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Despicable actions

have a giggle

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Trump appeared to briefly confuse Taiwan with Iran while responding to a question about a possible U.S.-China conflict during a rambling exchange.

Finally she leaves

Juan Chavez Velasco has been released! Juan was on his way to the hospital to see his newborn daughter in the NICU when ICE targeted and detained him. He is a DACA recipient and was a medical worker on the frontlines during the pandemic.

great piece. please read if you have a moment: presswatchers.org/2026/05/its-...

McGovern: I think Trump is seriously ill. He needs medical attention. There needs to be an intervention from his family or someone in his cabinet—I would say some of the Republicans here, but they don’t have the balls to confront him on anything.

The Army is cutting training due to budget constrains from the Iran war and National Guard deployments to U.S. cities.

Trump is planning to issue 250 pardons to America's 250th anniversary. He has already pardoned at least 6 individuals who were later charged with pedophilia.

Make America Healthy Again!

Ew.

Trump's hand was looking pretty gnarly after he landed in China (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)

wow

a look at the US delegation that is meeting with Xi and Chinese officials

SEE HOW EASILY HE LIES The reflecting pool sounds like a disaster: holes and bubbling pain. Trump first bragged that he sent in a contractor he personally used before, a guy who “does pools.” Now suddenly it’s: “I did not know the contractor,” and the folks at Interior made the pick.

I don’t know what stage of dementia this is, but this man should not have the nuclear codes.

Poopy

too cute

despicable and depressing

We need to flip four senate seats this November to overcome the Fetterman problem.

In case this wasn’t already completely obvious in every possible way. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I'd love to go

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

This is why they really hate him — because he’s showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people

He's got to go

This oil painting, titled "This Land is Your Land," is by contemporary artist Eric Bowman. The painting focuses on themes of heritage, nativity, and the claiming of the land and sky as an inheritance passed down through generations.

Demented and deranged. Someone please take away his phone

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

The first honest thing he’s said

Trump’s 1-Hour Posting Frenzy Fuels Questions About His Mental Fitness truthout.org/articles/tru...

"Dr President Trump"

What the hell is wrong with these weirdos?

VAN HOLLEN: The article says agents with expertise in Iran were fired for their role in the classified documents investigations PATEL: The article, just like all the others you cited, is false. I terminated everyone that weaponized law enforcement V: I see. So it *was* related to the docs case

Just out here writing midterm ads for Democrats

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Remember when Joe Biden's son was excoriated for using his family name to get a simple seat on a board of directors in a foreign country? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ok i chuckled www.epicfurious.com

PennLive starts eight-part series on largest ICE facility in the Northeast, the "Moshannon Valley Processing Center" in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania: www.pennlive.com/news/2026/05...

Here’s last night’s story about prediction markets – platforms where you can bet on basically anything, from the weather to the war in Iran. The story's also about why AI seems to be obsessed with shirtless old guys! To a lesser degree, but worth mentioning, if you’re into that. youtu.be/ZN4njIQcSR4

If you need a refresher on the U.S. Constitution. Read Melisa Murray's new book. The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader by Melissa Murray is an accessible guide to the Constitution.

So is this!

“This is a break glass emergency moment.” Melissa Murray says the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is using “colorblindness” to turn the Voting Rights Act on its head: treating states that try to remedy racial gerrymandering as if they’re the ones discriminating.

The Next Coup Attempt open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... Tim Snyder 's latest

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Virginia Supreme Court decision overtuning voters' constitutional amendment giving Dems up to 4 new suits is highly technical and based on labyrinthine process for amendments in the VA constitution. 'll have a youtube up explaining it shortly. youtube.com/@talkingfeds But bottom line impact is huge

Yay