The company that Trump hired to build his vanity ballroom, Clark Construction, got a secret no-bid contract for another project. The project was estimated to cost $3.3 MILLION. Trump paid them $17.4M to do it. Those are our taxpayer dollars he wasted.

“White American Christianity”

Mark Cuban is at the White House and shakes hands with Trump

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

Still too high

This is the greatest single act of corruption in the United States ever? Worth mentioning in news reports. Calling it "unusual" is .. not sufficient. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

Be sure to read @mikehixenbaugh.com's latest story: Families caring for disabled relatives face unthinkable choices as Medicaid cuts loom, via @nbcnews.com

“What do you have to lose?” $1,776B

The Master's of War

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

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So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Read the full interview at chicagoreader.com/MeetMalik

We’re excited to announce that Malik Jackson will be the next publisher of the Chicago Reader! Jackson most recently served as the executive director and publisher of South Side Media Works, which operates community newspapers South Side Weekly and the Hyde Park Herald.

Pro-tip: everywhere in the U.S. is “South.”

I don’t ever again want to hear about maga voters being “duped.”

30-33% of the country does not desire a multiracial democracy.

In Callais Alito claimed racism was over. Now Southern states rushing to revive Jim Crow, eliminating or set to eliminate at least 5 majority Black districts in TN, AL, LA, SC, MS. This is bigger than partisan politics. Multiracial democracy under all out assault www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yep. It was already the case, but w/the helipad (for which, to be clear, there's better rationale than most of the Bunker-Ballroom), we would do well to talk about the fortification of the White House.

We’re well past “begins.”

Historian of Reconstruction here, today Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas in 1954 put segregation on the road to extinction, implementing the 14th amendment passed in 1868. Yet the Warren court was accused of judicial activism by people whose unconstitutional overreach today is astounding.

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Minnesota’s hospitals are among the least charitable in the country, providing less financial aid as a % of their operating budgets than hospitals in almost every other state, an investigation by @kffhealthnews.org and @startribune.com found.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

And apparently Americans are allergic to holding him accountable.

This whole album and rollout hit right near the start of my teenage years and shit was never the same lol

By watching The Pitt (Max), I just learned there’s a thing called “free birth.” Straight foolishness.

They have to be exhausted.

In 2011, the daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz, told the Harvard Law Record that “people always talk about this big transformation. But when you look at him, he continually evolved. He continued to research, to learn, and to adopt his new knowledge in his work.” #books #booksky #reading

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If you want to know more... 👇🏽 nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/se...

This is a very common story within the African American community. We were writing novels about passing 150 years ago. Still, this version of the old story is a good read.

Mississippi Free Press is a publication that consistently hits so far above its weight. Please subscribe or do a wee donation for a great thing in a place with a great need for it.

🔴 As of 15 May, a total of 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths (4 deaths among confirmed cases) have been reported. 65 contacts have been listed, with 15 identified as high-risk. Read the full Disease Outbreak News here: bit.ly/43cOnM2

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Medical training should include how to work analog. #ThePitt

Marching in Alabama… same bridge, same fight, different century… (H/T @memphisforall )

All factual information 💯💯💯🎯

I LOVE black cats.

Among other things, this sounds like a great case for community-owned and operated renewable energy.

Third Way 🤝 Jill Stein voters Wanting Republicans to win

Many people want to help the GOP by turning Dems away from unified resistance to factional fighting instead. It's a standard political fuckery tactic to create internal division and tension to deflate a movement. It doesn't take a lot to get it going, then well-meaning people get swept up in it.

If you thought the big problem in your party was voters thinking (in this case, wrongly!) that its leaders endorsed and ran on unpopular ideological positions, why would you spend millions of $ highlighting fringe pols and their positions? RNC doesn’t run ads highlighting fringe Republicans!

These are the same people who will accuse Democrats of being soft on crime.

Please post articles about the current WH occupant without showing his face. Thank you.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton has frequently opted for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. (Published July 2025 w/ @texastribune.org)