When Trump reached a settlement with the IRS, his administration tried to make it seem like the president wasn't going to get any money out of the agreement. But a close look at his finances reveals that it could save him more than $600 million. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

A photo from the protest down South.

NEW: A new lawsuit alleges the Trump administration awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to two firms without “genuine competitive opportunities.” One of the chosen firms has faced legal issues and claims of shoddy construction work. w/ Big Bend Sentinel & @texastribune.org

The Department of Homeland Security has circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide, targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement went viral, @aurabogado.bsky.social of @injusticewatch.org reports.

///BREAKING/// The Broadview Six trial has been VACATED due to the grand jury developments

Steve Vladeck on the $1.8 bn slush fund: Every so often a story comes along that is so brazen, so cleanly emblematic of the moment we are living through, that staying quiet about it feels like a kind of complicity unto itself.

Even normally temperate legal experts and political observers are aghast at the ways in which the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" deal crosses into new territory of venality, graft, and abuse of power (even for Trump).

Now let’s hear what the families of the lost have to say.

The open, shameless grift. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

I should give a shout-out to @ballotpedia.org as well; they're a major resource for my Blue26.org project, including updating lists of candidates and especially keeping track of upcoming special elections.

What you see in the Sun, is the Chicago skyline from the Indiana Dunes beach, across Lake Michigan. You can see it from 50 miles of distance due to a form of superior mirage, because the skyline is seen above where it's actually located. [📷 wesskywalker]

NEW: An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

Absolutely.

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

Fuck you, you rotten motherfucker.

China Secretly Trained Russian Troops for Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

do u know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in france

Here we go.

1/2 🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Researchers from MD Anderson dropped a bombshell mRNA COVID vaccines appear to boost cancer immunotherapy survival rates. bioengineer.org/esmo-2025-mr...

“You don’t *know* anyone this stupid, so you don’t *understand* how stupid he is. He is not just ignorant—which he certainly is—he is also incredibly stupid.” Fran gives no fucks and she also take swipes at Reagan and GWB, just because. 😂

When the history of this sordid second Gilded Age is written, the list of neo robber barons will be long. But one greedy, public-be-damned oligarch stands out even above Musk, Trump, and the rest. His name: Jeff Bezos. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

EXCELLENT news this morning: Officers Dunn and Hodges sue to dissolve the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that will most certainly be used to fund further insurrectionist activity www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed at least 30 cases over the past nine years that have a tenuous connection to the counties in which they were filed, a practice that legal experts say pushes the boundaries of the law. With @texastribune.org

NEW: Months before the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was announced, Ed Martin predicted Capitol rioters would get millions, even if it took until 2028, two people told NBC News.

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

Future Darwin candidate still believes Elon Musk’s claims about amphibious Cybertruck.

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has expanded the just-announced settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue *any* claims it may have against Trump, his family members, and his companies over unpaid taxes.

NAACP urges boycott of college sports in south over voting rights

For Rolling Stone, Steve Earle writes that from Woody Guthrie to Bruce Springsteen, American artists have long used music to fight for change. "You can sing ideas that you can’t say, and people will process them differently and probably more positively than if you just tell them."

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

This security guard died protecting children at the Islamic Center of San Diego. If you can help support his family, it would go a long way. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

This is Trump preparing for his official statement on January 7th the day after the Insurrection. He was pausing,struggling with the teleprompter & script,re-recording & negotiating wording with aides. He was trying to make sure he didn’t implicate himself & not admitting he lost

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s VERY IMPORTANT that corporate media NOT frame this as a judicial settlement. Trump DROPPED the suit this morning. There is no lawsuit, and therefore, no settlement. you can’t settle a suit that doesn’t exist. This is just pure theft.

Minnesota's "Hennepin County Attorney’s Office issued a nationwide arrest warrant on Monday for the ICE agent who allegedly shot a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and then lied about the circumstances that led to the shooting."

Today Trump "negotiated" with his private criminal defense lawyer—a man he made AG for this corrupt purpose—the theft of $1.8B in taxpayer money so that it could be given to far-right terrorists in open rebellion against America. It's the most corrupt act by a POTUS in history.

Big Pharma just lost at SCOTUS trying to stop Medicare drug price negotiations. Reminder: taxpayers spent $11.7B helping develop all 10 of the first drugs selected for negotiation. Then drugmakers turned around and charged Americans prices they couldn’t afford.

The American people need to know whether Trump dismissed his absurd $10 billion IRS lawsuit because he reached a settlement with his own government. Any settlement would be outrageously unethical and a violation of the Constitution's Domestic Emoluments Clause.

How much of this $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds will @RepOgles grab, claiming he’s a victim when he’s a liar who allegedly faked a loan to his campaign? What about @MarshaBlackburn, bc her phone was looked at re: the insurrection? So corrupt and insane. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Federal Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Trump to explain how a sitting President can sue a government he runs. Trump panicked and settled the lawsuit for $1.7B before she could rule. Now, Democrats are demanding she step in. The full story: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-alr...

Is Israel funding and strategizing the war against Thomas Massie? Pretty much, yes. Through AIPAC, principally. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

“Crucially, the program was presented as opt-out, rather than opt-in, meaning that parents had to take steps to prevent recordings of their children being processed by AI.”

Normally, presidents divest their investments when they take office. Donald Trump started trading more. We have NEVER seen anything like this. Since January alone, Trump has made 3,699 trades worth up to $687 million in companies like Nvidia, Boeing, and Palantir.

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

White supremacy and misogyny have always been deeply ingrained in the American experiment.

Well, well, well. In 2025, Brendan Carr’s wife “joined billionaire Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.” 4/28/25 … 1/ www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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