least 4 people at all times to manage the tent area, and support people being released and family members. We especially need people to take relief shifts from around 9pm until morning.

Morris Day, Young MC, and now Milli Vanilli apnews.com/article/free...

The current vibes around the future of oil prices is starting to give “Covid in early March 2020” energy.

Destroy AI? That’s easy. It’s already a business disaster. The real mission is to destroy the companies and careers of those who tried to force it down our throats. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Lutnick said economic growth in the first quarter would be 5%. It was actually 1.6% — following the worst year for economic growth in nine years. The question for the White House seems obvious: Why do you keep failing to meet your own economic expectations? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Brooke Rollins: "As we've moved about 4 million off SNAP, we don't have the exact data of how much of that is fraud, how much of that is people moving into the American dream and off of welfare."

US prepares to auction leases for seabed mining blocks in federal waters

On a conservative podcast, Minnesota GOP governor hopeful Lisa Demuth says paid family leave is bad for businesses and "daily life." "Paid family leave and some of those other things that make it so hard to afford doing business here, let alone daily life."

In 2006, the film Idiocracy depicted the White House in a fictional time when the United States was incredibly tacky and stupid. Frankly, they underestimated what the reality of the United States being incredibly tacky and stupid would really look like.

Incredibly good reporting here on how former Trump campaign chief Brad Parscale is using Salem Media, a massive Christian network, to advance Israeli interests.

A lasting memory of Bilton is his stolen-valor coverage of Theranos, months after the WSJ’s John Carreyrou broke the story

NEW: We obtained a not-yet-public FARA filing revealing how Brad Parscale has directed $13 million from Israel to Republican digital strategy firms run by some of his long time allies/ with @nickclevelandstout.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/05/28/i...

“A judge issued what appears to be the first-ever sanction against the private prison giant CoreCivic for destroying video evidence in a case alleging wrongful death of a man who died by suicide in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.” theintercept.com/2026/05/24/i...

"This was...a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom....Today, CBS management is...choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it."

Days of violence by ICE agents in New Jersey against protesters & elected officials like Sen. Andy @kim.senate.gov because our government doesn't want to provide people caged inside the immigration concentration camp nutritional food & adequate medical care Human decency is not too much to ask for

Kimmel: Trump Assembles His Cabinet of Clowns & Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down Spencer Pratt's Run for LA Mayor #blogpost

Absolute psychopaths. Prominent Dr. Nick Maynard completely exposes Zionist snipers for using starving children as target practice at food sites. He confirms soldiers intentionally shot 19 boys in the head one day, and targeted testicles the next. Pure fascist terror!

First Colbert, now 60 Minutes correspondents... Companies are willfully appeasing Trump's anti-1st Amendment aims.

Geoffrey Hinton, who is known as the godfather of AI, used his 2024 Nobel Prize acceptance speech not to celebrate his creation but to warn humanity of its risks: “AI is already being used by authoritarian governments for mass surveillance. In the near future, AI will be used to create new viruses

Dr. Maynard: "Healthcare workers in Israeli prisons - tortured. Genitals repeatedly attacked. Electrocuted through their genitals. Blindfolded for 60 days straight. Handcuffed. Forced to kneel or sit for 60 days. Beaten regularly. Electrocuted." Not by ISIS. Not by a cartel. By the Israeli Prison

🧵 Felon Trump admitting rape, claiming she "loved it" bsky.app/profile/chri...

BREAKING: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi — & it's damning She ran DOJ like a weapon — & now 100+ scholars, retired judges & retired FL Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince — joined by @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social & LFRL — are holding her accountable -TN

“There is an inherent trained racism against the Jewish people in the Muslim communities. It is encouraged. It is nurtured. It is something that is not discussed…“ — Alexander Vindman If he lied like this on any other group he’d be condemned. But total silence. www.qasimrashid.com/p/alexander-...

A one-room studio apartment on this same block is currently listed for $3000.

The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism “cures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims. Under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone. (Published Feb.)

Springsteen. Moments ago. Washington DC #nokings

Reading about the sinking of the Lusitania. American millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt spent his last few minutes alive giving his lifejacket to a mother with a small child. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos would have elbowed the women and children out of the way to bribe the lifeboat captains.

So one of the richest men on Earth makes an AI 'animation' startup to prove that he, and by extension everyone else, doesn't need to pay animators. What he needs is a beloved auteur to sell him their credibility. If that sounds familiar to anyone who follows me, know that you broke my heart.