This isn’t the first time the president’s son has directly financially benefited from his father’s office, but it’s the first time the White House has directly intervened to make it happen. trib.al/qHausQV

how you show your son you still love him when you can't make his wedding

"If you want $3 gas, you're going to have to wait 6 years. We will not get back down to that sub-$70 oil level until 2032"

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.That’s an astonishing figure historically. The national debt just crossed $39 trillion. Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his 2 terms in office.🧵

For decades, the IRS has been required to audit every sitting president annually; a critical safeguard to ensure no president has a secret financial stake in betting against the American people they swore to serve. Every president accepted those audits without question. - Until now.

Democrats cannot keep treating the judiciary as a sacred institution while Republicans treat it as a captured one. trib.al/WzjJPUN

I wish President Trump spent this much time and energy trying to lower Americans’ costs instead of wasting more money on yet another vanity project in D.C.

Americans can’t afford groceries or healthcare, but Republicans want to hand over $1 BILLION for Trump’s ballroom. This is a betrayal of the American people.

The cost to repaint the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC blue is now estimated to be over $13 million. Trump initially promised it would cost only $1.8 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

"I mean America is more of a one-party state than China. It's entirely ruled by the market." - author Kim Stanley Robinson in his novel "Red Moon"

If LLMs were presented like most other software advancements—with “here’s this new thing, if you find that useful, great, then use it”—then it’d still have its detractors. But not on the scale we’re seeing now. Powerful people making everyone treat the tech as better than it is engenders backlash.

The U.S. secretary of transportation is supposed to oversee America’s transportation policy, but Sean Duffy has spent most of his tenure on vacation. trib.al/f5sqN5a

C'mon @nytimes.com, you're not owned by Bezos!

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

Blaming somebody who hasn’t been in power for 16 months is getting really old…

Rick Scott’s net worth is $515 million.

Politicians are already rushing to redraw district maps to unfairly strip away political power from Black voters after the Supreme Court disgracefully green lit discriminatory maps yesterday. Black voters should be respected, not attacked.

Every school needs a ballroom.

They literally can't help themselves. No one wants this.

The company that Trump hired to build his vanity ballroom, Clark Construction, got a secret no-bid contract for another project. The project was estimated to cost $3.3 MILLION. Trump paid them $17.4M to do it. Those are our taxpayer dollars he wasted.

Palantir aims to be the foundation upon with the Technocracy of technofascism will exist. They will see all... just like the evil seeing eye stone of Sauron from Lord of the Rings (named Palantir). newrepublic.com/post/195904/...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

Senate Republicans "promised" they would negotiate on ICE policies so Dems would fund the rest of DHS. Anyone, except Senate Dems apparently, could have seen the GOP was lying again. 🙄 www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment. trib.al/AIM0Ur7

Heads up: Once Trump’s new Fed Reserve lackey is confirmed, Trump stands to make millions off of his holdings if he manipulates the Fed. www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...

Today--or tomorrow--would be a great time to cancel your Washington Post subscription.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

There is billions in confirmed fraud within the Department of Defense, yet Trump and Vought are going after health care, childcare, and nutrition assistance. As Congress puts together the 2027 budget, we must fight back.

Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars. I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Hear from Third Act Lawyers, Public Citizen, and Food & Water Watch on how to campaign locally to halt the rapid expansion of AI-driven data centers. thirdact.org/events/stop-...

And there it is.... Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"

Tom Toro nails it.

If Republicans end up disowning Trump over this image, it’s not because he’s portraying himself as the Messiah. It’s because he’s giving away free healthcare.

I admit to not being a fan of country music, but I might consider listening if the message was more like this.

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. The state of Trump's union. [@itep.org]

The irony with companies rushing to replace workers with AI and automation is that they need people to be employed *somewhere* so they have money to buy the companies' products and services; AIs and robots don't buy things. Companies are ultimately destroying their own customer base. 🙄

The party that claims to be bravely defending “Western Civilization” from its supposed imminent destruction by barbarian hordes, has empowered a guy who eats roadkill to shut down research on one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs in decades.

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The free speech warriors in the Idaho statehouse passed a law banning pride flags, meant to target flags at Boise’s city hall. So the Boise mayor took down the flags themselves but refashioned the flag *poles* to display rainbow colors idahonews.com/news/local/b...

More than a dozen other states are considering similar bans as fears around centers and high energy prices grow.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

MAJOR BREAKING: Judge Chris Taylor, the Democratic-backed candidate, has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The result expands the court’s liberal majority to 5–2, extending its current ideological balance for years to come.

To those still complaining about Artemis 2: We spend 100× more on killing people for oil profits, but yeah, NASA’s the problem. 🤦🏽‍♀️ NASA: $25B Defense: $901B That’s 36 NASAs. Space programs have driven major advancements in science, medicine, and technology, real benefits for humanity.

Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.