CNBC: "Moody’s data puts a dollar amount on a portion of the economic pain Americans are feeling as the U.S.-Iran war reaches its three-month mark. Higher energy costs can force consumers to raid their savings and lean more on debt to cover expenses."

Another piece of evidence in my 950-part series on why President Harris would have been better for the country she would have never created inflation *on purpose* and by fiat like Trump has. (chart: Hopium) www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/if-you-thi...

Watch the Raise Hell documentary last night and gave money to @jamestalarico.bsky.social today because I'd love nothing more than to see my home state of Texas go Blue, fight MAGA and show the country that it stand up for something that we can believe in again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVsa...

This is a head fake. As long as billionaires talk about cutting other people’s taxes, they think they can avoid paying their fair share. Anyone serious about affordability should run from these kinds of policies.

FWIW, President *Harris* would have been fully aware of the tactics that are winning in Ukraine and would fully know the challenges that drones pose as a modern guerrilla warfare tactic. (Putting aside, for a moment, that we likely wouldn't be in Iran anyway and interest rates would be 3%.)

CNBC: "U.S. drivers will pay gasoline prices near four-year highs when they fuel up for travel over the long Memorial Day weekend and should expect more pain at the pump this summer if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen."

TN attempted and botched execution of Tony Carruthers on May 21 without considering evidence that could prove his innocence. Sign this to stop the execution + allow forensic testing. @uscedp.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

"80% of evangelical Christians voted for Trump in 2024, even after Trump incited the deadly, violent attack on the US Capitol...the credibility of American Christianity is on the line. Christians who voted for Trump chose poorly...we are reaping the consequences now and will do so for a long time."

Once again Mississippi proves that you can't make this sh*t up. GOP guv calls a special session to redistrict and further empower his party. Bonus: It'll take place in the same Old Capitol Building (now a museum) where white legislators crafted The Mississippi Plan and Jim Crow in the late 1800s.

Just got the news from our local flight school that there will be a new Trump Tax (a fuel surcharge) on flight hours going forward—now that fuel prices are up 33% at the airport.

Good news! @mississippifreepress.org is now reporting that after their story—and community and online outrage—U.S. Senators got ICE to return the young men to their host family so that they can fix the administrative issues with their visas from home, not ICE detention in two different states.

AvGas prices just jumped at my home field from the price they'd been since Biden was in office -- $4.95/gal -- to $6.29/gal as of today. Well done, MAGA! 🙄

"Thus far, ICE has not suggested that Israel and Max Makoka are accused of even a traffic violation, nor have they been part of any protest movement. But now they are separated, held in two other states and facing removal. They leave behind a community that keenly feels their absence."

DeSantis is no doubt so, so proud of himself and the remarkable work he's doing to extend and defend white supremacy. floridasunreview.com/desantis-sig...

Did I mention “Elon-free”? 😂 Glad to see them home.

There's understandable concern about the cost of space flight, but as someone inspired by astronauts for 50+ years, I thank the Artemis II crew (and NASA team) for giving us a joyful, diverse, skillful, science-y, Elon-free space journey to inspire me all over again. Safe journey home #Integrity!

How's this for a handwave from the WSJ's opinion page. "The most awful attack on democratic government, the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, is best understood as a countermobilization against the constant resort to mob violence by the left." So J6 was the Left's fault. Remember: WSJ is owned by News Corp.

Plenty of honking for this local team of No Kings protesters, even here in the Deep South. #nokings

"Senate [GOP] leaders recently proposed a deal that would fund the TSA and most of DHS while leaving ICE funding for later, but Trump rejected it. We asked Americans how they felt about this ... 59% of adults said they disapproved of the president’s decision — including 42% who strongly disapprove."

"Trump, who has staunchly opposed mail-in voting as part of his delusions of mass voter fraud, voted by mail in a special election in Florida, according to The New York Times. The website for Palm Beach County’s Supervisor of Elections listed Trump’s voter status as 'by mail ballot.'" - New Republic

"In the middle of a war and partial government shutdown, Trump still managed to spend the weekend at his Florida resort playing golf. He exists in a world where consequences are immaterial. Decisions made are not for the betterment of the American people, but for him alone." - Dan Rather

@whitehouse-47.bsky.social FYI

The survey found that a solid 52-40 majority of voters believe POTUS attacked Iran in part to distract from the Epstein files. "The findings will come as little surprise to a public that has morphed Trump’s codename for the war, Operation Epic Fury, into 'Operation Epstein Fury.'"

"Trump knew Iran’s response to being attacked would be to fight back, so he had no choice but to attack them first in order to preëmptively respond (or pre-spond) to their anticipated attacks in re-pre-sponse to our initial pre-sponse." Rubio: “We went proactively in a defensive way.”

