Trump sued the IRS over the unauthorized release of his tax returns, then he dismissed the frivolous lawsuit so that a judge wouldn’t have to sign off on the terms of the agreement. It's not really a settlement. He's just ordering the DOJ to give him money.

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...

Probably should be a bigger deal that the Trump Administration used taxpayer dollars to host a Christian Nationalist event in the nation's capital, but, nah. www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

‘She really did suffer a lot to get her story out there. And so to have people embrace it would be amazing to her’: Virginia Giuffre’s ghostwriter Amy Wallace talks to @luciaoc.bsky.social

Good morning! ☕ Today is the Trump administration's all-day prayer festival on the National Mall -- paid for in part by you, and supposedly open to people of all faiths -- featuring religious speakers with known records of smearing Catholics and Muslims. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

@washingtonpost.com made no reference to Christian nationalism in its coverage of today’s prayer festival, despite years of enterprise reporting, nor did it advance the story by documenting public funding or abuses of @whitehouse-47.bsky.social & other official accounts to promote a religious event.

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...

If it is based on inside information used in violation of his fiduciary responsibilities, it is brazenly criminal conduct, and he would not be immune from prosecution for that criminal conduct even under the Supreme Court's 2024 decision in his favor in the Jan 6 case www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

A president's trading of securities for his personal account can in no way be argued to constitute activity that falls within the "outer perimeter" of his "official responsibilities." www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Probably will be the 250 J6ers who committed new felonies after the ones he pardoned them for the first time

Getting worried that what I post here isn’t influencing Rust Belt voters…

An ICE removal flight operated by Journey Aviation just landed in Myanmar--the second time this year. Migrants onboard will have been shackled for 19+ hours. Previous Burmese deportees were immediately sent to a nearby torture prison, per @jamesstout.bsky.social. gillianbrockell.com/three-craven...

Evidently Hegseth was using “decimated” in the literal Roman sense — with the US and Israel knocking out just 10% of Iranian missile sites.

In an interview, Mommy said 'peekaboo' and reappeared, seeming to undermine messaging from moments earlier when she disappeared.

There were never any real prospects for a U.S.-Iran deal to fizzle. That was just a media narrative, one driven by prioritizing words from a serially lying White House over the consistent facts of the war. In a month of uninterrupted rain, you ran multiple headlines of “Sun Comes Out, Trump Says.”

The monitoring and regulation of college professors’ and students’ political speech is un-American and wrong. And in the case of public universities, I would think it is unconstitutional.

Virginia was a setback But the math still points to a pro-democracy pickup The South is rising up — protests in Tennessee Alabama & beyond And a national mobilization in Montgomery is set for May 16 The movement is growing and here's how to join on my Publisher's note on @contrariannews.org -TN

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

Lynx held a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and Renee Good ahead of the season opener at Target Center:

Nah, Ross, the primary relationship of AI to religion is a continuation of the longstanding "sanctimonious people are always corrupt and will always serve the rich and powerful," as Ross himself shows by routinely promoting Silicon Valley TESCREAL cult nonsense, including in this column.

Sharyn Alfonsi can leave with her head held high and her integrity intact. Anyone left at Trump's state media risks that not being the case. CBS News to Cut Ties With ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi After Feud Over CECOT Segment | Report sg.news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-cut...

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Giving billionaires and corporations the green light to buy our elections. Making it easier for polluters to destroy the planet. Stripping millions of reproductive freedom. Granting presidents immunity. Gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The shame of the John Roberts court.

This scale of loss makes me think of two things: money laundering, and a return on investment that’s not measured in monetary profits, but policy outcomes.

We can still win.

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

Attorney Kurt Olsen once worked to try to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in court and was later sanctioned by judges for making baseless allegations about Arizona elections. He is now Trump’s director of election security and integrity.

“We have no choice but to overturn the 20th century”

It’s almost like Iran knows we’re ramping up for an election.

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ABC News has verified the Epstein suicide note.

New revelations prove Trump and Hegseth are covering up the truth about what a disaster the Iran War has been. It is Pentagon Papers 2.0. Should be a massive scandal. www.thedailybeast.com/the-scandal-...

Trump holds up a rendering of what the UFC fight at the White House will look like on his birthday (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/fE0RbPsC9uE?...

Trump administration is not engaged in immigration enforcement. It is a campaign of ethnic cleansing to buoy white demographic dominance.

I don't want to live in a country where the executive has secret unreviewable powers like this www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

Rep. Buddy Carter calls for Georgia officials to toss out already cast votes: "We need to suspend the House races and go ahead and redistrict so that Georgians would be represented in the next two years by people who represent their values. Georgia is a Republican state. We need to remember that."

Supreme Court of Georgia suspends prosecutor’s privilege to practice law before the court for six months after filing a brief with the court that contained non-existent cases and cases that do not stand for the proposition asserted in the brief due to AI usage. www.gasupreme.us/wp-content/u...

Media Matters secures victory over Trump's FTC probe.

Five of the best journalists in the biz, at the @miamiherald.com Pulitzer wall: Casey Frank, Emily Michot, @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, and their editors at the time, Mindy Marques and Rick Hirsch.

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Running as a candidate against data centers and concentration camps feels like a no-brainer

Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups demanding adequate water, food and medical care. Gift link: wapo.st/4tdgBRA

The official White House account posted an AI slop American flag with only 11 stripes

We’ve now reached the combination Christian Nationalist AND Qanon posting stage of Trump 2.0. “Trust the plan” is a common Qanon slogan.

NEW: An ICE agent tased a man several times while another agent tried to forcefully drag him out of his car as the man screams in pain and begs for help, as captured in a video obtained by THE CITY. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/04/v...

Why does Trump keep doing public events in places that don’t have $400 million ballrooms?