When certain pundits began pushing Dems to embrace Hasan Piker last month, that also looked like fuckery. That effort fizzled; this may too. Dems should stay steady. Don't let others set the narrative. Keep your eye on the midterms and steer into that blue wave. 3/

Trump's bogus investigation of Hasan Piker & Medea Benjamin over Cuba may be pre-election fuckery, to make Ds defend them. It follows last month's push to make Ds embrace Piker. If it were a serious investigation it'd be about Russia: Benjamin takes Russian money; the anti-Ukraine Piker may too. 1/

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

From their own words; the now infamous on here "I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" quote was specifically in response to seeing a slaveowner auctioning off his own barely teenaged daughter

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?...

Only in Monroe! Thank you Stephen Colbert and Jack White for returning to Monroe, MI for a great Michigan conversation!

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

the tone is so infuriatingly annooooying... LLMs are the "friend" you make the fake WhatsApp group for it's like the nedflanderization of everything

⚡️Ukraine liberated 590 square kilometers of territory this year, 'forcing Russia toward diplomacy,' Zelensky says. Ukraine has liberated 590 square kilometers of territory from Russian occupation since the beginning of the year, President Volodymyr Zelensky said May 22.

This is so outrageous but very predictable. Trump’s ballroom and Arch commissioner is going to Russia to attend Putin’s jewel economic forum. So much corruption that the U.S. is no longer recognizable

You're absolutely right, @quarantegan.bsky.social. Finns teach even young schoolchildren how to spot disinformation, propaganda, and altered audio/visuals used for political purposes whereas a third of our entire country is lost in a completely fabricated reality. I hope to come back to this later.

Thanks, @samspade1941.bsky.social. Actually, as I wrote in American Kompromat, back in Trump's 1st term, the USIC did say Trump was a Russian asset--or at least John Brennan, Michael Hayden, Michael Morrell and James Clapper did. It's staggering that even THAT did not move the needle enough!

Thanks, @out5p0ken.bsky.social. As I've written, Trump's history w/ the Mafia is a crucial part of understanding his ascent--from Roy Cohen and the Gambino family to the Russian Mafia which laundered more than a $$billion through Trump real estate.

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It appears Trump finally went too far, even for Republicans.

⚡️Ukraine strikes Russian FSB headquarters in occupied Kherson Oblast, killing and injuring nearly 100 troops. The strike also destroyed a Pantsir-S1 air defense system valued at up to $20 million, Zelensky said.

The Washington Post, NYT and AP didn't get the story. But The Atlantic reports that the recent "Rededication" rally on the Mall was the work of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic movement that... is now the leading edge of the Christian right."

1/After 36 years of cultivating Donald J. Trump as an asset, Russian intelligence finally put its man in the White House. Post #39 — the final chapter of my Trump-Russia Timeline — is now up on Substack. This is how they did it: craigunger.substack.com/p/the-39-ste...

one of the things that would most convince me the next dem administration is made up of serious people is if they stop paying elon any god damn money

⚡️Central Russia's major oil refineries halt production following Ukrainian drone attacks, Reuters reports. All of central Russia's major oil refineries have completely halted or rolled back production following recent Ukrainian drone strikes, Reuters reported May 20.

Important to recognize she's not an idiot, she knows the data centers being built are AI-specific and that the extreme power and cooling demands arise specifically from GPUs, not data storage or transmission. She's repeating lies that lobbyists told her to say to confuse the public.

Fucking Russians...

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

PFAS, or forever chemicals, poison our water, our soil, and our bodies and they don't go away. The EPA set limits to keep us safe, and now this Administration wants to throw that out the window.

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

Thus far no Dem Senator has raised this.

⚡️Update: Ukraine says it struck major Russian oil refinery, pumping station. Ukrainian forces struck the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, the General Staff said, where a fire was recorded on the facility's territory on May 18.

Honestly I was surprised it took 15 months for this to come out publicly.

Anxious voices are coming out of Russia’s State Duma: “We can’t keep this up. We need to end it.” That’s straight-up discrediting Russia’s economy and leadership! #Russia

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

NEW: Donald just STOLE $1.7B from us to pay insurrectionists. I have some important info about this. Please share widely.

According to our calculations, Russian forces have captured just 0.04% of Ukraine’s territory this year. Our tracker shows that recently Ukraine has begun to claw back ground

Well, well, well. In 2025, Brendan Carr’s wife “joined billionaire Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.” 4/28/25 … 1/ www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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“Russia never looses wars” — until it suddenly does

While #Russia is busy catching Ukrainian strikes in Moscow, other directions are getting hit too. May 16-17: 186 strikes on 46 military targets. • Crimea: Black Sea Fleet comms hub • Donetsk region: command posts, fuel train, leadership gathering site, UAV control point, UAV supply depot

The Trump admin's goal was to always make Arbeitslager: to lock people up and use them as forced labor. There is only one direction a mass immigrant roundup can go and that is detention camps --> labor camps --> death camps. And people in the Trump admin know this. They read their history too. 1/

An ICE detention contractor made $254 million in profit last year. The detainees doing the labor to keep these facilities running? They make $1 a day. Getting filthy rich off mass detention and forced labor IS the business model.

Defeating Trump just to go back to business-as-usual won't be enough. We need to hold him and his cronies accountable for breaking the law. Then we need to clean up the corruption in Washington to guarantee our government can never be hijacked again. That’s what I’m focused on.

Leftists need to do much better at denouncing imperialist oligarchs starting genocidal wars Conservatives need to do much better at not bootlicking enemies of the West and basic values

So many people missed the ball here, not just Merrick Garland. Folks in government, media, academia, think-tanks couldn't face the reality: that Washington DC was full of people who didn't believe in democracy, rule of law, or the Constitution, and who would take as much as they could get. 2/

What I Told the Baltics about Donald Trump 1/ Back from Finland where I spoke to intelligence officers, diplomats, etc from the Baltics. I told them what what most American outlets still won't say: Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence. open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

Typically, heads of state don’t greet presidents when they land. That’s not protocol. It’s no big deal that Xi wasn’t on the tarmac. It was highly unusual when Trump was waiting for Putin on the tarmac in Alaska.

I think the point has always been that no one should need to tell us this — especially if you have access to classified intelligence. It’s right there for our eyes and ears. But plenty in the last admin were doubters, and everyone in this admin.

World history will record that our nation, in this time, chose to be among the fascist enemies of the human rights of its own residents. May those of us who have opposed American fascism be forgiven for failing to stop it.

So Hegseth tries to take credit for sending American soldiers to learn from Ukrainian drone expertise while also continuing to do nothing to support the Ukrainian war effort — this is the perfect encapsulation of how this admin will lose us every ally

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.