And if your tax bill disappears because your own Justice Department cut a deal, “I didn’t get a check” is not exactly a clean bill of ethical health.

The $100 million figure was not “made up.” It was a reported estimate of potential liability if Trump lost a long-running IRS audit fight.

There doesn't have to be a revolving door between Congress & lobbyists youtube.com/shorts/7--j8... via @YouTube

NEW: The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5M to the Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. on 4/30/2026. 8 days later, the Trump administration rolled out a new policy that could be very lucrative for Reynolds by allowing it to begin selling flavored vapes.

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

“You’re the first guy in America who’s lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke.” “And because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want.” variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Trump personally ordered the destruction of the ballroom, so Trump personally should pay for its replacement.

Private equity firms now own 1 in 8 American apartments — according to a new report from @pestakeholder.bsky.social. pestakeholder.org/reports/priv...

When Boebert - a buffoon and a notorious Putin stooge - sounds like the voice of reason you know things are off the rails.

Trump just 'nuked' his Senate majority: journalist #AlterNet

🧵/1 May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. A time to celebrate the culture, history, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. I want to honor @georgetakei.bsky.social today for his contributions to this country. #ProudBlue #AAPIHeritageMonth

Pratt, a former reality TV star, is flooding social media with edgy humor, AI slop and combative rhetoric as a way of grabbing attention and winning the vote of the very online. It's a strategy some political experts see as the future of online campaigning. n.pr/3PsD1k1

This is so beautiful! Of course I canceled my Paramount subscription. Stephen Colbert will be truly missed 🥺 #Pinks #USDemocracy

I often think about this. #Pinks

If it were fake news, you could have just let the IRS audit run its course and then we'd all see it was fake, but instead you rushed in like Leeroy Jenkins and demanded everything be shut down immediately? Sure, sure, that makes sense, sure.

Nice way of saying we failed in saving money, but we did fuck up your government

1. This week, Trump said that the extra money that Americans were spending on gas due to the Iran War was "peanuts." We did the math, and the increased energy costs for Americans is equivalent to 14.5 million pounds of peanuts That's 110 pounds of peanuts for every American household

I know everyone gets this, but one big reason no Democratic president could even try to pretend to be this corrupt is because the lawyers that work for her have to find actual jobs after their boss peacefully leaves office.

The DOJ is going after the wrong Castro www.publicnotice.co/p/christian-...

One of Trump's perverters-of-the-law says we're not going to be talking about Trump's $1.8B thug fund and his tax-cheat immunity in a week. And I'm worried that he's right because Trump will commit some other fascist crime that we'll focus on.

The homily is not being "political" when it points out political, social, & economic sins. It is simply the word of God becoming incarnate in our reality, which often reflects not God's reign but sin. -St. Oscar Romero

So the same people who have shouted and cried about colleges indoctrinating students for the past decade are now going to pass a law that requires students to take right wing indoctrination courses.

the public at large has little to no understanding of politics. they dont actually know what the parties stand for. going into every election with the mindset "everybody knows" is a recipe for disaster. talk to the voting public every time like its the first time.

The far right opens a new front in its culture war. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

37%. How low can you go? How low can you go? I couldn't resist. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

Trump’s greed may finally be his undoing. While Americans struggle with rent and groceries, the White House has become an insider trading desk with a gold-plated “For Sale” sign out front. No leadership just corruption at industrial scale. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AUr6u4g33R66...

It’s funny because it’s not true

5.5 years after J6 and nearly 4 since heroic members of law enforcement shared publicly their horrific unimaginable J6 experiences with the bipartisan J6 committee and still it breaks my heart, triggers tears when I watch that footage I am sad for them and sad for US NO fucking #MAGAreparations

Just when you thought the corruption couldn't get any worse from this administration.

Voters in TX-35, get out there and vote for Johnny Garcia in the primary runoff. We have enough Republican-funded hate in politics and we can’t tolerate more. Put Johnny Garcia on the ballot in November.

Anti-ICE and pro-union politics have been, I think, really instrumental in the past year. When our trash workers went on strike, it seemed to me that most of the city sided with them over Parker. ICE attacks are also traumatizing and word spreads when it happens. People hate it.

Circling back on this because I sense a real change in Philadelphia. Cherelle Parker won running as a machine Democrat just two years ago. (I voted for Rebecca Rhynart.) And her reputation has been bad since. Parker has resisted a lot of progressive stuff, but I think she sees the writing on wall.

Acting Attorney General Blanche is engaging in flatly unethical behavior by trying to justify Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for criminals that YOU are paying for.

NEW: The $1B ballroom provision has been STRIPPED from the Republican budget bill.

MacFarlane: I'm filling a notebook with misinformation spreading about January 6th today. The idea that these cases were wrongful, no case was overturned, not a one on appeal. And lots of people appealed. They had a 100% success rate for juries at trial.

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

Apparently, God wanted her to finish third.

Shame on Governor Hochul! She's pandering to the Orthodox Jewish community, who will vote Republican as they always do.

The voucher part of Trump’s tax bill was always about defunding snd destabilizing public schools. Disappointed the Gov would side with big donors rather then even wait to see if the voucher regs even help parents who send their kids to public schools. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

Oh hell yeah, the best offense opportunity for Dems in a while: bipartisanship! Maybe it’ll work this time.

Jeff Tiedrich: you would hate to have a federal government building deliberately engineered to accommodate the wrong snipers. that would make about as much sense as letting a racist game show host in cognitive collapse be president. www.jefftiedrich.com/p/why-the-fu...

Very rich people getting booed during commencement speeches is my new favorite genre of entertainment.

Senator Lisa Murkowski openly declared that Trump has now put the seat “in jeopardy,” asking: “How does that help strengthen the president’s hand when we lose a state like Texas?” Translation: Trump has screwed himself and his party in a big way. trib.al/06NDDmn

Another slap in the face for Trump: Xi walked with Putin and surprised him with a massive painting of the two, symbolizing the brotherhood between Communist China and Russia, while Trump got a handful of seeds for his concrete Rose Garden.

The 30-year Treasury yield just hit its highest level since 2007 — right before the financial crisis. That means more expensive mortgages. Costlier car loans. Higher credit card interest rates. Trump promised to lower costs. His reckless agenda is doing the opposite.

A man at the Capitol accused the Artemis astronauts of lying about going to space.

Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement #TheGuardian

WATCH — @neguse.house.gov: “You can see why I would be very skeptical of a resolution that says ‘the Trump Admin’s focus on restoring law and order’ when his very first action in office was to pardon violent felons.”