What if instead of anxiety and depression we had... BURROWING OWLETS 🎉 🪶 🐣

NYT Board on Trump’s Slush Fund: “There has never been an example of Presidential corruption like this… destroying pillars of 🇺🇸 democracy to empower himself… encourages future lawlessness on his behalf… taking your money & showering it on criminals.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

"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?

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

1/ I wrote this is a corrupt settlement, brought in a case that was due to be dismissed. You don’t have to take my word for that-lawyers at the IRS thought so too. But Trump was in both the driver’s seat & the beneficiary’s seat. That’s the very definition of kleptocracy substack.com/@joycevance/...

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

After this Thursday’s show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful, and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his regime. Farewell, and thank you, Stephen. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/farewell-and-thank-you-stephen-colbert

Van Hollen to Blanche: "Two days ago, you even suggested there was 'a ton of evidence' the 2020 election was rigged against Trump. And here you are a budget hearing asking for taxpayer funds when you're using them to punish Trump's adversaries, reward his friends, and pursue his personal vendettas."

Holy shit. The question that @katiecouric.bsky.social asks here ... why has this not been asked of *every public figure* in the Trump era? Why is George f'ing Conway the only person who has to answer this? EVERYONE -- every business, media, & political figure -- should face it. Again & again.

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

And unfortunately this reminds me that cause ships can be petri dishes. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/w...

ENSO Alert System Status: El Niño Watch Synopsis: El Niño is likely to emerge soon (82% chance in May-July 2026) and continue through Northern Hemisphere winter 2026-27 (96% chance in December 2026-February 2027). #ENSO #ElNiño 🧪 www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

Scientists named this species of hairy ghost pipefish after beloved Sesame Street resident Mr. Snuffleupagus and we're obsessed.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Trump and Hegseth continue to lie to the American people and hide the truth. Thank God for journalism or all we would have is regime lies.

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

Out like a light

Trump hired a company that had previously worked on his private golf club for this job repainting the Reflecting Pool in DC. The company was given a no-bid contract that, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times, included a 20 percent profit margin Remember DOGE?

Rep. Ro Khanna nails why we're all so frustrated and angry.

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

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This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Get ready. As the Iran War spirals out of control, Trump is going to get more desperate. The new attacks on ABC for airing criticism of Trump is a sign of what’s the come. We cannot shrug it off as “Trump being Trump”. He’s trying to build a censorship state - plain and simple.

Imagine what things would be like if the cheapest most accessible energy was renewable and we could make biodegradable plastic. Not look around and see how close you got. Those are true, and this is what things are like. We've got a megalomaniac problem not a tech problem.

For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.

#BirthControl #Women'sRights #SCOTUS #Abortion

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

“The name of [an ICE] officer accused of strangling a man in Fitchburg during an immigration arrest has been revealed in court, despite the federal government’s attempts to keep his identity a secret. The officer’s name is David Jackson, an acting supervisory detention and deportation officer.”

‘F around and find out’ is still the Democrats’ position on redistricting and is even more so our position after the SCOTUS ruling. Hakeem Jeffries is talking about a scenario when Illinois, Maryland, Colorado, and New York are totally blue. We could get 52 seats in California.

Following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Wednesday, legal scholars and advocates across the country demanded reforms to the Supreme Court to preserve free and fair elections and voting rights in the U.S. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

EXCLUSIVE: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Mexico didn’t pay for the wall, Trump gold cards didn’t balance the budget, there are no $2,000 DOGE or tariff refund checks, and donors aren’t paying for the ballroom.

In 1994, a man crashed his small plane into the White House. Clinton did not build a ballroom because of it. In fact he barely mentioned it. And he definitely did not say that no one can criticize him anymore.

"Every decision you make in a disaster comes down to two questions: Is it safe where we are now? Will we be safe if we try to evacuate? More often than not, answering those questions means relying on the people around you." #ClimateChange #Prepper #Community www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

"The experience stunned Ms. Ross-Mahé, who previously supported President Trump... “I didn’t think these things existed,” she said of the immigration facilities she was held in. “I thought when we arrested them, we would treat them properly. It really shocked me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

And with no end in sight to the war or the plundering of our public funds, things will only get worse.

🧑‍🌾 WATCH: “If farmers contract cancer from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill you won’t be able to sue.” Rep Massie warns🚨about a provision protecting foreign pesticide corporations from lawsuits by sick farmers —a bill rusty grills pushes in Tennessee🤔

We murdered three more people in a boat today