BREAKING: The judge has DISMISSED the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds! A MAJOR win for Mr. Abrego. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal judge in Tennessee DISMISSES the criminal prosecution against Kilmar Ábrego García as a vindictive prosecution. First time this happens during Trump 2.0. Lays much of the blame at the feet of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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This is fucking great

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as Trump's Director of National Intelligence.

This wrecked nation is his legacy. He will be forever despised

twice, Mitch had the chance to save our democracy, instead he chose party over country, mother fucker

Hey, Mitch. You could have prevented ALL THIS by voting to convict him and bar him from holding office again. Asshole.

Every time I talk to one of my Cuban friends, I learn something even more horrific about what's happening in Cuba. Every single person there is experiencing suffering that most people can't imagine, cheerfully inflicted by the US government without even bothering to make up an excuse.

After years of censorship headlines, many advocates are feeling something difficult but deeply human: exhaustion. Our newest article explores “freedom to read fatigue,” why constant outrage can be unsustainable & what long-term advocacy looks like. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/freedom_to_r...

The $1.8B Trump-Blanche slush fund is EVEN MORE corrupt than we knew. Todd Blanche is offering to cut Republican senators in on the payout to win their support. PLEASE watch, share, and call your senators to shut this down. youtube.com/shorts/yDuDI...

Just had a great time at a Teach Truth event in Laguna Beach, really important conversations on book banning and standing up to fascists. Big thanks to everyone who attended!

Funny how working families are always told there isn't enough power, not enough water, not enough infrastructure. But somehow there is always enough for massive data centers that serve corporations first. Denver just drew the line. THIS IS THE WAY.

NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.

In a blow to the White House, Republicans will remove a $1 billion funding request for Trump’s ballroom from their immigration enforcement funding bill amid furious objections www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

FRIENDS: this is a NATIONWIDE bill going to a vote in the US congress. the previous book banning bill, 7661, tons of yall called over several days, and it started running out of gas. So they shoved the same stuff under a different number and voting on it as fast as possible.

Not sure why nobody is posting a link to it or contextualizing it, but this bill encompasses a lot of immediate dangers to trans kids as well as a book ban www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

If Trump and his cronies are going to rob us blind while we watch, the least we can do is gum up the works with mass emailed applications for reparations that overwhelm to AG’s office. Here’s a template for your own letter: open.substack.com/pub/shero/p/...

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

Jan. 6 officers sue over Trump DOJ's $1.8B money pot, calling it a "slush fund" for "insurrectionists"

SIGN OF THE DAY…

If you're a Democrat and you confirm someone who refuses to unequivocally say "Joe Biden won the 2020 election," you should lose your job.

BREAKING: It took eight tries, but the Senate has voted 50-47 to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s war on Iran. Bill Cassidy flipped after losing his primary, joining Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul in voting with Democrats. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote against.

As part of Trump’s settlement with the IRS, the federal government has agreed not to pursue audits or other actions tied to a broad range of past tax matters involving Trump, his family, and his businesses The language of the agreement is broad and applies to tax returns filed before the settlement

This is an unprecedented level of corruption. Trump is forcing the government to drop ALL tax audits of him, his family, and his businesses—giving him FULL IMMUNITY from prosecution. What is Trump hiding from the American people? Congress must step up and stop this corruption.

this is devastating - Pennsylvania fruit crops decimated by warm April and hard freezes www.wesa.fm/environment-...

Teenage gunmen attack San Diego mosque, kill three, and then themselves. Whatever we learn here it is going to be awful. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...

Incredible- Trump's $2 billion taxpayer-subsidized slush fund comes with a legal disclaimer that basically says "we are not responsible for any crimes committed with this money"

Trump didn't settle a lawsuit. He dropped the lawsuit so there's no lawsuit to settle. He's just stealing this money. The lawsuit was just for show so he could say he settled a lawsuit.

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

Last sleep before 24 hour live stream starting at noon tomorrow. 😳😳

3,437 bound volumes. 17,000 pounds of documents. 1,400 victims. Tomorrow at noon, I'm standing at a podium in Tribeca and reading the Epstein files out loud for 24 hours straight. Please join me. Subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@eliza.orlins

A judge in California ruled the Kars4Kids jingle can no longer be broadcast there, finding the nonprofit violated false advertising laws. The funds don’t go to needy children. Instead, the organization bought a $6.5 million building in Israel and uses the donations to send Jewish teenagers there.

I’m trying to imagine any Republican governor in America doing the equivalent of what Jared Polis just did. This is why Democrats lose.

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Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

I had to leave LA for the EU/UK in 2010. However, the work isn't here right now, either. Whatever work has moved across recently hasn't made up for the work that has disappeared overall.

Here in Los Angeles, I used to lead the teams of some of the biggest VFX shows on TV. All the jobs for shows like that have moved to the UK, Canada, or Eastern Europe, and they want to hire locals, not Americans. Many TV professionals now have to emigrate overseas to keep working in their field.

So when you read articles or see news pieces on how bad Hollywood is doing, it's not that people are consuming less—it's that Hollywood is making less and narrowing you all into watching the other stuff we're making. The saddest part is this impacts marginalized and young creatives first.

Regarding the Mac Barnett uproar: I just reviewed the 50 pages the current issue of KIRKUS allocated to Kid's & YA. Not much crud detected. I think Barnett must have misplaced the decimal point in his percent of crud comment. 9.47 would be closer to accurate than his absurd 94.7.

A bipartisan effort to force a vote on legislation sending fresh U.S. security aid to Ukraine has amassed the 218 signatures needed to force a floor vote, the latest in a series of instances of rank-and-file lawmakers wresting control of the chamber’s agenda from Republican leaders.