www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o... Some hope

It seems like there won’t be any point in voting???

85-year-old French widow caught in Trump's immigration crackdown describes her detention apnews.com/article/fren... She wasn’t “caught in an immigration crackdown”- she was yanked from her home and put in an ICE detention facility, an 85-year old French widow. The worst of the worst apparently

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Something deeper than hantavirus open.substack.com/pub/yourloca... We still haven’t recovered the trust we lost in COVID- in govt, in each other

The posters, preachers, and podcasters of the American right might disagree on trade policy, Israel, and Big Tech, @helenlewis writes. But one important force unites them all: misogyny. Wow, unbelievable

Inflation just hit 3.8% — the highest it's been since 2023. But Trump shrugged off Americans' financial pain when asked whether soaring gas and grocery prices factored into his negotiations to end his war of choice with Iran.

A congressman who viewed Jeffrey Epstein files that are still redacted for the public says the Department of Justice is “covering up for Donald Trump.”

Why Tennessee GOP thinks they need to gerrymander

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u... Really important message for progressives

Apparently TN Republicans don't believe in democracy. Let's show them when we vote in November! Vote their sorry backsides out of office!!! #VoteBlue #DemocracyOrBust #ProtestAnyway

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American voted for this. We got rid of our experts. We made america irrelevant

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o... In the 1970s, college grads wanted to work for solid companies, teach, or join non profits. Today, they flock to wall st, banking, law. How/why did this change?

Marty Makary didn't got fired for governing. Trump sons are passive investors in drone companies their father is arming with #Pentagon contracts. There's an 80,000-barrel oil spill spreading toward the Gulf that no one is cleaning up. #uspolitics #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

I wonder what’s happened to going after the most violent criminals

Do any MAGA people see what a mistake this was?

Redistricting war accelerates winner-take-all political combat that's straining American democracy apnews.com/article/dona... Why on earth don’t we have proportional representation? E need to end this division

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/c... Or in my state of Colorado, he denies it altogether because he is ticked off at us. A petty tyrant

How a weaker dollar is quietly making life more expensive apnews.com/article/trum... Like a hidden additional 10% tax we pay

Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office apnews.com/article/new-... Good thing the Supreme Court got rid of the outdated voting rights act. Apparently they don’t think we need it any more🙄🙄🙄😡😡😡

Republicans say they will defer to Trump on Iran war despite arrival of 60-day deadline apnews.com/article/iran... Wow, Republicans terrified to vote and be on record

www.propublica.org/article/trum... The most heartless thing our government has ever tried to do. If you are very poor, have an adult child with Down’s syndrome living with you, the govt will cut your benefits. WTH

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o... Horrifying

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c... A disaster for every day Americans. And for American leadership

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/o...

US health officials nix publication of a study on COVID vaccine effectiveness apnews.com/article/cdc-... Found that vaccines cut ER visits and hospitalizations in half last winter. WE are like stalin’s USSR, where the leader decides what science is true

They risked their lives fighting for America. So we send them to Congo. ????

'If my people': Here's why the Bible passage Trump will read aloud is so potent and polarizing apnews.com/article/dona... Is anyone going to read the parts about sharing your food with the hungry, bringing the homeless poor into your house, taking care of the sick?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o... Refusing vaccines kills other people

This is why we need no new funding for ICE until the administration completely rehauls how and what they do with our tax money

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It seems like a Prime Minister who continues to get his corruption trial delayed for years because his government is engaged in wars has a personal incentive to keep wars going as long as possible.

Gotta give credit where credit is due. Donald Trump is doing an absolutely terrific job appearing unstable. No one can do it better.

List of Restaurants Closing in April #Newsweek

You can see why people are talking about his needing to be removed. He seems really not right, focusing on this and his arch instead of Iran war, food and gas and housing prices, Ukraine, cuts in services, etc

Unbelievable. The ego and the gall

The gall of our administration still amazes me. VP Telling the pope how to talk about theology 🙄

I didn’t realize that tariffs were hurting manufacturing jobs in this country, not helping as Trump promised

What is he talking about, the pope is weak on crime???? Trump has totally lost it mentally

"In fact, immigrants—including undocumented immigrants—are less likely to commit crimes than the U.S.-born. This is true at the national, state, county, and neighborhood levels, and for both violent and non-violent crime." www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/d...

Russell Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... It’s our new normal