“In the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund...” That’s how one of the three lawsuits filed to challenge Trump’s slush fund begins. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

And... we're back to threats. The cycle of: 1) Threats 2) Lies of an imminent peace deal 3) Positive media coverage for that 4) Evidence of no deal, and nowhere close to Iran making concessions 5) Pretending not to care about a deal he transparently wants 6) Threats Took about three days this time

As Trump descends into a political abyss, taking the captive GOP with him, and his failed war lurches to an end with a surrender to the Iranian regime he promised to remove, Trump has one concern: "ME....me."

60 Minutes confirms Iran is bypassing the US blockade and exporting 100,000 more barrels of oil per day than before the war. Most of it is reportedly going to China.

The most extraordinary thing about this is that *not one* major media source mentions that Trump sexually assaulted the mother of the son whose wedding it is. Can one fathom any other circumstance where that fact would be omitted?

This guy quote-posted me and said I was crazy for saying that the fascist tech VCs talk about putting GLP-1s in the water supply. (They do.) This is an issue I have had for more than a decade, which is that people think *I* am crazy when I accurately describe what the tycoons are saying or doing.

Donald Trump Jr’s new wife is the daughter of a Palm Beach banker who called Jeff Epstein “a gentleman of the highest order” with “an excellent reputation in the community” in a letter to help Epstein get tax breaks in the Virgin Islands. Epstein paid victims through this bank account.

Democrat ad writes itself.

This is 100% true and I don’t need to be exposed to this “perspective”. I don’t care that it’s ~40% of the country. They have nothing to offer.

You don't usually rely on Iran's Fars News Agency for unvarnished truth-telling, but we can make an exception in this case.

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

WATCH: “Is this a bridge too far for Republicans? It smells bad.” Even CNBC Trump apologist @JoeSquawk Kernen is struggling to defend Trump’s $1.776 BILLION heist for seditionists and brazenly corrupt immunity for himself and his family for all tax crimes.

At this point this GOP rhetoric is just humiliating

I am struck that the one time I wrote for The Atlantic, they had a fact-checker who demanded I include links for even quite minor claims in the piece or at least substantiate those claims to him, whereas when TCW writes for them, there isn't a single link or example to be found.

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

Trump: “only complete and total surrender” Iran: “nah” Trump: “Ok then no nukes ever! We want the nuclear dust!” Iran: “we’re keeping it” Trump: “ok!!!! We have a deal” Foxnews crowd:

The NIH is demanding that it's grantees cease collaborations with foreign scientists. Wait until NIH director Jay Bhattacharya hears about this! His stated top priority in the director role is to prevent government interference with or censorship of scientific researchers.

Kind of humorous in a very sad thread. @swiftonsecurity.com

That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent. That is absolutely insane.

i think some pro-AI people are also taken aback by what feels like the sudden implication that they’re not cool when they’ve been told the last couple of years how they’re on the cutting edge and anyone who didn’t get on board would end up looking like a loser when maybe it’s the other way around

Iran’s official military spokesperson, Ibrahim Al-Fiqar, posted this on Twitter showing Trump bowing before Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. They have so much respect for him. 🥴 x.com/ibrahim_alfi...

No matter who you are, if you are running a platform or a making a product that collects user data, you need to have a plan for what happens when the government shows up and asks for it, you need to share that policy with that users, and publish a transparency report.

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

Such an unserious person for such a serious job. Our service members and the American people deserve so much better.

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

We live in a country now where the president uses his power to censor media figures who criticize him and then brags about it.

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

I mean it sure looks like we wasted billions and many lives and lots of diplomatic credibility for nothing, but at least we can be sure those 160 schoolgirls won’t build a nuke

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Mr. Trump’s Presidency will be all but over — except for impeachment 3.0 — if the GOP loses control of Congress .. “.. Does he want his remaining legacy to be a ballroom, an Arc de Trump, and payoffs for his friends ..?” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

The framework agreement between Tehran and Washington is being finalized with Pakistani mediation; it is a memorandum of understanding, not a final deal, and does not include Iran’s nuclear program.-Al-Mayadeen

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

"In practice, Trump regularly chooses industry over MAHA, whether that means approving fruit-flavored vapes or trying to increase production of weedkiller linked to cancer. Kennedy rarely pushes back, because his first and really only commitment is to deeply unpopular attacks on vaccines."

what if we made the entire military out of low-rent fox news grievances

From the full story linked in comments: "The beavers have also allowed the city to scrap expensive plans to dig a reservoir and levee. 'We said the beavers can do it for a fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably,' McCormack says."

congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump

Republicans hung Obama in effigy, said he was Kenyan, went after Bidens family and still — still both men said the Republicans would have an epiphany. They laughed af Pelosi’s husband being attacked and she said she just wanted a “strong Republican Party.”

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Every state should take a page out of Hawaii’s playbook on tackling Citizens United

Iran has reached a draft agreement with Pakistani mediators and is awaiting a US response, Al Jazeera reports. The proposal includes ending the war, lifting the blockade, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and withdrawing US forces from the conflict zone. No nuclear discussions for now. 1/2

(1/X) I would argue that the vast majority of all commentary is essentially pro-Trump. I don't mean pro-Trump in the sense of liking Trump, I mean it in the sense of them not holding him to the anything close to the same standards as Democratic politicians....

Unanimous verdict

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Of course. The rewriting of history continues.

A little more fascist every day @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Hang onto this clip for when his next financial disclosure is released showing he bought stock in these companies.

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s weird how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”