In a Capitol Hill briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking. interc.pt/4xgem3f

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

It's not new but it continues to be remarkably dangerous that the president routinely lies about various elections, past and present. And it is absolutely corrosive that refusing to condemn these lies--or even endorsing them--has become a GOP litmus test. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...

The biggest story in America is a president who has completely lost touch with reality. Who thinks the FBI let all the January 6 rioters into the Capitol, that he really won the 2020 election, that the Iran War is going well. Who, when occasionally confronted w reality, panics.

Trump’s election was, in effect, the passage of the Crimes Are Legal If You’re a Republican Act.

With his latest pardon, Trump continues his quest to enthusiastically support and reward criminality and corruption among all Republicans everywhere: "Trump Pardons Former Congressman Convicted of Insider Trading". Stephen Buyer (R, Indiana). The GOP is an organized crime syndicate.

The Trump meme coin is now trading at $1.67, down from $45.47 the day before his inauguration. The slide has relentless: down 5% in the past 24 hours, 12% in the past week, 31% in the past month. A reflection of his presidency.

Can we please stop pretending (and yes that means you, NYT) that Trump has any idea what he is doing? We will eventually have some kind of settlement with Iran because nothing lasts forever. Could be next week or next century. But Trump's various "updates" are just noise.

BREAM: The Journal says percentage of delinquent credit card balances is 13%, the highest in 15 years. People are using them for necessities. Your message to them? HASSETT: We talk to CEOs of the credit card companies all the time, and there's not any threat to them. People are taking a bit longer.

We murdered three more people in a boat today

Trump’s career is one fraud after another. On banks, insurers, contractors, regulators, and voters. Why would the courts and this settlement be any different?

If you turned on the TV in another country and saw the leader's daughter-in-law giving him a softball interview on a major "news" channel, you would rightfully assume that country is a tinpot dictatorship.

NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.

updating your committee on your dissertation progress

The reason I’m leery of AI is the people promoting it

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

Superb reporting on the destruction of the Civil Rights Act, based on interviews with people directly affected by anti-rights violence in the 1960s (Josh Kovensky and Khaya Himmelman, Talking Points Memo): talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

Its pretty telling that the US Supreme Court basically ruled that a US President cant do their job effectively *unless* they are allowed to commit crimes

BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on J6? SCHWARTZ: There was definitely trespass & violence B: So the Capitol was attacked? S: You're asking me to weigh in on sort of public characterizations B: You're insulting our intelligence. Do you really expect us to accept these canned answers?

MeidasTouch: What do you make of this $1.776 billion fund— Gavin Newsom: It’s a criminal enterprise. It’s not just corruption, it’s not just graft, it’s a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to be shut down.

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

Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

it's remarkable that Trump cares about his ballroom orders of magnitude more than he cares about anything else

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

Excellent essay.

#$TRUMP coin was trading at $45.47 the day before Trump's inauguration and is now at $2.13, providing a tangible measure of how thoroughly Trump's personal brand has collapsed in the minds of the public.

Simply doesn't make sense as a reconsideration of justice. This is a person who actively attempted to undermine democracy, to subvert the will of Colorado voters.

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Trump has spent a full decade demonstrating that he doesn't care at all about Americans, not even a little bit, not even the people who voted for him, and now he's just saying it out loud on TV.

NYT headliine: "Russia-Ukraine War Shows Cease-Fires Have Lost Meaning Under Trump". This is just a specific case of the general principle that everything Trump says is ridiculous nonsense.

Ten years ago there's absolutely no doubt that months of this deranged garbage would have created a broad consensus that the president is mentally unfit and patently incapable of discharging the powers and duties of his office. He would have been removed by 25th amendment or impeachment.

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

Outstanding article about John Roberts' lifelong quest to undo the Civil Rights Act. It explains how Roberts led the Supreme Court back to its centuries-old traditional role as the reactionary barrier to Congress' attempts to provide equal rights for all.

The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"The media's double standard for Trump needs to STOP Call it normalizing, sane-washing, or giving him the benefit of the doubt" He is 100% unfit & a clear & present danger to US BLAME THE GOP BLAME CORPORATE MEDIA Bravo @sulliview.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/margaret... #RemoveTrumpNow

In December SCOTUS claimed it was too close to election to block Texas gerrymander but now allowing Southern states to straight up cancel elections to resurrect Jim Crow

Rude for Iran to be firing missiles after 37 truth social posts about how they’ve been defeated. It’s like they didn’t even read them.

Not a great sign that President Trump’s judicial nominees seem incapable of stating that President Trump is ineligible to run for a third term.

Everybody should be screaming from the rooftops that it’s super fucked up that he brags about taking these cognitive function tests all the time. It’s super fucked up! Why does society not erupt at how fucked up it is???

Me personally, I wouldn’t be bragging about passing a test where the first question is “find the picture of a bear”

I first heard "86" when I was working at the Green Mill in St. Paul and one of the older waitresses said "86 the penne with sun-dried tomatoes." I was like "what's 86?" and she said "it means we're out, everybody knows that." Anyway Comey should call her as an expert witness

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...