Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Maybe artists should think twice BEFORE they agree to perform for Trump. This is what he thinks of them. - From the NY Times

Felt inspired to make breakfast tacos: potato, egg, and cheese.

Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company while promoting fights set to take place at the White House on his birthday, HuffPost has learned

It’s so far beside the point but they’re calling Talarico a vegan because he ate a potato egg and cheese taco, which is not remotely vegan lmao

Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll

NPR Tiny Desk is paying homage to BET for Black Music Month in June: Upcoming Tiny Desks: - GENA with Liv.e and Kareem Riggins - Shaboozey - Joe - Arya Starr - The Paradox - Eve - Fred Hammond - Bow Wow - Floetry

I just started watching "The Crash." I don't know where this is going but what is up with this girl's parents?

Some of us know that a key lesson from The Neverending Story is you do not in fact want to linger in the Swamp of Sadness.

Canada as a state. Greenland as a state. Iran as a state. The Western hemisphere as a state. Stuff like this should immediately end a presidency, seeing as it wildly violates the UN Charter & massively endangers US national security. But alas, he is One Special Boy & nothing seems to matter anymore.

Tom Steyer made his billions off oil and coal. I made my career taking them to court… and winning.

NEW: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office reacts to Thursday's "Broadview Six" revelations. The former lead prosecutor in the case had serving as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now Durbin's office says her detail from the Justice Department "has been terminated."

Charges dropped against Kilmar Abrego Garcia *gift article* www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

The use of that word is key. Because the extremist right has always been jealous of our narratives.THEY want to be victims so badly. They need a story. So, reverse racism. Creation of rightwing “Legal Defense Funds” to litigate Demanding entry to programs for Black ppl And now, REPARATIONS

“Assuming courts will save us absolves our political leaders of both responsibility and accountability for allowing this kind of mischief to continue, and it absolves all of us of our responsibility to refuse to tolerate those who would just as quickly shrug their shoulders and move on.” My latest:

One thing that gets missed in President Trump's discussion of "weaponization" and his tax returns: The person who leaked Trump's tax returns did so when Trump was president and in charge of the IRS. He was indicted and sent to prison for that during the Biden administration.

"Trump is trying to create a new status quo where his single say-so is enough to overturn the will of two thirds of Congress on all spending matters. It’s un-American. It’s emperor stuff. If they had a shred of dignity left, they’d impeach the son of a bitch today." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

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.

Merit!

You don't say. 🤔 www.wwno.org/politics/202...

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

This a disgusting abomination. Republicans are going to make hard-working, law abiding taxpayers pay off the thugs and criminals who beat cops on J6 and were convicted of various other crimes. Vote every Republican out of office this Nov. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

He's going to pay his henchmen off with our tax money, while American children go hungry. I'm absolutely sick. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Not so long ago, a president behaving like this would have been an epic scandal. It took two days for me to happen upon it on social media. The decline of our nation has been so swift.

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

My great-grandparents were born in the 19th century. One was still alive when I was very young. Barely out of slavery, they raised children, sent them to college, bought land, ran businesses. Some days, I feel like breaking under the yoke of white supremacy. They didn't break & I'm so proud of them.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Why is anyone debating whether or not to “let Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent”? She has not asked to be in a tent with you. Nothing indicates that she wants to be in it. She is positioning herself to appeal to people who hate your tent, and possibly to peel off a few people at the edges of it.

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

As the death toll reaches 190, it's time for another reminder that the boat strikes are unlawful under both international and domestic law--and they are a stain on our national conscience. For much more, take a look at this @justsecurity.org collection: www.justsecurity.org/120753/colle...

TACO Tuesday

This line in particular makes me feel ill: "The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." SCOTUS' Republican majority has long required elections to be held under illegal maps—when it hurts Dems.

Every few months some prominent Republican pretends it's some long buried secret that Republicans won the vast majority of Black voters in the late nineteenth century, and acts like they've discovered something brand new that it is going to reshape contemporary politics.

thinking we maybe should have been a little meaner to the confederacy after the war

fact of the matter is that more people than you think simply see black students as inherently “unqualified” and thus blame affirmative action for taking the spot of a “deserving” student, even when affirmative action no longer exists.

relatedly i strongly believe — and i think there is even research to this effect — that people are routinely told that affirmative action or DEI is to blame for their professional or academic failures to avoid having to confront them with the realities of their performance

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Now here is where Maine and institutional players messed up: he should been disqualified long before this moment. Primaries are where our values should make the decision for us. And your values never should’ve caused you to settle for that.

Let's freaking go!

This is what Du Bois meant when he said Black America stepped briefly into the sun and then fell under the veil.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

First of all, Melania Trump did👏🏾 not👏🏾 write👏🏾 that👏🏾.

The mainstream media is committing seppuku and we’re watching it happen in real time

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

A jury and a string of women and girls say something different.