REPORTER: "Thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn’t there an evacuation plan?” POTUS: “Well, because it happened all very quickly. We thought, and I thought, maybe more so than most, I could ask Marco, but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked."

“The Constitution could not be more clear. When launching wars of choice, especially with American lives in the balance, the president goes to Congress and Congress authorizes it. That did not happen, and these operations are blatantly unconstitutional." - Major General (Ret.) Paul D. Eaton

The Guardian on the "the worst of the worst" MAGA lie: "77 percent of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal conviction, exposing a stark gap between the Trump administration’s rhetoric and reality."

Factcheck.org: Trump Misleads of Drug Pricing Deals "With rare exception," the negotiations with drugmakers "don’t appear to have translated into actual savings for people at the pharmacy counter or for public or commercial payers yet," Rena Conti, a health economist at Boston University, told us.

Jonathan Alter: "[WLF] is a cryptocurrency platform co-founded by the Trump family and Steve Witkoff... Trump’s top diplomat. A [United Arab Emirites sheikh] bought a 49% stake for $500m just before [POTUS] reversed...national security policy and approved the export of advanced AI chips to the UAE."

Factcheck.org: "Spending to build, expand and rehabilitate manufacturing sites in the U.S. has declined since President Donald Trump took office, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Yet, Trump has repeatedly boasted that 'factory construction' is up 41%."

Over 73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions. tracreports.org/immigration/...

I went to send Roger Wicker (Republican Senator from Mississippi) a message and was amused to see that his online letter-writing form offers an option in "Topic" for "Second Amendment"—but no other Amendments (including, say, the First) make the cut. 🤷‍♂️

"ICE is not doing what they say they’re doing,” said Kaohly Her, the St Paul mayor and a Hmong American, in a statement about Thao’s arrest. “They’re not going after hardened criminals. They’re going after anyone and everyone in their path. It is unacceptable and un-American."

“This administration refuses to take responsibility for the chaos, death, and destruction DHS is causing in our communities. It’s clear that Congress will have to hold Kristi Noem and her Department responsible instead.” - Bennie Thompson

Just canceled Paramount over CBS (and, let's be honest, the email they just sent raising fees).

Dear MAGA. We literally told you all of this.

I'll just leave this right here (source: CNBC)

Rep. Dan Goldman: "Seventy percent of those arrested in New York by ICE have no criminal record whatsoever. Seventy. And yet we’re told it’s the worst of the worst and it’s criminals and all this. It’s not." Goldman and Rep. Eric Swalwell plan to introduce the ICE Out act.

Go Timberwolves.

Dan Rather: "[Good]'s death will not be in vain. It has already drawn needed attention to a rogue president and agency acting with impunity. She could be any mother, in any city, at any time. She could be any one of us. It is time to draw the line in the sand. And to say her name while doing it."

"The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said *armed* U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders." (Emphasis mine.)

"The public should not believe every ... post and Fox News soundbite from DHS political talking heads – including Secretary Noem – until the unadulterated facts come out. Too often DHS lies directly to the American people only to later have to quietly retract their claims.” - Rep. Bennie Thompson

“There’s a theory among some pundits that… Trump’s brain is stuck in the 1980s and early ’90s—that his formative years as a real estate tycoon in New York in the go-go Reagan years calcified his worldview, his politics, his icons… his definition of success.” www.wired.com/story/3-keys...

"[POTUS] announced that he’s ending his National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, along with attempted military takeovers in Chicago and Portland. That decision came just a week after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling halting his efforts to send ... Guard troops into Chicago."

Robert Reich quoted Reagan back to MAGA: "… anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American. A person becomes an American by adopting America’s principles, especially those principles... such as 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

One of the small pleasures of my life is checking aviation weather on Christmas. Always good for a chuckle.

ACA results: "We are probably looking at 200,000 people dropping their insurance coverage and going on to the uninsured category... that means that if they need health care, they go into an emergency room...[for] uncompensated care," said Mike Chaney, Mississippi's Republican insurance commissioner.

I'm only recent back in a Cessna, but I'm happy to say I've already had a few successful landings. (Which is all you can ask for... 😀)

New Republic: “To win big and… hold onto power, the Democrats need to work harder to build a party brand that answers voters’ real concerns and differentiates them from Republicans.” “That doesn’t mean behaving like a weather vane… It means having the courage and strength to make your own weather.”

Factcheck.org: "[Trump] falsely claimed he had 'inherited the worst inflation' in U.S. history and that it 'stopped' since he returned to the White House. The worst inflation period occurred after World War I, and inflation was up 3% for the 12-month period ending in September."