My public research university literally has a cattle ranch

"stupid on stilts" "tyranny" "absurd" That's what Republican Senator Thom Tillis calls the new Trump DOJ $1.8B slush fund. Now what’s stopping the rest of the GOP?

Republicans are quietly starting to break with Donald Trump over his $1.8 billion slush fund. This shows how toxic Trump’s corruption has become, and it comes as a new poll shows him at another record low on the economy, which will make GOP anxiety even worse.

We wrote about trump being old and being cracked up in @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2101...

“In a free society a lot of human activity is none of the government’s business. We should make criminal what’s going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.” — Barney Frank R.I.P.

That's the right energy, Colorado Dems. Pass it on. 🙏

Enormous gratitude to everyone who signed my nomination papers and helped me collect signatures! I’m on the ballot and humbly asking for your support in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, September 1, 2026! #mapoli

We must have a Parole Board that protects public safety without wrongfully denying parole. I voted no because the nominee did not demonstrate that he would not go too far. Read more of my comments to @bostonherald.com. #mapoli www.bostonherald.com/2026/05/20/m...

RESULT: Representative Thomas Massie has lost his reelection race in Kentucky to Ed Gallrein. Massie drew a lot of attention over the last year as the GOP's loudest voice for releasing the Epstein files, & Trump played a major role in ousting him.

Public safety must come first. But when it can cost over 200K a year to incarcerate someone who does not pose a danger and has paid their debt to society, we must have a Parole Board with the right background + experience to make the best decisions. See my comments to @bostonglobe.com below. #mapoli

BREAKING: Todd Blanche just used the $1.7B slush fund theft to END the IRS audit into trump’s tax returns. Outside lawyers WARNED that would be illegal.

Blanche won’t commit to BLOCK stolen slush fund payments to convicted sex offenders. Not surprising given his support of Epstein and Maxwell.

For Trump and his friends: - A $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for by you. - A $1 billion ballroom, paid for by you. For you and other American taxpayers: - Millions kicked off health care. - Highest gas prices in 5 years. - Soaring costs for groceries and other necessities.

Even Trump appointees know how disgustingly corrupt this is, and it still has not received 10% of the coverage and attention it deserves as media moves on to other things.

The Comeback series finale is heartfelt and brilliant. Lisa Kudrow is one of our absolute greatest, a national treasure. #TheComeback

Join us on May 20th as we march, strategize, and make clear that Mississippi's Black communities will not be written out of their own representation. The fight for fair maps is happening right now. Be there. https://linktr.ee/msdayofaction #Mississippi #FairMaps #VotingRights

Do not be fooled into thinking Trump is all-powerful. The truth is he's never been weaker — and America is on track to deliver him a historic midterm rebuke.

Rep. Jim Clyburn has said he has no intention of retiring, even if his district gets changed. He told reporters last week in Washington that he has addresses in Columbia, Charleston and Santee, adding: "I live in three districts. I'll decide which one to run in." https://to.pbs.org/4dx4icS

There is no way the republicans would be anything less that outraged if Obama had taken almost $2 billion of taxpayer dollars and given it to people he pardoned for trying to steal an election. Every republican in congress who doesn’t speak up and prevent this is complicit

93 House Democrats are trying to stop Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund.

A dentist?

Louisiana voters just sent a clear message: our voices matter. The rejection of all five constitutional amendments shows what happens when communities stay informed, organized, and engaged in the fight for accountability and fair representation. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

Lamar! (Not sure anyone will get this reference to George H.W. Bush making fun of Lamar Alexander’s campaign banner. Oh the good old days.)

Walnut and I loved the Wellesley parade and the @wellesleydems.bsky.social! #mapoli

Can’t wait to see everyone! #mapoli

Texas limits eligibility for Medicaid to families living below 15 percent of the poverty level, meaning that a family of three earning more than—get this—$4,098 annually is not eligible for any benefits. trib.al/xIxx6h8

Update: Louisiana voters tonight have rejected all five constitutional amendments that were on the ballot today; they were there with the support of the GOP legislature and Gov. Landry.

"This is not just a policy shift. It is a shift from deterrence to dealmaking in a domain where there is no deal to be made, beyond offering unilateral concessions that undermine deterrence," writes Ryan Hass. #Taiwan

We’re rallying in Montgomery today to show politicians that we won’t let them take away Black voting power without a fight.

Here's how billionaires like Jeff Bezos get away with not paying their fair share in taxes.

We stand in solidarity with our community in Montgomery, Alabama for the National Day of Action for Voting Rights.

Kash Patel's "VIP Snorkel" with 9 guests, accompanied by Navy Seals, over the tomb of 900 sailors at Pearl Harbor: "[A]s disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

Commentary is cheap. Anyone can do it. Reporting is expensive.

I think it would be good if people didn't need to sell things to pay for a teenager's cancer treatment

“White House Reveals Secret New Hospital” It’s a ballroom! It’s a hospital! Would be funny if we didn’t have so many homeless, hungry, and sick Americans we could spend the money on instead. #ballroom www.thedailybeast.com//white-house...

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.

Huge Dem turnout today in Georgia, for the final day of early voting. Roughly 123,000 people voted in the Democratic primary today. Roughly 74,000 voted in the GOP primary today. (3,000 have cast a nonpartisan ballot.) That’s a turnout advantage of roughly 25 points for Dems today.

“Fifty years from now, people are going to be amazed that we burned these rare, useful hydrocarbons for fuel, when the sun was just sitting up there providing an essentially infinite source of energy,” said Steven Cohen, a climate policy expert at Columbia University, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that a widely used abortion medication, mifepristone, could continue to be prescribed by telehealth and sent to patients by mail.

“I think he’s seriously ill.” Rep. Jim McGovern says Trump needs “medical attention”, calls for an “intervention”.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

. @blackandmissingfdn.bsky.social

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.

Enten: "It's not just one poll. The five worst polls ever for any president on inflation, they all belong to Donald Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. What we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn't in there. Jimmy Carter isn't in there."

When people actually understand that the question is actually a net loss for them, they start flipping. We all lose out when services are cut, underfunded, or privatized. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

'Late Night' host Seth Meyers had the perfect response to Dr. Oz's bizarre "under-babied" terminology.

A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project. He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. He thought it was good for the environment. Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized. These people have power over your life.

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation" 175 more days until you get to vote against this and every Republican who enabled it to go on this long.