This is so joyful to watch! 👀 Stephen Colbert and Bette Midler dancing with his staff members! 💃🕺💃🕺 I loved this so much and miss him so much already! 😅 #USDemocracy #Pinks

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

Our #immigration services are in the hands of idiots. And since they take their cues from POTUS himself and his enablers, it's no surprise how cruel and inept they are. #USCIS #greencard

Fun fact: North Carolina still hasn’t recovered from hurricane Helene, and Trump wants $2 billion to give people who smeared shit on the walls of the Capitol.

Gabbard resigned. Good riddance.

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

These prosecutors who made my family’s life hell for a year are criminals. I want justice and we’ll seek it. This can’t happen again.

Yes. #SEC #NIL #NFL #NBA #votingrights #collegesports 👇

AOC: I think it’s pretty unbelievable that Gaza would not be mentioned once in the autopsy report. I think it was very clearly a major dynamic and a major thread that was happening in 2024. The fact that it’s not even addressed, I think, is a major oversight.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

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Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

Mississippi called a special session TODAY to erase the only Black congressman in this state. Mississippi residents showed up. All of them. On their doorstep. In their streets. To show them what they're fighting against. ✊🏼 #mississippi #democracy

"We have the most uninsured of any other state, the most uninsured children. We have the most people being disconnected from their electricity than any other state. We have the most bankruptcies . . . while businesses are lured to come here with our taxpayer dollars," said Hinojosa re #RainyDayFund

A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

BREAKING: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn & MPD Officer Hodges are suing to block the $1.8B “weaponization” slush fund.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick tells PabloReports that he is working to stop Trump’s $1.7 billion weaponization fund: PabloReports: What do you make of this $1.7 billion weaponization fund? Fitzpatrick: Bad news. We’re going to try to kill it. We’re considering a legislative option.

SIGN OF THE DAY…

I am 74 years old & never in my life did I think I would see corruption in government like it is today! It saddens me because my father fought to defeat fascism & racism in Europe. He would cry. Before he died he voted for Hillary & said to me; (about Trump) a Nazi does not belong in the White House

Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

Americans today will spend ~$590 million more on gasoline today alone versus the pre-war price. Cumulatively, for the ~79 days the Strait has been closed, Americans have now spent ~$33 billion more on gasoline alone.

On this day in 1973, Jeannette Rankin died. She was the first woman elected to Congress. In 1917, she told fellow suffragists: “I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.” Rankin is still the only woman to have represented Montana in Congress. #WeTheMen

As a young U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman, I never could have imagined that the greatest attack on this nation…would one day come directly from the White House.

This should be the headline story on every news publication and telecast including local news every day for several days. But it won’t. It will be shrugged off like so much else by so much of media. The most corrupt thing that has ever come out of the US govt.

CBS backlash has pushed Colbert to 2.70 million viewers. Weiss is now faced with canceling the MOST WATCHED PROGRAM in the late-night time slot. Fire her - keep Colbert is the answer.

Good take here by Eric Niiler for the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/c...

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

Every GOP member of Congress should be asked by the press whether they agree Trump can use $1.7b that we, the taxpayers, paid so gov’t could work for us, as reward money to his supporters.

Once again, Texas is No. 1 . . . "leading the nation in 2024 utility shutoffs." #energyinsecurity

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

First he organized and encouraged this mob. Then he pardoned them for their crimes. Now he wants to pay them millions and get away with it Like he's done before so many times. #ArtoftheSteal photo: Getty Images

"You can’t settle a suit that doesn’t exist. This is just pure theft."

Americans have spent more than $40 billion extra on fuel since the start of Donald Trump’s war in Iran, according to new research, enough to repair the country’s bridge network or overhaul its air traffic control system. www.ft.com/content/32ff...

Dynamic agrivoltaism has adjustable PV panels for protecting crops & generating energy. The panels are managed according to the type of crop and its needs. Sun’Agri has more than forty projects in operation including apples, grape vines, tomatoes, maize. irrigationeurope.eu/en/dynamic-a...

All Texans deserve the right to a peaceful living. In Hood County, Democrats and Republicans packed a town hall over water, noise, and losing local control. The tech barons thought they could divide us, but they were wrong.

Weather unfollowed is a danger to all Americans. NOAA faces proposed budget reductions of about $2 billion, and one proposal would eliminate NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research entirely, shutting down all research laboratories across the country.

🚨 BREAKING: The Senate parliamentarian struck the GOP provision that would have spent $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, according to Senate Budget Committee Democrats. The parliamentarian ruled that the provision violated the Byrd Rule.

it's not rocket science . . . it's #renewables #solar #wind #batteries #thefutureisnow

This is big news. The far-right Supreme Court hijacked the Constitution to let corporations spend in our elections. But we are not powerless. We can fight back.

The Texas Supreme Court rejected Gov. Greg Abbott’s efforts to remove Houston Rep. Gene Wu from office Friday, saying that the Legislature was able to secure House Democrats’ attendance and restore a quorum last summer without involvement from the court. (cont.) www.texastribune.org/2026/05/15/t...

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Once again, California appears to be targeted solely for political reasons. The Trump Administration is planning to defer over $1 billion in Medicaid funding for vital programs that helps seniors and people with disabilities remain safely in their homes.

Many farmers are experiencing a triple hit on their finances from U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, with higher costs for fuel, shipping and fertilizer. “Unless you have perfect insight” and bought your fertilizer, stocked up on diesel before the war began: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/14/c...

One of my favorite things to share is a picture of well loved books. These are a few of mine. Seeing yours would be a nice pick me up today.

Trump is going to settle his own lawsuit with our money.

Barack Obama meeting James Talarico’s family

Greetings from Kyiv. So, the night is over, and we survived it. There is damage in the city, wounded people and one person killed, according to our mayor. I’m thankful to air defense for this morning.

ALERT: NAACP adds a *federal* civil lawsuit to its challenge of new Tennessee redistricting Group seeks court injunction to halt new map, arguing new district lines are "enacted w/ an impermissible discriminatory purpose on the basis of race in violation of the 14th Amendment"